| Title |
Haven R. Burningham, Bountiful, Utah: an interview by Benjamin Bahlmann, September 26, 2002: Saving the Legacy tape no. 602 |
| Alternative Title |
Haven R. Burningham, Saving the legacy: an oral history of Utah's World War II veterans, ACCN 2070, American West Center, University of Utah |
| Creator |
Burningham, Haven R., 1918-2014 |
| Contributor |
University of Utah. American West Center; Bahlmann, Benjamin J. |
| Publisher |
Digitized by J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah |
| Date |
2002-09-26 |
| Date Digital |
2015-12-16 |
| Access Rights |
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| Spatial Coverage |
England, United Kingdom |
| Subject |
Burningham, Haven R., 1918-2014--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; Bomber pilots--Biography |
| Keywords |
Army Air Corps |
| Description |
Transcript (71 pages) of an interview by Benjamin Bahlmann with Haven R. Burningham on September 26, 2002. From tape number 602 in the "Saving the Legacy" Oral History Project |
| Collection Number and Name |
Accn2070, Saving the Legacy oral history project, 2001-2010 |
| Abstract |
Burningham (b. 1918) grew up in Bountiful, Utah. He discusses his family, schooling, the Depression, and his LDS mission to New Zealand from 1937 to 1939. He worked at the Lockheed aircraft factory in California assembling P-38s prior to enlisting in the Army Air Corps in January 1943. He completed primary training in Santa Ana, California, flying Stearmans, then basic training in Lemoore, California, flying BT-13s, before going to Douglas, Arizona, for advanced training. After being trained in B-17s at Roswell, New Mexico, he joined his crew in Sioux City, Iowa. They flew to England to join the 457th, 8th Air Force bomb group stationed in Glatton. He relates his combat flying experiences. After flying thirty missions, he returned to the US in January 1945, where he was assigned as a B-17 instructor. He was discharged after the war ended and stayed in the Reserves until offered a regular commission in the Air Force in 1947, where he spent a total of thirty-two years before retiring. Interviewed by Benjamin J. Bahlmann. 71 pages. |
| Type |
Text |
| Genre |
oral histories (literary works) |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Extent |
71 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/s6c26zjn |
| Topic |
Personal narratives--American; Veterans; World War (1939-1945); Bomber pilots; Military operations, Aerial--American |
| Setname |
uum_slohp |
| ID |
1034729 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6c26zjn |
| Title |
Page 39 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_slohp |
| ID |
1034695 |
| OCR Text |
Show H V HM 26 P B R 2002 HRB: I don t think so. I think, for some reason it seems like I was the nly n that had that happen to me. Why, I don't know. BJB: Never had transition. You taught him as you learned too over there. HRB: Before he left England I had checked him out and he got a crew of his own. BJB: As well. HRB: I'll tell you about that later, if you want. BJB: So how long were you there before flying? HRB: A week, maybe. It wasn't long. BJB: What do you remember about your first [mission]? HRB: First mission was to Munich, Germany, and I'll never forget it in my life. We all went down to the briefing. Well, first of all they woke you up about two o'clock in the morning. "Get up, you're going to fly." So we went down to our briefing and after they told us where everybody was going and showed us the route and all that we would take, then the intelligence officer opened the curtain and it had these big red blotches where there was anti-aircraft fire and he said, "Gentlemen, this morning there will be 825 guns at the target." I thought, well, I guess that's all right. BJB: Flack guns, that's what they're expecting? HRB: Eight hundred and twenty-five, but it's in Munich at the target. And everything went well. We formed up and went into Germany and on down and the flack was really heavy, I mean heavy. I looked down and thought, you mean we go through that stuff? The sky was literally black because there would be a formation of B-17s about every two minutes going over that target and we were about half way back in that bomber stream. So by the time we got there, the sky was black with these bursts of these anti-aircraft fire. 38 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6c26zjn/1034695 |
