Flight 1, Region One Newsletter, Volume 10 Number 5, October, 1999 (open access)

Flight 1, Region One Newsletter, Volume 10 Number 5, October, 1999

Newsletter for Region I members of the former World War II Women Airforce Service Pilots, including news, events, stories about the group's history, and other information of interest to the members.
Date: October 1999
Creator: Women Airforce Service Pilots (U.S.)
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History

Sketches from the Hintok POW Camp, 1943-1944

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Postwar sketches of life as a prisoner-of-war of the Japanese at Hintok, Thailand, 1942-44, created by John Wisecup, Marine Corps veteran and a survivor of the sinking of the cruiser USS Houston. Bridge-building details; "Pack of Cards" bridge; Japanese cruelties and atrocities; tropical diseases; burial details. Includes six leaves of a poem titled, "Saga of Bamboo Jim," an introduction, and a foreword.
Date: 1999
Creator: Wisecup, John
Object Type: Artwork
System: The UNT Digital Library
WASP News, Volume 37, Number 1, Spring, 1999 (open access)

WASP News, Volume 37, Number 1, Spring, 1999

Newsletter of the former World War II Women Airforce Service Pilots including news, events, stories about the group's history, and other information of interest to the members.
Date: Spring 1999
Creator: Women Airforce Service Pilots (U.S.)
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History

Oral History Interview with Robert Seidel, September 7, 1999

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Interview with Robert Seidel, a Army Air Force WWII veteran from Elkhart, Indiana, who served in the 763rd Bomb Squadron in the European Theater. Accompanied by his wife Helen, Seidel discusses his family, the start of the war and joining the Air Corps, training as a flight engineer, assignment to the B-24 and deployment to Spinazzola, Italy, flying combat missions, life at the base, ditching his aircraft near Salzburg and getting captured, being interrogated, internment at Stalag Luft IV, liberation, and returning to the US. In appendix are three photos of Seidel, his B-24 crew, and their aircraft, Seidel's papers from when he was a German prisoner, his POW log book, the official narrative report of the mission he was lost on, and a letter from his family while he was in Italy.
Date: September 7, 1999
Creator: Lane, Peter B. & Seidel, Robert
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
World War II Times, Volume 14, Number 4, October 28, 1999 (open access)

World War II Times, Volume 14, Number 4, October 28, 1999

Newspaper clipping of The World War II Times containing stories about veterans and WASP as well as about WWII. There are also photographs, comics, and advertisements included.
Date: October 28, 1999
Creator: World War II Times
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History

Oral History Interview with George B. Andrews, March 5, 1999

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Transcript of an interview withGeorge B. Andrews, Army Air Forces veteran (526th Fighter Squadron, 86th Fighter Group, 9th Air Force), concerning his experiences as a fighter pilot in the European Theater during World War II. Appendix includes thirty-six pages of recollections from the interviewee.
Date: March 5, 1999
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Andrews, George B.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library