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GEAR, Joe B. (b. 1922) U.S. Navy WWII Veteran

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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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GEARHART, Marvin (b. 1927)Gearhart Industries, Inc.

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OHB 0071
Chairman of board, president, and CEO of Gearhart Industries, Inc., Fort Worth, Texas. Family background; description of farming, oil drilling, and educational experiences in Southeastern Kansas; employment as trainee field engineer for Wireline Service Company Welex, 1949; work for Dresser Company, 1952; establishment of Wireline logging unit…
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OH 1543
His experiences while employed by the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression. Childhood in Wisconsin; joining the CCC; assignment to Company 3683 at Camp Alvin, Wisconsin; description of camp; life in camp.
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GEE, James (b. 1920) U.S. Marine Corps WWII Veteran

Interview ID#
OH 0110
Sales executive, 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; Kanchanaburi, Thailand, 1944…
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GEE, Roy M. (b. 1922) U.S. Navy WWII Veteran

Interview ID#
OH 1173
His experiences while aboard the cruiser Phoenix during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
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OH 0827
Former schoolteacher, community leader. Her experiences as a resident of Hamilton Park, Texas, 1956-90. Family background and education; employment as teacher in Dallas public schools; marriage and children; decision to purchase home in Hamilton Park; home improvements; Dad’s Club; Hamilton Park School; desegregation and closing of Hamilton Park…
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GENSLER, Harold (b. 1915) U.S. Navy WWII Veteran, USS Edgecombe

Interview ID#
OH 1416
Policeman. His experiences in the Pacific Theater during World War II. Youth in Ossining, New York; employment with the New York Central Railroad during the late 1930s and early 1940s; enlistment in the Navy SeaBees, 1943; basic training, Camp Perry, Virginia, 1943; temporary assignment as a clerk at the Oakland Naval Supply Center, 1943-44;…
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OH 1645
For the Denton County Historical Commission. Denton businessman. Family’s history farming in Denton County; creation of Lake Dallas; father’s career as a lawman and mother’s as nurse; experience in Denton schools and at NTSC; career in grocery business, most recently with HEB Co.
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GEORGE, Joseph L. (b. 1915) U.S. Navy WWII Veteran

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OH 0448
His experiences while aboard the repair ship USS Vestal during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
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OH 0114
Homemaker. Her observations on the settlement and development of the Coastal Bend area of South Texas. Rural social life; Ku Klux Klan; Mexican-Anglo relations.
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GESINO, Michael G. (b. 1923) U.S. Army Air Forces WWII Veteran, 423rd Bomb Squadron, 306th Bomb Group, 8th Air Force

Interview ID#
OH 1430
His experiences as a B-17 ball turret gunner in the European Theater during World War II; his experiences as a prisoner-of-war of the Germans. Enlistment in the Aviation Cadet Program, 1942; his decision to become a bombardier, 1943; bombardier training, Ellington Field, Houston, Texas, and Laredo Army Air Base, Laredo, Texas, 1943; circumstance…
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OH 2109

For the South Asians in North Texas Oral History Project. Experiences as an immigrant from India settling in the United States. Childhood in India, decision to pursue higher education in the U.S., his traveling experience as well as the opportunities that he earned that allowed him to immigrate, such as the Fulbright Scholarship and…

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GIBSON, Arch (b. 1912) U.S. Navy WWII Veteran

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OH 0315
His experiences while aboard the destroyer tender USS Whitney during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
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OH 1581
African-American former student of North Texas State College. Remembrances about childhood and early education in South Dallas, Texas; decision to enter North Texas State in 1957; off-campus life in “Shack Town” among other black students; difficulties adjusting to college and decision to drop out of North Texas in 1960; perceptions of President J…
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OH 2137

Gibtsawi, Shalom. Participant in Our Stories, Our Justice, a participatory storytelling project that centers individuals and their communities in a collective effort to (re)produce oral and visual histories that shine light on a continuum of radical leadership by BIPOC and marginalized women.

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GILBREATH, Walter (b.1922) U.S. Navy WWII Veteran

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OH 1688
For the Tarrant County War Veterans Project. Longtime North Texas business owner. Childhood in Navarro County, Texas, Altus, Oklahoma, and Lewisville, Texas; parents’ divorce and family break-up; struggles to survive in the Great Depression; experience working with heavy landscaping machinery in Civilian Conservation Corps at camps in Wyoming…
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GILL, Noel (b. 1918) U.S. Navy WWII Veteran

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OH 0269
His experiences while aboard the battleship USS California during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
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GILL, William R. (b. 1920) U.S. Army WWII Veteran, A Company, 389th Infantry Regiment, 98th Division

Interview ID#
OH 1328
Agronomist. His experiences in the Pacific Theater during World War II; also his experiences and role in the Pacific War Crimes Tribunal in postwar Japan. Officer Candidate School, Fort Benning, Georgia, 1943; assignment to the 98th Division and posting to Kauai, Hawaiian Islands, 1944; jungle warfare training on Kauai; his appointment as…
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OHB 0102
Owner of grocery store, Miller Grove, Texas. Family background; father’s employment experiences in Louisiana; farming in Hopkins County, Texas, 1920s and 1930s; purchase of building and establishment of hardware and grocery store, Miller Grove, 1933; description of merchandise; comments on relocation of building in Miller Grove, 1939; description…
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OH 1091
Her experiences as a teen­age civilian internee of the Japanese in the Philippines during World War II. Internment on Cebu, 1942; Santo Tomas, Manila, 1942-45; fall of Manila and liberation.
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GILMER, Claude (b. 1901) Texas House of Representatives

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OH 0143
Attorney, former Speaker of the Texas House of Representatives, 1946-47. His first legislative campaign; “Immortal 56” and the Transactions Tax; Governor W. Lee O’Daniel and his relationship with the House; life as a freshman representative; highway legislation and the Bond Assumption Act; his race for the House Speakership; views on Governor Coke…
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OH 2173

Dallas radio DJ George Gimarc discusses how he entered the radio business and his time with UNT radio stations KNTU, KZEW (“The Zoo”), and KDGE (“The Edge). Additionally, he discusses the growth of the Dallas-Fort Worth music scene from the late 1970s through the mid-1990s, as well as his relationships with the bands Deep Blue Something,…

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OH 0821
Civil servant. His experiences while employed by the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Depression. Childhood in West Texas and East Texas; joining the CCC; assignment to a camp in Littlefield, Texas; description of camp; life in camp.
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OH 0830
His experiences while employed by the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression. Childhood in West Texas; joining the CCC; assignment to Company 3892 camp at the Colorado National Monument (NP-8-C) near Grand Junction, Colorado; transfer to a side camp in Glenwood Springs, Colorado; description of camps; life in camps.
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OH 1915
Recollections of her and her family’s memories of the Spanish Civil War and growing up in San Sebastian (Spain). Childhood memories growing up in Spain. Her thoughts on identifying as Basque after the civil war and the differences between city and country life. Thoughts on her education growing up.
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