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GAGE, Wallace H. (b. 1915) U.S. Army Air Corps WWII Veteran

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OH 0582
His experiences at Hickam Field with the 324th Signal Company during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
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GALEASSI, Ernest (b. 1920) U.S. Army WWII Veteran

Interview ID#
OH 0778
His experiences at Hickam Field with the 324th Signal Company during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
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GALEASSI, Ernest (b. 1920) U.S. Marine Corps WWII Veteran VMF-224

GALER, Robert E. (b. 1913) U.S. Marine Corps WWII Veteran, VMF-224

Interview ID#
OH 1230
Medal of Honor recipient. His experiences in the Pacific Theater during World War II. Pre-war training at Pensacola and Quantico; assignment to Saint Thomas and reminiscences about the “destroyers-for bases” deal, 1940; experiences at Ewa during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941; assignment to Guadalcanal as commander of VMF-…
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OH 1265
His experiences concerning the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941; the Guadalcanal Campaign as commander of VMF-224; and as head of the 584 Radar units during the campaigns for the Philippines, Iwo Jima, and Okinawa. Navy ROTC at the University of Washington, 1931-35; pilot training at Sand Point, Pensacola, and Quantico, 1935-38…
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GALLOWAY, Harold (b. 1916) U.S. Army WWII Veteran

Interview ID#
OH 0626
His recollections of World War II in Europe. Experiences as a medical corpsman; health problems of American soldiers.
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Interview ID#
OH 1259
His experiences while employed by the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) during the Great Depression. Youth in Dido, Texas; entry into CCC; assignment to Camp SP3-A in Minturn, Colorado; description of camp; reassignment to Arizona; camp routine; recreation; his life after discharge in 1934.
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GANN, Nathan (b. 1919) U.S. Army Air Corps WWII Veteran

Interview ID#
OH 1132
Surveyor. His experiences while employed by the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression. Childhood in Holland, Texas and Rogers, Texas; joining the CCC; assignment to Company 3805 in Bartlett, Texas; description of camp; life in camp.
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GANTT, Archie (b. 1922) U.S. Army WWII Veteran, F Company, 335th Infantry Regiment, 84th Infantry Division

Interview ID#
OH 1375
His experiences in the European Theater during World War II. Boyhood in central Texas; his induction into the Army and basic training at Camp Howze, Gainesville, Texas, 1942-43; Camp Clayborne and Louisiana maneuvers, 1943; shipment to England, October, 1944; combat on the Siegfried Line, November, 1944; leadership problems; Battle of the Bulge,…
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GARBO, William, Sr. (b. 1924) U.S. Army WWII Veteran, 112th Cavalry, Texas National Guard

Interview ID#
OH 1566
Landscape architect. His experiences with G Troop, 112th Cavalry, in the Southwest Pacific Theater during World War II. Growing up in an Italian-American family in Mississippi during the Great Depression; volunteering for the draft and processing at Camp Shelby, Hattiesburg, Mississippi, 1943; basic training at Camp Lee, Petersburg, Virginia, 1943…
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Interview ID#
OH 2086
For the Mexican American Women’s Educational Experience Oral History Project. Childhood and educational experiences in Dallas; college experiences at Texas Woman's University; and experiences as a PHD student in the UNT Department of History as a first generation student of Mexican immigrant parents, originally form the state of Durango;…
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OH 0028
Businessman. His experiences as a leader in the American GI Forum, Political Association of Spanish-speaking Organizations (PASO), and other Mexican-American social action groups. Delgado Case; poll tax drives; Texas gubernatorial campaign of 1962; Crystal City elections, 1963.
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OH 0958
Schoolteacher. Her experiences as a resident of Hamilton Park, Texas, 1956-92. Segregated education in East Texas; graduation from Texas College; teaching career in Malakoff, Texas; decision to buy home in Hamilton Park; home improvements; employment at Hamilton Park School; desegregation of Hamilton Park School; fight to save Hamilton Park high…
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Howard Garrett graduated from Texas Tech with a degree in Park Administration and Landscape Architecture. An early career focus on golf course design and management evolved to include landscape architecture and design. He decided to become an organic person when his daughter Logan was born in 1985. A photograph he took of her when she was nine…
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GARRISON, J. B. (b. 1920) U.S. Marine Corps WWII Veteran

Interview ID#
OH 0057
Automobile salesman. His experiences as a prisoner-of-war of the Japanese during World War II. Fall of Guam and capture; Zentsuji, Japan, 1942; Osaka, 1942-44, and American air raids; liberation.
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OH 1309
His experiences as a defense worker at Riverside Foundry, Wrightsville, Pennsylvania, 1941-45. His education and childhood during the Great Depression; employment in the core room at Riverside Foundry; his draft classification as 4-F due to psychoneurosis; his personal feelings about being classified 4-F; local reaction to his 4-F status;…
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Interview ID#
OH 0811
His experiences while employed by the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression. Childhood in Donna, Texas and McAllen, Texas; joining the CCC; assignment to Company 3840 in Patagonia, Arizona; transfer to a side camp in Saint David, Arizona; company move to Parker Dam, Arizona; description of camps; life in camps.
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GATELY, Joseph (b. 1917) U.S. Navy WWII Veteran

Interview ID#
OH 0223
His experiences while aboard the destroyer USS Ralph Talbot during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
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GATES, Hobart J. (b. 1920) U.S. Army WWII Veteran

Interview ID#
OH 0647
His experiences near Schofield Barracks with the 98th Coast Artillery during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
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OH 1811
For the American History: Voluntary Simplicity Oral History Project. Healer and simple life advocate. Family and childhood in Massachusetts; early influences on life philosophy; move to Maine; Scott and Helen Nearing; Back to the Land movement; the Good Life Center.
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GAUGER, Elmer (b. 1919) U.S. Navy WWII Veteran

Interview ID#
OH 0225
His experiences while aboard the battleship USS Pennsylvania during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
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OH 0184
College professor. The experiences of a German intellectual during the period of the Weimar Republic and the early Hitler years. Middle-class family background; service in World War I with a Rhenish artillery regiment; education at University of Breslau; Spartacus Uprising; Kapp Putsch; Freikorps activities; rampant inflation, 1923-24; effects of…
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GAYLE, Gordon D. (b. 1917) U.S. Marine Corps WWII Veteran

Interview ID#
OH 1038
His experiences with the 1st Battalion, 5th Marines at Guadalcanal, New Britain, and Peleliu during World War II.
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OH 1609
African American North Texas State University alumnus. Childhood in Waco, Texas, Artesia, New Mexico, and Fort Worth, Texas; experience as basketball player at Fort Worth’s all-black Terrell High School; comparison of race relations in Waco, Artesia, and Fort Worth; decision to attend North Texas and enroll in ROTC program; “neutral” stance of…
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GEAR, Joe B. (b. 1922) U.S. Navy WWII Veteran

Interview ID#
OH 0055
Businessman, survivor of the siege of Corregidor. His experiences as a prisoner-of-war of the Japanese during World War II. Destruction of Cavite Navy Base by Japanese bombers; fall of Corregidor and capture; damage to eyes due to phosphorous bomb; Bellbird Prison, Manila, 1942; Cabanatuan, 1942; transfer to Formosa, 1942; hell ship to Japan, 1942…
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