Attorney, environmentalist. His comments and observations concerning water basin development in Texas. Citizen’s Environmental Coalition; Wallisville lawsuit; Citizens Against Water Taxes (CAWT); Trinity River Barge Canal; Texas Environmental Coalition (TEC); comments about Ned Fritz, J. R. Parten, Bill Clayton, Sierra Club.

His experiences in the China-Burma-India Theater during World War II. Early employment with REA Express; basic training, Fort Miles Standish, Massachusetts, 1942; his transfer to the Air Force and assignment to Patterson Field, Dayton, Ohio, 1942; Officer Candidate School, Miami, Florida, 1943; assignment to India; assignment to Dum Dum Airport,…

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

His experiences during the Vietnam War as a medical supply officer with the 17th Field Hospital (An Khe) and the 67th Evacuation Hospital (Qui Nhon), 1968-69, as related in tape-recorded letters to his parents, Edward F and Alice P Jaeger. Chronicle of his departure for Vietnam; description of Vietnamese village life and culture; assignment to the…

His experiences as a B-17 pilot in the European Theater during World War II; also his experiences as a prisoner-of-war of the Germans. Basic training, Kelly Field, San Antonio, Texas, 1942; primary flight training, Pine Bluff, Arkansas, 1942; basic flight training, Greenville, Texas, 1942; advanced flight training, Waco, Texas, 1942; bomber…

His experiences at Ford Island Naval Air Station with the Marine guard detachment during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.

Executive. Educational background; early career with Texaco in Jamaica; transfer to Caltex; marketing assistant, India, 1937; marketing Caltex products in India; lifestyles for Caltex employees in India; World War II and Indian market; assignment to Petroleum Ordnance Committee, 1941-43; return to India as Bombay district manager, 1943; partition…

Dentist. His experiences while employed by the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression. Childhood in Oklahoma; joining the CCC; assignment to Company 2823 at Camp Stockman (SCS-14-O) near Morris, Oklahoma; description of camp; life in camp; post-CCC life.

For the Skylab Oral History Project. Childhood in Lawton, Oklahoma; education at Cameron Agricultural Junior College and New Mexico State University; decision to join NASA; duties in Mercury, Gemini, Apollo, Apollo-Soyuz, Skylab, Space Shuttle, and International Space Station programs, including work at remote sites around the globe; difficulties…

For the Tarrant County War Veterans Oral History Project. Childhood and education in Fort Worth; decision to drop out of high school; decision to enlist in U.S. Army; experiences in basic training at Ft. Sill, Oklahoma; deployment to Kuwait and Iraq; experience of being reunited with sister at Balad Air Base outside of Baghdad; duties guarding and…

His experiences and personal views as a member of the Sixty-seventh Legislature. Elections of 1980; initiative-referendum; abortion issue; law-and-order legislation; redistricting; state water plan; comments about Ross Perot, Governor William Clements, Lieutenant Governor William Hobby, and Attorney General Mark White.

His experiences while aboard the submarine USS Sculpin and USS Pintado in the Pacific Theater during World War II.

For the DFW Metroplex Immigrants Oral History Project. Iranian-born immigrant now living in Plano, Texas. Childhood in Tehran, Iran; soccer career playing for the Iranian National Team and various club teams; reasons for immigrating to Dallas in 1977; reaction to Islamic Revolution; obtaining citizenship through marriage; years spent living in San…

His experiences at Kaneohe Naval Air Station with the Supply Department during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.

Schoolteacher. Her experiences at the Frederick Douglass Colored School, Denton, Texas, 1949-69. Relationship with students; church activities; comments about Principal Fred Moore.

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

His experiences on Saipan in the Pacific Theater during World War II. Decision to join the Marine Corps, December 7, 1942; boot camp, Parris Island; formation of the 4th Marine Division at Camp Pendleton, California, 1943; preparations on Maui for the invasion of Saipan; the amphibious landings on Saipan, June 15, 1945; his duties with the Motor…

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

University purchasing agent. His experiences while aboard the cruiser USS New Orleans during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.

For the Skylab Oral History Project. NASA engineer, flight controller and flight director. Childhood in Langley, Virginia; education at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; short career in U.S. Air Force; decision to join NASA; duties in Mercury, Gemini, Apollo, Skylab, Space Shuttle, and International Space Station programs;…

Executive, Caltex Petroleum Corporation. Education and military service; employment with Caltex; assignment to China, 1948, as accountant; conditions in Nationalist China; Chinese Revolution, effects on Caltex; comments about Hans Bieling, Phil Lefevre; assignment to Hong Kong; Caltex internees under communist regime; postwar oil glut; nature of…

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; Tamarkan, Thailand, 1944; Saigon and Da Lat, French Indo-China, 1944-45; liberation.

His experiences on the homefront as a teenager in Elgin, Illinois, during World War II. Education and childhood in Elgin; local reaction to the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941; air raid drills and blackouts; attempts to make people war conscious; spy hysteria; censorship of mail; harassment of German Americans; gasoline…

For the Tarrant County War Veterans Oral History Project. World War II veteran. Childhood and education in San Antonio, Texas; challenges of the Great Depression; decision to enter John Sealy College of Nursing of the University of Texas; decision to enlist in U.S. Army Reserves, January 1941; service in U.S. Army Nursing Corps at hospitals in…

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