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GREEN, Virgil (b. 1922)

Interview ID#
OH 0531
His experiences at Hickam Field with the 31st Bombardment Squadron during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.

HAKE, Charles K. (b. 1922)

Interview ID#
OH 1361
Businessman, builder. His experiences in the European Theater during World War II. Pre-war youth in Wrightsville, Pennsylvania; effects of the Great Depression; employment at the York Ice Machine Company and making battleship gun turrets; induction into the Army, December, 1942; basic training, Camp Adair, Oregon, with the 104th Infantry Division…

HARDEN, Bessie D. (b. 1911)

Interview ID#
OH 0728
Homemaker, community activist. Her experiences concerning the activities of the Denton Christian Women’s Inter-Racial Fellowship during the 1960s and 1970s. Early experiences in segregated society; segregation and racism in Denton, Texas; early meetings of the Fellowship; social activities of the Fellowship; street paving in the African-American…

HAUSSER, C. G. (b. 1936)

Interview ID#
OH 0874
His experiences as a nurse in Vietnam, 1970-71. Assignment to 12th Evacuation Hospital, Cu Chi; camp routine; treatment of battle wounds; morale; Viet Cong prisoners; communication with family; transfer to Quang Tri; stateside adjustments.

HESTER, Steve (b. ca. 1910)

Interview ID#
OH 1458
For the Ray Roberts Lake Oral History Project. His description of farm property during a driving tour of Denton County, Texas, 1987. Comments about buildings; identification of various landowners and their holdings; description of Vaughn Town.

HOLT, Brooks (b. 1912)

Interview ID#
OH 0558
Civil servant. His experiences while serving as a district director for the National Youth Administration in East Texas during the Great Depression.

HUNT, Ray (b. 1919)

Interview ID#
OH 1074
His experiences as a guerrilla fighter in the Philippines during World War II. His escape during the Bataan Death March; guerrilla operations before and after the American landings on Leyte and Luzon, 1944.

JAMISON, Alonzo (b. 1918)

Interview ID#
OH 0003
College professor, farmer-­stockman, former member of the Texas House of Representatives from Denton, Democrat. His experiences and personal views as a member of the Texas House of Representatives; House speakerships in general; lobbyist activities.

JONES, Rebecca Humphrey (b. 1939)

Interview ID#
OH 1577
African-American alumna of North Texas State University. Memories of childhood and early adulthood in Dallas, Texas; experience of attending all-black schools, including Lincoln and Madison High Schools; decision to enroll at North Texas State College in 1957; adjustments required for attending school in integrated setting; experience of boarding…

KENNEDY, Albert E. (b. 1921)

Interview ID#
Oh 0699
Businessman, survivor of the sinking of the USS Houston. His experiences as a prisoner-of-war of the Japanese during World War II. Sinking of Houston, 1942; capture and imprisonment at Serang, Java; Bicycle Camp, Batavia, 1942; Changi Prison Camp, Singapore, 1942; building the Burma-Thailand Death Railway, 1942-44; Kanchanaburi, Thailand, 1944;…

KLEIN, Frank (b. 1938)

Interview ID#
OH 0655
Business executive. His experiences as a member of the football team during the desegregation of athletics at North Texas State College, 1956.

LAW, Hugh E. (b. 1917)

Interview ID#
OH 0572
His experiences at Schofield Barracks with the finance department during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.

LINDBERG, Charles W. (b. 1920)

Interview ID#
OH 1224
His experiences during the battle for Iwo Jima, February-March, 1945, in the Pacific Theater during World War II. Experiences with the 2nd Marine Raider Battalion at Guadalcanal, 1942-43, and Bougainville, 1943; integration into the newly formed 5th Marine Division, 1944; assignment as a flamethrower man; descriptions of and comments about…

MARTIN, Hugh (b. 1921)

Interview ID#
OH 1084
His experiences while aboard the battleship USS California during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.

McCLAIN, James L. (b. 1921)

Interview ID#
OH 0777
His experiences while aboard the cruiser USS Honolulu during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.

MEWHINNEY, Leonard S. (b. 1906)

Interview ID#
OHB 0092
Labor arbitrator, Denton, Texas. Family background; appointment to Naval Academy, 1923; description of academics and hazing at Naval Academy; assignments in Nicaragua, late 1920s; experiences during World War II as commander of submarine USS Saury in South Pacific; description of torpedo problems during war; teaching management, North Texas State…

MOODY, Sam B. (b. 1920)

Interview ID#
OH 1277
Survivor of the Bataan Death March. His experiences as a prisoner-of-war of the Japanese during World War II. Fall of Bataan and capture; Bataan Death March; Camp O'Donnell, 1942; Cabanatuan, 1942; Clark Field, Manila, 1942; Bilibid Prison, Manila, 1942-44; hell ship to Japan, 1944; Nagoya, Honshu, 1944-45; American air raids; liberation; his role…

MYERS, Lawrence (b. 1915)

Interview ID#
OH 0506
His experiences at Hickam Field with Headquarters Squadron, 5th Bombardment Group, during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.

NYAMAPFUMBA, George (b. 1978)

Interview ID#
OH 1732
For the DFW Metroplex Immigrants Oral History Project. Zimbabwean-born immigrant to North Texas. Politics in Zimbabwe; Robert Mugabe; Rhodesia; farm seizures; HIV-AIDS; English as a Second Language; U.S. immigration policy; education at Richland College; modern Africa, Zimbabwe independence, 1980.

TIMBLIN, Merle (b. 1921)

Interview ID#
OH 1718
Civilian Conservation Corps veteran. Childhood in western Pennsylvania; father’s work as a farmer, coal miner, and WPA blacksmith; life on farms and in mining towns during the Great Depression; decision to enroll in CCC before eighteenth birthday; experiences at CCC camps in Arizona and Pennsylvania; lessons learned from the CCC experience;…

UREY, Harry B., Jr. (b. 1923)

Interview ID#
OH 1339
Mechanical engineer. His experiences as a B-26 pilot in the European Theater during World War II. His pre-service work experiences assembling the B-26 for the Glenn L. Martin Company in Baltimore, Maryland; flying characteristics of the B-26; basic training, Miami Beach, Florida, 1942; enlistment in the Aviation Cadet Program; primary flight…

WAY, Bob (b. 1937)

Interview ID#
OH 0654
College instructor. His experiences as a member of the football team during the desegregation of athletics at North Texas State College, 1956.

WHITSON, Warren, Jr. (b. 1918)

Interview ID#
OH 1109
Businessman. His experiences as a B-17 pilot in the European Theater during World War II. Pre-flight and flight training, 1943; assignment to 493rd Bomb Group, 860th Bomb Squadron, at Stone, England; characteristics of the B-17G; first mission, Berlin; problems with flak; tactics to counter German radar; engine trouble and crash landing in eastern…

WOHLBIER, Hans (b. 1923)

Interview ID#
OH 1362
His experiences as a dive-bomber pilot on the Eastern Front during World War II. Involvement in the Hitler Youth, 1933-40; training at Breslau Luftkriegsschule, 1941-42; advanced Stuka training on the French Riviera, 1943; assignment to Stuka Wing 77 at Pancevo, Yugoslavia, 1943-44; assignment to the Ukraine, 1944, and ground support missions…

YTURRI, Johnny (b. 1900)

Interview ID#
OH 0623
His recollections concerning ranching in the early days of Orange County, California; Basque customs and folkways.