Wes Nordgren, Saving the legacy: an oral history of Utah's World War II veterans, ACCN 2070, American West Center, University of Utah

Transcript (26 pages) of an interview by Becky B. Lloyd with Wes Nordgren on February 23, 2004. This is from tape number 645 in the "Saving the Legacy Oral History ProjectNordgren (b. 1922) joined the Navy early in 1941. He recounts the story of the rescue of a paratrooper whose chute had caught on the tail of a DC-3. He describes his flight training, meeting and marrying his wife, and his postwar service in the Reserves, and being a flight controller. 26 pages