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The Clifton Record (Clifton, Tex.), Vol. 113, No. 10, Ed. 1 Wednesday, March 5, 2008
Weekly newspaper from Clifton, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date:
March 5, 2008
Creator:
Smith, W. Leon
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Nancy Love and the Wasp Ferry Pilots of World War II
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She flew the swift P-51 and the capricious P-38, but the heavy, four-engine B-17 bomber and C-54 transport were her forte. This is the story of Nancy Harkness Love who, early in World War II, recruited and led the first group of twenty-eight women to fly military aircraft for the U.S. Army. Love was hooked on flight at an early age. At sixteen, after just four hours of instruction, she flew solo “a rather broken down Fleet biplane that my barnstorming instructor imported from parts unknown.” The year was 1930: record-setting aviator Jacqueline Cochran (and Love’s future rival) had not yet learned to fly, and the most famous woman pilot of all time, Amelia Earhart, had yet to make her acclaimed solo Atlantic flight. When the United States entered World War II, the Army needed pilots to transport or “ferry” its combat-bound aircraft across the United States for overseas deployment and its trainer airplanes to flight training bases. Most male pilots were assigned to combat preparation, leaving few available for ferrying jobs. Into this vacuum stepped Nancy Love and her civilian Women’s Auxiliary Ferrying Squadron (WAFS). Love had advocated using women as ferry pilots as early as 1940. Jackie Cochran …
Date:
March 15, 2008
Creator:
Rickman, Sarah Byrn
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Dallas Voice (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 24, No. 34, Ed. 1 Friday, January 11, 2008
Weekly newspaper from Dallas, Texas that includes local, state, and national news and advertising of interest to the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) community.
Date:
January 11, 2008
Creator:
Nash, Tammye
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The Clifton Record (Clifton, Tex.), Vol. 113, No. 49, Ed. 1 Wednesday, December 3, 2008
Weekly newspaper from Clifton, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date:
December 3, 2008
Creator:
Smith, W. Leon
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Richmond Garrett, July 24, 2008
The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Richmond Garrett. Garrett was inducted into the Army in November of 1943. He completed Officer Candidate School. He was selected to join Company A, 1252nd Combat Engineer Battalion. In November of 1944 they were sent to England. He describes his travels overseas and accommodations on the ship Tamaroa. While there they built bridges, removed mines and built a roadway. In December 1944 they traveled to La Havre, France, to serve in Patton???s Third Army. In February of 1945 they took part in breaching operations against Siegfried Line. They advanced into Germany. He provides vivid details of these experiences, including dropping TNT-filled tomato cans down chimneys. They traveled to Bastogne, Belgium, completing road work and removing mines. Garrett received a Purple Heart and Bronze Star. He was discharged in April of 1946.
Date:
July 24, 2008
Creator:
Garrett, Richmond
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Gus Seeley, December 6, 2008
The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Gus Seeley. Seeley joined the Navy in July of 1940. During his career, he completed schooling for Yeoman, Naval Intelligence, Stenography and the Portuguese Language. Seeley served as Yeoman Third-Class aboard USS Honolulu (CL-48). They were moored in Pearl Harbor when the Japanese attacked. Seeley was later transferred to USS LST-312, serving in the European Theater. He participated in the Sicily Campaign, the Salerno landings and the Invasion of Normandy. Seeley was transferred to another LST, and also served in the invasions of the Philippines and Okinawa, and served with occupation forces in China.
Date:
December 6, 2008
Creator:
Seeley, Gus
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The Portal to Texas History
German-Texan Heritage Society, The Journal, Volume 30, Number 2, Summer 2008
Quarterly publication of the German-Texan Heritage Society providing information about news and events related to the work of the organization as well as stories, articles, genealogical data and other information of interest to members collected from representatives across Texas.
Date:
Summer 2008
Creator:
German-Texan Heritage Society
Object Type:
Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Boerne Star (Boerne, Tex.), Vol. 102, No. 16, Ed. 1 Friday, February 22, 2008
Semiweekly newspaper from Boerne, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date:
February 22, 2008
Creator:
Cartwright, Brian
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Benefits and Burdens of OCS Activities on States, Labor Markets Areas, Coastal Counties, and Selected Communities
A report assessing the effects of past and future OCS development.
Date:
November 2008
Creator:
Petterson, John S.; Glazier, Edward; Stanley, Laura; Mencken, Carson; Eschbach, Karl; Moore, Patrick et al.
Object Type:
Text
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The Boerne Star (Boerne, Tex.), Vol. 102, No. 20, Ed. 1 Friday, March 7, 2008
Semiweekly newspaper from Boerne, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date:
March 7, 2008
Creator:
Cartwright, Brian
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Last Known Position
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Most of the nine stories in Last Known Position were written upon James Mathews’ return from combat deployment to the Middle East with the D.C. Air National Guard. Life under fire provided the author with both dramatic events and a heightened sense of observation, allowing him to suggest the stress of combat as the driving factor behind extreme yet believable characterization and action. Military experiences and settings cause certain human elements and truisms to emerge more profoundly and dramatically. These stories portray desperate characters driven to make desperate choices. Always on the edge of a dark and unpleasant reality, Mathews’ characters survive by embracing fantasy, humor, violence, and sometimes redemption. Each story bears its own brand of hopeless quirkiness. Four teenagers on an army base steal a grenade and are stalked by a parade horse. A drifter returns home to rob the grandparents who raised him. A national guardsman faces a homicidal superior officer in Iraq on the eve of war. An elderly man worries that his wife’s new house guests are unrepentant cannibals. Always tense, sometimes ridiculous, and never dull, Last Known Position brings the reader to places unknown before and unforgettable after.
Date:
November 15, 2008
Creator:
Mathews, James
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Greensheet (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 39, No. 422, Ed. 1 Tuesday, October 7, 2008
Free weekly newspaper that includes business and classified advertising.
Date:
October 7, 2008
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Robert Thompson, January 11, 2008
The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Robert Thompson. One of seven boys, he was born in Dewar, Oklahoma 29 November 1921. Six of the boys served in the military during World War II, with two of them being killed in combat. Thompson describes his family life during the depression telling a touching story of his mother. After graduating from high school in 1938, he attended college for 2 years before going to California to work in a Northrup Aircraft plant. In 1942, he returned home and joined the Army. After completing basic training, he entered Officer Candidate School and was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the Field Artillery in March 1943. After attending Ranger School, he went overseas. He tells of his experiences in North Africa and Italy where he was assigned to the 132nd Field Artillery as a forward observer. During August 1944, he went to Southern France, where he was captured by the Germans. He recalls the various POW camps he was moved to including one in Hammelburg, Germany. While there, a US tank column, under the leadership of General George Patton liberated the inmates. Thompson recalls being captured again and …
Date:
January 11, 2008
Creator:
Thompson, Robert T.
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Death Lore: Texas Rituals, Superstitions, and Legends of the Hereafter
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Death provides us with some of our very best folklore. Some fear it, some embrace it, and most have pretty firm ideas about what happens when we die. Although some people may not want to talk about dying, it’s the only thing that happens to all of us–and there’s no way to get around it. This Publication of the Texas Folklore Society examines the lore of death and whatever happens afterward. The first chapter examines places where people are buried, either permanently or temporarily. Chapter Two features articles about how people die and the rituals associated with funerals and burials. The third chapter explores some of the stranger stories about what happens after we’re gone, and the last chapter offers some philosophical musings about death in general, as well as our connection to those who have gone before.
Date:
December 15, 2008
Creator:
Texas Folklore Society
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Transforming the National Guard and Reserves into a 21st-Century Operational Force Final Report to Congress and the Secretary of Defense
Final report of the Commission on the National Guard and Reserves describing their activities, findings, and recommendations for change to ensure the reserve components of the U.S. military are organized, trained, equipped, compensated, and supported to best meet the needs of the U.S. national security. This final report was informed by 7 days of public hearings, involving 115 witnesses; 52 Commission meetings; more than 850 interviews; and the detailed analysis of thousands of documents. It contains six major conclusions and 95 recommendations, supported by 163 findings.
Date:
January 31, 2008
Creator:
United States. Commission on the National Guard and Reserves
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Twentieth-century Texas: a Social and Cultural History
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Texas changed enormously in the twentieth century, and much of that transformation was a direct product of social and cultural events. Standard histories of Texas traditionally focus on political, military, and economic topics, with emphasis on the nineteenth century. In Twentieth-Century Texas: A Social and Cultural History editors John W. Storey and Mary L. Kelley offer a much-needed corrective. Written with both general and academic audiences in mind, the fourteen essays herein cover Indians, Mexican Americans, African Americans, women, religion, war on the homefront, music, literature, film, art, sports, philanthropy, education, the environment, and science and technology in twentieth-century Texas. Each essay is able to stand alone, supplemented with appropriate photographs, notes, and a selected bibliography. In spite of its ongoing mythic image of rugged ranchers, cowboys, and longhorns, Texas today is a major urban, industrial society with all that brings, both good and bad. For example, first-rate medical centers and academic institutions exist alongside pollution and environment degradation. These topics, and more, are carefully explored in this anthology. It will appeal to anyone interested in the social and cultural development of the state. It will also prove useful in the college classroom, especially for Texas history courses.
Date:
March 15, 2008
Creator:
University of North Texas Press
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The Boerne Star (Boerne, Tex.), Vol. 102, No. 36, Ed. 1 Friday, May 2, 2008
Semiweekly newspaper from Boerne, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date:
May 2, 2008
Creator:
Cartwright, Brian
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Boerne Star (Boerne, Tex.), Vol. 102, No. 30, Ed. 1 Friday, April 11, 2008
Semiweekly newspaper from Boerne, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date:
April 11, 2008
Creator:
Cartwright, Brian
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
History of the Offshore Oil and Gas Industry in Southern Louisiana
A report detailing the history of the offshore petroleum industry in Southern Louisiana, including accounts from people who were present.
Date:
September 2008
Creator:
Austin, Diane E.
Object Type:
Text
System:
The UNT Digital Library