Interview ID: OH 1489
Business executive. His experiences as a mechanic in the Southwest Pacific Theater during World War II. His family background and education; influence of the Great Depression on his military and civilian careers; his decision to enlist in the Marine Corps, 1942; boot camp, Parris Island, South Carolina, 1942-43; assignment to VMB-433, Cherry Point, North Carolina, 1943; training at Peterfield Point, North Carolina, 1943, in the transportation section; his training as a vehicle mechanic; additional training and preparation for overseas assignment, El Centro Marine Air Station, California, 1944; journey across the Pacific to Espiritu Santo, 1944; assignment to Emirau, 1944; living conditions on Emirau; his duties as a vehicle mechanic; his building of a personal Jeep from salvaged parts; cooperation with Navy SeaBees; nuisance raids by Japanese aircraft; recreation and entertainment; sea voyage toward Mindinao, Philippines, and the end of the war; homecoming with his family in Abingdon, Virginia, Christmas, 1945; graduation from Virginia Tech with the aid of the GI Bill, 1950, and his postwar business career.
Date of Interview: 27/09/2002
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Interview ID: OH 0029
Banker, public servant, philanthropist. His observations on the growth and development of banking and finance in the Southwest. Service in World War I; assistant cashier of the Alba National Bank, Alba, Texas; cashier of the Farmers and Merchants Bank, Farmersville, Texas; state bank examiner; Federal Home Loan Banking System; vice-president and member of the executive committee of Republic National Bank, Dallas; president of First National Bank, Dallas; chairman of the board of Dallas Federal Savings and Loan Association; philanthropic activities
Date of Interview: 27/10/1969, 31/10/1969, 03/11/1969, 10/11/1969, 17/11/1969
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Interview ID: OHB 0062
Owner and operator, Denton Floor Covering Company, Inc., Denton, Texas. Family background; work in grocery stores in Denton, 1930s; employment as salesman for Lone Star Gas Company, 1940; work in Denton appliance and hardware stores; hired as manager of Denton Floor Covering, 1955; history and financing of business; growth of sales; contrasts sales of linoleum and carpet; description of types of carpeting; expansion into janitorial supplies; marketing area; comments on personnel; business financing and competition in Denton; use of advertising; comments on business ethics; views on development of successful family business; civic activities.
Date of Interview: 06/08/1981
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Interview ID: OH 0537
His experiences with the 31st Bomb Squadron at Hickam Field during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Date of Interview: 06/12/1980
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Interview ID: OH 0973
State district judge. Her views concerning the impact and significance of women on the rise of the Republican Party in Texas, 1968-93. Educational background; move to Dallas; decision to enter Republican politics; election as state district judge; her relationship with African-American community; personal political philosophy.
Date of Interview: 12/08/1993
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Interview ID: OH 1629
African American alumna of North Texas State University. Childhood and early education in High, Texas; cotton farming; education at all-black, one-room Prairie Point School and Roxton High School; race relations in Northeast Texas; decision to enter Paris Junior College under National Defense Student Loan program; decision to enter NTSU in Fall 1962; brother Charles Green's experience at NTSU; living conditions in "Shacktown" area of Denton; experiences in NTSU Baptist Student Union; marriage to NTSU student Roy Green; career with Dallas ISD and Federal National Mortgage Association, and Oak Cliff Savings and Loan, as a Realtor, and as her husband's co-worker in insurance business.
Date of Interview: 29/03/2006
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Interview ID: OH 0466
Member of the "Lost Battalion." His experiences as a prisoner-of-war of the Japanese during World War II. Fall of Java and capture; Bicycle Camp, Batavia, 1942; Changi Prison Camp, Singapore, 1942; building the Burma-Thailand Death Railway, 1942-44; Kanchanaburi and Tamarkan, Thailand, 1944, and American air raids; Tamuang, Thailand, 1944; Phet Buri, Thailand, 1944-45; liberation.
Date of Interview: 15/08/1978
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Interview ID: OH 0794
Member of the "Lost Battalion." His experiences as a prisoner-of-war of the Japanese during World War II. Fall of Java and capture; Bicycle Camp, 1942; Changi Prison Camp, Singapore, 1942; building the Burma Thailand Death Railway, 1942-44; Kanchanaburi, Thailand, 1944-45; Phet Buri, Thailand, 1945; liberation.
Date of Interview: 02/11/1989, 14/11/1989
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Interview ID: OH 1612
For the Texas Textile Mill Oral History Project. Former textile mill worker. Experiences growing up in Denison and McKinney, Texas; decision to drop out of school after sixth grade; work career at Texas Textile Mill in McKinney and experiences of other family members in mill employment; decision to return to school; graduation from high school on fiftieth birthday; achievement of nursing license; family history; experiences in McKinney.
Date of Interview: 17/11/2006
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Interview ID: OH 1264
Businessman. His experiences as a B-17 pilot in the European Theater during World War II. Pre-flight, primary flight, and advanced flight training in the U. S., 1943-44; training in the B-17 at Roswell, New Mexico, 1944; comments about individual members of his B-17 crew; voyage to England on the Queen Elizabeth, 1944; assignment to Station 167, Ridgewell England; additional flight training out of Ridgewell; his first combat mission, December, 1944; description of a typical mission; bombing tactics; German flak; Berlin raids; his plane hit by flak over Brux, Czechoslovakia, and forced to make crash landing in Belgium, February 14, 1944; convalescence from wounds in Liege, Belgium; return to duty for seven more missions; stateside duty after V-E Day; attitudes toward the German people and the morality of bombing civilians.
Date of Interview: 17/08/1998
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Interview ID: OH 1040
His experiences as an employee at the Red River Army Depot, Texarkana, Arkansas during World War II and the postwar years. Employment procedures; job assignments; wartime housing; safety procedures; social activities; union activities; relationships with women workers; race relations.
Date of Interview: 13/02/1995
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Interview ID: OH 1045
Her recollections and experiences as an employee at the Red River Army Depot, Texarkana, Arkansas, during World War II. Hiring procedures; promotion policies; civilian housing; rationing; employee morale; union activity; promotions and sexual harassment.
Date of Interview: 14/02/1995
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Interview ID: OH 1844
For the Desegregating DFW Oral History Project. Educator. Childhood in Dallas; realization of color differences and racism; desegregation of schools; continuation of racism into late twentieth century; racial tensions; competitive roller skating; special education teaching in an inner-city school; challenges of an inter-racial marriage; education and career history; Dallas in the 1960s; changes in racial terminology; family history; future end of racial differences.
Date of Interview: 27/02/2014
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