Schoolteacher. Her experiences as a resident of Hamilton Park, Texas, 1956-92. Segregated education in East Texas; graduation from Texas College; teaching career in Malakoff, Texas; decision to buy home in Hamilton Park; home improvements; employment at Hamilton Park School; desegregation of Hamilton Park School; fight to save Hamilton Park high…

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

Veteran of the Civilian Conservation Corps. Childhood in rural northern Alabama; farm life during the Great Depression; decision to enter CCC at the age of fifteen; experiences at CCC camps at Roosevelt State Park in Mississippi, Florence, Oregon, and Rainier, Washington; memory of Pearl Harbor; wartime rejection from U.S. Army; postwar decision…

Founder and manager of Hadlock and Fox Saddletree Manufacturing Company, Gruene, Texas. Family background, education; early work experiences in blacksmithing, saddletree making in Utah; Depression; early saddletree making methods and equipment; founding of Standard Saddletree Company in Utah with Fox; move to Texas; founding of Hadlock and Fox;…

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

Homemaker. Her experiences as the wife of a serviceman (William Haugh) who was in Europe during World War II. Her education and youth on the family farm; effects of the Great Depression on her family; effects of the Rural Electrification Administration on farm life; her marriage to William Haugh on October 4, 1941; birth of their first son on…

Physicist. His experiences as a B-24 navigator in the Mediterranean and European Theaters during World War II. His decision to join the Enlisted Reserve Corps while a student at the University of Massachusetts, September, 1942; call to active duty, March, 1943, and Army basic training at Kearns, Utah; decision to volunteer for Aviation Cadet…

His experiences while employed by the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression. Childhood in Alabama; joining the CCC; assignment to a camp near Powers, Oregon; description of camp; life in camp.

His experiences while aboard the target battleship USS Utah during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.

Experiences in the Pacific Theater aboard the USS Crescent City during the World War II; early years in Texas and California; work experience as a skilled tradesman in Nevada and Utah prior to military service; drafted into U.S. Navy and conflict with religious affiliation as Seventh Day Adventist; shipboard life and duties while on an amphibian…

His experiences as a B-17 co-pilot in the European Theater during World War II. Pre-flight training, Maxwell Field, Alabama, 1943; primary flight training, Bennettville, South Carolina, 1943; basic flight training, Shaw Field, South Carolina, 1943; advanced flight training, Atlanta, Georgia, 1943; forming of his crew; bomber training, Sioux City,…

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

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

Accountant. His experiences as an air forward observer in the European Theater during World War II. His early education and coping with the Great Depression; his decision to join the Oklahoma National Guard at age fifteen in 1938; Louisiana Maneuvers of 1940; mobilization of the 45th Division, Oklahoma National Guard, September 15, 1940; Louisiana…

His experiences and personal views as a member of the Sixty-seventh Legislature. Elections of 1980; his quest for the House speakership; initiative-referendum; interest rates; tax relief; state water plan; redistricting; law-and-order issues; property tax legislation.

For the Arms Along the Border Oral History Project. Resident of Presidio, Texas. Experiences of childhood in Presidio, including weekly visits across border to Ojinaga, Mexico; education at Sul Ross State University; career with State Parks Division of Texas State Parks and Wildlife agency; service on school board of Presidio ISD; opinions…

Former band director, School of Music, North Texas State College and North Texas State University. Early career as a musician; appointment to faculty at North Texas; development of the North Texas band program.

His experiences aboard the target battleship USS Utah during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.

His experiences in the Southwest Pacific Theater during World War II. His youth during the Great Depression; his father’s leather shop in Kilgore, Texas, during the oil boom of the 1930s; influence of German leather carver Solon Aaron on his life; his education; his decision to join the Texas National Guard, November 18, 1940; his work in the…

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;…

His experiences at Fort Shafter with the 64th Coast Artillery during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.

His experiences as a pilot in the Pacific Theater during World War II. His youth in Texas; pre-war flying experience; decision to join the Navy Aviation Cadet Program, 1938; flight training, Pensacola Naval Air Station, Florida, 1938-39; Mine Warfare Laboratory, Yorktown, Virginia, 1939; operational training, North Island, San Diego, California,…

Veteran and his wife. Their experiences with German prisoners-of-war while stationed at Fort Francis E. Warren, Wyoming, during World War II. Their courtship and marriage, 1942; Camp Callan, California, 1942-43; birth of their first child, August 2, 1943; Camp Davis, North Carolina, 1943-44; assignment to Fort Francis E. Warren, 1944; wartime…

His experiences while aboard the converted yacht USS Elvida during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.

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;…