Medal of Honor recipient. His experiences in the Pacific Theater during World War II. Pre-war training at Pensacola and Quantico; assignment to Saint Thomas and reminiscences about the “destroyers-for bases” deal, 1940; experiences at Ewa during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941; assignment to Guadalcanal as commander of VMF-…
His experiences concerning the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941; the Guadalcanal Campaign as commander of VMF-224; and as head of the 584 Radar units during the campaigns for the Philippines, Iwo Jima, and Okinawa. Navy ROTC at the University of Washington, 1931-35; pilot training at Sand Point, Pensacola, and Quantico, 1935-38…
His experiences while employed by the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) during the Great Depression. Youth in Dido, Texas; entry into CCC; assignment to Camp SP3-A in Minturn, Colorado; description of camp; reassignment to Arizona; camp routine; recreation; his life after discharge in 1934.
Surveyor. His experiences while employed by the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression. Childhood in Holland, Texas and Rogers, Texas; joining the CCC; assignment to Company 3805 in Bartlett, Texas; description of camp; life in camp.
His experiences in the European Theater during World War II. Boyhood in central Texas; his induction into the Army and basic training at Camp Howze, Gainesville, Texas, 1942-43; Camp Clayborne and Louisiana maneuvers, 1943; shipment to England, October, 1944; combat on the Siegfried Line, November, 1944; leadership problems; Battle of the Bulge,…
Landscape architect. His experiences with G Troop, 112th Cavalry, in the Southwest Pacific Theater during World War II. Growing up in an Italian-American family in Mississippi during the Great Depression; volunteering for the draft and processing at Camp Shelby, Hattiesburg, Mississippi, 1943; basic training at Camp Lee, Petersburg, Virginia, 1943…
For the Mexican American Women’s Educational Experience Oral History Project. Childhood and educational experiences in Dallas; college experiences at Texas Woman's University; and experiences as a PHD student in the UNT Department of History as a first generation student of Mexican immigrant parents, originally form the state of Durango;…
Businessman. His experiences as a leader in the American GI Forum, Political Association of Spanish-speaking Organizations (PASO), and other Mexican-American social action groups. Delgado Case; poll tax drives; Texas gubernatorial campaign of 1962; Crystal City elections, 1963.
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…
Howard Garrett graduated from Texas Tech with a degree in Park Administration and Landscape Architecture. An early career focus on golf course design and management evolved to include landscape architecture and design. He decided to become an organic person when his daughter Logan was born in 1985. A photograph he took of her when she was nine…
Automobile salesman. His experiences as a prisoner-of-war of the Japanese during World War II. Fall of Guam and capture; Zentsuji, Japan, 1942; Osaka, 1942-44, and American air raids; liberation.
His experiences as a defense worker at Riverside Foundry, Wrightsville, Pennsylvania, 1941-45. His education and childhood during the Great Depression; employment in the core room at Riverside Foundry; his draft classification as 4-F due to psychoneurosis; his personal feelings about being classified 4-F; local reaction to his 4-F status;…
His experiences while employed by the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression. Childhood in Donna, Texas and McAllen, Texas; joining the CCC; assignment to Company 3840 in Patagonia, Arizona; transfer to a side camp in Saint David, Arizona; company move to Parker Dam, Arizona; description of camps; life in camps.
For the American History: Voluntary Simplicity Oral History Project. Healer and simple life advocate. Family and childhood in Massachusetts; early influences on life philosophy; move to Maine; Scott and Helen Nearing; Back to the Land movement; the Good Life Center.
College professor. The experiences of a German intellectual during the period of the Weimar Republic and the early Hitler years. Middle-class family background; service in World War I with a Rhenish artillery regiment; education at University of Breslau; Spartacus Uprising; Kapp Putsch; Freikorps activities; rampant inflation, 1923-24; effects of…
African American North Texas State University alumnus. Childhood in Waco, Texas, Artesia, New Mexico, and Fort Worth, Texas; experience as basketball player at Fort Worth’s all-black Terrell High School; comparison of race relations in Waco, Artesia, and Fort Worth; decision to attend North Texas and enroll in ROTC program; “neutral” stance of…
Businessman, survivor of the siege of Corregidor. His experiences as a prisoner-of-war of the Japanese during World War II. Destruction of Cavite Navy Base by Japanese bombers; fall of Corregidor and capture; damage to eyes due to phosphorous bomb; Bellbird Prison, Manila, 1942; Cabanatuan, 1942; transfer to Formosa, 1942; hell ship to Japan, 1942…
