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OH 0837

Businessman, maintenance man. His experiences while employed by the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression. Childhood near Aubrey, Texas; joining the CCC; assignment to a camp at White Rock Lake in Dallas, Texas; description of camp; life in camp; experiences as camp cook; WWII Naval service in Pacific Theater.

OH 0993

His experiences while employed by the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression. Childhood in Oklahoma; joining the CCC; assignment to a camp in Carlsbad, New Mexico; description of camp; life in camp.

OH 0684

Retired schoolteacher. His recollections about the African-American business community in Sherman, Texas, 1912-86; his eye-witness account of the lynching of George Hughes in Sherman, 1930; experiences as an African-American educator; local race relations.

OH 1398

Engineer. His experiences in the European Theater during World War II. Induction into the Army and basic training, Camp Hood, Killeen, Texas, 1943; transit to Europe as a replacement to E Company, 119th Infantry Regiment, 1944; action on the Siegfried Line, 1944; the Battle of Aachen, 1944; individual episodes of close ground combat; his observations of German tank concentrations immediately prior to the Ardennes Offensive, November 22, 1944; his battle wound and evacuation from the front, November 22, 1944; recuperation in France and England; return to the States, June, 1945.

OHB 0035

Emeritus professor of economics, University of North Texas. Family background; educational experiences at the University of Texas, Austin; membership in League for Industrial Democracy; winter lambing in West Texas; experiences during the Great Depression; view of economics and sociology department at North Texas, 1939; experiences in U.S.

Oh 0135

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, 1942; Malinta Tunnel; Cabanatuan, 1942-43; Bilibid Prison, Manila, 1943; hell ship to Japan, 1943; Tanagawa, Honshu, 1943-44; Zentsuji and Rokorushi, Honshu, 1944-45; liberation.