[News Script: United States president tour, war, and floods] (open access)

[News Script: United States president tour, war, and floods]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story.
Date: February 25, 1969, 6:30 a.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
Photo Memories of a Seabee Battalion (open access)

Photo Memories of a Seabee Battalion

Book compiled by the 136th Naval Construction "Seabee" Battalion documenting the history of the group from boot camp in Virginia to various military installations across the U.S. and more permanent postings in Guam and Japan during World War II. There are photographs of various persons and evens as well as an epistolary narrative and lists of names by company at the end of the text.
Date: 1945
Creator: United States. Naval Construction Battalion, 136th.
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Malone Farrar (open access)

Oral History Interview with Malone Farrar

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Malone Farrar. Farrar grew up in Texas and joined the Navy in 1940. In training, he was assigned to VP-12, a PBY-3 Catalina Squadron. Then he was transferred VP-13 Squadron. Next, he was transferred to VP-55, a PBM1 Mariner Squadron and sent to flight engineering school. After the Pearl Harbor attack, he was assigned to ACORN-8. Farrar then joined with the 73rd CB Battalion. He was a mechanic. They loaded the USS President Polk (AP-103) in May 1943 and went to New Caledonia. He was transferred to the USS Ballard and left for Espiritu Santo in the Hebrides Islands. Then they left for Guadalcanal, where he heard Washing Machine Charlie at night. Next he rejoins his ACORN group and moved to Munda, where his unit moved into the airstrip. The ACORN group moved to Banika, Biak, and then Owi. Farrar describes training and giving bungee starters to the Marines for Peleliu actions. He then received orders to return to the U.S. and boarded the USS George Clymer (APA-27) where he witnessed the USS Mount Hood (AE-11) explosion on November 10, 1944. He returns eventually to Corpus Christi, Texas, …
Date: unknown
Creator: Farrar, Malone
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History

Oral History Interview with Lisa Jane Lachance-Skier, March 14, 2013

Access: Use of this item is restricted to the UNT Community
Interview with Lisa Jane Lachance-Skier, a Air Force veteran from Phoenix, Arizona. Lachance-Skier discusses growing up, participating in Junior ROTC, enlisting in the Air Force in 1976, experiences as a woman in a newly integrated Air Force, sexual harassment and assault in the military, service in England, attending ROTC and becoming an officer, her marriage, service in Germany, her work during the Gulf War, being forced out as part of a personnel drawdown, transitioning to the civilian world and her post-Air Force career, her involvement in the Grace After Fire program for assisting female veterans, problems facing female veterans and lack of support, the 2014 lifting of the combat ban on women in the US armed forces, the WASPs, and advice for servicewomen. In appendix is a summary of Lachance-Skier's USAF career, three photos of her Meritorious Service Medal certificates, and a Grace After Fire booklet.
Date: March 14, 2013
Creator: Hedrick, Amy & Lachance-Skier, Lisa Jane
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Letters from Donald Thompson and Cindy Stratton to the BRAC Comission - June 2005] (open access)

[Letters from Donald Thompson and Cindy Stratton to the BRAC Comission - June 2005]

Letters from two California citizens to the BRAC Commission in response to the recommendation to close Naval Base Ventura County.
Date: June 16, 2005
Creator: Thompson, Donald J. & Stratton, Cindy
Object Type: Letter
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: 6PM sports] (open access)

[News Script: 6PM sports]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story going over the daily sports highlights.
Date: July 10, 1972, 6:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
Recovery of Oil in California by Secondary Methods: In Two Parts - Part 2. Los Angeles Basin and Coastal Oil Fields (open access)

Recovery of Oil in California by Secondary Methods: In Two Parts - Part 2. Los Angeles Basin and Coastal Oil Fields

Report issued by the U.S. Bureau of Mines on secondary methods of oil-recovery in California oil fields. The main recovery method studied are of the pressure-maintenance type, such as air-injection. The report is divided into two parts, and includes maps and tables.
Date: May 1952
Creator: Loomis, A. G.; Fried, A. N. & Crowell, D. C.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library