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PATTON, James H. (b. 1920) U.S. Army WWII Veteran, 501st Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division

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OH 1476
His experiences as a paratrooper in the European Theater during World War II. His youth in Du Bois, Pennsylvania; attendance at Lock Haven State Teachers College, Pennsylvania; enlistment in the Army, February, 1942; basic training, Camp Croft, Spartenburg, South Carolina, 1942; Officer Candidate School, Fort Benning, Georgia, 1942; volunteering…
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OH 0889
His experiences while employed by the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression. Childhood in Pilot Point, Texas; joining the CCC; assignment to CNM-2-A in Bonita National Park near Douglas, Arizona; reenlistment to Company 3889 at G-113-W near Baggs, Wyoming; description of camps; life in camps.
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OH 0865
His experiences while growing up in Hamilton Park, Texas, 1955-65. Hamilton Park School; athletic activities; band activities.
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OH 0907
Her experiences as a student at the Frederick Douglass Colored School, Denton, Texas, 1925-36. Family background; school facilities; school extra-curricular activities; physical layout of Frederick Douglass Colored School; comments about teachers and Principal Fred Moore; church activities; segregated public facilities in Denton.
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OH 1504
Schoolteacher, community and civil rights activist. Her reminiscences of many years as a teacher at I.M. Terrell High School in Fort Worth, Texas, and her activities in community affairs and the civil rights movement. Her family background; her childhood and early education in a segregated society; college at Howard University, Washington, D.C.;…
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OH 0008
Professional economist. His experiences as one of the principal persons in the Rainey controversy at the University of Texas, 1944-45. His sympathies for New Deal labor legislation; being accused of pro-communist leanings; role of Dallas Morning News; investigations by Board of Regents and his dismissal; support by President Homer Rainey; role of…
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PEACOCK, James LeRoy (b. 1920) U.S. Army Air Forces WWII Veteran

Interview ID#
OH 1876
Flight instructor at Tuskegee Army Airfield. Childhood in Macon, Georgia; Army Air Corps flight training; selection as a flight instructor; assignment to Tuskegee Army Airfield; segregation at Tuskegee; reaction of white community to black pilots; reassignment as a bomber pilot; transition to Reserves at end of war; discharge form Reserves;…
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PEAKE, David (b. 1924) U.S. Marine Corps WWII Veteran

Interview ID#
OH 1041
His experiences in the Pacific Theater during World War II as a member of the 5th Marine Division. Iwo Jima; occupation duty in postwar Japan.
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PEARSALL, Burton S. (b. 1922) U.S. Marine Corps WWII Veteran, Squadron 143, 1st Marine Aircraft Group

Interview ID#
OH 1175
His experiences as a dive-bomber pilot in the Pacific Theater during World War II. Childhood and adolescence in Elgin, Illinois; enrollment at Iowa State University, 1940; enlistment in Naval Aviation Cadet Program, 1942; basic flight training, Wheaton, College, 1942; pre-flightschool, Ottumwa, Iowa, 1943; advanced training, Corpus Christi Naval…
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OH 1185
His experiences on the homefront as a teenager in Elgin, Illinois, during World War II. Education and childhood in Elgin; local reaction to the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941; air raid drills and blackouts; attempts to make people war conscious; spy hysteria; censorship of mail; harassment of German Americans; gasoline…
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PEARSON, Lloyd L. (b. 1923) U.S. Navy WWII Veteran

Interview ID#
OH 0557
Trucker. His experiences while aboard the battleship USS West Virginia during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
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Interview ID#
Oh 0629
Trucker. His experiences while employed by the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression.
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PEARSTON, Jim (b. 1946) U.S. Navy Vietnam Veteran

Interview ID#
OH 1710

For the Tarrant County War Veterans Oral History Project. Vietnam-era veteran of the U.S. Navy. Childhood in Rotan, Texs; father's military service; 1967 enlistment in U.S. Navy; service as hospital corpsman at naval hospitals in San Diego, Jacksonvilee, and Okinawa, and as a reconnaissance corpsman with a Marine unit in South Vietnam;…

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PEAYS, Thomas (b. 1918) U.S. Army Air Forces WWII Veteran, Air Transport Command

Interview ID#
OH 1400
Rancher. His experiences in the China-Burma-India Theater during World War II. Enrollment in the Civilian Pilot Training Program, 1942; tenure as a primary flight training instructor of Aviation Air Cadets, Harmon Training Center, Ballinger, Texas, 1942-43; Air Ferry Command, 1943; induction into the Army Air Forces, 1943; assignment to the Air…
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OH 1941
For the DFW Immigration Oral History Project. Memories growing up in the Republic of San Marino and going to school in Italy. Coming to America in 1958 and the differences in cultures and lifestyles. Living and working in Detroit, Michigan, becoming a U.S. citizen, moving to Dallas, Texas and working in the building industry.
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OH 1253
Aircraft worker. His experiences while employed by the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression. Childhood in Jack and Palo Pinto Counties, Texas; joining the CCC; assignment to a camp at Lake Worth, Texas; description of camp; life in camp; hospitalization in Brooke General Hospital at Fort Sam in San Antonio, Texas.
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OH 0855
Holocaust survivor. Her experiences during the Holocaust. Childhood in Berlin, Germany; education; discrimination during the early Hitler years, 1933-38; early attempts to emigrate; Kristallnacht, 1938; emigration to China, 1939; life in the Shanghai Ghetto under the Japanese; liberation, 1945; meeting her future husband in Shanghai; emigration to…
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OH 2094

Pastor at Valley View Missionary Baptist Church, Abilene, Texas. Former NAACP Chapter president. Founder of Interested Citizen of Abilene North (ICAN). Director of Curtis House Cultural Center. Childhood in Abilene; education at Carter G. Woodson Elementary and High School; growing up in the Jim Crow Era; segregation and housing discrimination…

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OH 1753
For the DFW Metroplex Immigrants Oral History Project. Colombian-born immigrant to Garland, Texas. Life in Colombia; husband’s decision to immigrate to the U.S.; joining husband in the U.S.; sons kidnapped in Colombia; illegally crossing into the U.S. from Mexico; obtaining labor certification and resident visa; comparison of life being in the U.…
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PEREZ, Jose (b. 1919) U.S. Army WWII Veteran

Interview ID#
OH 0444
His experiences at Camp Malakole with A Company (Antiaircraft), 251st Coast Artillery, California National Guard, during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
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PERKINS, H. Brandon (b. 1917) U.S. Army WWII Veteran

Interview ID#
OH 0648
His experiences at Schofield Barracks with the 34th Combat Engineers during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
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PERMENTER, C. L. (b. 1921) U.S. Marine Corps WWII Veteran

Interview ID#
OH 0136
His experiences as a prisoner-of-war of the Japanese during World War II. Pre-war embassy duty with 4th Marines, Peking, north China; surrender and imprisonment at Wusong Prison Camp, Shanghai, 1941-42; Kiangwang Prison Camp, 1942-45, and American air raids; Pusan, Korea, 1945; Hakodate, Hokkaido, 1945; liberation.
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PERRY, H. Grady (b. 1894) Texas House of Representatives Democrat

Interview ID#
OH 0053
Former member of the Texas House of Representatives, 1920-22, 1946-50; journalist; brother-in-law to former Governor Coke Stevenson. His experiences in the Thirty-seventh Legislature; comments about former Governors Pat Neff, James and Miriam Ferguson, and Coke Stevenson; comments about former Senator Joe Bailey and Sam Johnson (Lyndon Johnson’s…
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PESEK, Edwin (b. 1917) U.S. Army Air Forces WWII Veteran, 441st Bomb Squadron, 320th Bomb Group, 12th Air Force

Interview ID#
OH 1403
Accountant. His experiences as a B-26 pilot in the European Theater during World War II. Enlistment in the Army Air Forces, 1942; pre-flight training, Kelly Field, San Antonio, Texas, 1942; primary flight training, Uvalde, Texas, 1942; basic flight training, Randolph Field, San Antonio, Texas, 1942-43; advanced flight training, Ellington Field,…
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PETERS, Donald W. (b. 1924) U.S. Army WWII Veteran, C Company, 83rd Chemical Mortar Battalion

Interview ID#
OH 1273
His experiences in the Italian Campaign and experiences as a prisoner-of-war of the Germans in the European Theater during World War II. Entry into the Army and basic training, 1943; transit across the Atlantic to North Africa and then to Naples; assignment as a replacement to the 83rdChemical Mortar Battalion; Monte Cassino; Anzio landing and…
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