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HOOPER, W. R. (b. 1942) U.S. Army WWII Veteran, Nurse Corps

Interview ID#
OH 0869
Anesthetist. His experiences as an Army nurse in Vietnam, 1969-70. Civilian and military education; 18th Surgical Hospital at Camp Evans; Quang tri City; battle casualties; social life; relations with Vietnamese civilians; civilian casualties; North Vietnamese POWs; family relationships; personal thoughts about U.S. involvement in Vietnam.
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HOPKINS, Harry (b. 1922) U.S. Navy WWII Veteran

Interview ID#
OH 0640
His experiences while aboard the cruiser USS Saint Louis during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
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HORKY, Otto (b. 1912) U.S. Navy WWII Veteran

Interview ID#
OH 0203
His experiences at Kaneohe Naval Air Station with VP-11 during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
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HORNER, Charles H. (b. 1915) U.S. Navy WWII Veteran

Interview ID#
Oh 0453
His experiences while aboard the destroyer USS Cassin during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
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HORNSBY, Eddie L. (b. 1916) U.S. Navy WWII Veteran

Interview ID#
OH 0496
His experiences while aboard the cruiser USS San Francisco during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
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HORTON, Carl (b. 1935) U.S. Army Vietnam Veteran, Nurse Corps

Interview ID#
OH 1198
Operating room nurse. His experiences as an Army nurse in Vietnam, 1961-70. Assignment to Yokohama, Japan, and treatment of Vietnam battle casualties, 1966-69; assignment to Dong Tam with 3rd Surgical Hospital, 1969; treatment of battle casualties in operating room; living accommodations; hospital facilities; transfer of 3rd Surgical Hospital to…
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HOUSEMAN, Donelson M. (b. 1923) U.S. Army WWII Veteran, D Company, 1st Battalion, 423rd Infantry Regiment, 106th Infantry Division

Interview ID#
OH 1479
Insurance executive, real estate investor. His experiences in the European Theater during World War II; his experiences as a prisoner-of-war of the Germans. Pre-war education and college at the University of Texas; his reaction to the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941; his decision to enlist in the Enlisted Reserve Corps;…
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HOUSENFLUCK, Thomas (b. 1919) U.S. Navy WWII Veteran

Interview ID#
OH 0751
His experiences while aboard the submarine Narwhal during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
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HOUSER, Oscar (b. 1941) U.S. Army Vietnam Veteran, Nurse Corps

Interview ID#
OH 0922
Anesthetist. His experiences as an Army nurse in Vietnam, 1972-73. Decision to enter nurse training, the military; anesthesia school at William Beaumont Medical Center, 1972; attitudes toward Vietnam War; assignment to 95th Evacuation Hospital, China Beach, Vietnam; camp living conditions; work at Da Nang and Pleiku; treatment of battle casualties…
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HOWARD, E. F. (b. 1919) U.S. Army WWII Veteran

Interview ID#
OH 0768
His experiences at Schofield Barracks with the 19th Infantry during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
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Interview ID#
OH 1234
His experiences while employed by the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression. Childhood in Alabama; joining the CCC; assignment to Company 4447 in Auburn, Alabama; transfer to Camp Alabama (SCS-14) in Dothan, Alabama; temporary assignment in Andalusia, Alabama; transfer to Tennille, Georgia; reassignment to Keystone Heights,…
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HUBENAK, John (b. 1917) U.S. Navy WWII Veteran

Interview ID#
OH 0342
His experiences at Ford Island Naval Air Station with Fleet Air Wing Two during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
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HUDGINS, H. Paul (b. 1926) U.S. Army WWII Vetearn

Interview ID#
OH 1842
Artist and author. Childhood in Texas; family history; enlistment in U.S. Army as a medic; staged in France on V-E Day; stationed on hospital train running between Germany and France; post-war college; artistic career; writing career; Honor Flight trip.
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HUDGINS, H. T. (b. 1921) U.S. Navy WWII Veteran

Interview ID#
OH 0642
His experiences while aboard the destroyer USS Bagley during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
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Interview ID#
OH 1011
His experiences while employed by the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression. Childhood in Arkansas; joining the CCC; assignment to Company 4747 at Calico Rock, Arkansas; move to Camp Crowley’s Ridge (SP-4) in Walcott, Arkansas; move to Company 1708 in Ozone, Arkansas; description of camps; life in camps.
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HUDSON, James (b. 1921) U.S. Army WWII Veteran, 3rd Platoon, 36th/83rd Quartermaster Trucking Company, 470th Quartermaster Regiment

Interview ID#
OH 1414
His experiences in the European Theater during World War II. His youth in segregated Yalobusha County, Mississippi; his reaction to being drafted, December, 1942; basic training, Camp McCain, Grenada, Mississippi, 1942-43; segregated training facilities; maneuvers at Camp Polk, Louisiana, 1943; training in truck maintenance and operation;…
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HUDSON, Lloyd (b. 1924) U.S. Army WWII Veteran, Troop A, 112th Cavalry, Texas National Guard

Interview ID#
Oh 1514
His experiences in the Southwest Pacific Theater during World War II. Enlistment in the 124th Cavalry, 1940, at age sixteen; federalization of the National Guard, November, 1940; Louisiana Maneuvers, Summer, 1941; assignment to Fort Brown, Brownsville, Texas, 1941; transfer to the 112th Cavalry, 1942; maneuvers at Hueco Springs, Texas, 1942;…
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Interview ID#
OH 1446
For the Ray Roberts Lake Oral History Project. Cotton gin foreman. His comments and observations about changing patterns of cotton production and cotton gin operations in Denton County, Texas, 1960-1987. Processes for separating trash, lint, and seeds; changing technology for ginning operations; the Massey gin’s role in marketing cotton;…
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HUDSPETH, C. M. (b. 1919) U.S. Navy WWII Veteran

Interview ID#
OH 0989
His experiences as a cryptographer in the Pacific Theater during World War II. Assignment to COMSOPAC at Noumea, New Caledonia; intricacies of sending and receiving various classifications of coded messages; ambush of Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto’s plane, 1943.
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Interview ID#
OH 1583
African-American alumna of North Texas State University. Childhood in Fort Worth, Texas, and education in all-black public schools, including I.M. Terrell Senior High School; decision to enroll on scholarship at Paine College in Augusta, Georgia, in Fall 1961; inability to continue at Paine and decision to enroll at NTSU in Fall 1962; experience…
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HUFF, C. B. (b. 1919) U.S. Army WWII Veteran

Interview ID#
OH 0561
His experiences at Schofield Barracks with Headquarters Battery, 11th Field Artillery Brigade, during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
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Interview ID#
OH 1408
Educator. Her recollections concerning her association with Drs. Margaret Griffin and Rose Spicola, long-time professors of reading at Texas Woman’s University, Denton, Texas. Their rapport with students; their role in the establishment of the Reading Recovery Program; their contributions to reading instruction.
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HUFFMAN, James W. (b. 1916) U.S. Navy WWII Veteran

Interview ID#
OH 0818
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; Tamarkan, Thailand, 1944; Chungkai, Thailand…
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Interview ID#
OH 0813
His experiences while employed by the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression. Childhood in Lancaster, Texas; joining the CCC; assignment to Company 2852 at SCS-1580 near Tucson, Arizona; reassignment to Company 3810 in Dublin, Texas; company move to Monument, Colorado; description of camps; life in camps.
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HUGHES, Robert C. (b. 1918) U.S. Navy WWII Veteran

Interview ID#
OH 0456
His experiences while aboard the battleship USS Tennessee during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
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