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HAUGH, Grace I. (b. 1922)

Interview ID#
OH 1367
Homemaker. Her experiences as the wife of a serviceman (William Haugh) who was in Europe during World War II. Her education and youth on the family farm; effects of the Great Depression on her family; effects of the Rural Electrification Administration on farm life; her marriage to William Haugh on October 4, 1941; birth of their first son on…

HERRMANN, William (b. 1922)

Interview ID#
OH 1545
Physicist. His experiences as a B-24 navigator in the Mediterranean and European Theaters during World War II. His decision to join the Enlisted Reserve Corps while a student at the University of Massachusetts, September, 1942; call to active duty, March, 1943, and Army basic training at Kearns, Utah; decision to volunteer for Aviation Cadet…

HOLSTON, William (b. 1922)

Interview ID#
OH 1003
His experiences while employed by the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression. Childhood in Alabama; joining the CCC; assignment to a camp near Powers, Oregon; description of camp; life in camp.

HUGHES, William E. (b. 1921)

Interview ID#
OH 0616
His experiences while aboard the target battleship USS Utah during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.

JAMES, Lester Lee (b. 1924)

Interview ID#
OH 1740
Experiences in the Pacific Theater aboard the USS Crescent City during the World War II; early years in Texas and California; work experience as a skilled tradesman in Nevada and Utah prior to military service; drafted into U.S. Navy and conflict with religious affiliation as Seventh Day Adventist; shipboard life and duties while on an amphibian…

JONES, Harold L. (b. 1921)

Interview ID#
OH 1336
His experiences as a B-17 co-pilot in the European Theater during World War II. Pre-flight training, Maxwell Field, Alabama, 1943; primary flight training, Bennettville, South Carolina, 1943; basic flight training, Shaw Field, South Carolina, 1943; advanced flight training, Atlanta, Georgia, 1943; forming of his crew; bomber training, Sioux City,…

KELLEY, Jack W. (b. 1921)

Interview ID#
OH 0418
His experiences while aboard the battleship USS Tennessee during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.

KITTERMAN, Ivan L. (b. 1922)

Interview ID#
OH 0776
His experiences while aboard the battleship USS Nevada during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.

LA RUE, Lemuel L. (b. 1923)

Interview ID#
OH 1550
Accountant. His experiences as an air forward observer in the European Theater during World War II. His early education and coping with the Great Depression; his decision to join the Oklahoma National Guard at age fifteen in 1938; Louisiana Maneuvers of 1940; mobilization of the 45th Division, Oklahoma National Guard, September 15, 1940; Louisiana…

LEWIS, Gibson (b. 1936)

Interview ID#
OH 0554
His experiences and personal views as a member of the Sixty-seventh Legislature. Elections of 1980; his quest for the House speakership; initiative-referendum; interest rates; tax relief; state water plan; redistricting; law-and-order issues; property tax legislation.

MANRIQUEZ, Antonio (b. 1971)

Interview ID#
OH 1621
For the Arms Along the Border Oral History Project. Resident of Presidio, Texas. Experiences of childhood in Presidio, including weekly visits across border to Ojinaga, Mexico; education at Sul Ross State University; career with State Parks Division of Texas State Parks and Wildlife agency; service on school board of Presidio ISD; opinions…

McADOW, Maurice (b. 1904)

Interview ID#
OH 0579
Former band director, School of Music, North Texas State College and North Texas State University. Early career as a musician; appointment to faculty at North Texas; development of the North Texas band program.

MERRILL, Harold E. (b. 1923)

Interview ID#
OH 0611
His experiences aboard the target battleship USS Utah during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.

MOODY, Ben (b. 1920)

Interview ID#
OH 1559
His experiences in the Southwest Pacific Theater during World War II. His youth during the Great Depression; his father’s leather shop in Kilgore, Texas, during the oil boom of the 1930s; influence of German leather carver Solon Aaron on his life; his education; his decision to join the Texas National Guard, November 18, 1940; his work in the…

MYERS, Francie (b. ca. 1910)

Interview ID#
OH 1461
For the Ray Roberts Lake Oral History Project. Homemaker. Her reminiscences about rural life in northern Denton County and southern Cooke County, Texas, 1910-1987; her ancestors’ role in the founding of Valley View, Texas; evolution of the family farm; canning and food preservation; rural social activities; lightning storms and tornadoes;…

NORRIS, Robinson R. (b. 1917)

Interview ID#
OH 0331
His experiences at Fort Shafter with the 64th Coast Artillery during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.

THORN, Floyd (b. 1918)

Interview ID#
OH 1412
His experiences as a pilot in the Pacific Theater during World War II. His youth in Texas; pre-war flying experience; decision to join the Navy Aviation Cadet Program, 1938; flight training, Pensacola Naval Air Station, Florida, 1938-39; Mine Warfare Laboratory, Yorktown, Virginia, 1939; operational training, North Island, San Diego, California,…

TYLER, Desmond R. (b. 1908) and Rose G. (b. 1916)

Interview ID#
OH 1318
Veteran and his wife. Their experiences with German prisoners-of-war while stationed at Fort Francis E. Warren, Wyoming, during World War II. Their courtship and marriage, 1942; Camp Callan, California, 1942-43; birth of their first child, August 2, 1943; Camp Davis, North Carolina, 1943-44; assignment to Fort Francis E. Warren, 1944; wartime…

WARREN, Steve P. (b. 1921)

Interview ID#
OH 0573
His experiences while aboard the converted yacht USS Elvida during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.

WHITE, W. Erle (b. 1907)

Interview ID#
OHB 0023
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Founder, White’s Auto Stores. Family background; early work experiences; education; work in auto supply stores, garages; starting own business in Clinton, Oklahoma, during Depression; location of home office in Wichita Falls; expansion and growth through franchising and company-owned stores; diversification of merchandise lines in auto stores;…

WISE, Mrs. Thomas R. (b. ca. 1900)

Interview ID#
OH 0054
Homemaker. Observations on land speculation, settlement, and development in the Coastal Bend area of South Texas, 1900-30. Cattle ranching; small town social life; Mexican-Anglo relations.

YOUNG, James (b. 1920)

Interview ID#
OH 0244
His experiences with VP-22 at Ford Island Naval Air Station during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.

PAINTER, Leon (b. 1921)

Interview ID#
OH 0214
His experiences at the Marine Barracks between Pearl Harbor and Hickam Field during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.

PEAYS, Thomas (b. 1918)

Interview ID#
OH 1400
Rancher. His experiences in the China-Burma-India Theater during World War II. Enrollment in the Civilian Pilot Training Program, 1942; tenure as a primary flight training instructor of Aviation Air Cadets, Harmon Training Center, Ballinger, Texas, 1942-43; Air Ferry Command, 1943; induction into the Army Air Forces, 1943; assignment to the Air…

SCHMIDT, Frank (b. 1918)

Interview ID#
OH 0197
His experiences with F Company, 3rd Defense Battalion, at the Marine Barracks between Pearl Harbor and Hickam Field during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.