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MORRIS, Herbert R. (b. 1919) U.S. Army WWII Veteran, 2nd Battalion, 131st Field Artillery, Texas National Guard

Interview ID#
OH 0780
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; Changi Jail, 1944-45; liberation.
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MORRIS, JoEarl (b. 1919) U.S. Army Air Forces WWII Veteran, 14th Bomb Wing, 392nd Bomb Group, 2nd Bomb Division, 8th Air Force

Interview ID#
OH 1337
His experiences as a B-24 bombardier in the European Theater during World War II. His education and employment in the oil industry; enlistment in the Aviation Cadet Program, 1942; basic training, Kelly Field, San Antonio, Texas, 1942; primary flight training, Victory Field, Vernon, Texas, 1942; his washing out of pilot training; ground school,…
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MORRISON, Ed, Jr. (b. 1921)Morrison Milling Company

Interview ID#
OHB 0088
Chairman of the board, Morrison Milling Company, Denton, Texas. Family background; father’s employment with Red Star Milling Company, Wichita, Kansas; father’s purchase of Alliance Milling Company, Denton, 1936; history of Alliance Milling Company; father’s short-term financing of milling company; description of personnel and shipping procedures;…
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MOSS, Jack (b. 1924) U.S. Army WWII Veteran, 2nd Battalion, 131st Field Artillery, Texas National Guard

Interview ID#
OH 0045
Businessman, 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, Thailand, 1944; Bangkok, 1944-45; liberation.
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MOUDY, Earl (b. 1918) U.S. Army Air Corps WWII Veteran

Interview ID#
OH 0205
His experiences at Hickam Field with base security during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
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Interview ID#
OH 1752
For the DFW Metroplex Immigrants Oral History Project. Lebanese-born immigrants to Fort Worth, Texas. Life in Lebanon; Lebanese Civil War; move to Paraguay en route to the U.S.; reasons for moving to Texas; children and grandchildren; connections to Lebanon; making the decision to leave Lebanon during the Civil War; comparison of growing up in…
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MUCH, Roy D. (b. 1917) U.S. Army WWII Veteran, 987th Field Artillery Battalion

Interview ID#
OH 1379
His experiences in the European Theater during World War II. Pre-war education and employment; basic training in the artillery, Camp Bowie, Brownwood, Texas, 1942; general comments about his experiences at Normandy, Saint-Lô, liberation of Paris, Huertgen Forest, Remagen Bridge, Battle of the Bulge, and the liberation of Czechoslovakia.
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MUHL, Col. Rene (Ret.) (b. 1951) U.S. Air Force Gulf War Veteran

Interview ID#
OH 1627
For the Tarrant County War Veteran Project. UNT graduate student. Memories of “military brat” childhood; education at North Texas State University and participation in protests against Vietnam War; teaching career at Tarrant County College; decision to join U.S. Air Force and attend Officer Candidate School; earning of officer’s commission in 1979…
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Interview ID#
OH 0621
Recollections concerning her Basque parents, her work at the Bastanchury Ranch, and the raising of her children in America; discussion of Basque customs and folkways.
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MULBERRY, Richard R. (b. 1920) U.S. Marine Corps WWII Veteran, VMSB-243

Interview ID#
OH 0078
Retired carpenter, farmer, municipal employee. Observations on land speculation, settlement, and development of the Coastal Bend area of south Texas, 1910-50. Life on the Taft Ranch; President William Howard Taft’s visit; agrarian social life; Mexican-Anglo relations; comments about African Americans.
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MUNCY, O. R. (b. 1923) U.S. Navy WWII Veteran

Interview ID#
OH 0395
His experiences while aboard the cruiser USS Honolulu during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
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MUNN, John P. (b. 1915) U.S. Army Air Corps WWII Veteran

Interview ID#
OH 0800
His experiences at Wheeler field with the 18th Pursuit Group, 45th Squadron, during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
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Interview ID#
OH 1998
UNT alumnus and former faculty member, Denton pastor, and retirement center administrator. Childhood, education, and perceptions of race relations in Florida and Texas; education at UNT, Southern Baptist College, and Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary; career as associate pastor at First United Methodist Church in Denton; experiences with…
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MURPHEY, Bob (b. 1921) Texas House of Representatives

Interview ID#
OH 0043
Attorney, former Sergeant-at-Arms of the Texas House of Representatives, public speaker, nephew of former Governor Coke Stevenson. His experiences as Sergeant-at-Arms, 1949-53; Stevenson-Johnson senatorial race of 1948; comments about Coke Stevenson.
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MURPHEY, John (b. 1921) U.S. Navy WWII Veteran

Interview ID#
OH 0258
His experiences while aboard the repair ship USS Vestal during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
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MURPHY, Elizabeth (b. 1917) U.S. Army WWII Veteran, Nurse Corps

Interview ID#
OH 0373
Her experiences at Tripler General Hospital during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
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MURPHY, J. R. (b. 1921) U.S. Navy WWII Veteran

Interview ID#
OH 0326
His experiences at Kaneohe Naval Air Station with the Supply Department during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
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Interview ID#
OH 2010
UNT professor of jazz studies. His youth in Baltimore, Maryland, during the 1960s and 1970s including his music education at Baltimore County Public Schools, and the musical influence of the Left Bank Jazz Society. His experience as a UNT student in the jazz studies and music theory programs (1981-1986), playing saxophone in the One O’clock Lab…
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MURRELL, Wyn L. (b. 1915)Moore Business Forms

Interview ID#
OHB 0006
Industrial executive, Moore Business Forms, Denton, Texas. Education, early work background; planning manager of Moore Business Forms, Dallas; location and building of manufacturing facilities in Denton, 1945; public relations, communications, company philosophy; location of divisional headquarters in Denton; products; growth and expansion;…
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Interview ID#
OHB 0001
Airline executive. Education; background in accounting; executive experiences with Trans-Texas airways; American Airlines, Southern Airways, Central Airlines (merged with Frontier), Universal Airlines; presidency of Southwest Airlines; legal battles; growth and expansion; advertising; relations with Dallas and Fort Worth city governments;…
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MUSICK, Clay H. (b. 1917) U.S. Navy WWII Veteran

Interview ID#
OH 0322
His experiences while aboard the battleship USS Arizona during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
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Interview ID#
OH 1461
For the Ray Roberts Lake Oral History Project. Homemaker. Her reminiscences about rural life in northern Denton County and southern Cooke County, Texas, 1910-1987; her ancestors’ role in the founding of Valley View, Texas; evolution of the family farm; canning and food preservation; rural social activities; lightning storms and tornadoes;…
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MYERS, J.M. (b. 1920) U.S. Navy WWII Veteran

Interview ID#
OH 0753
His experiences while aboard the cruiser USS Honolulu during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
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Interview ID#
OH 1511
Counselor. Her recollections concerning the Texas International Pop Festival, Lewisville, Texas, Labor Day Weekend, 1969. Her conservative family background in Dallas, Texas; her attraction to the hippie counterculture as a teenager; hanging out with hippies in Lee Park in Dallas; her college experience at North Texas State University in Denton;…
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