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Oral History Interview with Jean Balch, October 12, 1996

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Interview with Navy veteran Jean Balch, including Balch's personal experiences about the Pacific theater, being a prisoner-of-war of the Japanese during World War II, boot camp, radio, radar, and gunnery school, operations during the Leyte invasion, missions over Luzon, and raids on Japanese installations on Formosa and Saigon, French Indo-China. Additionally, Balch talks about his plane being shot down on a raid to Hong Kong and his capture on January 16, 1945, interrogations and beatings by the Kempei-tai, imprisonment at Ofuna, Honshu, solitary confinement for six months and continued interrogation, beatings by Japanese prison guards, starvation diet, the end of the war and liberation, and his participation in the war crimes trials held by the International Military Tribunal.
Date: October 12, 1996
Creator: Alexander, William J. & Balch, Jean
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: City recovers] (open access)

[News Script: City recovers]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about earthquakes.
Date: February 12, 1971, 12:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Misc news bulletins] (open access)

[News Script: Misc news bulletins]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story.
Date: November 12, 1969, 6:30 a.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Letter from Cecelia McKie to Mrs. T. P. Condy - May 12, 1943] (open access)

[Letter from Cecelia McKie to Mrs. T. P. Condy - May 12, 1943]

Copy of letter sent from Cecelia McKie to Mrs. T. P. Condy, recorded in the letter as 'Mrs. E. C. Condy', regarding Santo Tomas Internment Camp internee 'Thomas P. Condy'. Letter contains transcribed message broadcast from internee on Radio Tokyo.
Date: May 12, 1943
Creator: McKie, Cecelia, 1903-1982
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Cecelia McKie to Grace Harris - May 12, 1943] (open access)

[Letter from Cecelia McKie to Grace Harris - May 12, 1943]

Copy of letter sent from Cecelia McKie to Grace Harris, recorded in the letter as 'Mrs. Grace Parrish (?)', regarding Santo Tomas Internment Camp internee 'Dexter Cone'. Letter contains transcribed message broadcast to Grace from internee on Radio Tokyo.
Date: May 12, 1943
Creator: McKie, Cecelia, 1903-1982
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Cecelia McKie to Mrs. Emerson - May 12, 1943] (open access)

[Letter from Cecelia McKie to Mrs. Emerson - May 12, 1943]

Copy of letter sent from Cecelia McKie to Mrs. Emerson, recorded in letter as 'Mrs. Emerson (Ellison) (Ensign) (?)' regarding Santo Tomas Internment Camp internee 'Ion (Ronald) Leing (Lane) (?)', as recorded in the letter. Letter contains transcribed message broadcast to Mrs. Emerson from internee on Radio Tokyo.
Date: May 12, 1943
Creator: McKie, Cecelia, 1903-1982
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Cecelia McKie to Laurel E. Weiskind - May 12, 1943] (open access)

[Letter from Cecelia McKie to Laurel E. Weiskind - May 12, 1943]

Copy of letter sent from Cecelia McKie to Mrs. Laurel E. Weiskind, recorded in the letter as 'Mrs. Nora (Laura) E. Weiskirce', regarding Santo Tomas Internment Camp internee D. B. Ledermann, recorded in the letter as 'Daniel B. Letterman (Lederman)'. Letter contains transcribed message broadcast from internee on Radio Tokyo.
Date: May 12, 1943
Creator: McKie, Cecelia, 1903-1982
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Cecelia McKie to G. M. Lusk - May 12, 1943] (open access)

[Letter from Cecelia McKie to G. M. Lusk - May 12, 1943]

Copy of letter sent from Cecelia McKie to Mr. G. M. Lusk regarding Santo Tomas Internment Camp internee Francis Lusk. Letter contains transcribed message broadcast to father from internee on Radio Tokyo.
Date: May 12, 1943
Creator: McKie, Cecelia, 1903-1982
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Cecelia McKie to Marie Lynott - May 12, 1943] (open access)

[Letter from Cecelia McKie to Marie Lynott - May 12, 1943]

Copy of letter sent from Cecelia McKie to Marie Lynott, recorded in the letter as 'Mrs. George H. Lynott', regarding Santo Tomas Internment Camp internee Mr. Lynott, recorded in the letter as 'George Deering Lynott (or Joyce Helen Lynott) (?)'. Letter contains transcribed message broadcast to Marie from internee on Radio Tokyo.
Date: May 12, 1943
Creator: McKie, Cecelia, 1903-1982
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Cecelia McKie to Mrs. Childers - May 12, 1943] (open access)

[Letter from Cecelia McKie to Mrs. Childers - May 12, 1943]

Copy of letter sent from Cecelia McKie to Mrs. Childers regarding Santo Tomas Internment Camp internee 'Ralph (Rock) (?) Leroy S. Childers'. Letter contains transcribed message broadcast to parents from internee on Radio Tokyo.
Date: May 12, 1943
Creator: McKie, Cecelia, 1903-1982
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Cecelia McKie to Harriett Coggeshall - May 12, 1943] (open access)

[Letter from Cecelia McKie to Harriett Coggeshall - May 12, 1943]

Copy of letter sent from Cecelia McKie to Harriett Coggeshall, recorded in the letter as 'Mrs. Coddeshell', regarding Santo Tomas Internment Camp internee Robert Coggeshall, recorded in the letter as 'Robert R. Coddeshell'. Letter contains transcribed message broadcast to mother from internee on Radio Tokyo.
Date: May 12, 1943
Creator: McKie, Cecelia, 1903-1982
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Elsie Backman to Cecelia McKie - May 12, 1943] (open access)

[Letter from Elsie Backman to Cecelia McKie - May 12, 1943]

Letter sent to Cecelia McKie from Elsie Backman thanking her for the message and stating she had last heard from her son, Herbert Backman, in November 1941. Envelope addressed to Mrs. William L. McKie, Sacramento, California from Mrs. William M. Backman, c/o Letcher W. Bennett, Ridgewood, New Jersey.
Date: May 12, 1943
Creator: Elsie, Backman
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Henry Stanley, March 12, 1973 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Henry Stanley, March 12, 1973

Interview with Henry Stanley, a Army Air Corps WWII veteran and POW who survived the Bataan Death March. Stanley discusses joining the Air Corps and prewar service, the Japanese invasion, Bataan and Corregidor, capture by Japanese forces, the march, internment at Clark Field, transit to Japan and internment there, and the war's end. In appendix are letters Stanley wrote during the war, telegrams and letters to his family from the War Department regarding his status, and a statement recording his health during the war.
Date: March 12, 1973
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interview with Davis Porter Newton, October 12, 1996

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Interview with Davis Porter Newton, Army WWII veteran of the Pacific Theater from Birmingham, Alabama. Newton discusses his family background, working during the Depression and his education, commissioning into the Army, assignment to the 346th Harbor Craft Company and deployment to Finschhafen, New Guinea, acting as defense counsel in a court martial, sea-transport operations around New Guinea and the Philippines, working with POWs, and investigating war crimes.
Date: October 12, 1996
Creator: Alexander, William J. & Newton, Davis Porter
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library