[Flight Notes Mineral Wells to Brownwood] (open access)

[Flight Notes Mineral Wells to Brownwood]

Handwritten travel notes for flying between several Texas towns, with landmarks and distances between them.
Date: 194X
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Flight Notes Wichita Falls - Mineral Wells] (open access)

[Flight Notes Wichita Falls - Mineral Wells]

Handwritten travel directions for flights between Wichita Falls and Mineral Wells, including landmarks and distance traveled.
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Flight Notes Mineral Wells - Avenger Field] (open access)

[Flight Notes Mineral Wells - Avenger Field]

Travel notes for a flight between Mineral Wells and Avenger field including distance traveled and key landmarks.
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History

Oral History Interview with Robert M. Bane, January 11, 2013

Access: Use of this item is restricted to the UNT Community
Interview with Robert Bane, a Army WWII veteran from Garland, Texas. Bane discusses his family background, basic training, deployment to the Battle of the Bulge, General George S. Patton, experiences in combat with the 63rd Infantry Division during the drive into Germany, his comrades, crossing the Rhine, liberating Dachau, returning to the states, and his work with the Freemasons. In appendix is a photograph of Bane with his medals.
Date: November 13, 2013
Creator: Malone, Timothy & Bane, Robert M.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interview with Barton B. Wallace, Jr., September 19, 2003

Access: Use of this item is restricted to the UNT Community
Interview with Barton B. Wallace, Jr., engineer and Army veteran (Quartermaster Corps Graves Registration Service-China Zone), concerning his experiences with Recovery Team No. 4 in the recovery of the remains of American military personnel in China, 1945-46. Appendix consists of letters, chronology, Separation Qualification Record, and extracts from various forms.
Date: September 19, 2003
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Wallace, Barton B., Jr.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Lubbock County Water Analysis] (open access)

[Lubbock County Water Analysis]

Water survey report from Lubbock County in 1945 listing records of all "wells and springs, drillers' logs, water analyses, and map showing locations of wells and springs".
Date: April 1945
Creator: Clark, C. S.
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Deaf Smith County Water Analysis] (open access)

[Deaf Smith County Water Analysis]

Water survey report from Deaf Smith County in 1946 listing records of all "wells, drillers' logs, water analyses, and map showing locations of wells".
Date: October 1946
Creator: Clark, C. S.; Spence, E. V. & Pritchett, John W.
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
Men and Women in the Armed Forces from Palo Pinto County (open access)

Men and Women in the Armed Forces from Palo Pinto County

Directory of the men and women from Palo Pinto County, Texas who served in the United States Armed Forces during World War II. Each person's entry contains their photo, a short biography, and where they served.
Date: 1946?
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
Men and Women in the Armed Forces from Hopkins County, Texas (open access)

Men and Women in the Armed Forces from Hopkins County, Texas

Directory of the men and women from Hopkins County, Texas who served in the United States Armed Forces during World War II. Each person's entry contains their photo, a short biography, and where they served.
Date: 1945~
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Junior Aggie, Yearbook of North Texas Agricultural College, 1941 (open access)

The Junior Aggie, Yearbook of North Texas Agricultural College, 1941

Yearbook for North Texas Agricultural College in Arlington, Texas includes photos of and information about the school, student body, professors, and organizations.
Date: 1941
Creator: North Texas Agricultural College
Object Type: Yearbook
System: The Portal to Texas History
Men and Women in the Armed Forces from Kaufman County, Texas (open access)

Men and Women in the Armed Forces from Kaufman County, Texas

Directory of the men and women from Kaufman County, Texas who served in the United States Armed Forces during World War II. Each person's entry contains their photo, a short biography, and where they served.
Date: 1945~
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
Hardeman County Men and Women of the Services (open access)

Hardeman County Men and Women of the Services

Directory of the men and women from Hardeman County, Texas who served in the United States Armed Forces during World War II. Each person's entry contains their photo, a short biography, and where they served. Also includes advertisements for local businesses and war bonds.
Date: 1945~
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Ethel Reisberg Schectman, March 24, 2001 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Ethel Reisberg Schectman, March 24, 2001

Interview with Ethel Reisburg Schectman of Fort Worth, Texas, who was born in New York City during the Great Depression to Jewish Polish immigrant parents. The interview includes Hill's personal experiences of World War II on the home front, including memories of D-Day, iron metal scrap drives, victory gardens, rationing, V-E and V-J Days, and what it was like being Jewish in Dallas during that time.
Date: March 24, 2001
Creator: Cox, Floyd & Schectman, Ethel Reisberg
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Men and Women in the Armed Forces from Bosque County (open access)

Men and Women in the Armed Forces from Bosque County

Directory of the men and women from Bosque County, Texas who served in the United States Armed Forces during World War II. Each person's entry contains their photo, a short biography, and where they served.
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Eagle, Volume 2, Number 41, Thursday, February 10, 1944 (open access)

The Eagle, Volume 2, Number 41, Thursday, February 10, 1944

Weekly newsletter published for employees of the Consolidated Vultee Aircraft Corporation Fort Worth Division containing work-related information, updates about employees, and other news.
Date: February 10, 1944
Creator: Consolidated Vultee Aircraft Corporation
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
WASP Newsletter, Volume 6, December, 1970 (open access)

WASP Newsletter, Volume 6, December, 1970

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: December 1970
Creator: Women Airforce Service Pilots (U.S.)
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Arlington World War II Memories (open access)

Arlington World War II Memories

Compilation of biographical and autobiographical information about persons from Arlington, Texas who served during World War II. It includes narratives, copies of letters, forms, newspaper clippings, photographs, and other items detailing their lives and service.
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Russell J. Hampson, December 15, 1976 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Russell J. Hampson, December 15, 1976

Interview with Russell J. Hampson, an Army WWII veteran from West Orange, New Jersey. Hampson discusses his experience during the attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7th, 1941, including joining the Army in 1940, being stationed at Schofield Barracks, the events of the attack, and operations on Oahu afterward.
Date: December 15, 1976
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Hampson, Russell J.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Men and Women in the Armed Forces from Cooke County (open access)

Men and Women in the Armed Forces from Cooke County

Directory of the men and women from Cooke County, Texas who served in the United States Armed Forces during World War II. Each person's entry contains their photo, a short biography, and where they served.
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History

Oral History Interview with Harve D. King, May 22, 2001

Access: Use of this item is restricted to the UNT Community
Interview with Harve D. King, a Army WWII veteran from Copeville, Texas, who served in the 350th Engineer Regiment. King discusses his upbringing on a cotton farm, school in Farmersville, discrimination as an African-American, attending Texas College, joining the Army, training, assignment at Camp Shelby, deployment to New Guinea, operations at Hollandia, building a hospital, recreation, visiting Australia, returning to the United States and discharge, and life after the war.
Date: May 22, 2001
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & King, Harve D.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Letter from Cornelia Yerkes to Frances Yerkes, July 16, 1943] (open access)

[Letter from Cornelia Yerkes to Frances Yerkes, July 16, 1943]

Letter from Cornelia Yerkes to her mother discussing recent correspondence and packages, a description of the pictures in the Life Magazine piece on the Women Flying Training Detachment, flying, and a plane crash.
Date: July 16, 1943
Creator: Kafka, Cornelia V. Yerkes
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Men and Women in the Armed Forces from Fannin County (open access)

Men and Women in the Armed Forces from Fannin County

Directory of the men and women from Fannin County, Texas who served in the United States Armed Forces during World War II. Each person's entry contains their photo, a short biography, and where they served.
Date: 194X
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Junior Aggie, Yearbook of North Texas Agricultural College, 1943 (open access)

The Junior Aggie, Yearbook of North Texas Agricultural College, 1943

Yearbook for North Texas Agricultural College in Arlington, Texas includes photos of and information about the school, student body, professors, and organizations.
Date: 1943
Creator: North Texas Agricultural College
Object Type: Yearbook
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Camp Barkeley Scrapbook: 1941] (open access)

[Camp Barkeley Scrapbook: 1941]

Scrapbook assembled during the first year of Camp Barkeley (1941) containing clippings from the Abilene Reporter News, and from the Wichita Falls Daily Times regarding the air school and Sheppard field.
Date: 1941
Creator: Keith, Ben E.
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History