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;…

For the Weatherford Oral History Project. Longtime resident of Weatherford, Texas. Family history; birth, childhood, and education in Weatherford; 1961 enlistment in U.S. Army; service at various stateside bases; career in banking industry; changes in Weatherford economy.

For the Eastland County African American Women Oral History Project. African American resident of Cisco, Texas. Memories of childhood in Robertson County, Texas, farming family; experience in one-room, all-black schoolhouse and E.A. Kemp High School; marriage to Roland Green and decision to move to Abilene, Texas; separation from Roland Green and…

His experiences as a crew member of a B-24 in the European Theater during World War II. Stateside training; raid to Kiel, Germany; raid to Oschersleben, Germany; other raids.

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; Singapore, 1944-45; liberation.

Foundry superintendent. His experiences as a combat infantryman in the European Theater during World War II. Educational background; youth on the family farm; employment as a patternmaker at Riverside Foundry, Wrightsville, Pennsylvania, 1938; hand grenade production at Riverside Foundry; induction into the Army and basic training, Camp Blanding,…

Crop duster, businessman. His experiences as a fighter pilot in the European Theater during World War II. Early interest in flying and aviation; employment at Consolidated Aircraft in San Diego, California, 1939-42; enlistment in the Army Air Forces, 1942; Aviation Cadet Program, 1942-43; primary flight school, Visalia, California, 1943; basic…

Miscellaneous personal papers, including flight logs and diaries, detailing his experiences as a navigator on a B-24 Liberator in the Pacific Theater during World War II.

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

For the Ray Roberts Lake Oral History Project. Farmer. His reminiscences about life and families in Denton County, Texas, 1900-1908. Identification of land and property owners; comments about Vaughn Town; identification of African-American settlements; comments about Jackie Davis Cemetery; his description of land and property during a driving tour…

Her recollections concerning the development of the Crater of Diamonds and diamond mining around Murfreesboro, Arkansas, 1952-69.

Veteran of the Royal Dutch Navy in the Netherlands East Indies. 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; Tamarkan, Thailand, 1944; Chungkai and Bampong, Thailand, 1944-45;…

Petroleum engineer, geophysicist. His career in the oil exploration business; his service aboard the destroyer USS Benham in the Pacific Theater during World War II. His family’s shipbuilding business in Norway; his parents’ emigration to the United States; his experiences working aboard tankers; college at Louisiana State University, 1934-38; his…

His experiences at Fort Kamehameha with the 97th Coast Artillery during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.

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

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

Survivor of the siege of Corregidor. His experiences as a prisoner-of-war of the Japanese during World War II. Japanese bombing of Nichols Field; fall of Bataan; fall of Corregidor and capture; Bilibid Prison, Manila, 1942; Cabanatuan, 1942-43; Clark Field, 1943; Bilibid Prison, 1943; Nichols Field, 1943; hell ship to Japan, 1943; copper mining at…

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

Reminiscences of her husband’s political career; Al Smith campaign of 1928; Stevenson-Johnson senatorial race of 1948; excerpts from her Mansion Diary.

Counselor. Her recollections concerning the Texas International Pop Festival, Lewisville, Texas, Labor Day Weekend, 1969. Her conservative family background in Dallas, Texas; her attraction to the hippie counterculture as a teenager; hanging out with hippies in Lee Park in Dallas; her college experience at North Texas State University in Denton;…

His experiences with the 11th Bomb Group at Hickam Field during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.

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; Saigon and Da Lat, French Indo-China, 1944-45; Saigon, 1945, and…

College professor, Holocaust survivor. Her experiences as a non-Jewish survivor of the Holocaust. Family background; German conquest of Poland, 1939; life under German occupation; Warsaw Uprising, 1944; deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau; life in the concentration camp; escape from Auschwitz-Birkenau; postwar life in Poland under Russian occupation…

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…

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,…