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DITTUS, Frederick W. (b. 1897)Caltex Petroleum Corporation

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OH 0675
Executive. Education; early job experience with Standard Oil Company of California; Dittus-Boelter equation; pre-World War II experiences in Nazi Germany; construction of the Bahrain refinery for Bapco; formation of Caltex, 1936; transfer to Caltex; activities during World War II; postwar refinery expansion; evolution of Technical Services…
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OH 2047
For the Postpartum Depression and Maternal Mental Health Oral History Project. Carol Dix is a journalist who wrote ten books on topics like young womanhood, miscarriage, and writing. This interview focuses on her popular 1985 book The New Mother Syndrome, and her personal involvement with postpartum depression/maternal mental health advocacy with…
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OH 0868
Beautician, schoolteacher, community leader. Her experiences as a resident of Hamilton Park, Texas, 1954-90. Youth in East Texas; education at Bishop College; president of Classroom Teachers of Dallas; activities with Texas State Teachers Association; decision to move to Hamilton Park; African-American housing problems in Dallas; home maintenance…
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OH 0888
His experiences while employed by the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression. Childhood in North Texas, Colorado, and New Mexico; joining the CCC; assignment to Company 869 in Farmersville, Texas; description of camp; life in camp.
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DODGE, Arthur (b. 1923) U.S. Army WWII Veteran, Company M, 350th Regiment, 88th Division

Interview ID#
OH 0074
Business executive. His experiences as a combat infantryman in Italy during World War II. Operations around Minturno; liberation of Rome; audience with Pope Pius XII; operations around Arno River; receiving battlefield commission; Po valley Campaign and fall of Verona; German surrender.
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DOLAN, Frank L. (b. 1922) U.S. Navy WWII Veteran

Interview ID#
OH 1111
His experiences aboard the repair ship USS Vestal during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
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OH 1283
Attorney. His role and experiences as a prosecuting attorney at the International Military Tribunal for the Far East [Tokyo War Crimes Trials], 1945-46. His early law career; acquaintanceship with U.S. Attorney General Tom Clark and appointment to the Tribunal; the organization of the Tribunal and comments about the representatives on it; his role…
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DONLEY, Richard (b. 1923) U.S. Navy WWII Veteran, Patrol Torpedo Boat Squadron 15

Interview ID#
OH 1370
His experiences in the Mediterranean Theater during World War II. Enlistment in the Navy and boot camp at San Diego Naval Training Station, 1942; Fleet Torpedo School, San Diego, 1942; Motor Torpedo Boats Squadron Training Center, Melville, Rhode Island, 1942; assignment to PT Squadron 15, January, 1943; stationing at Bone, Tunisia, 1943;…
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DONSKY, Nathan (b. 1906)Nathan’s Jewelers

Interview ID#
OHB 0073
Founder and owner, Nathan’s Jewelers, San Angelo, Texas; and co-owner of Sterling Jewelry & Distributing Company, Dallas and Houston, Texas. Family background; description of fire at Gardner Park, Dallas; employment as secretary for Dallas lawyer Alvin M. Owsley; establishment of Ray Don concessions, San Angelo, 1928; employment in dry goods…
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OH 2027
For the Postpartum Depression and Maternal Mental Health Oral History Project. Paula Doress-Worters was a founding member of the Boston Women’s Health Collective (1969). She wrote the chapter on the postpartum in their booklet, Women and their Bodies (1969), and then in the book Our Bodies, Ourselves (1970), She discusses her own postpartum…
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DOUGHERTY, Russell E. (b. 1920) U.S. Air Force Veteran

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OH 1558
Former commander-in-chief of Strategic Air Command (SAC). His experiences and association with General Curtis LeMay. LeMay’s uncanny judgment; LeMay’s handling of people in his command; LeMay’s penchant for discipline; the Soviet military’s assessment of LeMay; testing Soviet air defenses; LeMay’s organizational talents.
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DOUGLAS, Griff (b. 1923) U.S. Navy WWII Veteran

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OH 0425
Survivor of the sinking of the 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 and Tamarkan, Thailand, 1944;…
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DRAKE, Edward J. (b. 1924) U.S. Army Air Forces WWII Veteran, 401st Bomb Squadron, 91st Bomb Group, 1st Air Division, 8th Air Force

Interview ID#
OH 1468
Attorney. His experiences as a B-17 pilot in the European Theater during World War II. His youth and education in Dallas, Texas; matriculation to the University of Texas, 1941; enlistment in the Aviation Cadet Program, December, 1941; basic training, Sheppard Field, Wichita Falls, Texas, 1943; pre-flight training and college preparatory program,…
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DRAWE, Billy (b. 1923) U.S. Marine Corps WWII Veteran, 3rd Amphibious Tractor Battalion

Interview ID#
OH 1397
Dairyman. His experiences in the Pacific Theater during World War II. Enlistment and boot camp, San Diego, California, 1942-43; tank training, El Cajon, California, 1943; tank mechanics school, Fort Knox, Kentucky, 1943; assignment as a replacement to the 3rd Amphibious Tractor Battalion at Guadalcanal, 1944; invasion of Guam, July-August, 1944;…
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OH 1747
For the DFW Metroplex Immigrants Oral History Project. Australian-born immigrant to Fort Worth, Texas. Childhood in Australia; interaction with American soldiers during World War II; Japanese invasion of Australia; first visit to the U.S.; first impressions of America; first marriage to an American; return to Australia for immigration process;…
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OH 2066
For the Postpartum Depression and Maternal Mental Health Oral History Project. Jeanne Watson Driscoll is a retired clinical nurse scientist with a focus on postpartum mental health. She discusses her own history of postpartum obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) in the 1970s, her work in breastfeeding counseling and the Boston Association of…
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DRIVER, James (b. 1920) U.S. Navy WWII Veteran

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OH 1390
His experiences as a dive-bomber and fighter pilot in the Pacific Theater during World War II. Enlistment in the Navy Aviation Cadet Program, 1941; various phases of training, Naval Air Station, Jacksonville, Florida; dive-bomber training, Daytona Beach, Florida, and Great Lakes Naval Air Station, 1942-43; assignment to VS-55, New Hebrides, 1943;…
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DuBOSE, Edwin (b. 1917) U.S. Navy WWII Veteran, Patrol-Torpedo Boat Squadrons 15 and 33

Interview ID#
OH 1303
His experiences in the North African, Mediterranean, and Pacific Theaters during World War II. Northwestern Midshipman School, 1941-42; Motor Torpedo Boat Squadrons Training Center, Melville, Rhode Island, 1942; assignment to PT Squadron 15, 1942; operations along the Algerian and Tunisian coasts, 1942-43; invasion of Sicily, 1943; interdiction of…
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DUBROFF, John (b. 1920) U.S. Army WWII Veteran

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OH 0212
His experiences at Schofield Barracks with the 11th Signal Company during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
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DUELL, Hollis G. (b. 1922) U.S. Navy WWII Veteran

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OH 1164
His experiences while aboard the submarine USS Sargo in the Pacific Theater during World War II. Assignment to the Sargo, 1941; his responsibilities as a yeoman; early war patrols off the Netherlands East Indies and Philippines; transfer to the Submarine Division Commander’s Office, Pearl Harbor, 1944; postwar duty in the Submarine Service.
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DUKE, Wallace “Tim” (b. 1924) U.S. Army WWII Veteran, 86th Infantry

Interview ID#
OH 1856
Retired Santa Fe Railroad agent. Childhood in rural North Texas; the Great Depression; war work at Consolidated Steel Shipyard; draft into infantry; training at Camp Howze and Camp Livingston; European Theater; push from Cologne to Altena, Germany; the Ruhr Pocket; push into Austria; V-E Day; reassignment to Pacific Theater; Philippines; post-war…
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DUNCAN, George (b. 1917) U.S. Navy WWII Veteran

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OH 1030
His experiences in the Pacific Theater during World War II. Pilot training at Pensacola Naval Air Station, 1941; assignment to Air Group 9 on the carrier Essex; discussion of Hellcat fighter; sinking of Fubuki-class destroyer, June, 1944, off Pagan Island; Marianas Campaign, 1944; “Great Marianas Turkey Shoot”; Philippines Campaign and attack on…
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OH 0960
His experiences while employed by the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression. Childhood in Fort Worth, Texas; joining the CCC; assignment to a camp in Redvale, Colorado; camp move to Paradox Valley, Colorado; description of camp; life in camp.
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DUNCAN, Pat P. (b. 1923) U.S. Navy WWII Veteran

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OH 0367
His experiences while aboard the cruiser USS Raleigh during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
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DUNGAN, Ross (b. 1914) U.S. Army WWII Veteran

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OH 0380
His experiences at Fort Weaver with A Battery, 14th Coast Artillery, during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
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