TwitterVane Installation Guide (open access)

TwitterVane Installation Guide

This document serves as the TwitterVane Installation Guide. It describes how install, configure and deploy the TwitterVane web application.
Date: February 19, 2013
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Robert Prevninger, February 14, 2013 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Robert Prevninger, February 14, 2013

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Robert Prevninger. Prevninger was drafted into the Army in June of 1944. He was trained as a tanker and eventually became a gunner on a Stuart tank and was later transferred to a Sherman tank. Prevninger describes crossing the Rhine and advancing across Germany. He discusses how they handled German prisoners at the end of the war. Prevninger served in the occupation and was eventually discharged.
Date: February 14, 2013
Creator: Prevninger, Robert
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Raymond Swingholm, February 6, 2013 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Raymond Swingholm, February 6, 2013

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Raymond Swingholm. Swingholm joined the Army Air Forces in early 1942. Beginning in March of 1944, he served as a top turret gunner and flight engineer aboard a B-25 with the 12th Air Force. Swingholm completed 64 bombing missions, over Northern Italy, Belgium and France.
Date: February 6, 2013
Creator: Swingholm, Raymond
System: The Portal to Texas History

Cinema Across Cultures

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Transcript of Samik Bandyopadhyaya's Lecture on Indian Regional Cinema and Binodini at the 1st M. K. Binodini Devi Memorial Lecture in Imphal, Manipur, India.
Date: February 6, 2013
Creator: Bandyopadhyay, Samik
System: The UNT Digital Library

Biography of Maharaj Kumari Binodini Devi

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Biography of M. K. Binodini Devi.
Date: February 6, 2013
Creator: Roy, L. Somi
System: The UNT Digital Library
Firms Reported to Have Engaged in Activities Related to Iran's Energy and Communications Sectors While Having Had U.S. Government Contracts (open access)

Firms Reported to Have Engaged in Activities Related to Iran's Energy and Communications Sectors While Having Had U.S. Government Contracts

Correspondence issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "Of the seven foreign firms we identified in December 2012 as having been reported to have engaged in commercial activity in Iran's energy sector at some point between June 1, 2011, and September 30, 2012, we found that one--Daelim--had U.S. government contracts. Our review of open sources did not identify any foreign firms that exported technologies to the Iranian government for monitoring, filtering, or disrupting information and communications flows."
Date: February 25, 2013
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Henry Zapalac, February 4, 2013 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Henry Zapalac, February 4, 2013

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Henry Zapalac. Zapalac joined the Navy in February 1941 and received basic training in San Diego. Upon completion, he was assigned to the Alameda Naval Air Station for ordnance training. While there, he serviced PBYs that were used in flight training. His first assignment in the Pacific was loading ammunition onto an island near Tarawa. He suffered a bout of malaria while there. At Saipan he flew patrols, dropping rafts and supplies to stranded troops. He stayed on Saipan several years, doing odd jobs until he was transferred to Corpus Christi, where he ran the movie projector. Zapalac was discharged in 1947 and became an appliance repairman.
Date: February 4, 2013
Creator: Zapalac, Henry
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Frank E. Cook, February 1, 2013 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Frank E. Cook, February 1, 2013

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Robert L. Cook, speaking for his deceased brother Frank E. Cook. Cook served with the National Guard. He was assigned to Panama working as a patrol boat guard. In early 1943, Cook served as Executive Officer aboard PT-170 in Motor Torpedo Boat Squadron 10. While traveling from Panama to Noumea, on 3 August 1943, Frank and his crew were caught in a crossfire with the Japanese and Frank died 5 August.
Date: February 1, 2013
Creator: Cook, Frank E
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Merle Volding, February 22, 2013 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Merle Volding, February 22, 2013

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Merle Volding. Volding was born 19 December 1923. He joined the US Army Signal Corps around late 1941. He completed extensive training as a radar technician at the School of Engineering at the University of Iowa. He then completed further engineering and cryptography training through the Army’s Specialized Training Program (ASTP). Around late 1944 through the end of the war, he worked in the SOPAC message center on New Caledonia. He shares details of life on the island. He returned to the US and received his discharge in February of 1946.
Date: February 22, 2013
Creator: Volding, Merle
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Eugene N. Fithian, February 4, 2013 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Eugene N. Fithian, February 4, 2013

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Eugene N. Fithian. Born in 1925, he joined the Navy in 1943. He describes basic training and living conditions in Great Lakes, Illinois. Following basic training, he was assigned to the Navy Overflow Annex from Treasure Island where he worked in the fleet post office becoming a Mailman, Third Class. He was then assigned to the destroyer, USS Farenholt (DD-491). On the Farenholt, he became a cook and was assigned as a leader on a 20mm and later a 40mm anti-aircraft gun. He shares an anecdote about becoming seasick within two hours after sailing out from San Francisco. He describes screening operations for the landings on Kwajalein and Guam and carrier fleet operations in the Philippine Island area and Peleliu. He comments on the kamikazes, rescuing downed pilots and survivors of damaged or sunken ships, bombarding shore targets and carrier operations in the Sakishima Gunto. He shares a story of taking pictures of the Japanese generals on Okinawa on their way to the peace talks in Manila. After arriving in South Carolina, he was transferred to the USS Caperton (DD-650) prior to its decommissioning. He was discharged from …
Date: February 4, 2013
Creator: Fithian, Eugene
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Henry Knauber, February 16, 2013 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Henry Knauber, February 16, 2013

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Henry L. Knauber. Knauber joined the Army in January 1942. He completed basic training and Motor Maintenance School in Georgia. He served as a truck driver and mechanic in a service company in the 1st Infantry Division. In August, they went to England. Through May of 1943, they participated in combat through North Africa. In July, the division took part in the Allied invasion of Sicily. Beginning 6 June 1944, they participated in the Battle of Normandy. They continued on through France, Luxembourg, Belgium and into Germany by October, and participated in the Battle of the Bulge through January of 1945. Knauber and his division were in Czechoslovakia when the war ended in May. He returned home and received his discharge on 13 September 1945.
Date: February 16, 2013
Creator: Knauber, Henry
System: The Portal to Texas History