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YERGIN, Howard (b. 1921). Caltex Petroleum Corporation Executive
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. Filed Under: Oil Industry.
Date of Interview: January 23, 1986, January 24, 1986
YORDEN, Stephen P. (b. 1921) . U.S. Navy WWII Veteran
His experiences while aboard the destroyer USS Dewey during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. Filed Under: Military Service.
Date of Interview: May 5, 1984
YOUNG, Geralene Mahone (b. 1926).
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. Filed Under: personal history.
Date of Interview: January 18, 1994
YOUNG, Herbert W. (b. 1924). U.S. Navy WWII Veteran
His experiences while aboard the destroyer USS Worden during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. Filed Under: Military Service.
Date of Interview: October 1, 1989
YOUNG, James (b. 1920). U.S. Navy WWII Veteran
His experiences with VP-22 at Ford Island Naval Air Station during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. Filed Under: Military Service.
Date of Interview: August 17, 1974
YOUNG, Robert C. (b. 1916). U.S. Army Air Forces WWII Veteran, 331st Bomb Squadron, 94th Bomb Group, 8th Air Force
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. Filed Under: Military Service.
Date of Interview: July 28, 1999
YOUNG, Scott. US Army, ROTC Instructor
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. Filed Under: Military Service.
Date of Interview: March 21, 2014
YOUNG, Thomas R. (b. 1932). U.S. Army Air Forces WWII Veteran, 463rd Bomb Group, 774th Bomb Squadron, 15th Air Force artist
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. Filed Under: Military Service.
Date of Interview: September 3, 1999
YTURRI, Johnny (b. 1900).
His recollections concerning ranching in the early days of Orange County, California; Basque customs and folkways. Filed Under: Ranching.
Date of Interview: February 16, 1984
YUNG, Ben F. (b. 1922).
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. Filed Under: Military Service.
Date of Interview: March 2, 1993
ZAIS, Henry (b. 1922). U.S. Army Air Forces WWII Veteran
His experiences with the 47th Pursuit Squadron at Wheeler Field during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. Filed Under: Military Service.
Date of Interview: July 6, 1974
ZALE CORPORATION.
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. Filed Under: diamond mining.
Date of Interview: January 1, 1983 to December 31, 1984
ZALMAN, Rudolph P. (b. 1911). U.S. Navy WWII Veteran
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). Filed Under: Military Service.
Date of Interview: May 15, 1976
ZANCA, John R. (b. 1921). U.S. Navy WWII Veteran
His experiences while aboard the cruiser USS Honolulu during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. Filed Under: Military Service.
Date of Interview: November 14, 1987
ZANGARI, Samuel (b. 1915). U.S. Army WWII Veteran, 24th Infantry Division
Postal clerk. His experiences with the 24th Infantry Division at Ala Moana Crater during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. Filed Under: Military Service.
Date of Interview: January 5, 1971
ZETT, Christopher R. ( b.1916). U.S. Navy WWII Veteran
His experiences while aboard the target battleship USS Utah during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. Filed Under: Military Service.
Date of Interview: July 12, 1977