Oral History of Dee W. Mitton
Oral History
Identifier:
05.10.1
Alternate Identifier:MS 275
1940 – 2005
Interview date:January 25 2005
Interviewer:Kathy Bradford
Description
Dee Mitton did some sheet metal work on the construction of Bushnell Military Hospital in Brigham City before being inducted into the Army Air Force. On his 27-day journey from the U.S. to North Africa, the convoy he was traveling with was attacked in the Straits of Gibraltar by German bombers and submarines. He was a truck driver in the 12th Air Force, 62nd Fighter Wing. He was discharged Nov. 1, 1945. From 1951 to 1980, he worked at Intermountain Indian School in Brigham City as a carpenter foreman, in the maintenance of the facility. He described the campus and physical facilities of the boarding school.
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