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Tagged with "Richard W. Byrd"

  • Schoolteacher, community activist, homemaker. Her experiences concerning the activities of the Denton Christian Women’s Inter-Racial Fellowship during the 1960s and 1970s. Group social activities and parties; desegregation of public places in Denton…
  • College professor, community activist. Her experiences concerning the activities of the Denton Christian Women’s Inter-Racial Fellowship during the 1960s and 1970s. Early organization and social activities; early experiences with discrimination;…
  • Public employee; community activist. Her experiences concerning the Denton Christian Women’s Inter-Racial Fellowship during the 1960s and 1970s. Early organization and social activities; experiences in a segregated environment; street paving of…
  • Schoolteacher, community activist. Her experiences concerning the activities of the Denton Christian Women’s Inter-Racial Fellowship during the 1960s and 1970s. Segregation in Denton; desegregation of the schools and public facilities in Denton;…
  • 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…
  • Community activist. Her experiences concerning the activities of the Denton Christian Women’s Inter-Racial Fellowship during the 1960s and 1970s. Life in a segregated community; desegregation of North Texas State College; desegregation of public…
  • Schoolteacher, community activist. Her experiences concerning the activities of the Denton Christian Women’s Inter-Racial Fellowship during the 1960s and 1970s. Early experiences with segregation; segregation in Denton; decision to join the…
  • Schoolteacher, community activist. Her experiences concerning the activities of the Denton Christian Women’s Inter-Racial Fellowship during the 1960s and 1970s. Early relationships with African-Americans in rural Georgia; decision to join the…
  • Community activist, homemaker. Her experiences concerning the activities of the Denton Christian Women’s Inter-Racial Fellowship during the 1960s and 1970s. Experiences in growing up in a segregated society in East Texas; PTA activities;…
  • A follow-up to her earlier recollections concerning the activities of the Denton Christian Women’s Inter-Racial Fellowship during the 1960s and 1970s.
  • His experiences in the Pacific Theater during World War II. Guadalcanal, 1942-43; Tarawa, 1943; and Okinawa, 1945.
  • His experiences as a dive-bomber pilot during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941; his participation in the Aleutians Campaign, June 1942, and the “Great Marianas Turkey Shoot,” May 1944; surrender of Rota Island, September 2,…
  • His experiences aboard the destroyer Chevalier during the Battle of Vella Lavella in January 1943; his naval career after World War II.
  • His experiences aboard LST-446 during the Solomon Islands Campaign, 1942-43; participation in the landings on Guadalcanal, New Georgia, Vella Lavella, and Bougainville; Marianas campaign and landings at Saipan and Guam, 1944.
  • His experiences in the Pacific Theater during World War II. Assignment to USS Richmond; Komandorski Island action; Aleutians Campaign; post World War II naval career.
  • His experiences as a naval officer in the Pacific Theater during World War II. New York State Merchant Marine Academy, 1941; assignment to USS Sheridan (APA-51); Tarawa landing, 1943; Marshall Islands landings, 1944; Saipan landing, 1944; assignment…
  • 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 during internment in the Soviet Union, 1943-44, after the downing of his bomber by Japanese planes. Alaskan operations; internment by the Soviets and his treatment; postwar career in the Air Force.
  • Physician. His experiences and recollections as a prisoner-of-war of the Japanese during World War II after the fall of Malaya.
  • Her experiences as a prisoner-of-war of the Japanese during World War II. Santo Tomas, Manila, 1942-43; Los Banos, 1943-45
  • 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.
  • Journalist, survivor of the siege of Corregidor. His experiences as a prisoner-of-war of the Japanese during World War II. Fall of Corregidor and capture; Cabanatuan, 1942; Mukden, Manchuria, 1942-45; liberation by Russian troops.
  • Journalist. His experiences as a bureau manager in the Pacific Theater for United Press during World War II. Pearl Harbor attack; military censorship; CINCPAC and Admiral Chester W. Nimitz; comments about Admiral William ("Bull") Halsey and General…
  • His experiences while in training to become a kamikaze pilot, 1945.
  • Her experiences as a teen­age civilian internee of the Japanese in the Philippines during World War II. Internment on Cebu, 1942; Santo Tomas, Manila, 1942-45; fall of Manila and liberation.