Staff member, University of North Texas. His experiences as a student at North Texas State College during the desegregation of the school, 1957-60. Comments about President J C Matthews; observations about racial matters on the college campus and the community of Denton, Texas.

His experiences in the Southwest Pacific Theater during World War II. His decision to join the Texas National Guard, 1936; the federalization of the National Guard, November 18, 1940; training at Fort Bliss, El Paso, Texas, 1940-41; additional training at Fort Clark, Brackettville, Texas, 1941; Louisiana Maneuvers, summer, 1941; breaking in…

His experiences while serving as flag lieutenant and aide to Admiral Chester A. Nimitz during World War II. Nimitz’s personal and professional routines; comments about Admirals William (“Bull”) Halsey and Raymond Spruance; Roosevelt-Nimitz-Macarthur conference at Pearl Harbor, July-August, 1944; transfer of CINCPAC from Pearl Harbor to Guam.

His experiences while employed by the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression. Childhood in Ohio; joining the CCC; assignment to Camp Stony Creek near Chillicothe, Ohio; reenlistment to a camp at Xenia, Ohio; description of camps; life in camps.

Novelist. His various reminiscences based on his experiences in the Philippines during World War II. Comments about Army life in general; jungle patrols; observations on the Japanese surrender in Tokyo Bay, September 2, 1945; the role of his wartime experiences in his novel, The Naked and the Dead.

His experiences and personal views as a member of the Sixty-sixth Legislature. Comments about Governor William Clements; appropriations; teacher salaries; public school financing; consumer legislation; presidential primary bill; “Killer Bees.”

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

Librarian. Her experiences concerning the activities of the Denton Christian Women’s Inter-Racial Fellowship during the 1960s and 1970s. Coping with segregation in Denton; street paving in the African-American section of Denton; desegregation of North Texas State College; her college experiences; tutoring program; decision to join the Fellowship;…

His experiences while aboard the repair ship USS Vestal during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.

His experiences as a student at the Frederick Douglass Colored School, Denton, Texas, 1926-32.

Businessman. His experiences as a prisoner-of-war of the Germans after being captured during the Battle of the Bulge. Action on Siegfried Line, 1944; capture on December 17, 1944, and interrogation; imprisonment at Bonn, 1945; Nürnberg, 1945; Hammelburg Prison Camp, 1945, and abortive rescue attempt by U. S. 3rd Army troops; Nürnberg, 1945, and…

His experiences while employed by the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression. Childhood in South Carolina; joining the CCC; assignment to Company 1417 near Rodman, South Carolina; company move to Lancaster, South Carolina; description of camps; life in camps.

His experiences with Recovery Team No. 4 in the recovery of the remains of American military personnel in China, 1945-46. Texas A&M College, 1943-45; being drafted into the Army and basic training at Camp Wolters, Mineral Wells, Texas, 1945; Officer Candidate School, Fort Benning, Georgia, 1945; preparations for the invasion of Japan;…

Business executive, president of the local chapter of the NAACP in Sherman, Texas. His comments concerning race relations and the development of African American businesses in Sherman, Texas, during the 1980s.

Airline pilot. His experiences as a B-25 pilot in the Pacific Theater during World War II. Pre-war job experiences; enlistment in the Army Air Forces, November, 30, 1942; basic training, Atlantic City, New Jersey, 1943; college preparatory courses, Geneva College, Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania, 1943; primary flight training, Canton, Mississippi, 1943…

His experiences as a flying boat pilot in the Pacific Theater during World War II. Decision to enlist in the Navy, May, 1942; basic flight training, Naval Air Station, Grand Prairie, Texas, 1942; advanced flight training, Naval Air Station, Corpus Christi, Texas, 1942; PBY flying boat training at Corpus Christi, 1942-43; his tenure as a flight…

Businessman. His experiences at Schofield Barracks with the 21st Infantry during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.

His experiences as a dive-bomber pilot in the Pacific Theater during World War II. Childhood and adolescence in Elgin, Illinois; enrollment at Iowa State University, 1940; enlistment in Naval Aviation Cadet Program, 1942; basic flight training, Wheaton, College, 1942; pre-flightschool, Ottumwa, Iowa, 1943; advanced training, Corpus Christi Naval…

Owners and operators of grocery and furniture refinishing businesses, Fort Worth, Texas. Clarence’s family background; employment at grocery store, Kansas City, 1917; work for Sandegaard’s grocery store, Fort Worth, 1919; employment with A&P tea Company, 1927-37; opening of grocery stores in Fort Worth; description of equipment and food…

His experiences as a B-17 pilot and a prisoner-of-war in the European Theater during World War II. Enlistment in the Air National Guard (154th Observation Squadron), 1939; enlistment in the Aviation Cadet Program, 1942; pre-flight training, Maxwell Field, Alabama, 1942; primary flight training, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, 1942; basic flight training,…

For the Ray Roberts Lake Oral History Project. Teacher. His reminiscences about life on an African-American farm in Denton County, Texas, 1934-1960. Memories of his ex-slave step-grandfather; his description of old farm equipment; crops and livestock; canning and food preservation; a description of the family sorghum mill; their first radio; home…

Banker. His experiences in the Pacific Theater during World War II. Youth and education in Denton, Texas; decision to join the Navy, February 3, 1944; boot training and electrical engineering school, San Diego, California, 1944; assignment to the aircraft carrier USS Hancock, July, 1944; a description of his duties aboard the Hancock; assignment…

Businessman, 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;…

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, 1942; building the Burma-Thailand Death Railway, 1942-44; Kanchanaburi, Thailand, 1944, and American air raids; Bangkok, 1944-45; liberation.