| Title |
Wayne Ursenbach, Salt Lake City, Utah: an interview by Frances Merrill, March 29, 2004 |
| Alternative Title |
Wayne Ursenbach, Saving the legacy: an oral history of Utah's World War II veterans, ACCN 2070, American West Center, University of Utah |
| Creator |
Ursenbach, Wayne, 1923- |
| Contributor |
Merrill, Frances; University of Utah. American West Center |
| Publisher |
Digitized by J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah |
| Date |
2004-03-29 |
| Date Digital |
2015-12-16 |
| Access Rights |
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| Spatial Coverage |
England, United Kingdom; France |
| Subject |
Ursenbach, Wayne, 1923- --Interviews; Veterans--United States--Biography; World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American; World War, 1939-1945--Military operations, American; World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Europe, Northern--Personal narratives, American; Ardennes, Battle of the, 1944-1945--Personal narratives, American |
| Keywords |
Battle of the Bulge |
| Description |
Transcript (29 pages) of an interview by Frances Merrill with Wayne Ursenbach on March 29, 2004. Part of the "Saving the Legacy" Oral History Project |
| Collection Number and Name |
Accn2070, Saving the Legacy oral history project, 2001-2010 |
| Abstract |
Ursenbach (b. 1923) was drafted into the army in 1943 and assigned to Company A of the 524th MP Battalion. His initial assignment was as part of an honor guard for dignitaries flying into Los Angeles. In the Autumn of 1944, Ursenbach was shipped to Europe, where he was at Liverpool and Southhampton before going to France. He was injured in the Battle of the Bulge. After a hospital stay he was sent to France to serve in the 43rd Air Supply Squadron. He was discharged in 1946. Interviewed by Frances Merrill. 29 pages. |
| Type |
Text |
| Genre |
oral histories (literary works) |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Extent |
29 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/s60887dk |
| Topic |
Personal narratives--American; Veterans; World War (1939-1945); Ardennes, Battle of the (1944-1945) |
| Setname |
uum_slohp |
| ID |
1034881 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s60887dk |
| Title |
Page 24 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_slohp |
| ID |
1034861 |
| OCR Text |
Show WAYNE UR ENBACH March 29,2004 WU: He was pretty accurate I thought. I thought Ambrose did a good job. orne of th th r were terrible. FHM: They just distorted history? WU: Oh, they just distorted it. They just wrote to please the people that read it, rather than to try and report history. But I remember one time, we were losing strength quite rapidly. We went into 178, which was too short of full company strength, on Christmas day of 1944. And I left the lines with frozen feet on the 20th of January. And we had come from there- 178 to 42 in that length of time. But we went to this one place. We moved around. They moved us to one place just to hold, and they were going to relieve a-they took our squad, what small squad it was-we were down to about five men then. And they said, "You're going to relieve so and so, and the sergeant is waiting for you." So we went over there, and he says, "Let me show you where we got our positions." And he was showing us around, and showed us the positions. He said, "You won't need all of them because you just don't have enough there." And they said, "Well, we're relieving your squad." And he said, "Yeah, you're relieving the squad." And they said, "Well, where are the rest of the men?" And he said, "I'm it." He was the only one left of that squad. FHM: What did you feel like at that time? WU: Having lost a lot of my friends, I just thought that he probably felt a lot worse than I did about losing it. FHM: Do you remember any pranks that anybody did while in the military that you observed? WU: Yeah. But I didn't see many pranks when we got into the combat area. 23 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s60887dk/1034861 |
