For the Skylab Oral History Project. NASA engineer and manager. Childhood in San Antonio and Orange, Texas; education at Lamar State College of Technology; decision to join NASA; work on engine development program, Apollo propulsion systems and duties in mission control; duties in Skylab and Space Shuttle programs; turf battles among Johnson Space…

Homemaker. Observations on land speculation, settlement, and development around Portland, Texas, 1890-1914; agrarian life.

Civil servant. His experiences while employed by the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression. Childhood in Mississippi; joining the CCC; assignment to SCS-11 in Buford, Georgia; description of camp; life in camp.

His experiences at Schofield Barracks with the 35th Infantry during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.

Community activist. Her experiences concerning the activities of the Denton Christian Women’s Inter-Racial Fellowship in the 1960s and 1970s. Educational experiences in segregated schools; living conditions in the African-American section of Denton; joining the Fellowship; Denton Christian Preschool; desegregation of Denton schools; early meetings…

His experiences as a survivor of the sinking of the destroyer USS Johnston during the Battle of Leyte Gulf, 1944.

Alumna of North Texas State University. Experiences growing up with racial segregation in Ennis, Texas; graduation from high school in 1956; initial decision to attend Prairie View A&M and subsequent decision to transfer to North Texas in 1958; experiences on campus at North Texas and rooming in the “Shack Town” neighborhood of Denton; 1961…

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;…

Banker. Family background; boyhood work experiences; education; first job in banking; rise to bank president; early banking practices, equipment, laws; evolution of banking business; Depression; retirement and move to Denton, Texas, 1951; membership on bank boards; comments on banking in Denton through 1978; other business interests.

His experiences while aboard the cruiser USS Helena during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.

Pastor. His experiences as a resident of Hamilton Park, Texas, 1954-91. Youth in South-central Texas; Marine Corps experience in World War II; early employment in Dallas; African-American housing problems in Dallas; decision to buy home in Hamilton Park; home improvements; shopping; social activities; church activities; Hamilton Park School; Civic…

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…

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…

His experiences with the Finance Detachment at Hickam Field during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.

Her experiences as an employee of the Red River Army depot in Texarkana, Arkansas, during World War II and the postwar years. Hiring and promotion practices; relations between male and female workers; social activities; social and economic effects of depot on Texarkana.

OWENS, C. B. Founder and chairman of board, Owens Country Sausage, Family background; farm life; education; starting part-time home delivery sausage business from home farm; early productions methods; first wholesale account with Wyatt Stores, 1933; first processing "plant," full-time business retail store, butcher shop; expansion of territory,…

Trucker. His experiences while employed by the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression.

Businessman, Holocaust survivor. His experiences during the Holocaust. Family background; youth in Krakow, Poland; prewar anti-Semitism; reaction to German invasion; forced-labor battalions; formation of Krakow Ghetto; ghetto life; smuggling activities; transports to concentration camps and deportation of parents in July, 1942; his marriage in the…

His experiences with the 5th Bomb Group at Hickam Field during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.

Her experiences as a riveter at Armstrong Cork and Rubber Company, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, during World War II. Effects of the Great Depression on her family; her first job experience in a knitting mill; incentives to seek a job as a riveter with Armstrong, 1942; transportation problems; shift work; wage discrimination; length of the workday and…

Banker. Observations on the settlement and development of the Coastal Bend area of South Texas, 1935-72. Subdivisions and residential developments; Canoe Lake Corporation; tourism; early hotels and motels; duck hunting; Aransas National Wildlife Refuge; shrimping; shipbuilding; Gulf Intracoastal Waterway; hurricanes; views on community growth;…

His experiences while employed by the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression. Childhood in Texas; joining the CCC; assignment to Company 856 in Palisades Park at Palo Duro Canyon near Amarillo, Texas; company move to Bowie, Texas; description of camps; life in camps.

His experiences while aboard the auxiliary repair ship USS Vestal during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.

Farmer-rancher, Robstown, Texas. Family background; farming and social activities near Hillje, Texas; comments on preserving meat; description of family farm auction, 1924; employment as cottonseed culler operator, Robstown, 1925; establishment of meat delivery route, 1925; operation of cafe; comments on leasing farm, 1926; purchase of farm, 1928…

His experiences concerning his association with General Roger Ramey, 1937-57. Operations against Rabaul in the Pacific Theater during World War II; atomic bomb tests at Kwajalein and Eniwetok, 1946 (Project CROSSROADS); relationship between Ramey and Fort Worth, Texas, promoter Amon Carter; his personal and professional relations with Ramey; Ramey…