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WILLIAMS, R. Murphy (b. 1920)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.
WILLIAMS, R. Murphy (b. 1920)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.Interview ID: OH 1452
Pastor. His experiences as a Navy chaplain in the Pacific Theater during World War II. His early education; Davidson College, 1937-1941; Union Theological Seminary, Richmond, Virginia, 1941-44; his decision to enlist in the Navy, 1944; chaplaincy school, William and Mary College, Williamsburg, Virginia, 1944; assignment to Quonset Point, Rhode Island, and Naval Aviation Air Facility, Groton, Connecticut, 1944-45; condolence visits to families of deceased servicemen; assignment to Tinian, July, 1945; his observation of aviation activities on Tinian; the arrival of the Army Air Force’s 509th Composite Group; his thoughts concerning the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki; postwar duty in the Southwest Pacific; his discharge and civilian pastoral career.
Date of Interview: 26/12/2001
WILLIAMS, Theril Wilton (b. *)
U.S. Army WWII Veteran.
WILLIAMS, Theril Wilton (b. *)
U.S. Army WWII Veteran.Interview ID: OH 1702
For the Tarrant County War Veterans Project. World War II veteran. Childhood and education in rural Bethlehem, Arkansas; farm life in the Great Depression; 1939 high school graduation; enrollment in Civilian Conservation Corps and work at camps in Utah; work as a truck driver for local lumber and oil companies; marriage to Dorothy Mae Thompson; enlistment in U.S. Army; basic training and advanced training as a mechanic; assignment to 536th Amphibious Tractor Battalion, attached to 7th Infantry Division; October 1944 landing in invasion of the Philippines; Gen. Douglas MacArthur’s landing; subsequent engagements in Philippines; Okinawa campaign; preparations for invasion of Japan; feelings toward Japanese; discharge; decision to settle in Fort Worth; purchase of home with GI Bill benefits; career with General Dynamics, as service station owner, and owner of repair shop.
Date of Interview: 15/01/2009
WILLIAMSON, Monte (b. 1908)
U.S. Army Air Forces WWII Veteran.
WILLIAMSON, Monte (b. 1908)
U.S. Army Air Forces WWII Veteran.Interview ID: OH 0251
His experiences as a bombardier/navigator at Hickam Field during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Date of Interview: 24/08/1974
WILLIAMSON, Morris (b. 1918) and Mary (b. 1922)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.
WILLIAMSON, Morris (b. 1918) and Mary (b. 1922)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.Interview ID: OH 0377
Veteran and his wife. Their experiences while at home in Honolulu and at the Pearl Harbor Submarine Base during the Japanese attack on December 7, 1941.
Date of Interview: 25/04/1977
WILLIS, Chester B. (b. 1918)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.
WILLIS, Chester B. (b. 1918)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.Interview ID: OH 0779
His experiences while aboard the battleship USS Nevada during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Date of Interview: 16/09/1988
WILLIS, Phillip (b. 1918)
U.S. Army Air Forces WWII Veteran.
WILLIS, Phillip (b. 1918)
U.S. Army Air Forces WWII Veteran.Interview ID: OH 0169
Realtor, former Texas state legislator. His experiences as a pilot with the 86th Observation Squadron at Bellows Field during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941; capture of a submariner on a Japanese midget submarine on December 8, 1941.
Date of Interview: 18/02/1974
WILSON, Charles (b. 1933)
U.S. House of Representatives. Texas Senate. Democrat.
WILSON, Charles (b. 1933)
U.S. House of Representatives. Texas Senate. Democrat.Interview ID: OH 0216
Businessman, member of the U.S. House of Representatives, former member of the Texas Senate from Lufkin, Democrat. General views concerning problems in Texas state government. Personal legislation; utilities regulation; appointment of committee members; lobbies; campaign financial disclosure; election filing fees; committee structure; annual legislative sessions; taxation; legislative apportionment.
Date of Interview: 04/01/1972
WILSON, Charles O. (b. 1918)
U.S. Army WWII Veteran.
WILSON, Charles O. (b. 1918)
U.S. Army WWII Veteran.Interview ID: OH 1227
His experiences with G Company, 27th Infantry Regiment, at Schofield Barracks during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Date of Interview: 08/03/1998
WILSON, Robert Earl (b. 1917)
WILSON, Robert Earl (b. 1917)
Interview ID: OH 1267
His experiences while employed by the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression. Childhood in Idaho, Colorado, Wyoming, and Iowa; joining the CCC; assignment to Company 1996 at F-169 in West Pine Creek, Idaho; reenlistment to Company 2939 at sub-camp F-415 in Lake Fork, Idaho; company move to headquarters at Camp French Creek (F-109) near Riggins, Idaho; description of camps; life in camps.
Date of Interview: 14/08/1998
WILSON, Robert W. (b. 1923)
U.S. Army Air Forces WWII Veteran. 69th Bomb Squadron. 42nd Bomb Group. 13th Air Force.
WILSON, Robert W. (b. 1923)
U.S. Army Air Forces WWII Veteran. 69th Bomb Squadron. 42nd Bomb Group. 13th Air Force.Interview ID: OH 1415
Airline pilot. His experiences as a B-25 pilot in the Pacific Theater during World War II. Pre-war job experiences; enlistment in the Army Air Forces, November, 30, 1942; basic training, Atlantic City, New Jersey, 1943; college preparatory courses, Geneva College, Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania, 1943; primary flight training, Canton, Mississippi, 1943; basic flight training, Gunter, Alabama, 1943; advanced flight training, Jackson, Mississippi, 1943-44; B-25 transition training, Columbia, South Carolina, 1944; assignment as a replacement pilot to Sansapor, New Guinea, 1944; his descriptions of various missions, 1944-45; flying conditions over the Owen Stanley Mountains; Operation OBOE, June, 1945; leave time in Sydney, Australia, 1945; the move to Palawan, Philippines, March, 1945; missions to French Indo-China, 1945; attitudes and feelings toward the deaths of comrades; postwar adjustments.
Date of Interview: 06/06/2001
WINDLER, Milton (b. 1933)
WINDLER, Milton (b. 1933)
Interview ID: OH 1601
For the Skylab Oral History Project. NASA engineer, flight controller and flight director. Childhood in Langley, Virginia; education at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; short career in U.S. Air Force; decision to join NASA; duties in Mercury, Gemini, Apollo, Skylab, Space Shuttle, and International Space Station programs; problem-solving on Skylab missions; team-building among members of Skylab operations shifts and flight crews; importance of “science czar” position; Skylab’s contributions to space exploration and to science more generally.
Date of Interview: 16/09/2006
WINGO, Steve (b. 1920)
WINGO, Steve (b. 1920)
Interview ID: OH 0904
His experiences while employed by the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression. Childhood in Weatherford, Texas; joining the CCC; assignment to Company 1816 at Lake Worth, Texas; transfer to a camp at Mackenzie State Park near Lubbock, Texas; description of camps; life in camps.
Date of Interview: 25/02/1993
WINGROVE, Marvin (b. 1920)
U.S. Army Air Forces WWII Veteran.
WINGROVE, Marvin (b. 1920)
U.S. Army Air Forces WWII Veteran.Interview ID: OH 0459
His experiences with the Finance Detachment at Hickam Field during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Date of Interview: 06/12/1978
WINN, Donald N. (b. 1922)
U.S. Army Air Forces WWII Veteran. 329th Bomb Squadron. 93rd Bomb Group. 8th Air Force.
WINN, Donald N. (b. 1922)
U.S. Army Air Forces WWII Veteran. 329th Bomb Squadron. 93rd Bomb Group. 8th Air Force.Interview ID: OH 1410
His experiences as a B-24 bombardier in the European Theater; also his experiences as a prisoner-of-war of the Germans during World War II. Enlistment in the Aviation Cadet Program, January, 1943; basic training, Sheppard Field, Wichita Falls, Texas, 1943; College Training Detachment, Emporia State Teachers College, Emporia, Kansas, 1943; aerial gunnery training, Laredo, Texas, 1943; selection for bombardier training, Midland, Texas, Army Air Field, 1943; bomber transition training, Peterson Field, Colorado, 1944; assignment to the 329th Bomb Squadron, Hardwick, England, 1944; relations between the American military and British civilians; his detailed description of a typical mission; bombing techniques; engine failure and bailing out over Holland, February 24, 1945; his capture by SS troops; interrogation at Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany; POW camp at Nürnberg; general comments about prison camp life; forced march to Moosburg, Germany, March, 1945; liberation on April 29, 1945; recuperation at Camp Lucky Strike, Le Havre, France; return to the States and postwar adjustments.
Date of Interview: 10/04/2001, 11/04/2001
WINN, Janine (b. 1948)
WINN, Janine (b. 1948)
Interview ID: OH 1875
For the American History: Voluntary Simplicity Oral History Project. Homesteader and simple life advocate. Childhood; early experiences gardening and outdoors; decision to homestead in Maine.
Date of Interview: 18/07/2015
WISE, Mrs. Thomas R. (b. ca. 1900)
WISE, Mrs. Thomas R. (b. ca. 1900)
Interview ID: OH 0054
Homemaker. Observations on land speculation, settlement, and development in the Coastal Bend area of South Texas, 1900-30. Cattle ranching; small town social life; Mexican-Anglo relations.
Date of Interview: 28/05/1969
WISECUP, John (b. 1919)
U.S. Marine Corps WWII Veteran.
WISECUP, John (b. 1919)
U.S. Marine Corps WWII Veteran.Interview ID: OH 0704
Survivor of the sinking of the cruiser 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; Kanchanaburi, Thailand, 1944; Changi Jail, 1944-45; liberation.
Date of Interview: 28/07/1987
Interview ID: OH 1316
Survivor of the sinking of the cruiser USS Houston. His postwar sketches of life as a prisoner-of-war of the Japanese at Hintok, Thailand, 1942-44. Bridge-building details; "Pack of Cards" bridge; Japanese cruelties and atrocities; tropical diseases; burial details.
Date of Interview: 28/07/1987
WISNER, Katherine (b. )
WISNER, Katherine (b. )
Interview ID: OH 2033
For the Postpartum Depression and Maternal Mental Health Oral History Project. Dr. Katherine Wisner is perinatal psychiatrist, and the founder/inaugural president of the Marcé Society of North America (a professional society focused on research into maternal mental health and postpartum depression, founded in 2010). Wisner has won the John Cox medal and the Marcé medal from the international Marcé society. She discusses her career history and research trajectory, including work on antidepressants. She also mentions other leaders in perinatal research, including Michael O’Hara, Jim Perel, Samantha Meltzer-Brody, and Margaret Spinelli. She discusses research funding, including NIMH funding, as well as celebrities with postpartum depression, and Postpartum Support International.
Date of Interview: 14/01/2020
WITHERSPOON, Jack (b. 1942)
Braniff International Airways.
WITHERSPOON, Jack (b. 1942)
Braniff International Airways.Interview ID: OH 1969
Reservations, Ticketing, Sales and Advertising. 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: 24/05/2014
WITT, Charles (b. 1922)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.
WITT, Charles (b. 1922)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.Interview ID: OH 0385
His experiences while aboard the battleship USS Maryland during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Date of Interview: 28/09/1977
WOHLBIER, Hans (b. 1923)
German Luftwaffe WWII Veteran. Stuka Wing 77.
WOHLBIER, Hans (b. 1923)
German Luftwaffe WWII Veteran. Stuka Wing 77.Interview ID: OH 1362
His experiences as a dive-bomber pilot on the Eastern Front during World War II. Involvement in the Hitler Youth, 1933-40; training at Breslau Luftkriegsschule, 1941-42; advanced Stuka training on the French Riviera, 1943; assignment to Stuka Wing 77 at Pancevo, Yugoslavia, 1943-44; assignment to the Ukraine, 1944, and ground support missions against Soviet troops; dive-bombing tactics; assessment of Soviet pilots; the German retreat across Eastern Europe, 1944-45; assignment to a Focke-Wulf 190 fighter; gasoline shortages; chaos at the end of the war; his change to civilian clothes to avoid capture; his postwar wanderings and emigration to the United States.
Date of Interview: 04/02/2000
WOLF, Dennie (b. )
WOLF, Dennie (b. )
Interview ID: OH 2034
For the Postpartum Depression and Maternal Mental Health Oral History Project. Dennie Wolf co-authored chapters on postpartum recovery in the 1979 book Ourselves and Our Children and the 1984 version Our Bodies Ourselves, both publications of the Boston Women’s Health Collective. Our interview included discussion of postpartum depression, the women’s health movement, second wave feminism, and development psychology. The time period discussed was primarily the 1970s-1980s. The interview is part of the postpartum depression project.
Date of Interview: 09/09/2019
WOLFE, Mabel (b. 1893)
Wolfe’s Nurseries.
WOLFE, Mabel (b. 1893)
Wolfe’s Nurseries.Interview ID: OHB 0024
Co-founder (with husband Ross, deceased 1948) of Wolfe’s Nurseries, Stephenville, Texas. Family backgrounds; education; their move to California; visits with Luther Burbank and his influence in starting pecan nursery business in Texas; Ross’s sales career with other nurseries; founding his own business, early struggles; origins of Burkett Pecan; growth and expansion; Ross’s death and sons running business; sale of business.
Date of Interview: 30/11/1978
WOLFE, R. A. (b. 1917)
WOLFE, R. A. (b. 1917)
Interview ID: OH 0961
His experiences while employed by the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression. Childhood in Gordon, Texas; joining the CCC; assignment to Company 878 in Waxahachie, Texas; transfer to Company 2896 at White Rock Lake in Dallas, Texas; description of camps; life in camps.
Date of Interview: 18/03/1994
WOMACK, Beryl Barton (b. 1923)
WOMACK, Beryl Barton (b. 1923)
Interview ID: OH 1475
Her experiences in England during the Blitz in World War II; her courtship and marriage to Lieutenant Travis Womack, U. S. Army, 1944-45. Her early education; comments about Winston Churchill’s inspirational speeches during the Battle of Britain; wartime rationing; the bombing of her parents’ home in Nottinghamshire; attendance at Domestic Science Teachers College, Leicestershire, 1941-44; the coming of American troops; her meeting Lieutenant Travis Womack, March, 1944; their marriage, March 26, 1945; the process of her coming to the United States, 1946; adjustments to American life.
Date of Interview: 03/07/2002
WOMACK, James (b. 1921)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.
WOMACK, James (b. 1921)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.Interview ID: OH 0733
His experiences while aboard the cruiser USS Saint Louis during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Date of Interview: 14/11/1987
WOMACK, Travis (b. 1919)
U.S. Army WWII Veteran. C Company. 307th Airborne Engineer Battalion. 82nd Airborne Division.
WOMACK, Travis (b. 1919)
U.S. Army WWII Veteran. C Company. 307th Airborne Engineer Battalion. 82nd Airborne Division.Interview ID: OH 1474
Attorney. His experiences in the North African and European Theaters during World War II. Education at the South Texas School of Law, Houston, Texas, 1936-40; employment with the Shell Oil Company, 1936-41; induction into the Army, December 2, 1941; basic training, Camp Wolters, Mineral Wells, Texas, 1941-42; Officer Candidate School, Fort Belvoir, Virginia, 1942; assignment to Corps of Engineers topographic battalion, Fort Custer, Michigan, and Camp McCoy, Wisconsin, 1942; decision to volunteer for the Airborne Engineers, 1942; Parachute Command training, Fort Benning, Georgia, 1942; assignment to the 307thAirborne Engineers, Fort Bragg, North Carolina, 1943; shipment to North Africa, April 29, 1943; parachute training, Ouijda, French Morocco, 1943; attendance at the British 8th Army mine school, 1943; invasion of Sicily and capture of Gela airfield, July, 1943; invasion of Italy at Salerno, September, 1943; convalescence from hepatitis at Oran, Algeria; mine laying during the Battle of San Pietro; Anzio invasion, July, 1944; combat around Nettuno and Cisterna; evacuation to Ullesthorpe, England, in March, 1944; preparations for the Normandy invasion; meeting and courting his future wife, Beryl Barton; the crash of his glider during Operation MARKET-GARDEN, September 17, 1944, and subsequent rescue; combat around the Waal River; liaison duty with British 1st Army headquarters; the Ardennes Offensive and the Battle of the Bulge, December, 1944-January, 1945; transfer to a signals and information unit in Bournemouth, England, 1945; his marriage to Beryl Barton, March 26, 1945; his transfer to the 104th Infantry Division in Germany; mustering out of the service and postwar employment with Shell; his wife’s move from England to the United States, March, 1946.
Date of Interview: 10/05/2002
WOOD, Charles E. (b. 1923)
U.S. Army Air Forces WWII Veteran. 866th Bomb Squadron. 493rd Bomb Group. 8th Air Force.
WOOD, Charles E. (b. 1923)
U.S. Army Air Forces WWII Veteran. 866th Bomb Squadron. 493rd Bomb Group. 8th Air Force.Interview ID: OH 1307
His experiences as a B-24 gunner in the European Theater during World War II. Enlistment in the Aviation Cadet Program, 1942; gunnery school, Tindall Field, Florida, and Biggs Field, El Paso, Texas, 1943; assignment to the 493rd Bomb Group, 1943; stationing at Debach, England, April, 1944; operations on D-Day; mission to Merseberg, Germany, November 2, 1944; bombing of V-1 and V-2 sites; encounters with German jet aircraft; ground-support missions; return to the States.
Date of Interview: 12/01/1997
WOOD, George (b. 1913)
WOOD, George (b. 1913)
Interview ID: OH 0170
Scientist with the Soil Conservation Service. His experiences while employed by the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression.
Date of Interview: 07/11/1973
WOOD, Lloyd D. (b. 1916)
WOOD, Lloyd D. (b. 1916)
Interview ID: OH 0890
His experiences while employed by the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression. Childhood in Central and North Texas; joining the CCC; assignment to Company 859 in Buffalo Pasture (BF-2) near Cache, Oklahoma; company move to Bitter Lake Refuge (FW-3) near Roswell, New Mexico; description of camps; life in camps.
Date of Interview: 24/02/1993
WOODS, Eugene K. (b. 1924)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.
WOODS, Eugene K. (b. 1924)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.Interview ID: OH 1120
His experiences while aboard the destroyer-minesweeper USS Trever during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Date of Interview: 16/12/1995
WOODWARD, Eugene (b. 1922)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.
WOODWARD, Eugene (b. 1922)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.Interview ID: OH 0432
His experiences while aboard the cruiser USS Phoenix during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Date of Interview: 08/07/1978
WOOLWINE, Elwood (b. 1924)
U.S. Marine Corps WWII Veteran. Bombing Squadron VMB-433.
WOOLWINE, Elwood (b. 1924)
U.S. Marine Corps WWII Veteran. Bombing Squadron VMB-433.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
WOOTEN, Ben (b. 1894)
WOOTEN, Ben (b. 1894)
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
WOOTON, J. B., Jr. (b. 1913)
Denton Floor Covering Company. Inc..
WOOTON, J. B., Jr. (b. 1913)
Denton Floor Covering Company. Inc..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
WORKMAN, William G. (b. 1910)
U.S. Army Air Forces WWII Veteran.
WORKMAN, William G. (b. 1910)
U.S. Army Air Forces WWII Veteran.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
WRIGHT, Carolyn (b. 1946)
WRIGHT, Carolyn (b. 1946)
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
WRIGHT, Cora Green (b. 1943)
WRIGHT, Cora Green (b. 1943)
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
WRIGHT, Houston T. (b. 1915)
U.S. Army WWII Veteran. 2nd Battalion. 131st Field Artillery. Texas National Guard.
WRIGHT, Houston T. (b. 1915)
U.S. Army WWII Veteran. 2nd Battalion. 131st Field Artillery. Texas National Guard.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
WRIGHT, Huddleston W. (b. 1905)
U.S. Army WWII Veteran. 2nd Battalion. 131st Field Artillery. Texas National Guard.
WRIGHT, Huddleston W. (b. 1905)
U.S. Army WWII Veteran. 2nd Battalion. 131st Field Artillery. Texas National Guard.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
WRIGHT, Opal (b. 1916)
WRIGHT, Opal (b. 1916)
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
WULF, Elmer (b. 1921)
U.S. Army Air Forces WWII Veteran. 535th Squadron. 381st Bomb Group. 1st Air Division. 8th Air Force.
WULF, Elmer (b. 1921)
U.S. Army Air Forces WWII Veteran. 535th Squadron. 381st Bomb Group. 1st Air Division. 8th Air Force.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
WUNNENBERG, Edgar C. (b. 1922)
WUNNENBERG, Edgar C. (b. 1922)
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
WUNNENBERG, Emma (b. 1921)
WUNNENBERG, Emma (b. 1921)
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
WYATT, Gloria Jeanne (b. 1950)
WYATT, Gloria Jeanne (b. 1950)
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
YAÑEZ, SARA (b. 1985)
YAÑEZ, SARA (b. 1985)
Interview ID: OH 1864
For the Dallas DREAMers Oral History Project. Mexican-born immigrant to Wichita Falls, Texas. Childhood in Mexico; life in the bordertown of Juarez, Mexico; family’s decision to immigrate to the United States; becoming American; racism; quality of life differences between being documented and undocumented; process to become documented.
Date of Interview: 09/12/2015
YANG, Xa (b. 1979)
YANG, Xa (b. 1979)
Interview ID: OH 2081
Laos-born Hmong refugee and immigrant to the U.S. Childhood in Laos and experience fleeing communists in the “secret war;” life at Ban Vinai refugee camp in Thailand; and resettlement in the U.S.; family experiences in Minnesota.
Date of Interview: 09/03/2023
YEAGER, Charles W. (b. 1918)
U. S. Army Air Forces WWII Veteran.
YEAGER, Charles W. (b. 1918)
U. S. Army Air Forces WWII Veteran.Interview ID: OH 1254
Molder. His experiences as a member of the 222nd Combat Crew Training School during World War II. B-17 bomber maintenance at Amarillo Army Airfield, 1942-43; advanced training in aircraft instruments, Chanute Field, Illinois, 1943; assignment as an instruments specialist to the 395th Bomb Group, Ephrata, Washington, 1943; permanent assignment to the 222nd Combat Crew Training School, Ardmore Army Airfield, Ardmore, Oklahoma, 1943; promotion to crew chief of a B-17; daily routine as crew chief; mechanical characteristics of B-17s; WACs as B-17 maintenance personnel; news of his brother's death during the landings at Anzio, 1944; V-E Day and decision to reenlist for duty in the Army of Occupation in Germany, 1945.
Date of Interview: 14/08/1998
YERGER, Robert E. (b. 1919)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.
YERGER, Robert E. (b. 1919)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.Interview ID: OH 1501
His experiences as a flying boat pilot in the Pacific Theater during World War II. Decision to enlist in the Navy, May, 1942; basic flight training, Naval Air Station, Grand Prairie, Texas, 1942; advanced flight training, Naval Air Station, Corpus Christi, Texas, 1942; PBY flying boat training at Corpus Christi, 1942-43; his tenure as a flight instructor, Chase Field, Beeville, Texas, 1943; assignment as a base personnel officer at Chase Field, 1943-45; flying PB2Y flying boats with cargo and personnel in the Pacific, 1945; activities on Majuro Island; his experience flying the Martin Mars flying boat; mustering out of the service, August, 1946.
Date of Interview: 12/04/2003
YERGIN, Howard (b. 1921)
Caltex Petroleum Corporation.
YERGIN, Howard (b. 1921)
Caltex Petroleum Corporation.Interview ID: OH 0669
Executive, Caltex Petroleum Corporation. Education and military service; employment with Caltex; assignment to China, 1948, as accountant; conditions in Nationalist China; Chinese Revolution, effects on Caltex; comments about Hans Bieling, Phil Lefevre; assignment to Hong Kong; Caltex internees under communist regime; postwar oil glut; nature of China market; assignment to Caltex (New York), Taxation Division, 1951; comments about Murdo McIver; Caltex’s acquisition of Texaco’s North African and European interests, 1947; development of Japanese market; long-term planning; acquisition of T-2 tankers; Bapco, its role in the Caltex system; Minas Field, its importance; military fuel oil contracts; transfer to Finance Department; currency problems and Caltex planning; reorganization into Caltex East, Caltex West, and Caltex Services Company; transfer of European operations to shareholders, 1967; development of Korean market; Caltex in Australia; OPEC and effects on Caltex; expropriation and nationalization; transfer prices and trading companies; reentry into China; Caltex in South Africa; governmental relationships and Caltex policy; training of foreign nationals; comments about Neal Lilley and James Voss; relationship between home office and subsidiaries; relationship between Caltex and shareholders; Caltex tanker fleet; decision to move Caltex headquarters from New York to Dallas; appointment as chairman of the board, 1983.
Date of Interview: 23/01/1986, 24/01/1986
YORDEN, Stephen P. (b. 1921)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.
YORDEN, Stephen P. (b. 1921)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.Interview ID: OH 0649
His experiences while aboard the destroyer USS Dewey during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Date of Interview: 05/05/1984
YOUNG, Geralene Mahone (b. 1926)
YOUNG, Geralene Mahone (b. 1926)
Interview ID: OH 1022
Her experiences as an employee of the Red River Army depot in Texarkana, Arkansas, during World War II and the postwar years. Hiring and promotion practices; relations between male and female workers; social activities; social and economic effects of depot on Texarkana.
Date of Interview: 18/01/1994
YOUNG, Herbert W. (b. 1924)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.
YOUNG, Herbert W. (b. 1924)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.Interview ID: OH 0787
His experiences while aboard the destroyer USS Worden during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Date of Interview: 01/10/1989
YOUNG, James (b. 1920)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.
YOUNG, James (b. 1920)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.Interview ID: OH 0244
His experiences with VP-22 at Ford Island Naval Air Station during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Date of Interview: 17/08/1974
YOUNG, Robert C. (b. 1916)
U.S. Army Air Forces WWII Veteran. 331st Bomb Squadron. 94th Bomb Group. 8th Air Force.
YOUNG, Robert C. (b. 1916)
U.S. Army Air Forces WWII Veteran. 331st Bomb Squadron. 94th Bomb Group. 8th Air Force.Interview ID: OH 1314
His experiences as a B-17 pilot in the European Theater during World War II. Prewar work experience; basic training, Sheppard Field, Wichita Falls, Texas, 1942; pre-flight training, West Texas State Teachers College, Canyon, Texas, 1942; primary flight training, Wickenburg, Arizona, 1942; basic flight training, Lancaster, California, 1943; advanced flight training, Fort Sumner, New Mexico, 1944; B-17 transition training, Hobbs, New Mexico, 1944; crew formation at Lincoln, Nebraska, 1944; further training at Rapid City, South Dakota, 1944; assignment to the 94th Bomb Group, Bury Saint Edmunds, England, October, 1944; his first mission to Hannover, Germany, 1944; his second mission to Merseburg, Germany, and the encounter with flak and fighter opposition; his mission during the Battle of the Bulge on Christmas Eve, 1944; low-level bombing missions to Hamburg, Kassel, and Ulm, Germany, 1945; the bonding effects of combat; his personal comments about the flying characteristics of the B-17; voyage back to the States aboard the Queen Mary, 1945.
Date of Interview: 28/07/1999
YOUNG, Scott
US Army. ROTC Instructor.
YOUNG, Scott
US Army. ROTC Instructor.Interview ID: OH 1945
UNT ROTC Instructor. Third generation Army. Experiences as student ROTC cadet at University of Florida. Afghanistan deployment. Experiences in three tours in Kuwait, Iraq and Baghdad. Growth as a platoon leader.
Date of Interview: 21/03/2014
YOUNG, Thomas R. (b. 1932)
U.S. Army Air Forces WWII Veteran. 463rd Bomb Group. 774th Bomb Squadron. 15th Air Force.
YOUNG, Thomas R. (b. 1932)
U.S. Army Air Forces WWII Veteran. 463rd Bomb Group. 774th Bomb Squadron. 15th Air Force.Interview ID: OH 1320
Artist. His experiences as a B-17 pilot and a prisoner-of-war in the European Theater during World War II. Basic training, Miami Beach, Florida, January, 1943; primary flight training, Mira Loma Air Base, Oxnard, California, 1943; basic flight training, Mirana, Arizona, 1943; advanced flight training, Marfa, Texas, 1943-44; B-17 training, Roswell, New Mexico, 1944; crew assignment at Lincoln, Nebraska, 1944; crew training at Sioux City, Iowa, 1944; trans-Atlantic flight to English, 1944; assignment to the 15th Air Force, Foggia, Italy; living conditions at Foggia; experiences with the Tuskegee Airmen; various missions to Munich, Germany; his account of his B-17 being shot down on the nineteenth mission, November 16, 1944; details of his capture by Italian troops; interrogation by German personnel and solitary confinement; Stalag Luft III, Sagan, Germany, December, 1944; evacuation of Stalag Luft III and forced march to Spremberg, Germany, January-February, 1945; Nurnberg, Germany, 1945; forced march to Moosburg, Germany; liberation by 3rd Army troops.
Date of Interview: 03/09/1999
YTURRI, Johnny (b. 1900)
YTURRI, Johnny (b. 1900)
Interview ID: OH 0623
His recollections concerning ranching in the early days of Orange County, California; Basque customs and folkways.
Date of Interview: 16/02/1984
YUNG, Ben F. (b. 1922)
YUNG, Ben F. (b. 1922)
Interview ID: OH 0915
His experiences while employed by the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression. Childhood in Ranger, Texas; joining the CCC; assignment to F-8-N at Sandia Park near Albuquerque, New Mexico; camp move to Monticello, New Mexico; reenlistment to Fort Griffin near Albany, Texas; description of camps; life in camps.
Date of Interview: 02/03/1993
ZAIS, Henry (b. 1922)
U.S. Army Air Forces WWII Veteran.
ZAIS, Henry (b. 1922)
U.S. Army Air Forces WWII Veteran.Interview ID: OH 0232
His experiences with the 47th Pursuit Squadron at Wheeler Field during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Date of Interview: 06/07/1974
ZALE CORPORATION
ZALE CORPORATION
Interview ID: OHB 0082
A university of North Texas Ph.D. Dissertation written by Tommy W. Stringer and based upon oral history interviews; history of Jews and discrimination against them in Tsarist Russia; Zhid; shtetl; immigration difficulties; immigration policies of the united States; arrival of Sam Zalevsky in Texas, 1910; Jewish communities in Texas; Ku Klux Klan in Texas in 1920s; establishment of Zales jewelry stores, 1924; company philosophy and credit policy; advertising techniques; early growth of the firm; coping with the Great Depression; impact of the deterioration of oil-based economy upon the firm; post-Depression era growth; impact of World War II; post war expansion and purchase of Corrigan’s; impact of Love field on the firm’s international expansion and diversification; role of the DeBeers “Diamond Syndicate”; British Crown Jewels; firm’s philanthropic activities; Rovinsky trial for misappropriation of funds and illegal political campaign contributions in 1970s; Light of Peace Diamond; difficulties with internal Revenue Service and Securities and Exchange Commission in 1970s; 1980s prosperity.
Date of Interview: 01/01/1983 to 31/12/1984
ZALMAN, Rudolph P. (b. 1911)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.
ZALMAN, Rudolph P. (b. 1911)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.Interview ID: OH 0335
His experiences while ashore at home in Honolulu during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941 (He was actually attached to the repair ship USS Medusa).
Date of Interview: 15/05/1976
ZANCA, John R. (b. 1921)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.
ZANCA, John R. (b. 1921)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.Interview ID: OH 0732
His experiences while aboard the cruiser USS Honolulu during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Date of Interview: 14/11/1987
ZANGARI, Samuel (b. 1915)
U.S. Army WWII Veteran. 24th Infantry Division.
ZANGARI, Samuel (b. 1915)
U.S. Army WWII Veteran. 24th Infantry Division.Interview ID: OH 0062
Postal clerk. His experiences with the 24th Infantry Division at Ala Moana Crater during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Date of Interview: 05/01/1971
ZETT, Christopher R. ( b.1916)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.
ZETT, Christopher R. ( b.1916)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.Interview ID: OH 0374
His experiences while aboard the target battleship USS Utah during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Date of Interview: 12/07/1977
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