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WADSWORTH, Chip (b. 1949)
WADSWORTH, Chip (b. 1949)
Interview ID: OH 1857
For the American History: Voluntary Simplicity Oral History Project. Homesteader and simple life advocate. Childhood; early experiences with the outdoors; discovering the Nearings and the Simple Life; decision to homestead in Maine; memories of the Nearings and the Good Life Center.
Date of Interview: 01/08/2015
WALDRON, Russell (b. 1910)
U.S. Army Air Forces WWII Veteran.
WALDRON, Russell (b. 1910)
U.S. Army Air Forces WWII Veteran.Interview ID: OH 0523
His experiences with the 31st Bomb Squadron at Hickam Field during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Date of Interview: 07/12/1980
WALKER, Ike (b. 1905)
Bomber Bait Company.
WALKER, Ike (b. 1905)
Bomber Bait Company.Interview ID: OHB 0065
One of the founders of Bomber Bait Company, Gainesville, Texas. Family background; farming during Depression in Olton, Texas; employment as a gasoline retailer in Olton and tire repair operator in Gainesville; interest in designing fish baits; development of Bomber Bait Company with Clarence Turbeville; problems obtaining supplies at end of World War II; designing hard baits; expansion of market; sale of company; views on success of Bomber Bait and failures of other bait companies.
Date of Interview: 16/09/1981
WALKER, Joel (b. 1908)
WALKER, Joel (b. 1908)
Interview ID: OH 0094
Banker. His experiences as an employee of the Dallas regional office of the Home Owners Loan Corporation during the New Deal. Mortgage buying; loan amortization; insurance; home improvements; accounting procedures; politics and patronage; taxes and appraising; foreclosures; loan servicing.
Date of Interview: 11/11/1971
WALL, Willard (b. 1918)
U.S. Army WWII Veteran.
WALL, Willard (b. 1918)
U.S. Army WWII Veteran.Interview ID: OH 0379
His experiences with the 1st Separate Chemical Battalion at Schofield Barracks during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Date of Interview: 11/07/1977
WALLACE, Barton B., Jr. (b. 1925)
U.S. Army WWII Veteran. Quartermaster Corps Graves Registration Service-China Zone.
WALLACE, Barton B., Jr. (b. 1925)
U.S. Army WWII Veteran. Quartermaster Corps Graves Registration Service-China Zone.Interview ID: OH 1513
His experiences with Recovery Team No. 4 in the recovery of the remains of American military personnel in China, 1945-46. Texas A&M College, 1943-45;
being drafted into the Army and basic training at Camp Wolters, Mineral Wells, Texas, 1945; Officer Candidate School, Fort Benning, Georgia, 1945; preparations for the invasion of Japan; reaction to the dropping of the atomic bombs; volunteering for overseas duty; assignment to Shanghai with the Graves Registration Service, January, 1946; activities as a search-and-recovery officer around Shanghai; duties and personnel of search-and-recovery teams; relationships with Chinese personnel and civilians; comments about the politics and economy of postwar China; reassignment to Graves Registration sub-headquarters as officer in charge of Team No. 4 in Kunming, July, 1946; the journey from Shanghai to Kunming; search-and-recovery activities around Kunming; his description of driving on the Burma Road; separation from the service, January, 1947.
Date of Interview: 19/09/2003
WALLER, George E. (b. 1919)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.
WALLER, George E. (b. 1919)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.Interview ID: OH 0455
His experiences while aboard the battleship USS Maryland during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Date of Interview: 05/08/1978
WANG, Chunxiao (b. 1968)
WANG, Chunxiao (b. 1968)
Interview ID: OH 1711
For the DFW Metroplex Immigrants Oral History Project. Chinese-born immigrant to Denton, Texas. Childhood in Sichuan Province; family life; marriage; decision to give up high-powered, well-paying job to immigrate to U.S.; difficulties of immigration process; life in Champaign-Urbana, Illinois; relocation to Denton; perceptions of American culture; learning English; return to school to study accounting; family’s acculturation.
Date of Interview: 09/12/2009
WARDEN, B. F., Jr. (b. 1895)
B. F. Warden Grocery Store.
WARDEN, B. F., Jr. (b. 1895)
B. F. Warden Grocery Store.Interview ID: OHB 0086
Owner and operator, B. F. Warden Grocery Store, Bertram, Texas. Family background; work on family farm in Bertram; educational experiences in Bertram schools; employment as a teller in A. B. McGill’s bank and D. C. Reed’s bank, Bertram;comments concerning D. C. Reed’s business activities; employment as cashier with Briggs State Bank, Burnet County; explanation of charging exchange on checks; entry into grocery business, Marble Falls, 1924; description of store inventory; move of business to Bertram, 1925; effects of addition of refrigeration, 1926; comments on construction of new store, 1935; effects of Depression in Bertram; prices of grocery items during World War II; comments on cash versus credit business; demise of grocery wholesalers in Austin; computerization of business, 1975; comments on business competitors; civic activities.
Date of Interview: 14/03/1984
WARNER, Alton (b. 1918)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.
WARNER, Alton (b. 1918)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.Interview ID: OH 0614
His experiences while aboard the destroyer USS Worden during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Date of Interview: 22/10/1983
WARREN, Steve P. (b. 1921)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.
WARREN, Steve P. (b. 1921)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.Interview ID: OH 0573
His experiences while aboard the converted yacht USS Elvida during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Date of Interview: 16/05/1982
WASHINGTON, Craig A. (b. 1941)
Texas Legislature. Democrat.
WASHINGTON, Craig A. (b. 1941)
Texas Legislature. Democrat.Interview ID: OH 0294
Attorney, member of the Texas Legislature from Houston, Democrat. His experiences and personal views as a member of the Sixty-fourth Legislature. Decision to enter politics; personal political philosophy; House speakership race; committee appointments; criminal Jurisprudence Committee; rape reform bill; personal legislation; public school financing; public utilities legislation; constitutional revision.
Date of Interview: 18/07/1975
WATSON, Ruby (b. 1928) and Streetman (b. 1926)
WATSON, Ruby (b. 1928) and Streetman (b. 1926)
Interview ID: OH 0825
Their experiences as residents of Hamilton Park, Texas, 1956-90. Early years in East Texas; African-American housing in Dallas; decision to buy a home in Hamilton Park; transportation problems; social life; school activities; Hamilton Park Civic League; church activities, desegregation of the Hamilton Park School; Christian Action Layman’s League; Pacesetter; zoning problems; flooding problems; crime; the “Buy Out.”
Date of Interview: 14/03/1990, 16/03/1990
WAY, Bob (b. 1937)
WAY, Bob (b. 1937)
Interview ID: OH 0654
College instructor. His experiences as a member of the football team during the desegregation of athletics at North Texas State College, 1956.
Date of Interview: 13/12/1984
WAYBOURN, William (b. 1947)
WAYBOURN, William (b. 1947)
Interview ID: OH 1808
For the Dallas LGBT Oral History Project. Businessman and pioneering Dallas LGBT activist. Childhood in West Texas; journalism career; coming out; Resource Center of Dallas; Dallas gay community; Dallas Gay Political Caucus; Crossroads Market and the “gayborhood;” gay rights activism; 1979 March on Washington; Dallas Gay Alliance and off-shoot organizations; Dallas Gay Alliance name change to Dallas Gay & Lesbian Alliance; Texas Penal Code 21.06 (“homosexual conduct”); AIDS epidemic; move to Washington D.C.; continued activism and philanthropic work; Gay and Lesbian Victory Fund; current LGBT movement.
Date of Interview: 22/05/2013
WEBB, David A. (b. 1917)
WEBB, David A. (b. 1917)
Interview ID: OH 0850
Librarian, former director of libraries at North Texas State University. His experiences concerning the development of the libraries and the Department of Library Services at North Texas State University, 1953-78.
Date of Interview: 15/05/1991
Interview ID: OH 1044
Librarian. His experiences as Director of Libraries, Director of Library Service, and Professor of Library Service at North Texas State College and North Texas State University, 1953-82.
Date of Interview: 19/12/1991
WEBB, Leonard (b. 1920)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.
WEBB, Leonard (b. 1920)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.Interview ID: OH 0773
His experiences at Staff Headquarters, 14th Naval District, Honolulu, Hawaii, during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Date of Interview: 16/09/1988
WEBB, Wade (b. 1919)
U.S. Army WWII Veteran. 2nd Battalion. 131st Field Artillery. Texas National Guard.
WEBB, Wade (b. 1919)
U.S. Army WWII Veteran. 2nd Battalion. 131st Field Artillery. Texas National Guard.Interview ID: OH 1181
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, 1944-45; liberation.
Date of Interview: 07/02/1997
WEBER, Lee (b. 1919)
U.S. Marine Corps WWII Veteran. F Company. 2nd Battalion. 8th Marine Regiment. 2nd Marine Division.
WEBER, Lee (b. 1919)
U.S. Marine Corps WWII Veteran. F Company. 2nd Battalion. 8th Marine Regiment. 2nd Marine Division.Interview ID: OH 1315
Businessman. His experiences at Guadalcanal and Tarawa in the Pacific Theater during World War II. Prewar work experience with the United Fruit Company in Honduras; decision to join the Marine Corps Reserve, 1939, and assignment to a machine gun company in the 15th Battalion; call to active duty, October, 1940, and assignment to H Company at San Diego; his work as H Company armorer; posting to American Samoa, 1942; living conditions on Samoa; his promotion from the enlisted ranks to second lieutenant and assignment to E Company, 2nd Battalion, 8th Marines; Guadalcanal Campaign, 1942-43; living conditions on Guadalcanal; personal attitudes toward the Japanese; rest and recuperation in New Zealand; forming of the 2nd Marine Division in New Zealand, 1943; his transfer to F Company, 8th Marines; his comments about and personal relationship with then Major Henry P. ("Jim") Crowe, commander of the 2nd Battalion, 8th Marines; the Tarawa Campaign, 1943; the assault on Tarawa at "Red Beach 2"; his battle wound and evacuation.
Date of Interview: 23/09/1999
WEDDINGTON, Sarah (b. 1945)
Texas Legislature. Democrat.
WEDDINGTON, Sarah (b. 1945)
Texas Legislature. Democrat.Interview ID: OH 0303
Attorney, member of the Texas Legislature from Austin, Democrat. Her experiences and personal views as a member of the Sixty-fourth Legislature. Decision to enter politics; personal political philosophy; House speakership race; committee appointments; constitutional revision; Equal Rights Amendment; public school financing; public utilities legislation; personal legislation; comments about Governor Dolph Briscoe.
Date of Interview: 08/07/1973
Interview ID: OH 0403
Attorney, member of the Texas Legislature from Austin, Democrat. Her experiences and personal views as a member of the Sixty-fifth Legislature. Budget surplus; highway appropriations; public school financing; Peveto Bill and property taxation; personal legislation.
Date of Interview: 11/07/1977
WEEKS, Betty Jo (b. 1934)
WEEKS, Betty Jo (b. 1934)
Interview ID: OH 1595
For the Eastland County African American Women Oral History Project. Longtime resident of Cisco, Texas. Memories of childhood in the Humble Town community of Cisco; experience in all-black public schools; marriage to Robby Jones and decision to move to California and experiences there; decision to move back to Cisco following an earthquake; divorce from Jones and marriage to Oscar Weeks, owner of a popular barbecue restaurant; career as a factory worker, beautician, nurse’s aide, and physical therapist’s assistant; social life among blacks in Cisco; experiences with racial discrimination.
Date of Interview: 20/10/2006
WEGER, Laura Nevada (b. 1979)
U.S. Navy OIF Veteran.
WEGER, Laura Nevada (b. 1979)
U.S. Navy OIF Veteran.Interview ID: OH 1763
For the Women Veterans Oral History Project. U.S. Navy Petty Officer 2nd Class, Cryptologic Technician, Technical, Operation Iraqi Freedom Veteran. Childhood moving around the United States; family history of military service; reasons for joining the Navy; reaction of family to enlistment; training as a cryptological technician; first duty station at Whidbey Island, Washington; lack of women in unit; rate of pregnancy among unit; sexual assault in the Navy; being a sexual assault victim advocate at SPAWAR, Chantilly, Virginia; deployments aboard the aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson; thoughts on integrated barracks; Shellback Ceremony and hazing; thoughts on women on submarine duty; thoughts on lifting of combat exclusion ban on women; separation from active duty; thoughts on Naval medical system; activity in veterans groups; civilian reaction to service; reflections on military service; second duty station at SPAWAR, Chantilly, Virginia; thoughts on working at a joint command; thoughts on grandmother’s service in the Women’s Army Corp during the Korean War; advice for future female service members.
Date of Interview: 31/03/2013
WEHNER, Robert J. (b. 1941)
U.S. Army Vietnam Veteran. Nurse Corps.
WEHNER, Robert J. (b. 1941)
U.S. Army Vietnam Veteran. Nurse Corps.Interview ID: OH 0940
His experiences as an Army nurse in Vietnam, 1968-70. Assignment to 22nd Surgical Medical Battalion, Chu Lai; treatment of battle casualties and illnesses; camp life; treatment of civilian casualties and illnesses; lasting effects of Vietnam experience.
Date of Interview: 22/08/1992
WEHRELL, William "Jake" (b. 1935)
U.S. Marine Corps Veteran; Air America Pilot.
WEHRELL, William "Jake" (b. 1935)
U.S. Marine Corps Veteran; Air America Pilot.Interview ID: OH 2020
For the Air America Oral History Project. Marine Corps veteran and Air America pilot. Childhood and education in New Jersey and Central College; decision to enlist in the Marine Corps during the Korean War; experiences while stationed at El Toro, California, Japan, Cherry Point, NC, Parris Island, SC, and Beaufort, SC, and aboard an aircraft carrier; decision to join Air America; experiences while stationed in Taiwan, Bangkok, Saigon, and Phnom Penh; opinions on the Vietnam War and Air America’s role in it.
Date of Interview: 23/04/2013
WEINBERG, Robert (b. 1922)
U.S. Army Air Forces WWII Veteran. 776th Bomb Squadron. 464th Bomb Group. 15th Air Force.
WEINBERG, Robert (b. 1922)
U.S. Army Air Forces WWII Veteran. 776th Bomb Squadron. 464th Bomb Group. 15th Air Force.Interview ID: OH 1402
His experiences as a B-24 navigator; also his experiences as a prisoner-of-war of the Germans in the European Theater during World War II. Enlistment in the Aviation Cadet Program, 1942; Cadet Classification Center, San Antonio, Texas, 1943; basic training, Lackland Field, San Antonio, 1943; pre-flight training, Ellington Field, Houston, Texas, 1943; navigation school, Hondo Army Air Field, Hondo, Texas, 1943; crew assignment and bomber transition training, Pocatello, Idaho, 1943; assignment to the 464th Bomb Group at Gioia del Colle, Italy, 1944; transfer to Patanella, Italy, June 1, 1944; mission to Wiener Neustadt, Austria, May 10, 1944; comments about the Tuskegee Airmen (99th Fighter Squadron, 332nd Fighter Group); mission to the Pardubice, Czechoslovakia, synthetic oil facility and the downing of his plane, August 24, 1944; his capture by the Hitler Youth; initial incarceration in Czechoslovakia; harassment by German civilians; interrogations at Oberursel, Germany;Stalag Luft III, Labor Day, 1944; prison camp routine; forced march and train trip to Stalag Luft VII-A, Moosburg, Germany, January 27-February 12, 1945; living conditions at Stalag Luft VII-A; excerpts from his prison camp diary; liberation, April 25, 1945.
Date of Interview: 14/06/2000
WELHAUSEN, Philip. (b. ca. 1900)
Tex-Tan Western Leather Company.
WELHAUSEN, Philip. (b. ca. 1900)
Tex-Tan Western Leather Company.Interview ID: OHB 0041
President, Tex-Tan Western Leather Company, Yoakum, Texas. Father’s development of leather tanning business in Yoakum; line of leather products; comments on effects of Depression and World War II on business; tanning processes; saddletree production; sale of business assets, 1956; merger with Tandy Corporation; saddle promotions; expansion into Canada and Mexico; experiences with labor unions in Yoakum; views on pay systems, motivation, and piece work; development of Western Sales stores; retirement.
Date of Interview: 14/05/1980
WELLS, Thelma (b. 1941)
WELLS, Thelma (b. 1941)
Interview ID: OH 0903
Schoolteacher, secretary. Her experiences as a resident of Hamilton Park, Texas, 1963-79. Education; decision to buy home in Hamilton Park; substitute teaching at Hamilton Park School; church activities; desegregation and closing of Hamilton Park High School; Pacesetter; Interorganizational Council; president of Civic League; traffic access problems; flooding problems; deed restrictions; zoning controversies; decision to move out of Hamilton Park.
Date of Interview: 19/10/1990, 27/12/1990
WENDELL, Jan (b. 1932)
WENDELL, Jan (b. 1932)
Interview ID: OH 101
Schoolteacher, homemaker. Her observations concerning the cultural development of Aransas County, Texas, 1967-71. Rockport Art Association; impact of art on Aransas County; prominent local artists; art buyers.
Date of Interview: 02/10/1971
WENDELL, John D. (b. ca. 1925)
WENDELL, John D. (b. ca. 1925)
Interview ID: OH 0121
Attorney, county judge. His observations on the development of the Coastal Bend area of South Texas, 1950-70. Operations of county government; the construction of a new courthouse for Aransas County; economy of Aransas County; boundary disputes between Aransas and Nueces Counties; Gulf Intracoastal Waterway; Aransas county Navigation District; controversy over school and county tax revaluation in the early 1950s; views on conservation; Conservation Reclamation District; private subdividing of property; Aransas County Airport.
Date of Interview: 01/10/1971
WENRICH, Wesley (b. 1932)
WENRICH, Wesley (b. 1932)
Interview ID: OH 1271
Professor. His experiences at the University of North Texas while building a clinical psychology program. Recruitment by the University; development of the Behavioral Medicine Program; comments on the incorporation of behavioral medicine into clinical psychology; comments on the future of behavioral medicine.
Date of Interview: 28/07/1998
WENTRCEK, Dan (b. 1922)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.
WENTRCEK, Dan (b. 1922)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.Interview ID: OH 0353
Painter. His experiences while aboard the battleship USS Nevada during the Japanese attack of Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Date of Interview: 14/12/1976
WENTWORTH, Gerald E. (b. 1918)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.
WENTWORTH, Gerald E. (b. 1918)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.Interview ID: OH 0760
His experiences while aboard the battleship USS Tennessee during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Date of Interview: 12/02/1989
WEST, David (b. 1950)
WEST, David (b. 1950)
Interview ID: OH 1542
Businessman. His experiences while attending the Texas International Pop Festival, Lewisville, Texas, August 30-September 1, 1969. His parents’ reactions to the cultural changes of the Sixties; his opposition to the Vietnam War, 1968-69; his high school experiences in the mid-Sixties; influences of the Beatles on his musical tastes; his college experiences at Texas A & I university, Kingsville, Texas, 1968-1971; his decision to attend the Texas International Pop Festival; drug use at the festival; his experience with psilocybin at the festival; the activities of the Hog Farm at the festival; comments about the festival performances of the Grand Funk Railroad, Led Zeppelin, Chicago Transit Authority, Santana, Rotary Connection, and Sweetwater; dropping out of college and being drafted into the Army, October, 1971; service in Vietnam as a truck driver; his return to civilian life in 1973 and graduation from Texas A & I, 1977.
Date of Interview: 04/02/2004
WEST, Rev. Carol (b. 1949)
WEST, Rev. Carol (b. 1949)
Interview ID: OH 1658
Pastor of Celebration Community Church in Fort Worth. Childhood in Greenville and Irving, Tex.; early years in a Unitarian Church congregation; education at NTSC and Texas Christian University; career as a public school English teacher; experience of “coming out” to self, friends, and family; experience as a member of MCC Fort Worth; decision to enter ministry; training in suicide prevention, trauma debriefing, and hostage negotiation; ordination at MCC Dallas; political activism during AIDS crisis, particularly at Parkland Hospital; work as associate pastor and AIDS chaplain at MCC Dallas; work with AIDS Outreach Center of Fort Worth and AIDS Interfaith Network of Dallas; receiving “call” to pastor Celebration Community Church; demographics of congregation.
Date of Interview: 29/05/2008
WESTERN, Weldon (b. 1914)
U.S. Army WWII Veteran. 2nd Battalion. 131st Field Artillery. Texas National Guard.
WESTERN, Weldon (b. 1914)
U.S. Army WWII Veteran. 2nd Battalion. 131st Field Artillery. Texas National Guard.Interview ID: OH 0692
His experiences while employed by the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression.
Date of Interview: 18/02/1987
Interview ID: OH 0693
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, 1942; Changi Prison Camp, Singapore, 1942; building the Burma- Thailand Death Railway, 1942-44; Kanchanaburi, Thailand, 1944; Saigon, French Indo-China, 1944-45, and American air raids; liberation.
Date of Interview: 16/02/1987
WHEELER, Raymond (b. 1913)
McClurkan Properties. Industrial Credit Corporation.
WHEELER, Raymond (b. 1913)
McClurkan Properties. Industrial Credit Corporation.Interview ID: OHB 0020
Manager, McClurkan Properties; manager, Industrial Credit Corporation; owner and operator of insurance company, Denton, Texas. Family background; education; credit manager for wholesale grocery; organizing personal (merchant endorsed) loan company, 1938, and its growth, problems, strengths; McClurkan Properties; views on local ownership vs. chain ownership; views concerning community growth; establishment and operation of insurance agency; sale of McClurkan Properties; sale of his own business; desegregation of Denton public schools during his presidency of school board; reasons for his business success.
Date of Interview: 01/06/1978
WHITAKER, Dr. Leroy (b. 1929)
WHITAKER, Dr. Leroy (b. 1929)
Interview ID: OH 1235
Attorney, chemist. His experiences as an undergraduate and master's student in the Chemistry Department at North Texas State College, 1948-52 Influence of Professor Dewey Mark as his chemistry teacher at Paris (Texas) Junior College; influence of Professor Price Truitt of North Texas State College on his decision to pursue the PhD in organic chemistry at the University of Illinois; employment with the Shell Chemical Company and later with the Jefferson Chemical Company; decision to enter law school at the University of Houston; employment with Eli Lilly as a patent attorney, 1967-93; comments about various fellow students at North Texas who went on to successful careers in science.
Date of Interview: 14/04/1998
WHITE, Andrew (b. 1944)
WHITE, Andrew (b. 1944)
Interview ID: OH 0683
Business executive, president of the local chapter of the NAACP in Sherman, Texas. His comments concerning race relations and the development of African American businesses in Sherman, Texas, during the 1980s.
Date of Interview: 24/09/1986
WHITE, Eugene (b. 1950)
Braniff International Airways.
WHITE, Eugene (b. 1950)
Braniff International Airways.Interview ID: OH 1968
Flight Attendant to National Recruiter and Recurrent flight attendant trainer. The in-flight and ground experiences of Braniff International Airways by Abra Schnur through a collection of former Braniff employee interviews. Interviewees include flight attendants, pilots, ticket agents, ground crew, executives and family members. Content includes personal reflections of Braniff’s impact on the DFW area and the airline industry as a whole with the “End of the Plain Plane” campaign brought in by Harding Lawrence. Discussions on being a part of the Braniff family and Braniff’s rise to the top of preferred airlines to its bankruptcy on May 12, 1982.
Date of Interview: 26/05/2013
WHITE, Jack J. (b. 1921)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.
WHITE, Jack J. (b. 1921)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.Interview ID: OH 0301
University purchasing agent. His experiences while aboard the cruiser USS New Orleans during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Date of Interview: 03/06/1976
WHITE, James F. (b. 1932)
WHITE, James F. (b. 1932)
Interview ID: OH 0607
Theologian, environmentalist. His experiences as leader of the COST group, which opposed the building of the Trinity Barge Canal; general views on water use and planning.
Date of Interview: 10/11/1977
WHITE, Roger (b. 1919)
U.S. Army WWII Veteran. 2nd Battalion. 131st Field Artillery. Texas National Guard.
WHITE, Roger (b. 1919)
U.S. Army WWII Veteran. 2nd Battalion. 131st Field Artillery. Texas National Guard.Interview ID: OH 1167
Member of the "Lost Battalion." His experiences as a prisoner-of-war of the Japanese during World War II. Fall of Java and capture; imprisonment in Surabaya, 1942; Changi Prison Camp, Singapore, 1942; hell ship to Japan, 1943; Nagasaki shipyards, 1943-45; Orio, Kyushu, 1945, and American air raids; liberation; description of damage at Nagasaki after the dropping of the atomic bomb.
Date of Interview: 07/01/1997, 08/01/1997
WHITE, W. Erle (b. 1907)
White’s Auto Stores.
WHITE, W. Erle (b. 1907)
White’s Auto Stores.Interview ID: OHB 0023
Founder, White’s Auto Stores. Family background; early work experiences; education; work in auto supply stores, garages; starting own business in Clinton, Oklahoma, during Depression; location of home office in Wichita Falls; expansion and growth through franchising and company-owned stores; diversification of merchandise lines in auto stores; effects of growth on organizational structure; employee relations; views toward unions; selling out to Household Finance, 1969; comments about family-operated businesses; other business interests with Mercantile Credit Corporation, Beacon National Insurance Company, Eureka Life Insurance Company, White Fuel Corporation, ranching.
Date of Interview: 14/12/1978, 01/02/1979
WHITE, Walter (b. 1906)
WHITE, Walter (b. 1906)
Interview ID: OH 0278 BOH 0005
Retired federal labor mediator and conciliator. Experiences and reminiscences from his thirty-year career with the U.S. Conciliation Service and the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service; early boyhood; employment with the International Harvester Company; comments about the Depression and New Deal; Kansas employment Service; employment with U.S. Potash company and experiences with the Mine, Mill, and Smelter Workers Union; employment with U.S. Conciliation Service, 1942; labor-management relations during World War II; personal experiences in the Omaha and Des Moines offices; Taft-Hartley Act and formation of Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service; post-World War II labor unrest; transfer to Texas; personal philosophy concerning labor-management relations; personal experiences with and comments about James Hoffa, Sid Richardson, John Connally, and Eugene Debs. Also as OHB 0005.
Date of Interview: 16/04/1975, 18/04/1975, 21/04/1975, 23/04/1975, 12/05/1975, 14/05/1975, 15/05/1975, 19/05/1975, 20/05/1975, 21/05/1975
WHITEHEAD, Thomas A. (b. 1920)
U.S. Army WWII Veteran. 2nd Battalion. 131st Field Artillery. Texas National Guard. U.S. Air Force Retiree.
WHITEHEAD, Thomas A. (b. 1920)
U.S. Army WWII Veteran. 2nd Battalion. 131st Field Artillery. Texas National Guard. U.S. Air Force Retiree.Interview ID: OH 0366
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, 1942; building the Burma-Thailand Death Railway, 1942-44; Kanchanaburi and Tamarkan, Thailand, 1944; Non Pladuk, Thailand, 1944-45; Ubon, Thailand, 1945; liberation.
Date of Interview: 02/02/1977
WHITING, George W. B. (b. 1921)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.
WHITING, George W. B. (b. 1921)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.Interview ID: OH 1509
His experiences aboard the motor torpedo boat tender USS Jamestown in the Southwest Pacific Theater during World War II. Enlistment in the Navy, 1938; boot camp, Newport, Rhode Island, 1938; electrician’s school and assignment to the battleship USS Texas, 1939; transfer to the destroyer USS Simpson, 1940; assignment to the Ship Repair Unit, Philadelphia Navy Yard, 1940-41; transfer to the Jamestown, 1941; Motor Torpedo Boat Training Station, Melville, Rhode Island, 1942; assignment to the Solomon Islands, September, 1942; convoying supply ships to the 1st Marine Division on Guadalcanal, 1942-43; various vignettes about shipboard life in a war zone; return to the States for overhaul and repairs, February, 1944; return to the Southwest Pacific; reassignment to the States, 1945; mustering out of the service.
Date of Interview: 03/10/1996
WHITMORE, Becca (b. 1994)
WHITMORE, Becca (b. 1994)
Interview ID: OH 2078
UNT graduate and Associate Director of the Baptist Student Ministry. Discussion on the impact the COVID pandemic and student life.
Date of Interview: 16/02/2023
WHITSON, Warren (b. 1918)
WW II Veteran.
WHITSON, Warren (b. 1918)
WW II Veteran.Interview ID: OH 1926
His life story of living in Denton, TX with his childhood family; going to school; local businesses and community; WWII Veteran experiences; successful businessman—canning company, plastic molding company; marriage and children; Denton Mayor and city government experience.
Date of Interview: 23/10/2012
WHITSON, Warren, Jr. (b. 1918)
U.S. Army Air Forces WWII Veteran. 493rd Bomb Group. 860th Bomb Squadron. 8th Air Force.
WHITSON, Warren, Jr. (b. 1918)
U.S. Army Air Forces WWII Veteran. 493rd Bomb Group. 860th Bomb Squadron. 8th Air Force.Interview ID: OH 1109
Businessman. His experiences as a B-17 pilot in the European Theater during World War II. Pre-flight and flight training, 1943; assignment to 493rd Bomb Group, 860th Bomb Squadron, at Stone, England; characteristics of the B-17G; first mission, Berlin; problems with flak; tactics to counter German radar; engine trouble and crash landing in eastern Germany; rescue by Soviet troops; trip by C-47 back to England via Poltava, Teheran, Cairo, Tripoli, Dijon; assignment to new crew; shot down by German fighter planes on seventeenth mission; brief experience as POW; liberation by British troops.
Date of Interview: 22/11/1995
WHITSON, William D. (Bill) (b. 1920)
8th Air Force. 365th & 305th Bomb Squadron. U.S. Army Air Force. U.S. Army Air Force WWII Veteran. 8th Air Force. 365th & 305th Bomb Squadron.
WHITSON, William D. (Bill) (b. 1920)
8th Air Force. 365th & 305th Bomb Squadron. U.S. Army Air Force. U.S. Army Air Force WWII Veteran. 8th Air Force. 365th & 305th Bomb Squadron.Interview ID: OH 1107
Businessman. His experiences as a B-17 pilot in the European Theater during World War II. Flight training; flight from the U. S. to Grafton-Underwood, England; personal relationship with General Curtis LeMay; missions and German defenses; nineteenth mission and crash landing; twenty-fifth mission.
Date of Interview: 15/11/1995
Interview ID: OH 1932
World War II Veteran. Recollections of military service under General Curtis LeMay; military pilot training; 305th Bomb Group.
Date of Interview: 31/08/2006
WHYTE, Edna Gardner (b. 1902)
Aero Valley Flying School.
WHYTE, Edna Gardner (b. 1902)
Aero Valley Flying School.Interview ID: OHB 0028
Aviatrix and owner, operator, and instructor of Aero Valley Flying School. Family background; Army, Navy, and civilian nursing careers; early flying, competition; comments about Amelia Earhart and other pioneers of aviation; early planes, equipment; early teaching experiences; views concerning women in aviation, other professions; attempts to become airlines pilot; selling for Channelchrome (aircraft engine parts); founding her own business; Aero Valley Flying School; financing methods; government regulations; competition with municipal airports.
Date of Interview: 08/02/1979
WIDMER, Robert J., Sr. (b. 1921)
U.S. Army Air Forces WWII Veteran. 738th Squadron. 454th Bomb Group. 304th Bomb Wing. 15th Air Force.
WIDMER, Robert J., Sr. (b. 1921)
U.S. Army Air Forces WWII Veteran. 738th Squadron. 454th Bomb Group. 304th Bomb Wing. 15th Air Force.Interview ID: OH 1568
His experiences as a B-24 pilot in the European theater during World War II; also his experiences as a prisoner-of-war of the Germans. His youth during the Great Depression in Toledo, Ohio; college at the University of Toledo and Columbia University; his decision to enlist in the Aviation Cadets, December, 1941; basic training, Santa Ana, California, August, 1942; primary flight training, Oxnard, California, September, 1942; basic flight training, Taft, California, January, 1943; advanced flight training, Stockton, California, March, 1943; B-25 training, Mathers Field, Sacramento, California, June, 1943; B-17 training, Hobbs, New Mexico, July, 1943; B-24 training, Tucson, Arizona, August, 1943; B-24 crew training, McCook, Nebraska, fall, 1943; assignment to Italy, December, 1943; reminiscences about various missions; his bomber being shot down on a mission to Budapest, Hungary; Stalag Luft III, Sagan, Germany; evacuation and forced march to Moosburg, Germany; liberation by General George S. Patton’s troops.
Date of Interview: 11/06/2004
WIESE, Francis (b. 1922)
U.S. Army Air Forces WWII Veteran.
WIESE, Francis (b. 1922)
U.S. Army Air Forces WWII Veteran.Interview ID: OH 1586
North Texas business owner. Remembrances about childhood in Lindsay, St. Joe, and Gainesville, Texas; being drafted into U.S. Air Force; training at various stateside bases and overseas service in China-Burma-India and Pacific theaters as top-gunner in a B-29 crew; decision to enter jewelry business and purchase Kinne’s Jewelers in Gainesville, Texas.
Date of Interview: 16/06/2006
WILCOX, Norbert John (b. 1924)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran. Patrol Squadron VPB-44.
WILCOX, Norbert John (b. 1924)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran. Patrol Squadron VPB-44.Interview ID: OH 1279
Podiatrist. His experiences in the Pacific Theater during World War II. Civilian Pilot Training, the University of Chicago, 1942; pre-flight training, University of Iowa, 1942-43; basic flight training, Livermore, California, 1943; advanced flight training, Corpus Christi, Texas, 1943; assignment to flying the PBY; navigation and bombardier training, Banana River Naval Air Station, Florida, 1943; assignment to VPB-44 on Green Island, Solomons, 1944-45; living conditions on Green Island; anti-submarine patrols; evolution of the "Black Cat" squadrons; night patrols in conjunction with PT boats; open-sea rescues and "Dumbo" missions; flying characteristics of the PBY; Leyte Gulf preparations, 1944; rotation back to the States, 1945; postwar adjustments to civilian life.
Date of Interview: 15/02/1999
WILDE, Earle (b. 1919)
U.S. Army Air Forces WWII Veteran. 612th/615th Bomb Squadrons. 401st Bomb Group. 8th Air Force.
WILDE, Earle (b. 1919)
U.S. Army Air Forces WWII Veteran. 612th/615th Bomb Squadrons. 401st Bomb Group. 8th Air Force.Interview ID: OH 1419
His experiences as a B-17 bombardier in the European Theater during World War II. Service in the U.S. Navy, 1936-40; employment with the Cincinnati Police Department, 1940-42; enlistment in the Aviation Cadet Program, October 15, 1942; basic training, Fresno, California, 1943; College Training Detachment, University of Montana, 1943; pre-flight training, Santa Ana, California, 1943; his decision to volunteer for bombardier school, 1943; flexible gunnery training, Kingman, Arizona, 1943; bombardier school, Victorville, California, 1943; bomber transition training, Pyote, Texas, 1943-44; his assignment to the 401st Bomb Group, Deenethorpe, England, July, 1944; his first mission to Cologne; his descriptions of various missions; German flak; social life in England; meeting and courting his future wife; intricacies of bombing under combat conditions; his postwar career.
Date of Interview: 15/06/2001
WILKERSON, Archie (b. 1924)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.
WILKERSON, Archie (b. 1924)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.Interview ID: OH 0368
Realtor. His experiences with VP-23 at Ford Island Naval Air Station during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Date of Interview: 28/01/1977
WILKINSON, Claude (b. 1918)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.
WILKINSON, Claude (b. 1918)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.Interview ID: OH 0615
His experiences while aboard the seaplane tender USS Tangier during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Date of Interview: 22/10/1983
WILLETT, Hollis J. (b. 1919)
WILLETT, Hollis J. (b. 1919)
Interview ID: OH 1001
His experiences while employed by the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression. Childhood in Pauline, Texas; joining the CCC; assignment to a forestry camp near Flagstaff, Arizona; reenlistment to Company 4842 at DG-41-N in Lake Arthur, New Mexico; company move to Carlsbad, New Mexico; description of camps; life in camps.
Date of Interview: 18/10/1993
WILLEY, Lloyd (b. 1914)
U.S. Marine Corps WWII Veteran.
WILLEY, Lloyd (b. 1914)
U.S. Marine Corps WWII Veteran.Interview ID: OH 1295
Survivor of the sinking of the USS Houston. His experiences as a prisoner-of-war of the Japanese during World War II. Sinking of the 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; Tamarkan, Thailand, 1944; Nakhon Pathom and Phet Buri, Burma, 1944-45; liberation.
Date of Interview: 03/03/1999
WILLIAMS, Charles (b. 1955)
WILLIAMS, Charles (b. 1955)
Interview ID: OH 1637
For the Quakertown Oral History Project. Son of residents of Denton’s historic all-black Quakertown neighborhood and long-time Denton resident. Early childhood and education in Denton, including experiences with racial segregation and experiences with integrating Denton public schools; interest in radical black politics; influence of uncle, Fred Hill; career in U.S. Navy; family’s historical memories of Quakertown.
Date of Interview: 23/10/2006
WILLIAMS, Joseph R. (b. 1920)
WILLIAMS, Joseph R. (b. 1920)
Interview ID: OH 0871
Physician. His experiences as a resident of Hamilton Park, Texas, in 1950s and 1960s. Childhood and education in Dallas; medical school at Meharry Medical College, Nashville, Tennessee, 1942-45; Army career; segregated housing in Dallas; discrimination against African-American physicians; dealing with the white power structure in Dallas; civil rights activities; decision to build home in Hamilton Park; Hamilton Park School and quality of education; comments about Karl Hoblitzelle; zoning problems; school desegregation; Pacesetter; decision to leave Hamilton Park.
Date of Interview: 24/08/1990, 30/08/1990
WILLIAMS, Kenneth C (b. 1922)
WILLIAMS, Kenneth C (b. 1922)
Interview ID: OH 1143
His experiences while employed by the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression. Childhood in Oklahoma; joining the CCC; assignment to a camp in Clinton, Oklahoma; description of camp; life in camp.
Date of Interview: 27/09/1996
WILLIAMS, Norman F. (b. 1916)
WILLIAMS, Norman F. (b. 1916)
Interview ID: OH 0935
Geologist. His recollections concerning the Crater of Diamonds and diamond mining around Murfreesboro, Arkansas; activities of De Beers interests.
Date of Interview: 16/03/1993
WILLIAMS, R. Murphy (b. 1920)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.
WILLIAMS, R. Murphy (b. 1920)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.Interview ID: OH 1452
Pastor. His experiences as a Navy chaplain in the Pacific Theater during World War II. His early education; Davidson College, 1937-1941; Union Theological Seminary, Richmond, Virginia, 1941-44; his decision to enlist in the Navy, 1944; chaplaincy school, William and Mary College, Williamsburg, Virginia, 1944; assignment to Quonset Point, Rhode Island, and Naval Aviation Air Facility, Groton, Connecticut, 1944-45; condolence visits to families of deceased servicemen; assignment to Tinian, July, 1945; his observation of aviation activities on Tinian; the arrival of the Army Air Force’s 509th Composite Group; his thoughts concerning the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki; postwar duty in the Southwest Pacific; his discharge and civilian pastoral career.
Date of Interview: 26/12/2001
WILLIAMS, Theril Wilton (b. *)
U.S. Army WWII Veteran.
WILLIAMS, Theril Wilton (b. *)
U.S. Army WWII Veteran.Interview ID: OH 1702
For the Tarrant County War Veterans Project. World War II veteran. Childhood and education in rural Bethlehem, Arkansas; farm life in the Great Depression; 1939 high school graduation; enrollment in Civilian Conservation Corps and work at camps in Utah; work as a truck driver for local lumber and oil companies; marriage to Dorothy Mae Thompson; enlistment in U.S. Army; basic training and advanced training as a mechanic; assignment to 536th Amphibious Tractor Battalion, attached to 7th Infantry Division; October 1944 landing in invasion of the Philippines; Gen. Douglas MacArthur’s landing; subsequent engagements in Philippines; Okinawa campaign; preparations for invasion of Japan; feelings toward Japanese; discharge; decision to settle in Fort Worth; purchase of home with GI Bill benefits; career with General Dynamics, as service station owner, and owner of repair shop.
Date of Interview: 15/01/2009
WILLIAMSON, Monte (b. 1908)
U.S. Army Air Forces WWII Veteran.
WILLIAMSON, Monte (b. 1908)
U.S. Army Air Forces WWII Veteran.Interview ID: OH 0251
His experiences as a bombardier/navigator at Hickam Field during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Date of Interview: 24/08/1974
WILLIAMSON, Morris (b. 1918) and Mary (b. 1922)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.
WILLIAMSON, Morris (b. 1918) and Mary (b. 1922)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.Interview ID: OH 0377
Veteran and his wife. Their experiences while at home in Honolulu and at the Pearl Harbor Submarine Base during the Japanese attack on December 7, 1941.
Date of Interview: 25/04/1977
WILLIS, Chester B. (b. 1918)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.
WILLIS, Chester B. (b. 1918)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.Interview ID: OH 0779
His experiences while aboard the battleship USS Nevada during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Date of Interview: 16/09/1988
WILLIS, Phillip (b. 1918)
U.S. Army Air Forces WWII Veteran.
WILLIS, Phillip (b. 1918)
U.S. Army Air Forces WWII Veteran.Interview ID: OH 0169
Realtor, former Texas state legislator. His experiences as a pilot with the 86th Observation Squadron at Bellows Field during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941; capture of a submariner on a Japanese midget submarine on December 8, 1941.
Date of Interview: 18/02/1974
WILSON, Charles (b. 1933)
U.S. House of Representatives. Texas Senate. Democrat.
WILSON, Charles (b. 1933)
U.S. House of Representatives. Texas Senate. Democrat.Interview ID: OH 0216
Businessman, member of the U.S. House of Representatives, former member of the Texas Senate from Lufkin, Democrat. General views concerning problems in Texas state government. Personal legislation; utilities regulation; appointment of committee members; lobbies; campaign financial disclosure; election filing fees; committee structure; annual legislative sessions; taxation; legislative apportionment.
Date of Interview: 04/01/1972
WILSON, Charles O. (b. 1918)
U.S. Army WWII Veteran.
WILSON, Charles O. (b. 1918)
U.S. Army WWII Veteran.Interview ID: OH 1227
His experiences with G Company, 27th Infantry Regiment, at Schofield Barracks during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Date of Interview: 08/03/1998
WILSON, Robert Earl (b. 1917)
WILSON, Robert Earl (b. 1917)
Interview ID: OH 1267
His experiences while employed by the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression. Childhood in Idaho, Colorado, Wyoming, and Iowa; joining the CCC; assignment to Company 1996 at F-169 in West Pine Creek, Idaho; reenlistment to Company 2939 at sub-camp F-415 in Lake Fork, Idaho; company move to headquarters at Camp French Creek (F-109) near Riggins, Idaho; description of camps; life in camps.
Date of Interview: 14/08/1998
WILSON, Robert W. (b. 1923)
U.S. Army Air Forces WWII Veteran. 69th Bomb Squadron. 42nd Bomb Group. 13th Air Force.
WILSON, Robert W. (b. 1923)
U.S. Army Air Forces WWII Veteran. 69th Bomb Squadron. 42nd Bomb Group. 13th Air Force.Interview ID: OH 1415
Airline pilot. His experiences as a B-25 pilot in the Pacific Theater during World War II. Pre-war job experiences; enlistment in the Army Air Forces, November, 30, 1942; basic training, Atlantic City, New Jersey, 1943; college preparatory courses, Geneva College, Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania, 1943; primary flight training, Canton, Mississippi, 1943; basic flight training, Gunter, Alabama, 1943; advanced flight training, Jackson, Mississippi, 1943-44; B-25 transition training, Columbia, South Carolina, 1944; assignment as a replacement pilot to Sansapor, New Guinea, 1944; his descriptions of various missions, 1944-45; flying conditions over the Owen Stanley Mountains; Operation OBOE, June, 1945; leave time in Sydney, Australia, 1945; the move to Palawan, Philippines, March, 1945; missions to French Indo-China, 1945; attitudes and feelings toward the deaths of comrades; postwar adjustments.
Date of Interview: 06/06/2001
WINDLER, Milton (b. 1933)
WINDLER, Milton (b. 1933)
Interview ID: OH 1601
For the Skylab Oral History Project. NASA engineer, flight controller and flight director. Childhood in Langley, Virginia; education at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; short career in U.S. Air Force; decision to join NASA; duties in Mercury, Gemini, Apollo, Skylab, Space Shuttle, and International Space Station programs; problem-solving on Skylab missions; team-building among members of Skylab operations shifts and flight crews; importance of “science czar” position; Skylab’s contributions to space exploration and to science more generally.
Date of Interview: 16/09/2006
WINGO, Steve (b. 1920)
WINGO, Steve (b. 1920)
Interview ID: OH 0904
His experiences while employed by the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression. Childhood in Weatherford, Texas; joining the CCC; assignment to Company 1816 at Lake Worth, Texas; transfer to a camp at Mackenzie State Park near Lubbock, Texas; description of camps; life in camps.
Date of Interview: 25/02/1993
WINGROVE, Marvin (b. 1920)
U.S. Army Air Forces WWII Veteran.
WINGROVE, Marvin (b. 1920)
U.S. Army Air Forces WWII Veteran.Interview ID: OH 0459
His experiences with the Finance Detachment at Hickam Field during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Date of Interview: 06/12/1978
WINN, Donald N. (b. 1922)
U.S. Army Air Forces WWII Veteran. 329th Bomb Squadron. 93rd Bomb Group. 8th Air Force.
WINN, Donald N. (b. 1922)
U.S. Army Air Forces WWII Veteran. 329th Bomb Squadron. 93rd Bomb Group. 8th Air Force.Interview ID: OH 1410
His experiences as a B-24 bombardier in the European Theater; also his experiences as a prisoner-of-war of the Germans during World War II. Enlistment in the Aviation Cadet Program, January, 1943; basic training, Sheppard Field, Wichita Falls, Texas, 1943; College Training Detachment, Emporia State Teachers College, Emporia, Kansas, 1943; aerial gunnery training, Laredo, Texas, 1943; selection for bombardier training, Midland, Texas, Army Air Field, 1943; bomber transition training, Peterson Field, Colorado, 1944; assignment to the 329th Bomb Squadron, Hardwick, England, 1944; relations between the American military and British civilians; his detailed description of a typical mission; bombing techniques; engine failure and bailing out over Holland, February 24, 1945; his capture by SS troops; interrogation at Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany; POW camp at Nürnberg; general comments about prison camp life; forced march to Moosburg, Germany, March, 1945; liberation on April 29, 1945; recuperation at Camp Lucky Strike, Le Havre, France; return to the States and postwar adjustments.
Date of Interview: 10/04/2001, 11/04/2001
WINN, Janine (b. 1948)
WINN, Janine (b. 1948)
Interview ID: OH 1875
For the American History: Voluntary Simplicity Oral History Project. Homesteader and simple life advocate. Childhood; early experiences gardening and outdoors; decision to homestead in Maine.
Date of Interview: 18/07/2015
WISE, Mrs. Thomas R. (b. ca. 1900)
WISE, Mrs. Thomas R. (b. ca. 1900)
Interview ID: OH 0054
Homemaker. Observations on land speculation, settlement, and development in the Coastal Bend area of South Texas, 1900-30. Cattle ranching; small town social life; Mexican-Anglo relations.
Date of Interview: 28/05/1969
WISECUP, John (b. 1919)
U.S. Marine Corps WWII Veteran.
WISECUP, John (b. 1919)
U.S. Marine Corps WWII Veteran.Interview ID: OH 1316
Survivor of the sinking of the cruiser USS Houston. His postwar sketches of life as a prisoner-of-war of the Japanese at Hintok, Thailand, 1942-44. Bridge-building details; "Pack of Cards" bridge; Japanese cruelties and atrocities; tropical diseases; burial details.
Date of Interview: 28/07/1987
Interview ID: OH 0704
Survivor of the sinking of the cruiser 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; Changi Jail, 1944-45; liberation.
Date of Interview: 28/07/1987
WISNER, Katherine (b. )
WISNER, Katherine (b. )
Interview ID: OH 2033
For the Postpartum Depression and Maternal Mental Health Oral History Project. Dr. Katherine Wisner is perinatal psychiatrist, and the founder/inaugural president of the Marcé Society of North America (a professional society focused on research into maternal mental health and postpartum depression, founded in 2010). Wisner has won the John Cox medal and the Marcé medal from the international Marcé society. She discusses her career history and research trajectory, including work on antidepressants. She also mentions other leaders in perinatal research, including Michael O’Hara, Jim Perel, Samantha Meltzer-Brody, and Margaret Spinelli. She discusses research funding, including NIMH funding, as well as celebrities with postpartum depression, and Postpartum Support International.
Date of Interview: 14/01/2020
WITHERSPOON, Jack (b. 1942)
Braniff International Airways.
WITHERSPOON, Jack (b. 1942)
Braniff International Airways.Interview ID: OH 1969
Reservations, Ticketing, Sales and Advertising. The in-flight and ground experiences of Braniff International Airways by Abra Schnur through a collection of former Braniff employee interviews. Interviewees include flight attendants, pilots, ticket agents, ground crew, executives and family members. Content includes personal reflections of Braniff’s impact on the DFW area and the airline industry as a whole with the “End of the Plain Plane” campaign brought in by Harding Lawrence. Discussions on being a part of the Braniff family and Braniff’s rise to the top of preferred airlines to its bankruptcy on May 12, 1982.
Date of Interview: 24/05/2014
WITT, Charles (b. 1922)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.
WITT, Charles (b. 1922)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.Interview ID: OH 0385
His experiences while aboard the battleship USS Maryland during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Date of Interview: 28/09/1977
WOHLBIER, Hans (b. 1923)
German Luftwaffe WWII Veteran. Stuka Wing 77.
WOHLBIER, Hans (b. 1923)
German Luftwaffe WWII Veteran. Stuka Wing 77.Interview ID: OH 1362
His experiences as a dive-bomber pilot on the Eastern Front during World War II. Involvement in the Hitler Youth, 1933-40; training at Breslau Luftkriegsschule, 1941-42; advanced Stuka training on the French Riviera, 1943; assignment to Stuka Wing 77 at Pancevo, Yugoslavia, 1943-44; assignment to the Ukraine, 1944, and ground support missions against Soviet troops; dive-bombing tactics; assessment of Soviet pilots; the German retreat across Eastern Europe, 1944-45; assignment to a Focke-Wulf 190 fighter; gasoline shortages; chaos at the end of the war; his change to civilian clothes to avoid capture; his postwar wanderings and emigration to the United States.
Date of Interview: 04/02/2000
WOLF, Dennie (b. )
WOLF, Dennie (b. )
Interview ID: OH 2034
For the Postpartum Depression and Maternal Mental Health Oral History Project. Dennie Wolf co-authored chapters on postpartum recovery in the 1979 book Ourselves and Our Children and the 1984 version Our Bodies Ourselves, both publications of the Boston Women’s Health Collective. Our interview included discussion of postpartum depression, the women’s health movement, second wave feminism, and development psychology. The time period discussed was primarily the 1970s-1980s. The interview is part of the postpartum depression project.
Date of Interview: 09/09/2019
WOLFE, Mabel (b. 1893)
Wolfe’s Nurseries.
WOLFE, Mabel (b. 1893)
Wolfe’s Nurseries.Interview ID: OHB 0024
Co-founder (with husband Ross, deceased 1948) of Wolfe’s Nurseries, Stephenville, Texas. Family backgrounds; education; their move to California; visits with Luther Burbank and his influence in starting pecan nursery business in Texas; Ross’s sales career with other nurseries; founding his own business, early struggles; origins of Burkett Pecan; growth and expansion; Ross’s death and sons running business; sale of business.
Date of Interview: 30/11/1978
WOLFE, R. A. (b. 1917)
WOLFE, R. A. (b. 1917)
Interview ID: OH 0961
His experiences while employed by the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression. Childhood in Gordon, Texas; joining the CCC; assignment to Company 878 in Waxahachie, Texas; transfer to Company 2896 at White Rock Lake in Dallas, Texas; description of camps; life in camps.
Date of Interview: 18/03/1994
WOMACK, Beryl Barton (b. 1923)
WOMACK, Beryl Barton (b. 1923)
Interview ID: OH 1475
Her experiences in England during the Blitz in World War II; her courtship and marriage to Lieutenant Travis Womack, U. S. Army, 1944-45. Her early education; comments about Winston Churchill’s inspirational speeches during the Battle of Britain; wartime rationing; the bombing of her parents’ home in Nottinghamshire; attendance at Domestic Science Teachers College, Leicestershire, 1941-44; the coming of American troops; her meeting Lieutenant Travis Womack, March, 1944; their marriage, March 26, 1945; the process of her coming to the United States, 1946; adjustments to American life.
Date of Interview: 03/07/2002
WOMACK, James (b. 1921)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.
WOMACK, James (b. 1921)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.Interview ID: OH 0733
His experiences while aboard the cruiser USS Saint Louis during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Date of Interview: 14/11/1987
WOMACK, Travis (b. 1919)
U.S. Army WWII Veteran. C Company. 307th Airborne Engineer Battalion. 82nd Airborne Division.
WOMACK, Travis (b. 1919)
U.S. Army WWII Veteran. C Company. 307th Airborne Engineer Battalion. 82nd Airborne Division.Interview ID: OH 1474
Attorney. His experiences in the North African and European Theaters during World War II. Education at the South Texas School of Law, Houston, Texas, 1936-40; employment with the Shell Oil Company, 1936-41; induction into the Army, December 2, 1941; basic training, Camp Wolters, Mineral Wells, Texas, 1941-42; Officer Candidate School, Fort Belvoir, Virginia, 1942; assignment to Corps of Engineers topographic battalion, Fort Custer, Michigan, and Camp McCoy, Wisconsin, 1942; decision to volunteer for the Airborne Engineers, 1942; Parachute Command training, Fort Benning, Georgia, 1942; assignment to the 307thAirborne Engineers, Fort Bragg, North Carolina, 1943; shipment to North Africa, April 29, 1943; parachute training, Ouijda, French Morocco, 1943; attendance at the British 8th Army mine school, 1943; invasion of Sicily and capture of Gela airfield, July, 1943; invasion of Italy at Salerno, September, 1943; convalescence from hepatitis at Oran, Algeria; mine laying during the Battle of San Pietro; Anzio invasion, July, 1944; combat around Nettuno and Cisterna; evacuation to Ullesthorpe, England, in March, 1944; preparations for the Normandy invasion; meeting and courting his future wife, Beryl Barton; the crash of his glider during Operation MARKET-GARDEN, September 17, 1944, and subsequent rescue; combat around the Waal River; liaison duty with British 1st Army headquarters; the Ardennes Offensive and the Battle of the Bulge, December, 1944-January, 1945; transfer to a signals and information unit in Bournemouth, England, 1945; his marriage to Beryl Barton, March 26, 1945; his transfer to the 104th Infantry Division in Germany; mustering out of the service and postwar employment with Shell; his wife’s move from England to the United States, March, 1946.
Date of Interview: 10/05/2002
WOOD, Charles E. (b. 1923)
U.S. Army Air Forces WWII Veteran. 866th Bomb Squadron. 493rd Bomb Group. 8th Air Force.
WOOD, Charles E. (b. 1923)
U.S. Army Air Forces WWII Veteran. 866th Bomb Squadron. 493rd Bomb Group. 8th Air Force.Interview ID: OH 1307
His experiences as a B-24 gunner in the European Theater during World War II. Enlistment in the Aviation Cadet Program, 1942; gunnery school, Tindall Field, Florida, and Biggs Field, El Paso, Texas, 1943; assignment to the 493rd Bomb Group, 1943; stationing at Debach, England, April, 1944; operations on D-Day; mission to Merseberg, Germany, November 2, 1944; bombing of V-1 and V-2 sites; encounters with German jet aircraft; ground-support missions; return to the States.
Date of Interview: 12/01/1997
WOOD, George (b. 1913)
WOOD, George (b. 1913)
Interview ID: OH 0170
Scientist with the Soil Conservation Service. His experiences while employed by the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression.
Date of Interview: 07/11/1973
WOOD, Lloyd D. (b. 1916)
WOOD, Lloyd D. (b. 1916)
Interview ID: OH 0890
His experiences while employed by the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression. Childhood in Central and North Texas; joining the CCC; assignment to Company 859 in Buffalo Pasture (BF-2) near Cache, Oklahoma; company move to Bitter Lake Refuge (FW-3) near Roswell, New Mexico; description of camps; life in camps.
Date of Interview: 24/02/1993
WOODS, Eugene K. (b. 1924)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.
WOODS, Eugene K. (b. 1924)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.Interview ID: OH 1120
His experiences while aboard the destroyer-minesweeper USS Trever during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Date of Interview: 16/12/1995
WOODWARD, Eugene (b. 1922)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.
WOODWARD, Eugene (b. 1922)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.Interview ID: OH 0432
His experiences while aboard the cruiser USS Phoenix during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Date of Interview: 08/07/1978
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