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Tagged with "1941"

  • Businessman. His experiences in the China-Burma-India Theater during World War II. Pre-war education and farming activities in Olney, Texas; enlistment in the Army Air Forces, c. 1941; assignment to Chanute Field, Illinois, c. 1941-42; Officer…
  • 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…
  • 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;…
  • For the Tarrant County War Veterans Oral History Project. World War II veteran. Childhood and education in San Antonio, Texas; challenges of the Great Depression; decision to enter John Sealy College of Nursing of the University of Texas; decision…
  • His experiences while aboard the cruiser USS New Orleans during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
  • District manager, Duke and Ayres Company, Denton, Texas. Family background, description of Vashti, Texas, community and farming experiences; comments on work baling hay and harvesting wheat; employment with Cabell’s Ice Cream and the Baker Hotel…
  • Owners and operators of grocery and furniture refinishing businesses, Fort Worth, Texas. Clarence’s family background; employment at grocery store, Kansas City, 1917; work for Sandegaard’s grocery store, Fort Worth, 1919; employment with A&P tea…