| Interviewee | UTTAL, Jordan R. (b. 1915) |
| Professions | business executive |
| Military Service | U.S. Army Air Forces WWII Veteran, 2nd Air Division Headquarters, 8th Air Force |
| Interview ID # | OH 1330 |
| Date(s) of interview | |
| Description | Business executive. His experiences as a statistics control officer in the European Theater during World War II. Pre-war education and business experience in the dairy industry; entry into the Army, December 29, 1941; Air Forces Administrative Officer Candidate School, 1942; training as a statistical control officer at Harvard Business School under Robert McNamara, 1942-43; application of business methods to Air Force operations; assignment to the 14th Bomb Wing, MacDill Field, Florida, 1943; description of the functions of a statistical control officer; assignment to the Statistical Control Section, 2nd Air Division, 8th Air Force, 1943; temporary transfer to the Photo-Analysis Section, 2nd Air Division; his courtship and marriage to Joyce Christie King on December 29, 1944; influence of his wartime experiences on his postwar business career. |
| Interviewer(s) | Ronald E. Marcello |
| Physical Description | 97 pp. plus documents (5 pp.) |
| Terms of Use | Open |
