For the Tarrant County War Veterans Oral History Project. World War II veteran and flight instructor to the Tuskegee Airmen. Childhood and early education in Fort Worth, Texas; early love of flying; decision to attend Tuskegee Institute and 1940 graduation; participation in Civilian Pilot Training Program; employment at Tuskegee’s Moton Field as flight instructor; opinions regarding various pilots at Tuskegee; postwar career as U.S. Air Force flight instructor.

His experiences while aboard the destroyer USS Phelps during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941; his subsequent experiences aboard the Phelps in the Pacific and Atlantic Theaters during World War II.

Law enforcement officer. His experiences while serving with the Birmingham, Alabama, Police Department during the civil rights movement of the 1960s and 1970s.

Executive, Caltex Petroleum Corporation. Educational background; banking business in London; employment with Caltex and assignment with Bapco on Bahrain, 1937; Bahraini royal family; Bapco policies; World War II; post-World War II developments on Bahrain; assignment to Caltex (New York), 1957; Caltex reorganization, 1957; Caltex West Fiscal; OPEC and Third World; reentry of Socal and Texaco into European market, 1967.

Her experiences as a riveter at Armstrong Cork and Rubber Company, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, during World War II.

His experiences in the China-Burma-India Theater during World War II. Enlistment in the Navy and boot camp, Corpus Christi, Texas, 1942; advanced schooling in meteorology and aerology, 1942; volunteering for duty in China; accounts of insurgency operations and intelligence gathering in China, 1943-45; comments about the Sino-American Cooperative Organization.

His experiences as a B-24 navigator in the European Theater during World War II; also his experiences as a prisoner-of-war in Germany.

Business executive. His experiences as a pilot trainee in the United States during World War II.

Businessman. His experiences as a PBJ (B-25) pilot in the Southwest Pacific Theater during World War II.

His experiences as a B-17 pilot and a prisoner-of-war in the European Theater during World War II.