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[News Script: McGovern war] (open access)

[News Script: McGovern war]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about George McGovern wanting the Vietnam War to end.
Date: October 6, 1972
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: McGovern War] (open access)

[News Script: McGovern War]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about George McGovern wanting the Vietnam War to end.
Date: October 6, 1972
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library

[World War I Regiment]

Photograph of World War I S.A.T.C. regiment at Fort Sheridan, Illinois. Dwight Ross, Sr. is 12th from the left. The back of the photograph lists five men and their addresses.
Date: 1918
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History
[News Script: Anti-War demonstration] (open access)

[News Script: Anti-War demonstration]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story. This story aired at 6:00pm.
Date: April 5, 1969, 6:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Hearing] (open access)

[News Script: Hearing]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story.
Date: April 29, 1970, 12:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: War, economy, and Ford Motors] (open access)

[News Script: War, economy, and Ford Motors]

Photocopy of a script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story.
Date: June 2, 1970, 6:30 a.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Chicago Anti-War Trials] (open access)

[News Script: Chicago Anti-War Trials]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story.
Date: September 24, 1969, 12:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Vatican spokesman discusses war criminals] (open access)

[News Script: Vatican spokesman discusses war criminals]

Photocopy of a script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story.
Date: July 3, 1970, 12:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Jury trial and Anti-war conference] (open access)

[News Script: Jury trial and Anti-war conference]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story.
Date: February 14, 1970, 10:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Anti-war rallies and Chicago 7] (open access)

[News Script: Anti-war rallies and Chicago 7]

Photocopy of a script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story.
Date: February 16, 1970, 6:30 a.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
[War Savings Bond Class A Reservation, March 16, 1943 (open access)

[War Savings Bond Class A Reservation, March 16, 1943

War savings bond form in which Solange D'Hooghe authorizes the semi-monthly payment of $6.25.
Date: March 16, 1943
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Newspaper Clipping: Prisoners of War for Exchange] (open access)

[Newspaper Clipping: Prisoners of War for Exchange]

A newspaper clipping listing the names and regiments of all prisoners of war who were transferred to Alton for exchange.
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Clipping
System: The UNT Digital Library

The Forty-fifth Illinois Volunteer Infantry Regiment: the Washburne Lead Mine Regiment in the Civil War

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Of the roughly 3,500 volunteer regiments and batteries organized by the Union army during the American Civil War, only a small fraction has been studied in any scholarly depth. Among those not yet examined by historians was one that typified the western armies commanded by the two greatest Federal generals, Ulysses S. Grant and William T. Sherman. The Forty-fifth Illinois Volunteer Infantry was at Fort Donelson and Shiloh with Grant in 1862, with Grant and Sherman during the long Vicksburg campaign of 1862 and 1863, and with Sherman in the Meridian, Atlanta, Savannah, and Carolinas campaigns in the second half of the war. These Illinois men fought in several of the most important engagements in the western theater of the war and, in the spring of 1865, were present when the last important Confederate army in the east surrendered. The Forty-fifth was also well connected in western politics. Its unofficial name was the “Washburne Lead Mine Regiment,” in honor of U.S Representative Elihu B. Washburne, who used his contacts and influences to arm the regiment with the best weapons and equipment available early in the war. (The Lead Mine designation referred to the mining industry in northern Illinois.) In addition, …
Date: December 2015
Creator: Mack, Thomas B., 1965-
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Clipping: Flying Bombers in World War II: Stories my mother told me.] (open access)

[Clipping: Flying Bombers in World War II: Stories my mother told me.]

Photocopy of a magazine clipping about how Geraldine Jordan became a pilot, how Jacqueline Cochran and Nancy Love created the WASP program, and the history of the WASP.
Date: August 2010
Creator: Jordan, Melissa
Object Type: Clipping
System: The Portal to Texas History
Imagine a World War II Military Pilot (open access)

Imagine a World War II Military Pilot

Pamphlet from Texas Woman's University advertising the WASP portion of their Women's collection, along with a brief history of Women Airforce Service Pilots. The pamphlet describes the types of materials the collection is seeking and the preservation methods they intend to use.
Date: unknown
Creator: Texas Woman's University.
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The Portal to Texas History

General topographical map, sheet XXVII: [parts of Illinois and Illinois].

Map shows roads, railroads, cities, towns, post offices, marshland, mining activity and mineral resources in eastern Missouri and western Illinois. Relief shown by hachures. Scale [ca. 1:633,600].
Date: [1891..1895]
Creator: United States. War Department.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Oral History Interview with William J. Bates, February 7, 2001

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Interview with Navy veteran William J. Bates including personal experiences about the Pacific Theater during World War II, youth and education, the Navy Aviation Cadet Program, flight training, leaving naval aviation and attending Midshipman's School, being assigned to APc-21, operations off the coast of New Guinea with the VII Amphibious Force, providing escort duty for LCTs during assaults along the coast of New Guinea, the sinking of APc-21 by Japanese planes off New Britain Island, recuperating in New Guinea, returning to the States and being assigned to ATR-22, transferring to fleet tug ARA-182 as commanding officer, having convoy duty in the South Pacific, riding out a typhoon, disposing of Navy equipment after the war, and returning to the States.
Date: February 7, 2001
Creator: Alexander, William J. & Bates, William J.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interview with Anne Pearsall Karr, June 22, 1997

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Transcript of an interview with Anne Pearsall Karr from Elgin, Illinois, concerning her experiences on the home front during World War II. Karr discusses her youth in Elgin, Illinois; effects of Depression on Pearsall family; college at Iowa State; courtship with Kenneth Karr, her future husband; reaction to Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor; changes on Iowa State campus after American entry into World War II; wartime rationing and Victory Gardens; effects on Pearsall family having a son and daughter in military service; her marriage to Kenneth Karr, early 1944; housing shortage in Corpus Christi, Texas, during World War II; birth of their daughter; wartime entertainment; experiences as a military wife; attitudes toward the Japanese; husband's training as a naval air cadet at Corpus Christi Naval Air Station. Appendix includes various photographs [5] pages.
Date: June 22, 1997
Creator: Jackson, Sarah C. & Karr, Anne Pearsall, 1923-
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with James Bolar, April 22, 1988 (open access)

Oral History Interview with James Bolar, April 22, 1988

Interview with James Bolar, a United States Navy veteran from Illinois, regarding his experiences and memories of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor of December 7, 1941 while aboard the minelaying flagship USS Oglala.
Date: April 22, 1988
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Bolar, James M.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Leonard Webb, September 16, 1988 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Leonard Webb, September 16, 1988

Interview with Leonard Webb, a United States Navy veteran from East Saint Louis, Illinois, regarding his experiences and memories of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor of December 7, 1941 while stationed at the Staff Headquarters, 14th Naval District.
Date: September 16, 1988
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Webb, Leonard
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interview with William W. Pearsall, June 18, 1997

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Transcript of an interview with William W. Pearsall concerning his experiences on the homefront as a teenager in Elgin, Illinois, during World War II. Pearsall discusses his education and childhood in Elgin; local reaction to the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941; air raid drills and blackouts; attempts to make people war conscious; spy hysteria; censorship of mail; harassment of German Americans; gasoline rationing; scrap drives; war bond drives; Victory Gardens; rationing of tires; scarcity of automobile parts; black market activities; clothing shortages; Boy Scout activities; effects of having a brother and sister in the military; wartime entertainment for teenagers; high school war bond dances; V-E Day celebrations; V-J Day celebrations; attitudes toward Japanese; and the adjustment of his brother and sister to civilian life. Includes appendix with photographs [3 pages].
Date: June 18, 1997
Creator: Jackson, Sarah C. & Pearsall, William W.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interview with John H. Byrd, January 24, 1996

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Interview with John Byrd, an Army Air Corps veteran (457th Bomb Squadron, 8th Air Force), concerning his experiences as a radio operator in the 8th Air Force in England during World War II.
Date: January 24, 1996
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E.; Byrd, Richard W. & Byrd, John Howard
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interview with Caleb H. Canby, III, August 5, 1997

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Transcript of an interview with Caleb H. Canby, III, a Marine Corps veteran (Scout-Bomber 243, 1st Marine Air Wing), concerning experiences in the Pacific Theater during World War II. Canby discusses his family background and education; decision to join the Marine Corps, 1942; boot camp at Parris Island, South Carolina; advanced training at Quantico, Virginia, 1943-44; assignment to Scout-Bomber Squadron 243 at Emirau, Solomon Islands, 1944-45; his work in the flight department processing pilots' flight logs; transfer to Mangaldan, Luzon, 1945; assignment to Mindanao in March, 1945; contraction of hepatitis and return to the U. S.
Date: August 5, 1997
Creator: Jackson, Sarah C. & Canby, Caleb H., III
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with J. L. Ashmore, March 8, 1989 (open access)

Oral History Interview with J. L. Ashmore, March 8, 1989

Interview with J. L. Ashmore, a United States Navy veteran from Peoria, Illinois, regarding his experiences and memories of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor of December 7, 1941 while aboard the battleship USS West Virginia.
Date: March 8, 1989
Creator: Richardson, Louis Gene & Ashmore, J. L.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library