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ROMAGOSA, Garland (b. 1922) U.S. Navy WWII Veteran

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OH 0721
His experiences while aboard the battleship USS California during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
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OH 2119

Writer, historian, musician, and cultural activist from El Paso, Texas. Family’s immigration experience; childhood in California and El Paso; experiences in school and church; explorations of Mexican American, Jewish, and Middle Eastern history that inform his work; publishing career. 

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OH 1598
For the Eastland County African American Women Oral History Project. Longtime resident of Cisco and Eastland, Texas. Memories of education in Cisco’s all-black, one-room Smithville Elementary School that included grades 1-6; negative experiences in newly desegregated schools; perceptions of different treatment accorded to young black men and young…
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ROSEN, Frederick W. (b. 1917) U.S. Navy WWII Veteran

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OH 1288
Motor Torpedo Boat Squadron 15, USS Randolph, USS Noble. His experiences as a PT boat skipper in the North African and European Theaters and various other duties in the Pacific Theater during World War II. Early naval career, 1941-42; assignment to the Motor Torpedo Boat Squadrons Center, Melville, Rhode Island, October, 1942; association with…
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OHB 0034
Co-founder (with husband Herman, deceased) of Tex Glass, Inc., Decatur, Texas. Family background; education in Brooklyn, N. Y.; teaching career; her knowledge of husband’s family background and his life in Europe during Hitler era; his technical training, work in glass factories; starting his own glass factory in Vienna; fleeing Nazis and…
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ROSER, Robert (b. 1920) U.S. Army WWII Veteran

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OH 1067
His experiences with the 29th Division during the invasion of Normandy in World War II.
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ROSS, Paul (b. 1917) U.S. Navy WWII Veteran

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OH 0450
His experiences while aboard the battleship USS West Virginia during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
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OH 2152

Alyssah Vielka Roth describes their relationship to food and how it has changed over time. Alyssah describes family traditions and how their attendance at the Border Health Network's camp for kids shaped her relationship to food, especially around issues of body image.

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ROTH, Theodore (b. 1923) U.S. Navy WWII Veteran

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OH 0242
His experiences while aboard the destroyer USS Hull during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
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ROTH, Thomas (b. 1924) U.S. Navy WWII Veteran

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OH 0400
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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ROUSSEAU, Fred (b. 1921) U.S. Army Air Corps WWII Veteran

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OH 0347
His experiences at Hickam Field with the Base Fire Department during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
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ROWAN, Dolphus Edward, Jr. (b. 1919) U.S. Army Air Forces WWII Veteran, 534th Squadron, 381st Bombardment Group, 8th Air Force

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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…
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RUCKER, David (b. 1921) U.S. Army Air Forces WWII Veteran, 346th Bomb Squadron, 384th Bomb Group, 8th Air Force

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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,…
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RUDDICK, John L. (b. 1923) U.S. Navy WWII Veteran

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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.
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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.
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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…
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OH 0224
Her experiences as a Navy wife at Hickam Field during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
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RUGG, James E. (b. 1918) U.S. Navy WII Veteran

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OH 0338
His experiences while aboard the minelayer USS Breese during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
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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.
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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…
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RUNCE, Fred (b. 1914) U.S. Army WWII Veteran

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OH 0219
His experiences at Wheeler Field with the Army Ordnance Detachment during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
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RUSSELL, Ben (b. 1923) U.S. Navy WWII Veteran

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OH 0744
His experiences aboard the cruiser USS Phoenix during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
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RUSSELL, Carl H. (b. 1910) and Edith (b. 1912) U.S. Army Air Corps WWII Veteran

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OH 0407
Veteran and his wife. Their experiences at Hickam Field during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
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RUSSELL, Eileen (b. 1943)Braniff International Airways

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OH 1967

Russell, Eileen: 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…

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OH 0598
Attorney. His experiences as a member of the football team during the desegregation of athletics at North Texas State College, 1956.
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