Insurance executive, real estate investor. His experiences in the European Theater during World War II; his experiences as a prisoner-of-war of the Germans. Pre-war education and college at the University of Texas; his reaction to the Japanese…
Her reminiscences as the wife of General Olinto Barsanti, 1942-1973. Their courtship in San Antonio; her coping with various assignments to Europe, Japan, and Washington, DC; child-raising; his activities in the Korean War; his promotion to general…
Business executive. His experiences as a mechanic in the Southwest Pacific Theater during World War II. His family background and education; influence of the Great Depression on his military and civilian careers; his decision to enlist in the Marine…
Commercial airline pilot. His experiences as a B-24 pilot in the China-Burma-India Theater during World War II. His prewar education through college at the University of Houston; Junior ROTC in high school; joining the Texas Air Guard (111th…
His experiences as a B-24 navigator in the European Theater during World War II. His education through college and graduation from Kansas State University, 1942; decision to enlist as an Aviation Cadet in the Army Air Forces, 1943; navigator…
His experiences as an OS2U Kingfisher gunner aboard the cruiser USS Detroit in the Pacific Theater during World War II. His youth on a ranch in West Texas; his decision to enlist in the Navy, June, 1943; boot camp at San Diego, California, 1943;…
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;…
Farmer. His experiences aboard the escort carrier USS Kadashan Bay in the Pacific Theater during World War II. His rural background in West Texas; his decision to join the Navy, in 1943; boot camp and fireman’s school, San Diego, California, 1943;…
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,…
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…
His experiences in the European Theater during World War II. His youth in West Texas during the Great Depression; his education in Cisco and Mexia, Texas; his early interest in the cornet and the influence of Robert L. Maddox; enrollment at Texas…
Accountant. His experiences in the European Theater during World War II. His youth in an Italian immigrant family in Tonopah, Nevada; his early job selling newspapers while in school; graduation from high school and enrollment at Woodbury College,…
Administrator. Childhood in St. Louis, Missouri; draft into infantry; basic training; deployment to the European theater; Battle of the Bulge; attending University in France; return stateside; post-war life; veterans group involvement.
Owner and operator, Jagoe Abstract Company, Denton, Texas and co-owner, Lewisville Fishing Barge, Lewisville, Texas. Family background; history of Carroll’s abstract business and Jagoe Abstract Company; history of Denton courthouses; origins of…
