[Volunteering On the Homefront Exhibit]

Photograph of a exhibit entitled "Volunteering on the Homefront." There are various uniforms and photographs visible as part of the exhibit. the exhibit includes the US Cadet Nurse Corps and the WASP.
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History
St. Edward's Cadet (Austin, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 14, Ed. 1 Wednesday, April 25, 1945 (open access)

St. Edward's Cadet (Austin, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 14, Ed. 1 Wednesday, April 25, 1945

Semimonthly student newspaper from St. Edward’s Military Academy in Austin, Texas that includes news and information of interest to the academy community along with advertising.
Date: April 25, 1945
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
St. Edward's Cadet (Austin, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 6, Ed. 1 Wednesday, November 28, 1945 (open access)

St. Edward's Cadet (Austin, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 6, Ed. 1 Wednesday, November 28, 1945

Semimonthly student newspaper from St. Edward’s Military Academy in Austin, Texas that includes news and information of interest to the academy community along with advertising.
Date: November 28, 1945
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
St. Edward's Cadet (Austin, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 11, Ed. 1 Wednesday, March 7, 1945 (open access)

St. Edward's Cadet (Austin, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 11, Ed. 1 Wednesday, March 7, 1945

Semimonthly student newspaper from St. Edward’s Military Academy in Austin, Texas that includes news and information of interest to the academy community along with advertising.
Date: March 7, 1945
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
St. Edward's Cadet (Austin, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 7, Ed. 1 Wednesday, December 12, 1945 (open access)

St. Edward's Cadet (Austin, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 7, Ed. 1 Wednesday, December 12, 1945

Semimonthly student newspaper from St. Edward’s Military Academy in Austin, Texas that includes news and information of interest to the academy community along with advertising.
Date: December 12, 1945
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Women's Volunteer Memorial Display]

Photograph of a WWII women's volunteer display in a glass museum case. Four kinds of uniforms can be seen on display, along with posters, photos, and signs that say things like, "Volunteering on the Homefront" and "U.Cadet Nurse Corps".
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History
Military Personnel: Actions Needed to Improve Evaluation and Oversight of Reserve Officers' Training Corps Programs (open access)

Military Personnel: Actions Needed to Improve Evaluation and Oversight of Reserve Officers' Training Corps Programs

A letter report issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins ""
Date: November 13, 2013
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Letter from Marjorie Bartholf to Dr. Chauncey D. Leake, September 10, 1945] (open access)

[Letter from Marjorie Bartholf to Dr. Chauncey D. Leake, September 10, 1945]

Letter from Marjorie Bartholf to Dr. Chauncey D. Leake discussing the admittance of students from the Nurse Cadet Corps during 1944-45, new professors, and commendations for the John Sealy Hospital staff and UTMB faculty.
Date: September 10, 1945
Creator: Bartholf, Marjorie
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Adanto D'Amore, October 8, 2005 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Adanto D'Amore, October 8, 2005

Transcript of an oral interview with Dr. Adanto D'Amore. D'Amore describes his education briefly at Ohio State University where he graduated from medical school. Shortly thereafter, he joined the US Army Air Corps, where he examined candidates for jump school. He eventually was assigned as flight surgeon to the 19th Bomb Group and sent with them to Clark Field in the Philippines in October, 1941. After the Japanese invaded, D'Amore and elements of the 19th Bomb Group moved to Mindanao. After the surrender, D'Amore went with fellow prisoners of war to the Davao Internment Camp. Eventually, he was relocated to Cabanatuan where he spent 12 months before leaving aboard a hell ship for Omori Prison Camp in Japan. Upon being liberated after the war, D'Amore was sent to Okinawa, Manila and finally San Francisco. D'Amore also discusses the condition of the returning POWs.
Date: October 8, 2005
Creator: D'Amore, Dr. Adanto A. S.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Adanto D'Amore, October 8, 2005 transcript

Oral History Interview with Adanto D'Amore, October 8, 2005

Transcript of an oral interview with Dr. Adanto D'Amore. D'Amore describes his education briefly at Ohio State University where he graduated from medical school. Shortly thereafter, he joined the US Army Air Corps, where he examined candidates for jump school. He eventually was assigned as flight surgeon to the 19th Bomb Group and sent with them to Clark Field in the Philippines in October, 1941. After the Japanese invaded, D'Amore and elements of the 19th Bomb Group moved to Mindanao. After the surrender, D'Amore went with fellow prisoners of war to the Davao Internment Camp. Eventually, he was relocated to Cabanatuan where he spent 12 months before leaving aboard a hell ship for Omori Prison Camp in Japan. Upon being liberated after the war, D'Amore was sent to Okinawa, Manila and finally San Francisco. D'Amore also discusses the condition of the returning POWs.
Date: October 8, 2005
Creator: D'Amore, Dr. Adanto A. S.
Object Type: Sound
System: The Portal to Texas History
Personal File of Private First Class George W. Stone, U.S.M.C. (open access)

Personal File of Private First Class George W. Stone, U.S.M.C.

Scrapbook compiled by George Stone documenting his time in the U.S. Marine Corps during the 1920s.
Date: 1926-09/1971-06
Creator: Stone, George W.
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
United States Statutes At Large, Volume 70A, 1956 (open access)

United States Statutes At Large, Volume 70A, 1956

United States Statutes at Large include the text of various legislation passed by Congress such as private and public laws, concurrent resolutions, and Constitutional amendments as well as proclamations, changes to the structure of government departments, etc. Title 10 and Title 32 outline the roles of the United States armed forces and the National Guard, respectively.
Date: 1956
Creator: United States. Congress.
Object Type: Legislative Document
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Garvin Kowalke, January 23, 2001 transcript

Oral History Interview with Garvin Kowalke, January 23, 2001

Interview with Garvin Kowalke, a pilot during World War II. He discusses joining the Army Air Corps, going to Air Cadet training to become a pilot, and training on various aircraft (AT-17, UC-78, P-36, P-33, T-6, BT-13, B-17, B-29) before becoming a B-29 pilot; he shipped out to Guam and flew standard and fire bombing runs over Japan. He discusses having to ditch the plane on the way back to Guam once when the engines failed, seeing another B-29 crew have to bail out over Toyko Bay and get picked up by a U.S. submarine that was in the Bay, getting pulled down to the fires when they were trying to hide in the smoke to avoid Japanese fighter planes, and getting caught in a storm by Mount Fujiyama, as well as collecting data such wind direction, speed, and temperature over Hiroshima for future bombing runs, which turned out to be for the bombers who dropped the atomic bomb. He also talks about flying over Hiroshima two days after the bombing and gauging how high the radiation levels were at different altitudes. He also talks about being in the Korean and Vietnam Wars, becoming a B-57 pilot, and adopting a …
Date: January 23, 2001
Creator: Cox, Floyd & Kowalke, Garvin
Object Type: Sound
System: The Portal to Texas History
Uncle Sam's Warriors: American Indians in World War II (open access)

Uncle Sam's Warriors: American Indians in World War II

Article highlights the contributions of American Indians during World War II, which included the efforts of individual soldiers and people groups as well as the use of land and resources on reservations for the war effort. Duane K. Hale emphasizes the underrepresentation of these activities in historical record and discusses them here.
Date: Winter 1991
Creator: Hale, Duane K.
Object Type: Article
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Oral History Interview with Bill Cantrell, September 2001 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Bill Cantrell, September 2001

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Bill Cantrell, where he discusses his childhood and education and what led to his decision to join the Marines. He describes his experiences flying airplanes and living on ships in the Pacific Theatre of World War Two.
Date: September 2001
Creator: Cantrell, Bill & Nichols, Chuck
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with James H. ""Herb"" Macia, July 21, 2000 (open access)

Oral History Interview with James H. ""Herb"" Macia, July 21, 2000

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with James H. ""Herb"" Macia. He discusses being a navigator/bombardier on the 14th plane in the Doolittle Raid, including the training leading up to the raid, the trip on the USS Hornet, the raid itself, bailing out over China, the weeks spent there before making it out through India and Egypt and stories about other men in the Raiders. He also discusses meeting with Generalissimo and Madam Chiang Kai-Shek, seeing the Egyptian pyramids, crossing Africa then to Brazil before getting back to the US, landing in Miami, his later deployments in North Africa and Europe, his work after the war and reunions the Raiders have had since the war.
Date: July 21, 2000
Creator: Macia, James H. ""Herb""
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with James Macia, July 21, 2000 transcript

Oral History Interview with James Macia, July 21, 2000

Interview with James "Herb" Macia of San Antonio, Texas, who is a veteran of the United States Armed Forces during World War Two. In the interview, Mr. Macia recalls memories about growing up as well as his days as a mining engineer, the Doolittle Raid, North Africa, Normandy, and D-Day.
Date: July 21, 2000
Creator: Cox, Floyd & Macia, James
Object Type: Sound
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with James Macia, July 21, 2000 (open access)

Oral History Interview with James Macia, July 21, 2000

Interview with James "Herb" Macia of San Antonio, Texas, who is a veteran of the United States Armed Forces during World War Two. In the interview, Mr. Thomas recalls memories about growing up as well as his days as a mining engineer, the Doolittle Raid, North Africa, Normandy, and D-Day.
Date: July 21, 2000
Creator: Cox, Floyd & Macia, James
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
More Than A Uniform: A Navy Woman in a Navy Man's World (open access)

More Than A Uniform: A Navy Woman in a Navy Man's World

An autobiographical account by Captain Winifred Quick Collins of her early life, the integration of women into the United States Navy, her Navy career, and her accomplishments in the service. The book focuses on Captain Collins's experience as a woman in a predominantly male division of the US military, as well as the history of women in the Navy. Includes a forward Arleigh Burke
Date: 1997
Creator: Collins, Winifred Quick & Levine, Herbert M.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Fort Hood Sentinel (Temple, Tex.), Vol. 54, No. 20, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 2, 1995 (open access)

The Fort Hood Sentinel (Temple, Tex.), Vol. 54, No. 20, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 2, 1995

Weekly newspaper from Temple, Texas, published for the military and civilian personnel of Fort Hood, that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date: February 2, 1995
Creator: Horky, Anita
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Help Bring Him Home] (open access)

[Help Bring Him Home]

Flyer titled "Help Bring Him Home for Other Holidays..." encouraging civilians not to ask returning servicemen questions that could contain potentially sensitive war information. The reverse side is titled "Our Hospitals Need More Help" and encourages women to sign up to become a Red Cross nurse.
Date: October 16, 1944
Creator: Holler, Carl
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Fort Hood Sentinel (Temple, Tex.), Vol. 54, No. 21, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 9, 1995 (open access)

The Fort Hood Sentinel (Temple, Tex.), Vol. 54, No. 21, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 9, 1995

Weekly newspaper from Temple, Texas, published for the military and civilian personnel of Fort Hood, that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date: February 9, 1995
Creator: Horky, Anita
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Fort Hood Sentinel (Temple, Tex.), Vol. 54, No. 25, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 9, 1995 (open access)

The Fort Hood Sentinel (Temple, Tex.), Vol. 54, No. 25, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 9, 1995

Weekly newspaper from Temple, Texas, published for the military and civilian personnel of Fort Hood, that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date: March 9, 1995
Creator: Horky, Anita
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Fort Hood Sentinel (Temple, Tex.), Vol. 54, No. 27, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 23, 1995 (open access)

The Fort Hood Sentinel (Temple, Tex.), Vol. 54, No. 27, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 23, 1995

Weekly newspaper from Temple, Texas, published for the military and civilian personnel of Fort Hood, that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date: March 23, 1995
Creator: Horky, Anita
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History