Instructor's Manual: Basic Flying (open access)

Instructor's Manual: Basic Flying

Training manual developed for U.S. Army flight instructors that details methods and steps for teaching students to fly aircraft.
Date: unknown
Creator: United States. Army Air Forces. Air Training Command.
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
Military transportation service in theaters of operations. (open access)

Military transportation service in theaters of operations.

A training guide describing "the mission, functions, policies, organization, and operation of the military transportation service in theaters of operations. "
Date: December 1945
Creator: United States. War Department.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Students' Manual: Advanced Single-Engine Flying] (open access)

[Students' Manual: Advanced Single-Engine Flying]

Students' manual for advanced single-engine flying, prepared by the Army Airforces, Training Command, Visual Training Unit in collaboration with the Central Instructors School at Randolph Field, Texas, and Headquarters, AAF, office of Flying Safety Education Division. Manual meant to be used in conjunction with the current AAF training command memorandum covering advanced single-engine flying training. There are no split sections in the manual, instead, information is organized in chronological order.
Date: unknown
Creator: Army Air Forces Training Command
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Students' Manual: Primary Flying] (open access)

[Students' Manual: Primary Flying]

Primary flying manual prepared by the Army Airforces Training Command, Visual Training Unit in collaboration with the central instructors school, Randolph Field, Texas & HQ AAF office of Flying Safety Education Division. Manual was intended to be used in conjunction with the current AAF Training Command Memorandum covering Primary Flying Training.
Date: unknown
Creator: Army Air Forces Training Command
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History

Newsmap. Monday, January 17, 1944 : week of January 6 to January 13, 227th week of the war, 109th week of U.S. participation

Front: Text describes action on various war fronts: USSR, Burma, Air war, Italy, Southwest Pacific, Yugoslavia, Jet plane. Map inset: Enemy controlled areas across the globe Photographs: Chinese workers and soldiers pack dirt for an airfield in southeastern China; WACs Capt. Elizabeth Lutze, Sheboygan, Wis., Lt. Sally Dean, Battle Creek, Mich. and Flight officer Margaret Maude, WAAF, London, pause behind a sacred cow lying in front of a bazaar in Delhi, India; U.S. engineers supervise the building of the new Ledo Road in northern Burma; Lt. Gen. Krueger watches the plane taking Gen. Marshall back to the U.S.; Gen. Marshall confers with Gen. Sir Thomas Blamey; Gen. George C. Marshall with Lieut. Gen. George C. Kenney, Maj. Gen. S.J. Chamberlain, Lieut. Gen. Walter Krueger, Gen. Marshall and Gen. MacArthur; Logone, Italy during a battle between Fifth Army artillery and German forces; Soldiers look for salvage in a pile of shell cases and containers following a barrage against German positions in Cassino; American soldiers of the Fifth Army repair a tank motor near battle lines. Back: Map of Southeast Asia.
Date: January 17, 1944
Creator: [United States.] Army Service Forces. Morale Services Division.
Object Type: Poster
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interview with Colonel John. E. Olson, March 15, 1998

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Interview with Colonel John E. Olson, a Army WWII veteran and POW from Leavenworth, Kansas. Olson discusses his family background, commissioning in the Army from West Point, assignment to the Philippines in 1939 as an infantry officer, the start of the war, withdrawal to Bataan and the ensuing battle and surrender, the Bataan Death March, internment at Cabanatuan, transfer to Osaka, experiences there in internment at a factory labor camp, liberation, organizing the evacuation of POWs, returning to the US, and his postwar career.
Date: March 15, 1998
Creator: Alexander, Bill & Olson, John E.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Student's Manual: Primary Flying (open access)

Student's Manual: Primary Flying

Army Air Force flight training manual that addresses general flight safety and protocol for cadets. The name of Rigdon Edwards can be seen written in pencil at the top of the front cover.
Date: unknown
Creator: United States. Army Air Forces. Training Command.
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History

Newsmap. For the Armed Forces. 241st week of the war, 123rd week of U.S. participation

Front: Text describes action on various war fronts: Eastern front; Italy; air war; Southeast Asia; Pacific. Maps: Communications centers hit in the Balkans; Crimea. Includes 7 photographs. Back: Smoke. Description of 4 ways to produce smoke for combat purposes. 1 illustration. 9 photographs.
Date: April 24, 1944
Creator: [United States.] Army Service Forces. Army Information Branch.
Object Type: Poster
System: The UNT Digital Library
Air Intelligence Training Bulletin, Volume 16, Number 1, January-June 1964 (open access)

Air Intelligence Training Bulletin, Volume 16, Number 1, January-June 1964

Monthly publication of the Continental Air Command containing articles of interest to intelligence officers in the Air Force Reserve. This issue includes articles on Rumania, China, Brazil, Asian Economies, The Colombo Plan, and the Soviet army.
Date: January 1964
Creator: United States. Army Air Forces. Air Defense Command.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Course 2, Volume 1C. Two Worlds in Conflict (open access)

Course 2, Volume 1C. Two Worlds in Conflict

This booklet is the Course 2, Volume 1, Part C issue of an extension training course developed for Air Force personnel. This book discusses the history and spread of the concept of democracy, especially as it pertains to 'American democracy" in comparison to communist ideologies. The book contains a blank exam on the material in the back..
Date: January 1960
Creator: Air University (U.S.). Extension Course Institute.
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
Course 2, Volume 1B. Background Information on the Soviet Union (open access)

Course 2, Volume 1B. Background Information on the Soviet Union

This booklet is the Course 2 Volume 1B unit of an extension training course developed for Air Force personnel. This book discusses background information on the people, culture, geography, and industry of the Soviet Union.
Date: September 1958
Creator: Air University (U.S.). Extension Course Institute.
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
Impact of the War on the St.Louis Area (open access)

Impact of the War on the St.Louis Area

Report describing the industrial area of st.louis including compiled statistics and information about employement
Date: December 1944
Creator: United States. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Area 1, Phase 3. Command and Staff Action (open access)

Area 1, Phase 3. Command and Staff Action

This booklet is the Area 1, Phase 3 unit of an extension training course developed for Air Reserve personnel about the military management. This phase discusses the application of command principles, command planning, and the importance of the steps used in planning an operation.
Date: November 1964
Creator: Air University (U.S.). Extension Course Institute.
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
Army-Navy manual of military government and civil affairs. (open access)

Army-Navy manual of military government and civil affairs.

A general guide for U.S. armed forces instituting military government in occupied areas.
Date: December 22, 1943
Creator: United States. War Department.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interviews with John Plath Green, 1974 (open access)

Oral History Interviews with John Plath Green, 1974

Interview with John Plath Green, an attorney and U.S. Army WWII veteran, concerning his experiences as the officer in charge of the liberation of American and other Allied prisoners-of-war in Japan at the end of World War II.
Date: {1976-02-06,1976-03-01}
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Green, John Plath
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interview with Gerald E. Miller, May 3, 1993

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Transcript of an interview with Admiral Jerry (Gerald) Miller, a Navy veteran, concerning his experiences in the Pacific Theater during World War II. Miller discusses his assignment to the USS Richmond, Komandorski Island action, the Aleutians Campaign, and his post-World War II naval career.
Date: May 3, 1993
Creator: Byrd, R. W. (Richard W.) & Miller, Jerry, 1919-2014
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library

Newsmap. Monday, June 28, 1943 : week of June 17 to June 24, 198th week of the war, 80th week of U.S. participation.

Front: Text describes action on various war fronts: Western Europe, Italy, Russia, Solomons, New Guinea, Gilbert Islands. Maps: Sicily, Solomon Islands, [Western Europe]. Photographs: The ships are getting over; Going ashore "down under"; [The "before and after" of a raid at Leghorn, Italy.] Back: Text and photographs highlight the uses of gliders in wartime.
Date: June 28, 1943
Creator: [United States.] Army Orientation Course.
Object Type: Poster
System: The UNT Digital Library
Impact of the War on the Cleveland, Ohio Area (open access)

Impact of the War on the Cleveland, Ohio Area

Report describing the industrial area of Cleveland, Ohio including compiled statistics and information about the effects of World War Two on the labor force and industrial expansion of the area.
Date: July 1944
Creator: Fisko, Both H.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interviews with Max Pila, 1993-1994

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Interview with Max Pila, a Holocaust survivor from Zlav, Poland. Pila discusses his family and Jewish background, antisemitism, the German invasion, life in the ghetto, executions, labor, transfer to Auschwitz-Birkenau, daily experience in internment, mining at Janina, the forced march to Bergen-Belsen, liberation, and life afterwards.
Date: {1993-10-15,1994-04-01}
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Pila, Max
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
1941: Texas Goes to War (open access)

1941: Texas Goes to War

This book is a collection of essays discussing the role of Texans in World War II. It examines both the Texas soldiers fighting in the European and Pacific theaters as well as the Texans on the Homefront. The essays describe both the military and social aspects of the war. Index starts on page 241.
Date: 1991
Creator: Lee, James Ward; Barnes, Carolyn N.; Bowman, Kent A. & Crow, Laura
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Complete Examination Questions and Answers: Aerial Navigation for Student, Private, and Commercial Pilots (open access)

Complete Examination Questions and Answers: Aerial Navigation for Student, Private, and Commercial Pilots

Booklet titled "Complete Examination Questions and Answers: Aerial Navigation for Student, Private, and Commercial Pilots" meant to quiz pilots on the science of Aerial Navigation.
Date: April 1941
Creator: Wheeler, Carlton L.
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Charles J. Lawson, December 21, 1974 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Charles J. Lawson, December 21, 1974

Interview with Charles Lawson, U.S. Army veteran, concerning his experiences while on maneuvers at Soldiers Beach near Schofield Barracks with the 34th Combat Engineers during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Date: December 21, 1974
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Lawson, Charles J.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Envelope Addressed to P. A. Hill] (open access)

[Envelope Addressed to P. A. Hill]

Envelope addressed to CPT P. A. Hill at 309 Ragland St. Sweetwater Tex, sent from Gunter Air Force Base with the word, "Books", can be seen printed at the top.
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
Know Your Enemy: Japan! (open access)

Know Your Enemy: Japan!

A pamphlet published during World War II about Japan, organized into sections answering ten questions: I. How large is the Japanese Empire? -- II. Is Japan self-sufficient in food? -- III. Is Japan self-sufficient in raw materials? -- IV. How will Japan's conquests in Southern Asia affect her raw material position? -- V. If Japan is so poor in raw materials, how was she able to become a great industrial power? -- VI. What are the present living standards of the Japanese people? -- VII. Who owns Japanese banks and industry? -- VIII. How is Japan governed? -- IX. Are there Trade Unions in Japan? -- X. What is Japan's naval and military strength?
Date: 1942
Creator: Jenkinson, Anthony
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The Portal to Texas History