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WHITE, W. Erle (b. 1907)White’s Auto Stores

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OHB 0023
Founder, White’s Auto Stores. Family background; early work experiences; education; work in auto supply stores, garages; starting own business in Clinton, Oklahoma, during Depression; location of home office in Wichita Falls; expansion and growth through franchising and company-owned stores; diversification of merchandise lines in auto stores;…
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OH 0278 BOH 0005
Retired federal labor mediator and conciliator. Experiences and reminiscences from his thirty-year career with the U.S. Conciliation Service and the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service; early boyhood; employment with the International Harvester Company; comments about the Depression and New Deal; Kansas employment Service; employment with U…
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WHITEHEAD, Thomas A. (b. 1920) U.S. Army WWII Veteran, 2nd Battalion, 131st Field Artillery, Texas National Guard, U.S. Air Force Retiree

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OH 0366
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, 1942; building the Burma-Thailand Death Railway, 1942-44; Kanchanaburi and Tamarkan, Thailand, 1944; Non Pladuk, Thailand, 1944-45; Ubon, Thailand, 1945; liberation.
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WHITING, George W. B. (b. 1921) U.S. Navy WWII Veteran

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OH 1509
His experiences aboard the motor torpedo boat tender USS Jamestown in the Southwest Pacific Theater during World War II. Enlistment in the Navy, 1938; boot camp, Newport, Rhode Island, 1938; electrician’s school and assignment to the battleship USS Texas, 1939; transfer to the destroyer USS Simpson, 1940; assignment to the Ship Repair Unit,…
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OH 2078
UNT graduate and Associate Director of the Baptist Student Ministry. Discussion on the impact the COVID pandemic and student life.
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OH 1926
His life story of living in Denton, TX with his childhood family; going to school; local businesses and community; WWII Veteran experiences; successful businessman—canning company, plastic molding company; marriage and children; Denton Mayor and city government experience.
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WHITSON, Warren, Jr. (b. 1918) U.S. Army Air Forces WWII Veteran, 493rd Bomb Group, 860th Bomb Squadron, 8th Air Force

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OH 1109
Businessman. His experiences as a B-17 pilot in the European Theater during World War II. Pre-flight and flight training, 1943; assignment to 493rd Bomb Group, 860th Bomb Squadron, at Stone, England; characteristics of the B-17G; first mission, Berlin; problems with flak; tactics to counter German radar; engine trouble and crash landing in eastern…
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WHITSON, William D. (Bill) (b. 1920) WW II Veteran 305th Bomb Group

WHITSON, William D. (Bill) (b. 1920)U.S. Army Air Force U.S. Army Air Force WWII Veteran 8th Air Force, 365th & 305th Bomb Squadron

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OH 1107
Businessman. His experiences as a B-17 pilot in the European Theater during World War II. Flight training; flight from the U. S. to Grafton-Underwood, England; personal relationship with General Curtis LeMay; missions and German defenses; nineteenth mission and crash landing; twenty-fifth mission.
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OH 1932
World War II Veteran. Recollections of military service under General Curtis LeMay; military pilot training; 305th Bomb Group.
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WHYTE, Edna Gardner (b. 1902)Aero Valley Flying School

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OHB 0028
Aviatrix and owner, operator, and instructor of Aero Valley Flying School. Family background; Army, Navy, and civilian nursing careers; early flying, competition; comments about Amelia Earhart and other pioneers of aviation; early planes, equipment; early teaching experiences; views concerning women in aviation, other professions; attempts to…
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WIDMER, Robert J., Sr. (b. 1921) U.S. Army Air Forces WWII Veteran, 738th Squadron, 454th Bomb Group, 304th Bomb Wing, 15th Air Force

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OH 1568
His experiences as a B-24 pilot in the European theater during World War II; also his experiences as a prisoner-of-war of the Germans. His youth during the Great Depression in Toledo, Ohio; college at the University of Toledo and Columbia University; his decision to enlist in the Aviation Cadets, December, 1941; basic training, Santa Ana,…
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WIESE, Francis (b. 1922) U.S. Army Air Forces WWII Veteran

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OH 1586
North Texas business owner. Remembrances about childhood in Lindsay, St. Joe, and Gainesville, Texas; being drafted into U.S. Air Force; training at various stateside bases and overseas service in China-Burma-India and Pacific theaters as top-gunner in a B-29 crew; decision to enter jewelry business and purchase Kinne’s Jewelers in Gainesville,…
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WILCOX, Norbert John (b. 1924) U.S. Navy WWII Veteran, Patrol Squadron VPB-44

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OH 1279
Podiatrist. His experiences in the Pacific Theater during World War II. Civilian Pilot Training, the University of Chicago, 1942; pre-flight training, University of Iowa, 1942-43; basic flight training, Livermore, California, 1943; advanced flight training, Corpus Christi, Texas, 1943; assignment to flying the PBY; navigation and bombardier…
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WILDE, Earle (b. 1919) U.S. Army Air Forces WWII Veteran, 612th/615th Bomb Squadrons, 401st Bomb Group, 8th Air Force

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OH 1419
His experiences as a B-17 bombardier in the European Theater during World War II. Service in the U.S. Navy, 1936-40; employment with the Cincinnati Police Department, 1940-42; enlistment in the Aviation Cadet Program, October 15, 1942; basic training, Fresno, California, 1943; College Training Detachment, University of Montana, 1943; pre-flight…
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WILKERSON, Archie (b. 1924) U.S. Navy WWII Veteran

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OH 0368
Realtor. His experiences with VP-23 at Ford Island Naval Air Station during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
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WILKINSON, Claude (b. 1918) U.S. Navy WWII Veteran

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OH 0615
His experiences while aboard the seaplane tender USS Tangier during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
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OH 1001
His experiences while employed by the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression. Childhood in Pauline, Texas; joining the CCC; assignment to a forestry camp near Flagstaff, Arizona; reenlistment to Company 4842 at DG-41-N in Lake Arthur, New Mexico; company move to Carlsbad, New Mexico; description of camps; life in camps.
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WILLEY, Lloyd (b. 1914) U.S. Marine Corps WWII Veteran

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OH 1295
Survivor of the sinking of the USS Houston. His experiences as a prisoner-of-war of the Japanese during World War II. Sinking of the 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; Nakhon Pathom…
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OH 2096

For the Denton County Historical Commission. Ancestry of the Williams family, Denton County history. 

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OH 1637
For the Quakertown Oral History Project. Son of residents of Denton’s historic all-black Quakertown neighborhood and long-time Denton resident. Early childhood and education in Denton, including experiences with racial segregation and experiences with integrating Denton public schools; interest in radical black politics; influence of uncle, Fred…
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OH 0871
Physician. His experiences as a resident of Hamilton Park, Texas, in 1950s and 1960s. Childhood and education in Dallas; medical school at Meharry Medical College, Nashville, Tennessee, 1942-45; Army career; segregated housing in Dallas; discrimination against African-American physicians; dealing with the white power structure in Dallas; civil…
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OH 1143
His experiences while employed by the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression. Childhood in Oklahoma; joining the CCC; assignment to a camp in Clinton, Oklahoma; description of camp; life in camp.
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OH 0935
Geologist. His recollections concerning the Crater of Diamonds and diamond mining around Murfreesboro, Arkansas; activities of De Beers interests.
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WILLIAMS, R. Murphy (b. 1920) U.S. Navy WWII Veteran

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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…
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