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MOORE, William E. (b. 1912)

Interview ID#
OH 1221
His experiences with Headquarters Battery, 24th Infantry Division, Artillery, at Schofield Barracks during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.

NASH, Kenton (b. 1915) and Minnie (b. 1915)

Interview ID#
OH 0397
Experiences of a husband and wife at Kaneohe Naval Air Station during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.

TAYLOR, Floyd (b. 1913)

Interview ID#
OH 1286
Surgeon. His experiences as a surgeon in North Africa, Italy, and France during World War II. Induction into the U.S. Army Medical Department and assignment to the Surgical Hospital, Fort Meade, 1941; three-month assignment to the Mayo Clinic, 1942; assignment to the Massachusetts General Hospital and the forming of the 2nd Auxiliary Surgical…

TOOLE, Ray (b. 1936)

Interview ID#
OH 0599
Businessman. His experiences as a member of the football team during the desegregation of athletics at North Texas State College, 1956.

VAN NOSTRAND, Stephen E. (b. 1918)

Interview ID#
OH 0702
Former executive, Caltex Petroleum Corporation. Service during World War II; initial employment with Caltex (China); aviation representative, South China; Chinese Revolution, 1949; manager, Caltex Okinawan operation, 1957-59; relationswith military government on Okinawa; formation of Ryuku Oil Corporation; head of marketing, Caltex (Japan), 1960;…

WEBER, Lee (b. 1919)

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…

WILCOX, Norbert John (b. 1924)

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…

WOMACK, Travis (b. 1919)

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…

ZANCA, John R. (b. 1921)

Interview ID#
OH 0732
His experiences while aboard the cruiser USS Honolulu during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.

PATRICK, Mildred (b. 1929)

Interview ID#
OH 0965
Schoolteacher. Her experiences as a resident of Hamilton Park, Texas, 1959-91. Youth in East Texas; education in segregated schools; decision to move to Hamilton Park; home improvements; church activities; Hamilton Park School; flooding problems; desegregation of Hamilton Park School and coming of Pacesetter; violations of deed restrictions;…

PETERS, Donald W. (b. 1924)

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…

SCOTT, John C. (b. 1912)

Interview ID#
OH 0983
His experiences while employed by the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression. Childhood in Granger, Texas; joining the CCC; assignment to a camp at Oakhurst, Texas; description of camp; life in camp.

SHIPMAN, Lloyd B. (b. 1923)

Interview ID#
OH 1004
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 3805 in Bartlett, Texas; description of camp; life in camp.

SMITH, L. B. (b. ca. 1922)

Interview ID#
OH 0761
His experiences with the 27th Infantry Regiment, 25th Infantry Division, at Schofield Barracks during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.

SPECHT, Floyd (b. 1916)

Interview ID#
OHB 0081
District manager, Duke and Ayres Company, Denton, Texas. Family background, description of Vashti, Texas, community and farming experiences; comments on work baling hay and harvesting wheat; employment with Cabell’s Ice Cream and the Baker Hotel while attending Burns Business College, Dallas, 1935; comments on Depression in Vashti and Dallas;…

STINCHCOMB, Glenn M. (b. 1927)

Interview ID#
OH 1350
Engineer. His experiences as a PB4Y-2 co-pilot during World War II and the early years of the Cold War. Decision to enlist in the Navy on May 9, 1945; acceptance in the V-5 Program for naval aviators, Southwestern University, Georgetown, Texas, 1945-46; pre-flight training, Naval Air Station, Ottumwa, Iowa, 1946; his decision to participate in the…

RANDLE, Ledell Goodson (b. 1922)

Interview ID#
OH 1600
For the Eastland County African American Women Oral History Project. Longtime resident of Eastland, Texas. Memories of childhood in Hawkins, Texas, as member of a sharecropping family; education in all-black schools; 1941 decision to move to Dallas following high school graduation; work there as a domestic and factory worker; 1951 marriage to…

RENFRO, Nell (b. 1914)

Interview ID#
OH 1454
For the Ray Roberts Lake Oral History Project. Realtor. Her reminiscences concerning rural life in the area of Tioga,Texas, 1917-1987. Changing demographics of the area; rising land values; comments about long-time residents of the area; a description of life on her family home place; revivals; medicine shows; home remedies; virtues of small-town…

ROBINSON, Ray F. (b. 1919)

Interview ID#
OH 0503
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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; Changi Jail, 1944-45; liberation.

ROGERS, James L. (b. 1926)

Interview ID#
OH 0519
College professor, former director of the North Texas State University News Service, former university administrator. His recollections concerning the desegregation of North Texas State College, 1954-56. Admission of A. Tennyson Miller, 1954; Adkins case, 1955-56; admission of Mrs. Irma E. L. Sephas, 1956; role of President J. C. Matthews in the…

FIELDS, Brenda (b. 1943)

Interview ID#
OH 1786
For the Desegregating DFW Oral History Project. Texas Civil Rights activist and NAACP youth council member. Childhood in Dallas; desegregation protests of the State Fair of Texas, Picadilly’s, H. L. Green, and the Majestic; memories of Juanita Craft and NAACP youth movement; Civil Rights movement; Dallas Independent School District desegregation…

PRIDGEON, Evilu (b. 1949)

Interview ID#
OH 1852
For the Dallas LGBT Oral History Project. Educator and longtime Dallas LGBT activist. Childhood in Austin, Texas; education; work history; coming out; Dallas LGBT history; AIDS crisis in Dallas; LGBT activism; The Dallas Way; diversity in the gay community.

DYER, Lorraine (b. 1940)

Interview ID#
OH 1881
For the American History: Voluntary Simplicity Oral History Project. Homesteader and simple life advocate. Childhood in Maine; memories of the Nearings; homesteading.

RAVINDRANATH, Preetha (b. 1968)

Interview ID#
OH 1908
Indian dancer from Gudalur, in the Nilgiris district of India. Recount of her life centered on dancing from a young age, which lead her to study dance at Kalakshetra, dance scene in different districts. How the access to study dance has changed over time, body image in dance.

HERNANDEZ, Cecelia Bermejo (b. 1957)

Interview ID#
OH 1774
For the Mexican American Women’s Educational Experience Oral History Project. Second generation of Bermejo women. Recollections of schooling in Fort Worth, Texas; consequences of not having a higher education; sending daughter to college; lack of emphasis on Latinas attending college; results of cultural factors on education.