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OH 1069
College professor. Her experiences as a Japanese-American internee at the Amache, Colorado, internment camp during World War II. Childhood experiences with bigotry in rural Colorado; evacuation from Los Angeles to Amache, September, 1942; camp life; her marriage in camp; resettlement in Chicago; lasting impressions of the internment experience.
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OH 0895
Her experiences as a resident of Hamilton Park, Texas, 1956-90. Segregated education in Dallas; African-American housing in Dallas; employment history; decision to buy home in Hamilton Park; Hamilton Park School; home improvements; social life; church activities; school desegregation; Interorganizational Council; the “Buy Out.”
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NANCE, Thomas W. (b. 1919) U.S. Army WWII Veteran, E Troop, 2nd Squadron, 112th Cavalry, Texas National Guard

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OH 1485
His experiences in the Southwest Pacific Theater during World War II. His boyhood in Dallas, Texas; school activities; the Great Depression in Dallas; his enlistment in the Texas National Guard, October 15, 1940; horse cavalry training and maneuvers at Fort Bliss, El Paso, Texas, and Fort Clark, Brackettsville, Texas; duty along the U.S.-Mexico…
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OH 0397
Experiences of a husband and wife at Kaneohe Naval Air Station during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
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OH 1748
For the DFW Metroplex Immigrants Oral History Project. Lebanese-born immigrant to Lewisville, Texas. Life in Lebanon; family history; life during the Lebanese Civil War; knowledge of the U.S. before immigrating; obtaining a U.S. visa; arrival in New York, New York; obtaining citizenship; increased difficulty for Middle Eastern males entering the U…
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NASSER, James A. (b. 1914) U.S. Army WWII Veteran

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OH 0736
Businessman. His experiences at Schofield Barracks with the 98th Coast Artillery during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
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OH 0913
His experiences while employed by the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression. Childhood in Colorado and Kansas; joining the CCC; assignment to Company 4703 near Council Grove, Kansas; description of camp; life in camp.
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NAYLOR, Keith (b. 1919) U.S. Army WWII Veteran, 2nd Battalion, 131st Field Artillery, Texas National Guard

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OH 0072
Postal worker, 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; Tamarkan, Thailand, 1944; Chungkai, Thailand, 1944; railroad maintenance in Burma,…
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NEFF, Paul (b. 1911) U.S. Army Air Corps WWII Veteran

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OH 0180
Businessman. His experiences at Hickam Field with the 31st Bombardment Squadron during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
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OH 1745
For the Denton County Historical Commission. Native resident of Denton, Texas. Family history; relation to the first elected official in Dallas, Texas; Denton’s First State Bank; childhood and schooling in Denton; family during the Great Depression; playing piano; the Denton Square; Pearl Harbor and the Second World War; attending the University…
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NELSON, Ralph (b. 1923) U.S. Navy WWII Veteran

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OH 1745
His experiences while aboard the submarines USS Batfish and USS Parche in the Pacific Theater during World War II. Submarine School, San Diego, California, 1942; early torpedo problems; his responsibilities as a fire controlman; assignment to the Batfish, 1944; various patrols in the Luzon Strait and Makassar Strait; lifeguard duty off Palau for…
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OH 0891
His experiences while employed by the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression. Childhood in Texas and New Mexico; joining the CCC; assignment to Company 817 at SP-38-T in Mother Neff State Park, Texas; transfer to Lake Brownwood, Texas; description of camps; life in camps.
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NEVILL, Gale E. (b. 1906) U.S. Army WWII Veteran, 6th Army

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OH 1391
Mechanical engineer. His experiences with the Corps of Engineers in the Pacific Theater during World War II. Pre-war job experiences; enlistment in the Corps of Engineers Reserve, 1933; service with the Civilian Conservation Corps in Arizona and Colorado, 1933-34; active duty, December, 1941; assignment to Headquarters, 3rd Army, Fort Sam Houston…
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NEWBAUER, Merle (b. 1919) U.S. Navy WWII Veteran

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OH 0351
His experiences while aboard the battleship USS Maryland during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
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OH 0956
Their experiences as residents of Hamilton Park, Texas, 1955-90. Youth in East Texas; education in segregated schools; housing problems for African-Americans in Dallas; home improvements; social life; school activities; desegregation and closing of Hamilton Park Junior and Senior High Schools; flooding problems; Pacesetter; Civic League; zoning…
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OH 1861
For the UNT Foundation Oral History Project. Administrator and UNT Foundation emeritus board member. Experience as an undergraduate student at UNT; work experience; return to UNT as Director of the Professional Development Institute; UNT Foundation work; Foundation history.
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NEWTON, Davis Porter (b. 1915) U.S. Army WWII Veteran, 346th Harbor Craft Company

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OH 1365
Attorney. His experiences in the Southwest Pacific Theater during World War II; also his experiences as a prosecuting attorney of Class C war criminals for International Military Tribunal for the Far East after World War II. Assignment to New Guinea, 1944, and legal work there; assignment to an Army tugboat and operations around Mindinao,…
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OH 1455
For the Ray Roberts Lake Oral History Project. Farmer. His description of buildings and families during a driving tour of Denton County, Texas.
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OH 2196

Vietnamese-American immigrant and entrepreneur based in Dallas, Texas. Born in Saigon, Vietnam, Ngo and his family fled postwar Vietnam in 1979, surviving a perilous journey by sea and nearly a year in a refugee camp in the Philippines before resettling in the United States. Ngo reflects on his family’s early struggles, the preservation of…

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NICHOLAS, R. D. (b. 1921) U.S. Navy WWII Veteran

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OH 0376
His experiences while aboard the battleship USS California during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
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OH 1487
Stage director. His recollections of his father, the artist Perry Nichols. Growing up at the family house/studio on Forest Park Road, Dallas, Texas, in the 1940s; his father’s first wife, Mary Nell Brooks; his description and identification of the arts people who visited his father’s studio; his father’s conversion of a church on Cole Avenue in…
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NICHOLS, John (b. 1916) U.S. Marine Corps WWII Veteran

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OH 0405
His experiences at Kaneohe Naval Air Station during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
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NICHOLS, Loyd Dean (b. *) U.S. Navy WWII Veteran

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OH 1739
For the Tarrant County War Veterans Project. Childhood in Bonham, Texas; family life in the Great Depression; reaction to Pearl Harbor; decision to enlist in U.S. Navy; basic and advanced training; assignment as a range finder operator/electrician on the USS Drayton; Battles of Tassafaronga, Guadalcanal, San Pedro Bay, and others; strategies of…
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OH 1159
University professor. Her experiences concerning the formation and development of the Women's Studies Program at the University of North Texas, 1988-95. Early interest in women's studies; organizing the Woman's Studies Program on campus; opponents and proponents; teaching methods; views on feminism.
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NIELSEN, Eugene (b. ca. 1920) U.S. Army WWII Veteran

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OH 0802
His experiences as a prisoner-of-war of the Japanese during World War II. Struggle for Corregidor; surviving the Palawan massacre, 1944.
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