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Reflections
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World War II Pearl Harbor Survivors Oral History Project
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World War II Pacific Theater Oral History Project
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City of Grapevine: Building the Foundation
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World War II Mediterranean Theater Oral History Project
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World War II Prisoners of War Oral History Project
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Oral History Interview with James Driver, March 21, 1999
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Interview with Navy veteran James Driver. The interview includes Driver's personal experiences about being a dive-bomber and fighter pilot during the Pacific Theater during World War II, various phases of training, dive-bomber training, having convoy escort duty off New Hebrides, the neutralization of Rabaul, transferring to fighter planes, flying combat air patrol off the carrier USS Hancock, providing cover for the Marine landings on Okinawa, combat against kamikazes, engagements against enemy fighters and kamikazes on the last day of the war, locating and dropping supplies to prisoner-of-war camps in Japan, and returning to the States. The interview includes an appendix with a letter written by Driver.
Date:
March 21, 1999
Creator:
Alexander, William J. & Driver, James
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Wilbur H. Ford, November 18, 1999
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Interview with Army Air Forces veteran Wilbur H. Ford. The interview includes Ford's personal experiences about being a B-17 pilot in the European Theater during World War II, training, transferring to the Army Air Force from the Army, flight training, B-17 transition training, and crew training. Ford also talks about his assignment to the 401st Bomb Group, enemy flak, the highlights of his nine missions over Germany, battle damage to his plane, the Dresden raid, returning to the States, and transition training in B-29s for transfer to the Pacific Theater.
Date:
November 18, 1999
Creator:
Alexander, William J. & Ford, Wilbur H.
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Robert H. Flatley, October 27, 1999
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Interview with business executive and Army Air Forces veteran Robert H. Flatley. The interview includes Flatley's personal experiences about being a P-38 pilot in the Pacific Theater during the World War II, basic training, flight training, P-38 training, various assignments and missions, and the destruction of forty-seven locomotives. Flatley also talks about various missions to targets in the Philippines, activities between combat missions, postwar military activities in the Philippines, and postwar adjustments to civilian life.
Date:
October 27, 1999
Creator:
Marcello, Ronald E. & Flatley, Robert H.
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Noah Brown, March 31, 1994
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Interview with Noah Brown. The interview includes Brown's personal experiences as an employee of the Red River Arsenal and the Lone Star Ordinance Plant. Brown also talks about union activities, safety procedures, women employees, and work schedules.
Date:
March 31, 1994
Creator:
Brantley, Janet & Brown, Noah
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Lanson B. Ditto, October 11, 1996
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Interview with Lanson B. Ditto, clothier and Navy veteran regarding personal experiences about the Pacific, Atlantic, and Mediterranean Theaters during World War II. Ditto talks about his education, enlistment in the Navy V-7 Program, midshipman training, assignment to the USS Langley, pre-war duty in the Philippines, coming of war and combat around the Philippines and Netherlands East Indies, the sinking of the Langley and his transfer to the USS Pecos, the sinking of the Pecos and his rescue by the USS Whipple, various naval battles and assignments, antisubmarine patrols off the Solomons, various escort duties, and his promotion to captain of the O'Toole.
Date:
October 11, 1996
Creator:
Alexander, William J. & Ditto, Lanson B.
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Richard Donley, February 22, 1997
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Interview with Navy veteran Richard Donley. The interview includes Donley's personal experiences about the Mediterranean Theater during World War II, boot camp, Fleet Torpedo School, encounters with German "F-lighter" armed barges and E-boats, various assignments, and combat against enemy destroyers. Donley also talks about screening operations for the invasions of Sicily and Salerno, operations along the coasts of northern Italy and southern France and the interdiction of German barge traffic, torpedo problems, commando and intelligence operations, returning to the States, his reassignment to the Motor Torpedo Boats Training Center, and transferring to Samar, Philippines.
Date:
February 22, 1997
Creator:
Alexander, William J. & Donley, Richard
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with David Braden, October 8, 1994
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Interview with David Braden, an Army Air Force WWII veteran from Dallas, Texas. Braden served as a navigator/radar-bombardier on a B-29 Superfortress in the Pacific; he recounts being in ROTC at North Texas Agricultural College and signing up for the Air Corps Reserves, flight training, the B-29, his crewmates, assignment to Saipan, organization of a bombing mission, the jetstream, flak and fighters, being shot down, switching crews, targets, briefings, recreation, Japanese holdouts on Saipan, fighter escorts, returning stateside, and leaving the service. In appendix is a letter sent to Dr. Marcello by Braden containing some corrections for the interview.
Date:
October 8, 1994
Creator:
Marcello, Ronald E. & Braden, David, 1924-
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
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
Oral History Interview with Mary Steele Leon, April 15, 1997
Interview with Mary Steele Leon, a secretary for the U. S. Navy during and after World War II. She joined the Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service (WAVES) and was trained as a secretary. Her first assignment was in the office of the Chief of Naval Operations (CNO) during World War II. The CNO at the time was Fleet Admiral Ernest J. King. After the war, she served as personal secretary for Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz while he was CNO. She was discharged in 1946.
Date:
April 15, 1997
Creator:
Alexander, Bill & Leon, Mary Steele
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Sadye Gee, May 28, 1990
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Interview with Sadye Gee, a teacher from Dallas, Texas. Gee discusses her family background, working a laundry service during the Great Depression, education, teaching at B. F. Darrell School, marriage, her husband's career, the Black Chamber of Commerce in Dallas, black Dallas communities, buying a home in Hamilton Park and life in the area as an African-American, raising her daughter, discrimination, schools, the growth of the area, and "buy outs" and relocation. In appendix is a sheet of Gee's biographical information.
Date:
May 29, 1990
Creator:
Wilson, William H. & Gee, Sadye
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interviews with Ocie R. Turner, 1991
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Interview with the Rev. Ocie Turner, a minister at New Mount Zion Baptist Church in Dallas, Marine WWII veteran, and a longtime resident of the Hamilton Park neighborhood, from Mexia, Texas. Turner discusses his family background, education, serving in the Marine Corps at the Battle of Iwo Jima, working as a butcher in Dallas, working in the oil and gas industry, buying his house in Hamilton Park, the growth and development of the neighborhood, community organizations, local businesses, the schools and his children's education, and changes in the neighborhood over time.
Date:
1991-09-14/1991-12-05
Creator:
Wilson, William H. & Turner, Ocie R.
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with David McGuire, April 2, 1990
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Interview with David McGuire, a college professor from Waldo, Kansas, regarding his education and music background, career in music education at the University of North Texas, the development of the College of Music, and band history.
Date:
April 2, 1990
Creator:
Spencer, David & McGuire, David C.
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Jo Crutchfield, April 1998
A video interview with Jo Crutchfield (McMurry class of 1937) in which she discusses her memories of McMurry and of her acquaintance with Gypsy Ted Sullivan Wylie.
Date:
April 1998
Creator:
Crutchfield, Josephine Palmer
Object Type:
Video
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Jewell Posey, April 1998
A video interview with Jewel Posey (McMurry class of 1927) discussing her experiences at McMurry as a student, and as a faculty member.
Date:
April 1998
Creator:
Posey, Jewell
Object Type:
Video
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with J. Edmund Kirby, March 1998
A video interview with Dr. J. Edmund Kirby (1908-2006), a McMurry alumnus (class of 1931), and his wife Ruth discussing their experiences at McMurry and their life together. Dr. Kirby was a professor of Bible at McMurry from 1945-1947, and later served as a McMurry Trustee.
Date:
March 1998
Creator:
Kirby, J. Edmund & Kirby, Ruth
Object Type:
Video
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Oral History Interview with Dorothy Bess Francisco and Mary Virginia Simmons]
Interview with Dorothy Bess Francisco and Mary Virginia Simmons about the history of Grapevine, Texas.
Date:
May 4, 1993
Creator:
Francisco, Dorothy Bess & Simmons, Mary Virginia
Object Type:
Video
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Oral History Interview with Bill Hilliard, June 1, 1993]
Interview with Bill Hilliard about the history of Grapevine, Texas.
Date:
June 1, 1993
Creator:
Hilliard, Bill
Object Type:
Video
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Oral History Interview with Warren Dearing]
Interview with Warren Dearing about the history of Grapevine, Texas.
Date:
June 21, 1993
Creator:
Dearing, Warren
Object Type:
Video
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Oral History Interview with Pete Redmond, June 15, 1993]
Interview with Reverend Pete Redmond about the history of Grapevine, Texas.
Date:
June 15, 1993
Creator:
Redmond, Pete
Object Type:
Video
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Oral History Interview with Edward Langley and Mary Virginia Simmons, May 4, 1993]
Interview with Edward Langley and Mary Virginia Simmons about the history of Grapevine, Texas.
Date:
May 4, 1993
Creator:
Langley, Edward L. & Simmons, Mary Virginia
Object Type:
Video
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Oral History Interview with W. D. Willhoite, June 3, 1993]
Interview with W. D. Willhoite about the history of Grapevine, Texas.
Date:
June 3, 1993
Creator:
Willhoite, W. D. (Ted)
Object Type:
Video
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Robert Erickson, March 19, 1995
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Interview with Robert Erickson, an employee of Kaiser Permanente from Spokane, Washington. Erickson discusses his family origin, education and becoming an attorney, joining Kaiser Permanente, the company's joint venture with Prudential in Texas, its organization and finances, shortcomings, Kaiser Permanente Advisory Services, conflicts within the medical industry, difficulties establishing Kaiser in DFW and forming medical groups in Texas, competitors, why the venture ended, lessons learned, and Texas culture.
Date:
March 19, 1995
Creator:
Pinkney, Kathryn & Erickson, Robert
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Roy Cudd, March 19, 1997
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Interview with Roy Cudd, a Navy WWII veteran of the USS Bougainville (CVE-100, an escort carrier) from Denton, Texas. Cudd discusses his family life, their reaction to the start of war, enlisting in the Navy and boot camp, assignment to the Bougainville, duties aboard ship and daily life, missions in the Pacific, the Okinawa Typhoon, combat, initiation as a "shellback," kamikazes, liberty, ranking up, and the end of the war.
Date:
March 19, 1997
Creator:
Byrd, Richard W. & Cudd, Roy
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Glenn C. Blouse, August 3, 1998
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Interview with Glenn C. Blouse, a Army WWII veteran from Long Level, Pennsylvania. Blouse discusses his family life, being drafted, basic training, deployment to the European Theater via North Africa, assignment to the 135th Infantry, 34th Infantry Division in Italy, duties as a machine gunner, first combat experiences, fighting on the Monte Cassino front, foxhole life, shelling, tactics, taking prisoners, Italian civilians, the Anzio landing, assaulting a hill, liberating Rome, the Apennines Campaign, nightwatch and a firefight which earned him the Bronze Star, breaking into the Po Valley, Mussolini's corpse, the end of the war. In appendix is Blouse's Bronze Star citation.
Date:
August 3, 1998
Creator:
Marcello, Ronald E. & Blouse, Glenn C.
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library