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Oral History Interview with Marilyn Gibson Calhoun, February 14, 2023
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Interview with Marilyn Gibson Calhoun, a UNT graduate from Dallas, Texas. Calhoun discusses her education, family, involvement with the civil rights movement, support and community groups that formed among African-American students that were experiencing discrimination at North Texas State, her teaching career, family, going through breast cancer, the COVID-19 Pandemic, and the Remembering Black Dallas group.
Date:
February 14, 2023
Creator:
Burns, Regina L. & Calhoun, Marilyn Gibson
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Eagles Overhead: the History of US Air Force Forward Air Controllers, from the Meuse-Argonne to Mosul
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US Air Force Forward Air Controllers (FACs) bridge the gap between air and land power. They operate in the grey area of the battlefield, serving as an aircrew who flies above the battlefield, spots the enemy, and relays targeting information to control close air support attacks by other faster aircraft. When done well, Air Force FACs are the fulcrum for successful employment of air power in support of ground forces. Unfortunately, FACs in recent times have been shunned by both ground and air forces, their mission complicated by inherent difficulty and danger, as well as by the vicissitudes of defense budgets, technology, leadership, bureaucracy, and doctrine. Eagles Overhead is the first complete historical survey of the US Air Force FAC program from its origins in World War I to the modern battlefield. Matt Dietz examines their role, status, and performance in every US Air Force air campaign from the Marne in 1918, World War II, Korea, Vietnam, Desert Storm, and finally Mosul in 2017. With the remaking of the post-Vietnam US military, and the impact of those changes on FAC, the Air Force began a steady neglect of the FAC mission from Operation Desert Storm, through the force reductions after …
Date:
February 2023
Creator:
Dietz, Matt,
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Mount Pleasant Tribune (Mount Pleasant, Tex.), Vol. 146, No. 17, Ed. 1 Wednesday, February 5, 2020
Semiweekly newspaper from Mount Pleasant, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date:
February 5, 2020
Creator:
Oglesby, Miranda
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Christian Chronicle (Oklahoma City, Okla.), Vol. 77, No. 2, Ed. 1 Saturday, February 1, 2020
Monthly newspaper from Oklahoma City, Oklahoma that includes news and information about the Churches of Christ along with advertising.
Date:
February 1, 2020
Creator:
Ross, Bobby, Jr.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 100, No. 34, Ed. 1 Sunday, February 16, 2020
Triweekly newspaper from Baytown, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date:
February 16, 2020
Creator:
Bloom, David
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Altus Times (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 115, No. 6, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 11, 2021
Weekly newspaper from Altus, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date:
February 11, 2021
Creator:
Hilley, Kevin
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
The Altus Times (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 114, No. 31, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 6, 2020
Weekly newspaper from Altus, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date:
February 6, 2020
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History