| Title |
Robert W. Hatch, Bountiful, Utah: an interview by Benjamin Bahlmann, 27 September 2002: Saving the Legacy tape nos. 542-543 |
| Alternative Title |
Robert W. Hatch, Saving the legacy: an oral history of Utah's World War II veterans, ACCN 2070, American West Center, University of Utah |
| Creator |
Hatch, Robert W., 1921- |
| Contributor |
University of Utah. American West Center; Bahlmann, Benjamin J. |
| 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 |
England; France; Germany |
| Subject |
Hatch, Robert W., 1921- --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 |
| Keywords |
Army Air Corps; Fire battalions; Fire marshalls; Firefighting |
| Description |
Transcript (59 pages) of an interview by Benjamin Bahlmann with Robert W. Hatch on September 27, 2002. From tape numbers 542 and 543 in the "Saving the Legacy" Oral History Project |
| Collection Number and Name |
Accn2070, Saving the Legacy oral history project, 2001-2010 |
| Abstract |
Hatch (b. 1921) grew up in Woods Cross, Utah. He recalls family experiences sheep ranching in Utah. A railroad agent, he was deferred from military service, but he turned down the deferment. He was drafted in August 1942. He was placed in the Airs Corps, and speaks of many experiences in the Fire Battalions to which he had been assigned. He rose quickly in rank, eventually attending OCS at Ft. Belvoir, Virginia in 1943. He eventually became the Fire Marshall of the 15th Air Force in Riverside, California. He retired in 1965. Interviewed by Robert Hatch. 59 pages. |
| Type |
Text |
| Genre |
oral histories (literary works) |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Extent |
59 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/s6002472 |
| Topic |
Personal narratives--American; Veterans; World War (1939-1945); Military operations, Aerial--American |
| Setname |
uum_slohp |
| ID |
1033622 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6002472 |
| Title |
Page 37 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_slohp |
| ID |
1033598 |
| OCR Text |
Show ROBERT W. HATCH 27 PT MB R 2002 RH: When I first got there being an officer I d go to the Officer s lub and I mad it a point to meet as many guys as I could meet. New crews coming in and whatnot. I d meet all the officers. Well that didn't last too long. It's so much easier if you don t know who you're picking up, you know? I found it so hard when I had been out with a guy the night before, and here I am out there trying to find him, in pieces. I don't like that. BB: How often did that happen? How often did you actually deal with the dead, like in that example where they blew up? RH: Well, they blew up two or three times on the base. Or for some reason or other bombs exploded. And then there were some that-see, I knew most of the aircraft by name, every aircraft at the base, with the nose art on the front and all this kind of stuff. And so, I'm sitting there watching the missions go off, and I say, "Oh, there's old what'shis- name. He's on the Ground Pounder," whatever name the aircraft happened to be, but I didn't know who they were. Well, I quit doing that. Some of them-there was one aircraft I liked a lot, it was called the D-Day Doll. BB: The what? RH: The D-Day Doll. BB: Oh. RH: And if the D-Day Doll came back, we thought, "Oh boy, that's a good mission for most all of us." BB: Just because it just kind of was the- RH: Yeah, it's kind of like ... I likened it to the sheep business. You'd have twohundred head of a white sheep, and maybe several black-faced .... we'd put black ones so that ... you couldn't count each individual sheep, but if you looked in a herd and you 36 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6002472/1033598 |
