Interview ID: OH 0242
His experiences while aboard the destroyer USS Hull during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Date of Interview: 25/08/1974
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Interview ID: OH 0400
His experiences at Kaneohe Naval Air Station with VP-11 during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Date of Interview: 15/10/1977
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Interview ID: OH 0347
His experiences at Hickam Field with the Base Fire Department during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Date of Interview: 22/11/1976
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Interview ID: OH 1805
For the Tarrant County War Veterans Oral History Project. Airline pilot. His experiences as a B-17 pilot in the European Theater in World War II. Childhood in Alabama, learning to fly; enlistment in the Air National Guard; Army Air Forces flight training; bombing missions over Germany; career as an American Airlines pilot; 381st Bombardment Group Memorial and Dedication Ceremony.
Date of Interview: 17/07/2007
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Interview ID: OH 1413
His experiences as a B-17 pilot in the European Theater during World War II. His enrollment in the Civilian Pilot Training Program, 1940; enlistment in the Aviation Cadet Program, 1942; Aviation Cadet Classification Center, San Antonio, Texas, 1942; pre-flight training, San Antonio, 1942-43; primary flight training, Cimarron Field, Oklahoma City, 1943; basic flight training, Strother Army Air Base, Winfield, Kansas, 1943; advanced flight training, Altus, Oklahoma, 1943; bomber transition training, Sebring, Florida, 1943; crew formation at Dalhart, Texas, 1944; troopship to England, 1944; assignment to the 384th Bomb Group, Station 106, Grafton Underwood, England; bombing missions over France in preparation for the D-Day landings; his observations from the air of the D-Day landings; mission to Stettin, Germany, May 13, 1944; rotation back to the States after his thirty-first mission on July 6, 1944; postwar career in business.
Date of Interview: 16/07/2000
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Interview ID: OH 0897
His experiences while employed by the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression. Childhood in Westbrook and Dublin, Texas; joining the CCC; assignment to Company 849 at SP-36 at Lake Brownwood, Texas; description of camp; life in camp.
Date of Interview: 24/02/1993
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Interview ID: OH 1058
His experiences while aboard the destroyer USS Melvin during
World War II in the Pacific Theater. Marianas invasion; Carolines invasion; Battle of Leyte Gulf;
Battle of Surigao Strait; Iwo Jima; Okinawa; Kurile operations and occupation of Japan.
Date of Interview: 09/09/1994
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Interview ID: OH 2041
Naomie Rudelson shares experiences as a retailing executive whose career grew in the Dallas fashion scene. While her first fashion experiences were working at Gus Mayer in New Orleans and then working at Dalton’s while attending Louisiana State University, shortly after graduation she moved to Dallas to complete a junior executive training program through the department store Sanger Brothers in 1956. She worked at the Highland Park and Preston Center branches of the store, rising to the level of buyer before becoming the first female vice president of a Federated Department Store in 1974. After hitting her “glass ceiling” there in 1978, Rudelson left what was then Sanger-Harris in 1978, transitioning to executive positions around the country. Rudelson describes the Dallas fashion industry – retailers, manufacturers, the Dallas Apparel Mart – as well as her work with Fashion Group International in the early 1970s to move a collection of historic and designer clothing to North Texas State University (later the University of North Texas, Texas Fashion Collection).
Date of Interview: 13/07/2020
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Interview ID: OH 0224
Her experiences as a Navy wife at Hickam Field during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Date of Interview: 07/07/1974
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Interview ID: OH 0338
His experiences while aboard the minelayer USS Breese during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Date of Interview: 13/06/1976
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Interview ID: OH 0118
Businessman. His observations on the settlement and development of the Coastal Bend area of South Texas, 1910-68. Ruhmann Manufacturing Company; rural social life.
Date of Interview: 28/05/1969
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Interview ID: OH 1838
Mexican-American, UNT football player, and educator. Childhood in Southern Texas; father’s experience on the King Ranch and stint as a bootlegger; schooling and playing football in Kingsville, Texas; growing up Mexican-American in Kingsville, Texas; attending UNT on a football scholarship; experiences as a Mexican-American at UNT in the mid-1950s; coaching football in Kingsville, Texas; recruitment into Job Corps; various jobs around the country with Job Corps; teaching in Washington DC prison; work in Hot Springs, Arkansas; work for Office of Civil Rights Technical Assistance integrating Dallas-area schools; work for the U.S. Department of Education in the Offices of Elementary and Secondary Education, Bilingual Education, and Migrant Education; involvement in Hispanic/Latino initiatives within the Department of Education; work with Mexican Department of Education in various educational exchange initiatives.
Date of Interview: 29/09/2012
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Interview ID: OH 0219
His experiences at Wheeler Field with the Army Ordnance Detachment during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Date of Interview: 06/07/1974
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Interview ID: OH 0744
His experiences aboard the cruiser USS Phoenix during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Date of Interview: 22/04/1988
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Interview ID: OH 0407
Veteran and his wife. Their experiences at Hickam Field during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Date of Interview: 27/02/1978
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Interview ID: OH 1967
Flight Attendant, after marriage - Supervisor then Assistant Manager over flight attendants. The in-flight and ground experiences of Braniff International Airways by Abra Schnur through a collection of former Braniff employee interviews. Interviewees include flight attendants, pilots, ticket agents, ground crew, executives and family members. Content includes personal reflections of Braniff’s impact on the DFW area and the airline industry as a whole with the “End of the Plain Plane” campaign brought in by Harding Lawrence. Discussions on being a part of the Braniff family and Braniff’s rise to the top of preferred airlines to its bankruptcy on May 12, 1982.
Date of Interview: 25/05/2013
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Interview ID: OH 0598
Attorney. His experiences as a member of the football team during the desegregation of athletics at North Texas State College, 1956.
Date of Interview: 13/01/1983
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Interview ID: OHB 0032
NEWMAN, Rowe B. Founder and chairman of board, Russell-Newman Mfg. Company, Denton,
Texas. Boyhood; early work experiences; education; store manager, Montgomery Ward; store
manager, Butler Bros.; founding Russell-Newman, 1939; decision to specialize in lingerie; World War II; growth and expansion; financing methods; chain store accounts; decisions on designs; fabrics, dyes; government regulations; minority hiring; family members in business; employee relations; developing management team.
MARTINO, Frank. President, Russell-Newman Mfg. Company. Family background; early work
experiences; education; entry into clothing business; joining Russell-Newman as salesman;
promotions to office manager, production manager; growth and expansion; new plant locations;
launching separate business; incorporating into Russell-Newman; production, suppliers;
employee relations; financing methods; government regulations; competition; family involvement in business; views on organized labor; typical workday; attitudes toward retirement.
ROBINSON, Don. Executive vice-president, Russell-Newman Mfg. Company. Family
background; early work experiences; education; Burr Stores; plant manager and then sales
manager, Russell-Newman; policies toward marketing, credit; growth and expansion; design
decisions; government regulations; typical workday; views toward retirement.
KENDRICK, Lura. Chief designer (for thirty years), Russell-Newman Mfg. Company. Family
background; education; employment at Russell’s Department Store; art teacher at Texas
Woman’s University; part-time garment designer for Russell-Newman; comments on fabrics,
dyes; consumer preferences; cost consciousness in design; chain stores; design procedures;
evolution of design department.
Date of Interview: 01/03/1978, 14/06/1978, 26/07/1978, 13/09/1978
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Interview ID: OH 1516
His experiences while employed by the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression. Childhood in Limestone County, Texas; joining the CCC; assignment to Fort Parker in Springfield, Texas; description of camp; life in camp.
Date of Interview: 19/09/2003
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Interview ID: OH 0769
His experiences at Ford Island Naval Air Station with the Assembly and Repair Division during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Date of Interview: 16/09/1988
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Interview ID: OH 0957
His experiences in the Pacific Theater during World War II. Assignment to 2nd Marine Division; landings on Gavutu and Tanambogo in Florida Islands; Tarawa landing; Marianas campaign and Tinian landing.
Date of Interview: 02/05/1993
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Interview ID: OH 0767
His experiences with the 9th Signal Service Company at Schofield Barracks during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Date of Interview: 24/02/1989
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Interview ID: OH 1301
His experiences aboard the PT boat tender USS Jamestown and the rocket launching ships LCIR-74 and LCIR-34 in the Pacific Theater during World War II. Enlistment in the Navy at age seventeen in 1937; assignment aboard the cruiser USS Northampton, 1937, as a machinist’s mate; diesel mechanics school, New London, Connecticut, 1941; assignment to the converted yacht USS Jamestown, 1941; conversion of the Jamestown into a PT boat tender, 1941; transfer to the Pacific and operations in the Solomon Islands, 1942; supporting and servicing PT boat squadrons while based at Tulagi; his work overhauling Packard engines for PT boats; move to Rendova, 1943; return to the States, 1944; his steady advancement through the enlisted ranks and promotion to ensign, 1944; assignment to the LCIR-74 at New Guinea, 1944; Leyte Gulf landings, 1944; his first command, LCIR-34, 1945; preparations for the invasion of Japan; subsequent postwar career and promotion to admiral; influence of his widowed mother on his naval career.
Date of Interview: 03/10/1997
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Interview ID: OH 1456
For the Ray Roberts Lake Oral History Project. Farmer. His reminiscences about rural life in Denton County, Texas, 1920-1987. Changing crop patterns; development of larger farms and agricultural operations; Simpson’s sawmill; threshing season; rural migration to towns and cities.
Date of Interview: 03/09/1987
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Interview ID: OH 1734
For the DFW Metroplex Immigrants Oral History Project. Palestinian-born immigrant to Denton, Texas, UNT professor. Childhood in Jerusalem under the British mandate; experience as a Christian in Palestine; decision to study international relations and Middle Eastern politics; education at American University of Beirut and Georgetown University; 1986 decision to accept job at North Texas State University; thoughts on current events in Middle East, particularly uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt; work with U.S. State Department; thoughts on opportunities available blind people in U.S. as compared to other parts of the world.
Date of Interview: 11/04/2011 to 13/04/2011
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Interview ID: OH 0886
His experiences while employed by the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression. Childhood in Tennessee; joining the CCC; assignment to Company 1473 in F-11 at Bristol, Tennessee; description of camp; life in camp.
Date of Interview: 24/02/1993
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Interview ID: OH 1440
Aviation executive. His experiences as an antiaircraft radar operator in the European Theater during World War II. Comments about his German ancestors and growing up in O’Fallon, Missouri; sports activities; college life at the University of Missouri; decision to join the Aviation Cadet Program, 1941; primary flight training, Ballinger, Texas, 1942; washing out of flight training; courtship of his future wife; Officer Candidate School, Miami, Florida, 1942; ground radar training, Goldsboro, North Carolina, 1943; assignment to Scotland for further training, 1943-44; transfer to “Ripsaw 4,” 1944; transfer to France; his description of the liberation of the Buchenwald concentration camp; his description of the hospital and commandant’s quarters at Buchenwald; end of the war in Europe and preparations for the invasion of Japan; his postwar marriage.
Date of Interview: 14/02/2000
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Interview ID: OHB 0087
Rancher and Wild West Show bronc rider. Childhood in Excelsior Springs, Missouri; trick riding and touring Europe and the U.S. with the 101 Ranch show; riding in various other shows; first marriage to Bryan Roach; second marriage to Fred Salmon; ranching in Nocona, Texas; Fred Salmon’s background; history of the Salmon Ranch; Montague County.
Date of Interview: 07/11/1984
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Interview ID: OH 0095
His experiences as an employee of the Dallas regional office of the Home Owners Corporation during the New Deal. Mortgage buying; loan amortization; insurance; home improvements; accounting procedures; politics and patronage; taxes and appraising; foreclosures; loan servicing.
Date of Interview: 19/11/1971
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Interview ID: OH 1000
His experiences during internment in the Soviet Union, 1943-44, after the downing of his bomber by Japanese planes. Alaskan operations; internment by the Soviets and his treatment; postwar career in the Air Force.
Date of Interview: 01/05/1993
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Interview ID: OH 0408
His experiences with the 6th Pursuit Squadron at Wheeler Field during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Date of Interview: 27/03/1978
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Interview ID: OH 0252
College professor, former college administrator, former poet laureate of Texas. The making of the poet; analysis of his poetry; tenure as director of libraries and vice-president for academic affairs at North Texas State College; his philosophy of teaching; desegregation of the college, 1955-56.
Date of Interview: 08/11/1973, 07/12/1973, 29/05/1974, 26/11/1974
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Interview ID: OH 2080
For the Denton County Historical Commission. Childhood, family, and adulthood in the DFW area. Discovering family history through genealogy and other official records: birth and death certificates, census reports, local history. Wright family history of members buried in a mausoleum in the Independent Order of ODD Fellows (IOOF) Cemetery: William Crow Wright, Marmaduke Gillenwater (Wright). History of ancestor Sallie Caruthers and connections with the Chisum family.
Date of Interview: 21/06/2023
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Interview ID: OH 1879
Dallas Latino community AIDS activist and services coordinator. Childhood in El Paso, Texas; move to Dallas, Texas after graduating from UT-El Paso; various Dallas County jobs; AIDS activism; development of AIDS services in the Latino community; AIDS Arms and other organizations; HIV/AIDS stigma within the community; needs among and difficulties encountered by minority HIV/AIDS patients.
Date of Interview: 01/11/2013
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Interview ID: OH 1354
Radio/TV engineer. His experiences as a radio operator on a C-46 in the China-Burma-India Theater during World War II. Enlistment and radio school, 1942; assignment to the 15th Squadron, 1943; transition training in the C-46, Bowman Field, Louisville, Kentucky, 1943; assignment to Sylhet, India, and flying supplies to the British 14th Army in Burma, 1944-45; transfer to the Air Transport Command at Myitkyina, Burma, 1945; flying supplies over “The Hump” to Kunming, China, 1945; bailing out over the Himalayas after his plane caught fire, 1945; his rescue by Chinese peasants and his eventual reunion with his squadron in Myitkyina; his postwar career in radio/TV.
Date of Interview: 16/02/1999
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Interview ID: OH 1488
Businessman. His experiences as a PBY and PBM pilot in the Southwest Pacific Theater during World War II. His youth and education around Brenham, Texas; graduation from high school and employment with the A&P grocery chain, 1933-42; enlistment in the Navy as a member of the “Houston Hurricanes,” 1942; pre-flight training at the University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, 1942; primary flight training, Naval Air Station, Dallas, Texas, 1942; advanced flight training, Naval Air Station, Corpus Christi, Texas, 1942-43; transition to multi-engine planes at Corpus Christi, 1943; Kaneohe Naval Air Station, Oahu, Hawaii, 1943; transfer to the Southwest Pacific and flying patrols in the PBY as a member of Patrol Squadron 14, March, 1944; night patrols as a member of a “Black Cat” squadron; operations in the PBM around Lingayen Gulf, Philippines, March, 1945; anti-shipping patrols off the Chinese coast; Japanese fighter opposition; life aboard a seaplane tender; his plane credited with sinking five Japanese ships in the Hong Kong-Hainan Island area, June 23, 1945; his being awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross; his postwar business career.
Date of Interview: 22/05/2002
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Interview ID: OH 0014
Attorney. His experiences as private secretary to Governor Miriam A. Ferguson, 1925-27, 1933-35; his relationship with James E. Ferguson; comments about Governors Pat Neff, Dan Moody, James Allred, W. Lee O’Daniel, and Coke Stevenson; Johnson-Stevenson senatorial race of 1948; impeachment of James Ferguson.
Date of Interview: 08/05/1967, 03/06/1967
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Interview ID: OH 1575
African-American alumnus of North Texas State University. Memories of childhood and early adulthood in Fort Worth, Texas; experience of attending all-black schools, including I.M. Terrell High School; “benevolent racism” of Fort Worth whites; personal experience in desegregating Hollywood Theater in Fort Worth; early interest in journalism; decision to enroll at North Texas State University in 1965; experiences as an NTSU student and resident of Denton; participation in campus antiwar demonstrations and demonstration to protest the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.; career as a reporter and columnist for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram.
Date of Interview: 03/03/2006
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Interview ID: OH 2016
For the Dallas LGBT Oral History Project. Owner of Mable Peabody’s Beauty Parlor and Chainsaw Repair, Denton’s first LGBT-friendly bar. Childhood in East Texas and in Gainesville, Texas; brief marriage to a man; coming out narrative; experiences managing bars in Dallas; experiences during the AIDS crisis; relationships with LGBT community; decision to open Mable Peabody’s, and experiences there.
Date of Interview: 08/08/2013
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Interview ID: OH 1815
For the Desegregating DFW Oral History Project. Executive director of Tarrant County Black Historical and Genealogical Society and Civil Rights advocate. Childhood in Fort Worth; experience attending desegregated high school; family history; life during segregation; changes after desegregation; preserving Tarrant County African American history; emotional effects of segregation.
Date of Interview: 20/03/2014
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Interview ID: OH 1378
His experiences in the Pacific Theater during World War II. Pre-war youth; entry into the Army and basic training, Camp Blanding, Florida, 1942; combat on Guadalcanal, 1943; New Georgia Campaign, 1943; Munda Campaign, 1943; Bougainville Campaign, 1943-44; Philippine Campaign, 1945; battle for Manila; his battle wounds on February 13, 1945, and medical evacuation.
Date of Interview: 25/02/1999
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Interview ID: OH 0261
His experiences with the 11th Field Artillery, 24th Infantry Division, at Schofield Barracks during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Date of Interview: 07/12/1974
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Interview ID: OH 1860
For the Dallas DREAMers Oral History Project. DREAM Team activist. Childhood in Mexico; decision to immigrate to the United States; ease of crossing the border pre-9/11; advantages of becoming documented; political involvement; living undocumented; precariousness of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) status; Mexican American identity; North Texas DREAM Team and activism.
Date of Interview: 24/10/2015
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Interview ID: OH 1357
Federal prison administrator. His experiences in the Pacific Theater and China during World War II; also his experiences during the Korean War. Service in the peacetime Army, 1933-36; civilian employment, 1936-43; decision to join the Marines, 1943; Officer Candidate School, Quantico, Virginia, 1945; assignment as a replacement to the 1st Marine Division on Okinawa, May, 1945; his combat experiences during the Okinawa Campaign; tactics used against Japanese holdouts; training for the invasion of the Japanese home islands; postwar occupation duty around Shanhaikuan-Tientsin, China, 1945; his discharge and return to the Federal Bureau of Prisons; his recall to active duty during the Korean War, August 31, 1950; rejoining his old outfit, the 2nd Battalion, 7th Marines, at Camp Pendleton, California; ground combat around Seoul, South Korea; his serious leg wound and evacuation; his receiving the Silver Star for gallantry; recuperation and permanent disability; release from active duty in 1951 and subsequent career with the Federal Bureau of Prisons.
Date of Interview: 25/02/1999
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Interview ID: OH 0324
His experiences while aboard the battleship USS California during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Date of Interview: 15/05/1976
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Interview ID: OH 0396
His experiences with the 35th Infantry Regiment at Schofield Barracks during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Date of Interview: 03/12/1977
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Interview ID: OH 1046
Survivor of the Bataan Death March. His experiences as a prisoner-of-war of the Japanese during World War II. Bataan Airfield, 1941-42; fall of Bataan and capture; Bataan Death March; Camp O'Donnell, 1942; Cabanatuan, 1942; Davao Penal Colony, 1942-44; Bilibid Prison, Manila, 1944; hell ship to Japan, 1945; Mojo and Fukuoka, Kyushu, 1945; Mukden, Manchuria, 1945; liberation by Russian troops.
Date of Interview: 25/05/1994, 31/05/1994
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Interview ID: OH 1105
His experiences as an Army officer in the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression. Childhood in Alabama; assignment to the CCC as a junior officer in 4th Corps, Company 441 in Greer, South Carolina; description of camp; life in camp.
Date of Interview: 22/10/1995
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Interview ID: OH 1141
His experiences as a B-29 pilot in the Pacific Theater during World War II. Bombing missions from Guam to Japan, 1945; Japanese fighter and flak opposition; fire bomb raids.
Date of Interview: 21/10/1996
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Interview ID: OHB 0100
Owners and operators of grocery and furniture refinishing businesses, Fort Worth, Texas. Clarence’s family background; employment at grocery store, Kansas City, 1917; work for Sandegaard’s grocery store, Fort Worth, 1919; employment with A&P tea Company, 1927-37; opening of grocery stores in Fort Worth; description of equipment and food products at grocery stores in Kansas City and Fort Worth; prices of goods during Depression; reasons for leaving grocery business, 1941; employment with
Texas hotel as furniture refinisher; establishment of refinishing business, Fort Worth; description of refinishing process; comments on
Date of Interview: 08/11/1985
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Interview ID: OH 1671
For the Tarrant County War Veterans Oral History Project. World War II veteran. Childhood and education in San Antonio, Texas; challenges of the Great Depression; decision to enter John Sealy College of Nursing of the University of Texas; decision to enlist in U.S. Army Reserves, January 1941; service in U.S. Army Nursing Corps at hospitals in Colorado and California; deployment to Pacific Theater; work with 118th General Hospital in Australia, New Guinea, the Philippines, and Japan; experiences with injured soldiers, civilians, and prisoners of war; descriptions of wartime destruction in Philippines and Japan; social life among nurses; opinions regarding use of atomic weapons; family’s history in Central Texas; return to San Antonio and service at Brooke Army Medical Center through Korean War era; education at San Francisco State University; return to Army service and service at several hospitals concluding with Brooke; 1963 retirement; interest in travel; memories of 1968 San Antonio Hemisfair; decision to relocate to Fort Worth; opinions regarding military service and women’s roles in armed forces.
Date of Interview: 24/10/2007
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Interview ID: OH 1699
For the DFW Metroplex Immigrants Oral History Project. Russian-born immigrant to suburban Plano, Texas. Childhood and education in Kazan, Russia, Poland, and Izhevsk, Russia; parents’ work as geophysicists; perceptions of glasnost and perestroika; college and graduate school experiences at Kazan State University and decision to study computer science; experiences with Billy Graham Evangelistic Ministries; marriage to a Texas A&M student who had studied at Kazan State as an exchange student; decision to move to Texas; first impressions of Texas; career in telecommunications industry; divorce; process of becoming a U.S. citizen; opinions on current political issues.
Date of Interview: 15/11/2009
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Interview ID: OH 0872
Businessman, Holocaust survivor. His experiences during the Holocaust. Family background; youth in Krakow, Poland; prewar anti-Semitism; reaction to German invasion; forced-labor battalions; formation of Krakow Ghetto; ghetto life; smuggling activities; transports to concentration camps and deportation of parents in July, 1942; his marriage in the Krakow Ghetto, 1942; liquidation of Krakow Ghetto; deportation to Plaszów Concentration Camp; separation from wife, September, 1943; deportation to Auschwitz; medical experiments; survival techniques in Auschwitz; evacuation from Auschwitz, January, 1945; internment at Gross-Rosen; transfer to Buchenwald; liberation by American troops; reunion with his wife in Krakow; emigration to United States, 1949; lasting effects of Holocaust.
Date of Interview: 12/01/1990
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Interview ID: OH 1492
Commercial airline pilot. His experiences as a B-24 pilot in the China-Burma-India Theater during World War II. His prewar education through college at the University of Houston; Junior ROTC in high school; joining the Texas Air Guard (111th Observation Squadron) before World War II; flying lessons at Hobby Airport, Houston, Texas; participation in the Civilian Pilot Training Program and the Citizen Military Training Camp; his commissioning as a 2nd lieutenant in the field artillery, August, 1941; his transfer to the Army Air Forces, December 17, 1942; physical training at Kelly Field, San Antonio, Texas, 1942; primary flight training, Corsicana, Texas, 1942; basic flight training, Randolph Field, San Antonio, Texas, 1942; advanced flight training in multi-engine planes, Ellington Field, Houston, Texas, 1942; B-17 training, Sebring, Florida, 1942; B-24 training, Davis-Monthan Field, Tucson, Arizona, 1943; crew formation at Davis-Monthan; bomber transition training, Clovis, New Mexico, 1943; assignment to the CBI Theater; crash landing at McDewgwi, Nigeria, April 27, 1943; stationing at Bishnupur, India, 1943; base living conditions; various bombing missions to Rangoon, Burma; Japanese fighter and antiaircraft opposition; night missions against Japanese shipping; mining the Bangkok, Thailand, harbor; comments about Indian culture and living conditions; combat death of his co-pilot; his navigator’s psychological problems; detailed descriptions of two raids on the Burma-Thailand “Death Railway,” Spring, 1944, and the wounding of his arm on the second raid; recuperation; his return to combat eight weeks later; his reaction to the combat death of his brother in Europe; his return to the States, July, 1944; date with Judy Garland; his postwar career in commercial aviation and his later return to active duty in the Air Force.
Date of Interview: 12/06/2003
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Interview ID: OH 1880
Childhood in the Congo and Texas; family history; living on the Alabama-Coushatta reservation near Livingston, Texas; enlistment in the Navy; assignment on USS Thurston; attending the V-12 program; assignment on the USS Long Island in the Pacific Theater; post-war college and teaching; recall by Navy during the Korean War; assignment to USS Adirondack and Naples, Italy; post-war life.
Date of Interview: 21/07/2014
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Interview ID: OH 0197
His experiences with F Company, 3rd Defense Battalion, at the Marine Barracks between Pearl Harbor and Hickam Field during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Date of Interview: 17/05/1974
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Interview ID: OH 1389
Attorney. His experiences as a B-17 pilot in the European Theater during World War II. Enlistment in the Aviation Cadet Program, 1942; basic training, Miami Beach, Florida, 1942; college preparatory program, Lafayette College, Easton, Pennsylvania, 1942-43; pre-flight training, Montgomery, Alabama, 1943; primary flight training, Georgia, 1943; basic flight training, Greenwood, Mississippi, 1943; advanced flight training, Columbus, Mississippi, 1943-44; his marriage after receiving his commission, 1944; B-17 transition training, Columbus, Ohio, 1944; formation of his crew, Avon Park, Florida, 1944; establishment of crew integrity; trans-Atlantic flight to England, 1944; assignment to the 447th Bomb Group, Rattlesden, England, 1944; his first mission, October, 1944; the process of forming up for mass bombing missions; various bombing missions to Merseburg, Germany, 1944; description of flying through enemy flak; flak damage on a mission to Mannheim, Germany, 1944; enemy fighter opposition; various missions to Berlin, 1944-45; mission during the Battle of the Bulge, Christmas Eve, 1944; encounters with enemy jet fighters; his thirty-fifth mission and rotation back to the States.
Date of Interview: 08/12/2000
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Interview ID: OH 1773
For the Women Veterans Oral History Project. U.S. Navy Avionics Technician, Persian Gulf War-era Veteran. Childhood in Arlington, Texas; effects of parents’ divorce; experience in drug rehab; reasons for joining the Navy; training in a job recently opened to women; experience in an all-female company at boot camp; life at duty station in San Diego, California; reaction of family to enlistment; experience as part of a detachment aboard the aircraft carrier USS Constellation; thoughts on women in combat; thoughts on expanding role of women in the Navy in the early 1990s; first marriage to another seaman; attending Baylor University; [reaction of other students to veteran status; lack of support for women veterans at Baylor; shellback ceremony; advice for future generations of women in the military]; unreported sexual assault during “A” school (job training); advice to victims of military sexual trauma.
Date of Interview: 24/02/2013
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Interview ID: OH 1845
Sources of Hope manager and LGBT community activist. Childhood in Indiana; education; move to Texas; family history; homophobia in East Texas; move to Dallas; involvement in the Dallas Metropolitan Community Church (MCC); Dallas gay community in 1980s; MCC history; effects of AIDS crisis on the church and community; MCC’s transition into the Cathedral of Hope; changes in the Dallas LGBT community.
Date of Interview: 16/03/2015
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Interview ID: OH 1801
His experiences while aboard the cruiser USS New Orleans during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Date of Interview: 29/04/1990
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Interview ID: OH 0775
His experiences while aboard the destroyer USS Downes during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Date of Interview: 16/09/1988
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Interview ID: OH 1933
For the DFW Immigration Oral History Project. Childhood in Arolsen, Germany. Father’s career in Schutzstaffel (SS or Protective Squad that served as paramilitary Corps of the Nazi Party). Studied zoology at the Philipps University of Marburg graduating with a PhD in 1964. Memories of working at family-owned laundry business for his father while obtaining his education. Decision to pursue career in U.S. Reflections on his teaching career and living in the United States.
Date of Interview: 04/12/2012
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Interview ID: OH 0017
Attorney, member of the Texas Senate from Galveston, Democrat. His experiences and personal views as a member of the Sixtieth Legislature.
Date of Interview: 27/11/1967
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Interview ID: OH 0060
Attorney, member of the Texas State Senate from Galveston, Democrat. His experiences and personal views as a member of the Sixty-first Legislature. One-year versus two-year budget; revenue bills; welfare spending; need for constitutional revision; urban-rural conflict; minimum wages for migrant workers; education legislation; unrest on college campuses; personal legislation; comments about Governors John Connally and Preston
Smith.
Date of Interview: 06/05/1970
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Interview ID: OH 0187
Attorney, member of the Texas State Senate from Galveston, Democrat. His experiences and personal views as a member of the Sixty-second Legislature. Revenue bills; corporate profits tax; Sharpstown stock-fraud scandal; redistricting.
Date of Interview: 09/11/1971
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Interview ID: OH 0497
Survivor of the sinking of USS Houston. His experiences as a prisoner-of-war of the Japanese during World War II. Sinking of Houston, 1942; capture and imprisonment at Serang, Java; Bicycle Camp, Batavia, 1942; Changi Prison Camp, Singapore, 1942; building the Burma-Thailand Death Railway, 1942-44; Tamarkan, and Nakhon Pathom, Thailand, 1944-45; Saigon and Da Lat, French Indo-China, 1945; liberation.
Date of Interview: 07/08/1979
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Interview ID: OH 0983
His experiences while employed by the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression. Childhood in Granger, Texas; joining the CCC; assignment to a camp at Oakhurst, Texas; description of camp; life in camp.
Date of Interview: 22/10/1993
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Interview ID: OH 1535
Businessman. His experiences while attending the Texas International Pop Festival, Lewisville, Texas, August 30-September 1, 1969. His parents’ expectations for their children; influence of attending Walden Preparatory School, Dallas, Texas; his difficulty in fitting in at Highland Park High School; his teenage activities at Lee Park, Dallas, and his introduction to the hippie counterculture; conflicts with rednecks; influence of the Sixties musical groups; influence of the Beatles; his decision to attend the Texas International Pop festival; drug use at the festival; light shows at the festival; comments about the Led Zeppelin performance; skinny-dipping in Lake Dallas; comments about the heat, food, and drink, and the size of the crowd; his bad “trip” from taking LSD after the festival; his rebellion against teachers, police, and his parents; the lasting effects of the festival on his life.
Date of Interview: 03/01/2004
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Interview ID: OH 0083
College professor. His experiences while chair of the faculty search committee that was responsible for the selection of C. C. (“Jitter”) Nolen as president of North Texas State University.
Date of Interview: 16/06/1971
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Interview ID: OH 0163
College professor. His experiences while employed by the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression.
Date of Interview: 20/09/1973
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Interview ID: OH 0165
College professor. His experiences as a military supervisor of German prisoners-of-war during World War II.
Date of Interview: 25/10/1973
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Interview ID: OH 1434
His experiences as a B-17 pilot in the European Theater during World War II. Enlistment in the Army Air Corps, February, 1941; basic training at Randolph Field, San Antonio, Texas, 1941; chief clerk of engineering and operations, Victorville, California, 1941-42; Staff Sergeant Pilot Program, Lackland Field, San Antonio, Texas, 1942-43; primary flight training, Cuero, Texas, 1943; basic flight training, Waco, Texas, 1943; advanced flight training, Lubbock, Texas, 1943; his commissioning as a flight officer, August, 1943; crew formation, Pyote, Texas, 1943; bomber transition training, Alexandria, Louisiana, 1943; assignment to the 351st Bomb Group at Polebrook, England, 1943; description of preparations and conduct of bombing missions; his promotion to 2nd lieutenant; mission to Leipzig, February 20, 1944; general comments about enemy flak and fighter opposition; mission to Rohmel, Poland, April 9, 1944; mission to Berlin, May 7, 1944, and his battle wounds; medical attention, recuperation, and return to duty; his mission on D-Day, June 6, 1944; his thirtieth mission and return to the States for further duty, 1944; various duties with the Training Command and the 5th Ferry Group.
Date of Interview: 15/03/2002
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Interview ID: OH 0356
His experiences while aboard the cruiser USS Honolulu during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Date of Interview: 11/01/1977
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Interview ID: OH 1407
His experiences in the European Theater during World War II. Youth in central Texas; decision to enter the military, 1940; assignment to the 12th Artillery Battalion, Fort Sam Houston, San Antonio, Texas, 1940; transfer to Headquarters, 2nd Infantry Division, November, 1940; transfer as part of the cadre for the newly-formed 102nd Infantry Division, Camp Maxey, Paris, Texas, July, 1942; assignment to G-3 Plans and Training Section; shipment to Europe, September, 1944; action around the Roer River, November-December 1944; Battle of the Bulge, December, 1944-January, 1945; breakdown of German resistance and the end of the war, March-May, 1945; his postwar career.
Date of Interview: 01/07/1999
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Interview ID: OH 1685
For the DFW Metroplex Immigrants Oral History Project. Canadian-American immigrant to suburban Flower Mound, Texas. Childhood and education in Montreal and at Queen’s University in Ontario; experience as member of Anglophone minority and as a Jew in Quebec; first impressions of the U.S.; family history, including grandparents’ immigration from Europe; job offer from computer programmer in California; experiences with U.S. healthcare system; return to Canada and marriage; decision to immigrate to North Carolina; career in information technology; decision to relocate to Texas; naturalization process; opinions on suburban life; perceptions of gun culture in Texas.
Date of Interview: 30/10/2009
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Interview ID: OH 1409
His experiences as a flight engineer on a B-24 in the European Theater and his subsequent experiences as a prisoner-of-war of the Germans during World War II. His youth and education in Elkhart, Indiana; enlistment in the Aviation Cadet Program, 1943; basic and pre-flight training at Keesler Field, Biloxi, Mississippi, 1943; washing out of pilot training and reassignment to flight engineer school at Tyndall Field, Panama City, Florida, 1943; crew assembly and B-24 transition training at Chatham Air Force Base, Savannah, Georgia, 1943-44; assignment to the 763rd Bomb Squadron at Spinazzola, Italy, 1944; his first combat mission to Ploesti, Romania; comments about enemy flak; his description of a typical mission; the downing of his plane on a mission to Munich, November 16, 1944; his adventures in bailing out and landing in a blizzard in the Alps; evasion until capture on November 29 by German ski troops; temporary incarceration in Salzburg, Austria; interrogation at Dulag Luft, Wetzlar, Germany; incarceration at Stalag Luft IV, Gross Tychow, Germany, December, 1944-January, 1945; train trip to Stalag Luft I, Barth, Germany, January 6-14, 1945; internal POW camp organization; liberation by Soviet troops, April 29, 1945; rehabilitation and recuperation at Camp Lucky Strike, Le Havre, France; his return to the States and readjustment to civilian life.
Date of Interview: 07/09/1999
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Interview ID: OH 1244
Florists. Their life in Denton, Texas, 1910-1998 Family backgrounds; comments about the history and physical features of the Bayless-Selby house; decision to enter the flower business; evolving nature of their business; family entertainment.
Date of Interview: 16/04/1998
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Interview ID: OHB 0031
Co-owners and operators of Selby Florist, Denton, Texas.
SELBY, Lewis Marie. Family background; education; Depression; teaching career; marriage; entering family business.
SELBY, R. L., Jr. Family background; education; Depression; work as youth in father’s nursery; full-time entry into family business.
SELBY, R. L. and Lewis Marie (joint Interview). Growth of sales volume and variety of plants at family nursery; distribution; improvements in equipment; Depression; opening of retail florist shop; World War II; sole owners of retail store, 1949; credit policies; employee relations; opening of garden center; trade association activities; reasons for success; sale of business.
Date of Interview: 21/09/1979
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Interview ID: OH 1891
Medical doctor and professor. Childhood in New York; educational and professional background; WWII military service; assignment to 98th General Hospital in Munich, Germany; post-war Germany; testimony at Nazi war crimes trial in Dachau, Germany; Nazi medical practices and racial theory; post-service career in academic medicine; UT Southwestern Medical School; medical ethics; healthcare system in the United States.
Date of Interview: 24/01/2017
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Interview ID: OH 0902
Realtor. Her experiences as a resident of Hamilton Park, Texas, 1975-90. Early education in McKinney, Texas; involvement in real estate; involvement with Hamilton Park School; description of housing in Hamilton Park; Pacesetter; Hamilton Park Civic League; the “Buy Out.”
Date of Interview: 09/10/1990, 24/01/1991
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Interview ID: OH 0337
His experiences with the 25th Medical Battalion at Schofield Barracks during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Date of Interview: 13/06/1976
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Interview ID: OH 0638
His experiences while aboard the battleship USS Maryland during the Japanese attack of Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Date of Interview: 04/05/1984
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Interview ID: OH 0919
Her participation in the development of the Republican Party in Texas, 1944-93. Youth in West Texas; employment with WPA (Works Progress Administration) during the New Deal years; decision to join Republican Party, 1947; her conservative philosophy; organizing the Republican Party in Denton County; 1952 presidential campaign; activities with Texas Federation of Republican Women; her positions on abortion, Religious Right, women’s rights in general.
Date of Interview: 10/05/1993
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Interview ID: OH 1691
For the DFW Metroplex Immigrants Oral History Project. Northern Ireland-born immigrant to Dallas, Texas. Childhood and education in Moygashel, Northern Ireland; career with a local clothing manufacturer; service in British Army and experiences with violence between Protestants and Catholics; love of bagpipes; leadership of various pipe bands; travels with British Army pipe band, including trip to Washington, D.C., and introduction to the future Mrs. Shannon; long-distance relationship; decision to immigrate and marry; first impressions of U.S., of Texas, and of Dallas; leadership of the North Texas Caledonian Pipes and Drums band; process of becoming a U.S. citizen; comparison and contrast of life in the U.S. and Northern Ireland; travels with the North Texas Caledonian Pipes and Drums band.
Date of Interview: 07/12/2009
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Interview ID: OH 0976
State legislator. Her views concerning the impact and significance of women on the rise of the Republican Party in Texas, 1970-93. Initial involvement in local politics; election to Plano, Texas, City Council, 1979-90; election as Mayor of Plano, 1990; election to Texas legislature, 1992; views on social and fiscal conservatism, abortion; evolution of Republican Party on Collin County, Texas.
Date of Interview: 17/08/1993
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Interview ID: OH 1735
For the DFW Metroplex Immigrants Oral History Project. Israeli-born immigrant to Dallas area. Her immigrant experience; Israeli history; modern Middle East; Intifada; U.S. immigration policy; education at Brookhaven College; Judaism; Jewish sects; bi-cultural relationships.
Date of Interview: 23/03/2011, 27/03/2011
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Interview ID: OH 1322
His experiences as a B-17 pilot and a prisoner-of-war in the European Theater during World War II. Enlistment in the Air National Guard (154th Observation Squadron), 1939; enlistment in the Aviation Cadet Program, 1942; pre-flight training, Maxwell Field, Alabama, 1942; primary flight training, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, 1942; basic flight training, Newport, Arkansas, 1942; advanced flight training, Blytheville, Arkansas, 1942-43; transition to B-17s, Sebring, Florida, 1943; formation of his combat crew, Pyote, Texas, 1943; additional combat crew training, Dalhart, Texas, 1943; journey from Grand Island, Nebraska, to the British Isles, 1943; assignment to the 533rd Bomb Squadron, 1944; his first mission, January 30, 1944; his detailed description of the mission when his plane was shot down, May 19, 1944; hospitalization for battle wounds; transfer to the interrogation center at Dulag Luft; Stalag Luft III, Sagan, Germany, 1944-45; evacuation from Stalag Luft III and march to Stalag VII-A, Moosburg, Germany, 1945; liberation.
Date of Interview: 23/09/1999
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Interview ID: OH 0596
Businessman. His experiences as a member of the football team during the desegregation of athletics at North Texas State College, 1956.
Date of Interview: 12/01/1983
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Interview ID: OH 1467
Businessman. His experiences as a PBJ (B-25) pilot in the Southwest Pacific Theater during World War II. Childhood and education; his joining the Navy V-5 Program at the University of the South, February, 1942; pre-flight training, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, July, 1942; primary flight training, Lambert Field, Saint Louis, Missouri, 1942; basic flight training, Naval Air Station, Pensacola, Florida, 1942-43; advanced flight training, NAS Pensacola, 1943; his decision to select multi-engine aircraft and transfer to the Marine Corps; operational training, Marine Air Station, Jacksonville, Florida, 1943; transfer to Cherry Point, North Carolina, 1943-44, and assignment to VMB-433; crew formation and training with the PBJ at Peterfield Point, North Carolina, 1943-44; combat training at Marine Air Station, El Centro, California, 1944; departure for Espiritu Santo, New Hebrides, May, 1944; transfer to Green Island, July, 1944; first combat mission to Rabaul; description of mission procedures; transfer to Emirau, 1944; “night heckling” missions; rest and relaxation leaves in Australia; mission to Fambusso Bridge, New Ireland; support for the invasion of the Philippine Islands; reassignment to Quantico, Virginia, for training for the invasion of the Japanese home islands, May, 1945; separation from the service, 1945; his postwar business career.
Date of Interview: 29/05/2002
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Interview ID: OH 0330
His experiences with the 5th Bomb Group at Hickam Field during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Date of Interview: 12/06/1976
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Interview ID: OH 1344
His experiences during the Normandy invasion on June 6, 1944. Falsifying documents about his age in order to enlist; boot camp, Sampson, New York, 1944; assignment to LST-373, 1944; his detailed account of activities leading up to and during D-Day, June 6, 1944; transfer to the escort carrier USS Shamrock Bay, 1944; brief account of his activities around the Mariana Islands, 1944-45.
Date of Interview: 25/05/2000
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Interview ID: OH 0700
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; hell ship to Japan, 1942; Fukuoka, Kyushu, 1942-44; Arao, Kyushu, 1944-45; liberation.
Date of Interview: 27/07/1987
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Interview ID: OH 1885
Journalist. Childhood in Oklahoma; family history; journalism training and career; Cold War military service in Germany; work for Dallas Times Herald; coverage of John F. Kennedy’s 1963 Texas visit and assassination; coverage of Jack Ruby’s trial; UNT journalism department; teaching journalism.
Date of Interview: 27/04/2017
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Interview ID: OH 1599
For the Eastland County African American Women Oral History Project. Longtime resident of Cisco, Texas. Memories of negative experiences in newly desegregated Cisco schools; phenomenon of self-segregation among students; decision to attend Cisco Junior College; social life among African Americans; perceptions of modern-day race relations in Cisco.
Date of Interview: 26/11/2006
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Interview ID: OH 1907
For the Denton Women’s Interracial Fellowship Oral History Project. Childhood; family background; Denton Women’s Interracial Fellowship; continued community involvement; educational background; Denton desegregation; contemporary race relations.
Date of Interview: 10/04/2017
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Interview ID: OH 0742
Community activist, homemaker. Her experiences concerning the activities of the Denton Christian Women’s Inter-Racial Fellowship during the 1960s and 1970s. Experiences in growing up in a segregated society in East Texas; PTA activities; desegregation of Denton’s public schools; race relations in Denton in the 1960s; decision to join the Fellowship; early social activities; community projects; Christian influence in Fellowship’s activities; reaction of husbands to Fellowship’s activities; early Fellowship leaders; street paving in the African-American section of Denton; voter registration drives; recruiting members; defeat of urban renewal referendum; decline of the Fellowship.
Date of Interview: 14/07/1988
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Interview ID: OH 0593
His experiences with the 31st Bomb Squadron at Hickam Field during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Date of Interview: 06/12/1982
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Interview ID: OH 0310
School custodian, survivor of the siege of Corregidor. His experiences as a prisoner- of-war of the Japanese during World War II. Struggle for Corregidor; escape into jungle and capture; Cabanatuan, 1942-44; Bilibid Prison, Manila, 1944; hell ship to Japan, 1944; Kobe, Honshu, 1944-45, and American air raids; liberation.
Date of Interview: 04/03/1976
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Interview ID: OH 0953
His experiences as a nurse in Vietnam, 1969-70. Assignment to 24th Evacuation Hospital, Long Binh; treatment of endemic diseases; assignment to emergency room; triaging of patients; living conditions; drug addicts; battle casualties; medical treatment of civilians; social life; friendships; lasting effects of Vietnam experience.
Date of Interview: 22/08/1992
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Interview ID: OH 0756
His experiences as a pharmacist’s mate at the Ford Island Naval Air Station during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941; also includes his recollections about the sinking of the USS Panay, 1937, the U. S. Marine expedition in Nicaragua, 1925, and the Battle of Midway, 1942.
Date of Interview: 17/09/1988
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