| Title |
Floyd H. Hogan, Bountiful, Utah: an interview by Benjamin J. Bahlmann, September 27, 2002: Saving the Legacy tape no. 603 |
| Alternative Title |
Floyd H. Hogan, Saving the legacy: an oral history of Utah's World War II veterans, ACCN 2070, American West Center, University of Utah |
| Creator |
Hogan, Floyd H., 1917-2012 |
| Contributor |
Bahlmann, Benjamin J.; University of Utah. American West Center |
| Publisher |
Digitized by J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah |
| Date |
2002-09-27 |
| Date Digital |
2015-12-16 |
| Access Rights |
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| Spatial Coverage |
San Diego, San Diego County, California, United States; Salt Lake County, Utah, United States; Tunisia; Italy; England, United Kingdom; France; Netherlands |
| Subject |
Hogan, Floyd H., 1917-2012--Interviews; Veterans--Utah--Biography; World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American; World War, 1939-1945--Aerial operations, American; World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Europe, Northern--Personal narratives, American; World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--France--Normandy--Personal narratives, American; World War, Arnhem, Battle of, Arnhem, Netherlands, 1944--Personal narratives, American; 1939-1945--Campaigns--Europe, Southern--Personal narratives, American; United States--Navy |
| Keywords |
Truck driving; Saliors; Destroyer (Ship); Electricians; Army Air Corps; Kairouan; D-Day; Operation Market Garden; Paratroopers; Flight instructors |
| Description |
Transcript (122 pages) of an interview by Benjamin J. Bahlmann with Floyd H. Hogan on September 27, 2002. From tape number 603 in the "Saving the Legacy" Oral History Project |
| Collection Number and Name |
Accn2070, Saving the Legacy oral history project, 2001-2010 |
| Abstract |
Hogan (b. 1917) was in Woods Cross, Utah. He discusses farming, family, growing up years, the Depression, schooling and jobs. He joined the Navy in the fall of 1935 and received basic training at the Naval Training Station in San Diego, California. He was assigned to the USS Borie and achieved 3rd class petty officer in fire control. Assigned to the USS Lawrence for decommissioning. Finished his 4-year service on the USS Winslow until discharged. He returned to Salt Lake City and worked for Western Electric until January 20, 1942 when he joined the Army Air Corps. He first was sent to Mesa, Arizona, then Oxnard, California, for Primary training in Stearmans. He continued at Merced, California, for basic, flying BT-13s, and took advanced training in Stockton, California, flying T-6s. He was sent to Indianapolis, Indiana, to check out on C-47s and was then assigned to the 27th Troop Carrier Squadron at Pope Field. He joined the 314th Troop Carrier Group and was ordered overseas, where he was based in Kairouan, Tunisia, ferrying gliders. He participated in Husky One into Sicily, then moved to England to prepare for the D-Day Invasion. He describes his activities and experiences in and out of combat. He participated in Market Garden before returning to the States in December 1944. He was assigned to Stockton, California, as an instructor and was discharged in the summer of 1945. Mr. Hogan stayed in the Reserves and reapplied for his commission in 1947. He was assigned to Hill Field as chief of maintenance and retired as a lieutenant colonel with more than thirty years of service. Interviewed by Benjamin J. Bahlmann. 122 pages. |
| Type |
Text |
| Genre |
oral histories (literary works) |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Extent |
122 pages |
| Language |
eng |
| Rights |
 |
| Scanning Technician |
Mazi Rakhsha |
| Conversion Specifications |
Original scanned with Kirtas 2400 and saved as 400 ppi uncompressed TIFF. PDF generated by Adobe Acrobat Pro X for CONTENTdm display |
| ARK |
ark:/87278/s6b29xct |
| Topic |
Personal narratives--American; Veterans; World War (1939-1945); Military operations, Aerial--American; Arnhem, Battle of (Netherlands : 1944) |
| Setname |
uum_slohp |
| ID |
1031281 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6b29xct |
| Title |
Page 25 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_slohp |
| ID |
1031182 |
| OCR Text |
Show FLOYD H. HOGA 21 PT MB R 2002 FHH: No. It changed because of my desire (laughs). When I started at W t m I ctric I was making thirty-five cents an hour. In two years I was making seventy-five cents an hour. I'd got raises very frequently, five and six, seven, eights cents an hour raise. I d been assigned with a group and we were putting what they called repeater stations across the country where they had one system was underground cable and one was pole cables, where they built up the signal at the feeder station. I joined the group and we put in a station just outside Cheyenne, Wyoming. I was the power man again and did all the power work. I loved the job. It was a real challenge to go in and read those blueprints and put things together, you know, and make them work. And then see them work and think, that's great. But in the meantime, I'd fallen in love. So on weekends I'd leave my job Friday night and drive to Salt Lake, spend as much time as I could with now my eternal bride ... BJB: What's her name? FHH: Catherine Hess. BJB: You met her ... FHH: On a blind date. She was a model in Salt Lake. Did a lot of modeling for ZCMI. Was a very beautiful girl. But, anyhow, because of that I didn't get much sleep on weekends and I started back on Sunday night for Cheyenne and I was just dead tired. The sun came up, I was cutting across nowhere in the middle of Wyoming and I went to sleep. I woke up going off the side of the road and caught myself and, as people do, overcorrected, and I went off the other side and rolled my car three times across the desert, boom, boom, boom. Crawled out of there and sat and just cried, thinking, man, what am I doing? Everything I've made I've spent on traveling and in boarding houses. 24 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6b29xct/1031182 |
