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WOOD, Charles E. (b. 1923) U.S. Army Air Forces WWII Veteran, 866th Bomb Squadron, 493rd Bomb Group, 8th Air Force

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OH 1307
His experiences as a B-24 gunner in the European Theater during World War II. Enlistment in the Aviation Cadet Program, 1942; gunnery school, Tindall Field, Florida, and Biggs Field, El Paso, Texas, 1943; assignment to the 493rd Bomb Group, 1943; stationing at Debach, England, April, 1944; operations on D-Day; mission to Merseberg, Germany,…
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OH 0170
Scientist with the Soil Conservation Service. His experiences while employed by the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression.
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OH 0890
His experiences while employed by the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression. Childhood in Central and North Texas; joining the CCC; assignment to Company 859 in Buffalo Pasture (BF-2) near Cache, Oklahoma; company move to Bitter Lake Refuge (FW-3) near Roswell, New Mexico; description of camps; life in camps.
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OH 2090

For the UNT Multicultural Center Oral History Project. Former UNT Vice President for Inclusion, Diversity, Equity and Access. Career as a university administrator. Perspectives on student success and support initiatives at UNT. 

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OH 2127

United States Army Veteran. Experiences as a track vehicle repairer and recovery operations in 1980, 1986-1991; career as service officer with Disabled American Veterans Grand Prairie Texas Chapter.

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WOODS, Eugene K. (b. 1924) U.S. Navy WWII Veteran

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OH 1120
His experiences while aboard the destroyer-minesweeper USS Trever during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
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WOODWARD, Eugene (b. 1922) U.S. Navy WWII Veteran

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OH 0432
His experiences while aboard the cruiser USS Phoenix during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
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WOOLWINE, Elwood (b. 1924) U.S. Marine Corps WWII Veteran, Bombing Squadron VMB-433

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OH 1489
Business executive. His experiences as a mechanic in the Southwest Pacific Theater during World War II. His family background and education; influence of the Great Depression on his military and civilian careers; his decision to enlist in the Marine Corps, 1942; boot camp, Parris Island, South Carolina, 1942-43; assignment to VMB-433, Cherry Point…
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OH 0029
Banker, public servant, philanthropist. His observations on the growth and development of banking and finance in the Southwest. Service in World War I; assistant cashier of the Alba National Bank, Alba, Texas; cashier of the Farmers and Merchants Bank, Farmersville, Texas; state bank examiner; Federal Home Loan Banking System; vice-president and…
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WOOTON, J. B., Jr. (b. 1913)Denton Floor Covering Company, Inc.

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OHB 0062
Owner and operator, Denton Floor Covering Company, Inc., Denton, Texas. Family background; work in grocery stores in Denton, 1930s; employment as salesman for Lone Star Gas Company, 1940; work in Denton appliance and hardware stores; hired as manager of Denton Floor Covering, 1955; history and financing of business; growth of sales; contrasts…
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WORKMAN, William G. (b. 1910) U.S. Army Air Forces WWII Veteran

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OH 0537
His experiences with the 31st Bomb Squadron at Hickam Field during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
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OH 0973
State district judge. Her views concerning the impact and significance of women on the rise of the Republican Party in Texas, 1968-93. Educational background; move to Dallas; decision to enter Republican politics; election as state district judge; her relationship with African-American community; personal political philosophy.
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OH 1629
African American alumna of North Texas State University. Childhood and early education in High, Texas; cotton farming; education at all-black, one-room Prairie Point School and Roxton High School; race relations in Northeast Texas; decision to enter Paris Junior College under National Defense Student Loan program; decision to enter NTSU in Fall…
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OH 2104 v.1

Wright, Halee. The Bolivar Oral History Project. Through her paternal line, Wright is the great great great granddaughter of blacksmith and freedman Thomas Cook Sr. and his wife, Lethia Perry. Cook’s blacksmith shop was the focus of an archeological excavation in 2021 (Bolivar Archeological Project). Wright’s interview covers her memories of…

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OH 2104 v.2

Wright, Halee. The Bolivar Oral History Project. Through her paternal line, Wright is the great great great granddaughter of blacksmith and freedman Thomas Cook Sr. and his wife, Lethia Perry. Cook’s blacksmith shop was the focus of an archeological excavation in 2021 (Bolivar Archeological Project). In her second of two interviews for the…

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WRIGHT, Houston T. (b. 1915) U.S. Army WWII Veteran, 2nd Battalion, 131st Field Artillery, Texas National Guard

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OH 0466
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, Singapore, 1942; building the Burma-Thailand Death Railway, 1942-44; Kanchanaburi and Tamarkan, Thailand, 1944, and American air raids; Tamuang, Thailand, 1944; Phet…
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WRIGHT, Huddleston W. (b. 1905) U.S. Army WWII Veteran, 2nd Battalion, 131st Field Artillery, Texas National Guard

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OH 0794
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, 1942; Changi Prison Camp, Singapore, 1942; building the Burma Thailand Death Railway, 1942-44; Kanchanaburi, Thailand, 1944-45; Phet Buri, Thailand, 1945; liberation.
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OH 1612
For the Texas Textile Mill Oral History Project. Former textile mill worker. Experiences growing up in Denison and McKinney, Texas; decision to drop out of school after sixth grade; work career at Texas Textile Mill in McKinney and experiences of other family members in mill employment; decision to return to school; graduation from high school on…
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WULF, Elmer (b. 1921) U.S. Army Air Forces WWII Veteran, 535th Squadron, 381st Bomb Group, 1st Air Division, 8th Air Force

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OH 1264
Businessman. His experiences as a B-17 pilot in the European Theater during World War II. Pre-flight, primary flight, and advanced flight training in the U. S., 1943-44; training in the B-17 at Roswell, New Mexico, 1944; comments about individual members of his B-17 crew; voyage to England on the Queen Elizabeth, 1944; assignment to Station 167,…
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OH 1040
His experiences as an employee at the Red River Army Depot, Texarkana, Arkansas during World War II and the postwar years. Employment procedures; job assignments; wartime housing; safety procedures; social activities; union activities; relationships with women workers; race relations.
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OH 1045
Her recollections and experiences as an employee at the Red River Army Depot, Texarkana, Arkansas, during World War II. Hiring procedures; promotion policies; civilian housing; rationing; employee morale; union activity; promotions and sexual harassment.
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OH 1844
For the Desegregating DFW Oral History Project. Educator. Childhood in Dallas; realization of color differences and racism; desegregation of schools; continuation of racism into late twentieth century; racial tensions; competitive roller skating; special education teaching in an inner-city school; challenges of an inter-racial marriage; education…
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OH 1864
For the Dallas DREAMers Oral History Project. Mexican-born immigrant to Wichita Falls, Texas. Childhood in Mexico; life in the bordertown of Juarez, Mexico; family’s decision to immigrate to the United States; becoming American; racism; quality of life differences between being documented and undocumented; process to become documented.
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OH 2081
Laos-born Hmong refugee and immigrant to the U.S. Childhood in Laos and experience fleeing communists in the “secret war;” life at Ban Vinai refugee camp in Thailand; and resettlement in the U.S.; family experiences in Minnesota.
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YEAGER, Charles W. (b. 1918) U. S. Army Air Forces WWII Veteran

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OH 1254
Molder. His experiences as a member of the 222nd Combat Crew Training School during World War II. B-17 bomber maintenance at Amarillo Army Airfield, 1942-43; advanced training in aircraft instruments, Chanute Field, Illinois, 1943; assignment as an instruments specialist to the 395th Bomb Group, Ephrata, Washington, 1943; permanent assignment to…
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