For the Tarrant County War Veterans Oral History Project. Airline pilot. His experiences as a B-17 pilot in the European Theater in World War II. Childhood in Alabama, learning to fly; enlistment in the Air National Guard; Army Air Forces flight training; bombing missions over Germany; career as an American Airlines pilot; 381st Bombardment Group…
His experiences as a B-17 pilot in the European Theater during World War II. His enrollment in the Civilian Pilot Training Program, 1940; enlistment in the Aviation Cadet Program, 1942; Aviation Cadet Classification Center, San Antonio, Texas, 1942; pre-flight training, San Antonio, 1942-43; primary flight training, Cimarron Field, Oklahoma City,…
His experiences while aboard the destroyer USS Melvin during
World War II in the Pacific Theater. Marianas invasion; Carolines invasion; Battle of Leyte Gulf;
Battle of Surigao Strait; Iwo Jima; Okinawa; Kurile operations and occupation of Japan.
His experiences while employed by the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression. Childhood in Westbrook and Dublin, Texas; joining the CCC; assignment to Company 849 at SP-36 at Lake Brownwood, Texas; description of camp; life in camp.
Naomie Rudelson shares experiences as a retailing executive whose career grew in the Dallas fashion scene. While her first fashion experiences were working at Gus Mayer in New Orleans and then working at Dalton’s while attending Louisiana State University, shortly after graduation she moved to Dallas to complete a junior executive training…
Businessman. His observations on the settlement and development of the Coastal Bend area of South Texas, 1910-68. Ruhmann Manufacturing Company; rural social life.
Mexican-American, UNT football player, and educator. Childhood in Southern Texas; father’s experience on the King Ranch and stint as a bootlegger; schooling and playing football in Kingsville, Texas; growing up Mexican-American in Kingsville, Texas; attending UNT on a football scholarship; experiences as a Mexican-American at UNT in the mid-1950s…
Flight Attendant, after marriage - Supervisor then Assistant Manager over flight attendants. The in-flight and ground experiences of Braniff International Airways by Abra Schnur through a collection of former Braniff employee interviews. Interviewees include flight attendants, pilots, ticket agents, ground crew, executives and family members.…
NEWMAN, Rowe B. Founder and chairman of board, Russell-Newman Mfg. Company, Denton,
Texas. Boyhood; early work experiences; education; store manager, Montgomery Ward; store
manager, Butler Bros.; founding Russell-Newman, 1939; decision to specialize in lingerie; World War II; growth and expansion; financing methods; chain store accounts; decisions…
His experiences while employed by the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression. Childhood in Limestone County, Texas; joining the CCC; assignment to Fort Parker in Springfield, Texas; description of camp; life in camp.
His experiences in the Pacific Theater during World War II. Assignment to 2nd Marine Division; landings on Gavutu and Tanambogo in Florida Islands; Tarawa landing; Marianas campaign and Tinian landing.
His experiences aboard the PT boat tender USS Jamestown and the rocket launching ships LCIR-74 and LCIR-34 in the Pacific Theater during World War II. Enlistment in the Navy at age seventeen in 1937; assignment aboard the cruiser USS Northampton, 1937, as a machinist’s mate; diesel mechanics school, New London, Connecticut, 1941; assignment to the…
For the Ray Roberts Lake Oral History Project. Farmer. His reminiscences about rural life in Denton County, Texas, 1920-1987. Changing crop patterns; development of larger farms and agricultural operations; Simpson’s sawmill; threshing season; rural migration to towns and cities.
For the DFW Metroplex Immigrants Oral History Project. Palestinian-born immigrant to Denton, Texas, UNT professor. Childhood in Jerusalem under the British mandate; experience as a Christian in Palestine; decision to study international relations and Middle Eastern politics; education at American University of Beirut and Georgetown University;…
His experiences while employed by the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression. Childhood in Tennessee; joining the CCC; assignment to Company 1473 in F-11 at Bristol, Tennessee; description of camp; life in camp.
Aviation executive. His experiences as an antiaircraft radar operator in the European Theater during World War II. Comments about his German ancestors and growing up in O’Fallon, Missouri; sports activities; college life at the University of Missouri; decision to join the Aviation Cadet Program, 1941; primary flight training, Ballinger, Texas,…
Rancher and Wild West Show bronc rider. Childhood in Excelsior Springs, Missouri; trick riding and touring Europe and the U.S. with the 101 Ranch show; riding in various other shows; first marriage to Bryan Roach; second marriage to Fred Salmon; ranching in Nocona, Texas; Fred Salmon’s background; history of the Salmon Ranch; Montague County.
