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 in the Southwest Pacific Theater during World War II. His youth in rural Mississippi; his move to Texas in 1939; his decision to join the 112th Cavalry, 1940; mobilization of the Texas National Guard, November, 1940; Louisiana…
His experiences aboard the motor torpedo boat tender USS Jamestown in the Southwest Pacific Theater during World War II. Enlistment in the Navy, 1938; boot camp, Newport, Rhode Island, 1938; electrician’s school and assignment to the battleship USS…
His experiences in the China-Burma-India Theater during World War II. His education and youth in South Texas; enlistment in the Army, September, 1942; assignment to the Courts-Martial Section, Fort Sam Houston, San Antonio, Texas, 1942-44; Officer…
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;…
Engineer. His experiences while aboard the battleship USS Wyoming, light cruiser USS Boise, and submarine USS Mackerel during World War II. His pre-war education and employment; enlistment in the Navy, July 8, 1942; boot camp at Great Lakes,…
Landscape architect. His experience as a member of PRISIC in the Pacific Theater during World War II. Educational background including graduation from Kansas State University with a degree in landscape architecture; commissioning as a U.S. Navy…
His experiences in the China-Burma-India Theater during World War II. His volunteering for the draft, 1943; assignment to Burma, 1944; attachment to Merrill’s Marauders (5307th Composite Unit [Provisional]); combat around Myitkyina, Burma, 1944;…
Attorney. His experiences in the China-Burma-India Theater during World War II. Induction into the Army, April, 1943; Officer Candidate School, Fort Benning, Georgia, 1943-44; selection for the Counter Intelligence Corps, 1944; British Intelligence…
His experiences as an officer in the Southwest Pacific Theater during World War II. His youth during the Great Depression; ROTC at Texas A&M College and commissioning as a second lieutenant in the cavalry; ordered to active duty with the 1st…
Real estate developer. His experiences concerning the Texas International Pop Festival, Lewisville, Texas, August 30-September 1, 1969. The influence of the Great Depression and World War II on his parents’ values; car-racing as a teenager in…
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;…
His experiences in the Southwest Pacific Theater during World War II; his youth in Dallas during the Great Depression; his decision to join the 112th Cavalry, 1939, at age sixteen; mobilization and assignment to Fort Bliss, El Paso, Texas, 1940;…
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,…
His reminiscences about his association with General Curtis LeMay. Bomber operations against Japan, and Japanese occupied territory, 1944-45; LeMay’s role in formulating strategic bombing tactics in the Pacific Theater; his assignment with the…
Architect. His impressions of General Curtis LeMay in the Pacific Theater during World War II. His assignment to Saipan, Mariana Islands, for bombing operations against the Japanese homeland, December, 1944; failures of the 58th Bomb Wing in the CBI…
His experiences as a B-24 pilot in the European theater during World War II; also his experiences as a prisoner-of-war of the Germans. His youth during the Great Depression in Toledo, Ohio; college at the University of Toledo and Columbia University…
His experiences in combat in Philippines during World War II; presence in Yokohama Harbor during Japanese surrender; and in Tokyo during post-war U. S. occupation of Japan.
Childhood and early adulthood in Texas, New Mexico, Arizona and Colorado. World War II-era Army Air Corps training in armaments and electronics. Stateside service in 303rd Bomb Group of the Eighth Air Force; aviation cadet training; service as a B…
Childhood and early adulthood in Houston, Texas; education at Rice Institute. World War II-era service in U.S. Navy aboard the USS Turner; convoy missions across the Atlantic Ocean; January 4, 1944, sinking of the Turner while moored in New York…
North Texas business owner. Remembrances about childhood in Lindsay, St. Joe, and Gainesville, Texas; being drafted into U.S. Air Force; training at various stateside bases and overseas service in China-Burma-India and Pacific theaters as top-gunner…
For the Denton County Historical Commission. Longtime Denton residents. Frank’s childhood in Jasper County, Tex., and family’s move to Denton; career; education at North Texas State College and Louisiana State University; career as radio announcer…
Longtime North Texas music professor and wife. Bob Rogers’ childhood in Bartlesville and Tulsa, Oklahoma; education at Julliard School of Music and Columbia Teachers College; service in World War II-era Army; and career as faculty member in North…
Childhood experiences in upstate New York, including Depression-era economy; education at Cornell University; drafting into the U.S. Army Infantry and service at several stateside bases; transfer to Cavalry and combat in Pacific Theater; memories of…
