Interview with Horace Chumley, retired law enforcement officer, U.S. Army WWII veteran (2nd Battalion, 131st Field Artillery, Texas National Guard), and member of the “Lost Battalion.” Chumley discusses his experiences while being held as a prisoner-of-war by the Japanese during World War II. Fall of Java and capture; Bicycle Camp, Batavia, 1942-45; liberation.

Interview with Jack J. White, a university purchasing agent and U.S. Navy veteran, concerning his experiences aboard the cruiser USS New Orleans during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.

Interview with Navy veteran Vernon Fuller. The interview includes Fuller's personal experiences while aboard the repair ship USS Argonne during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.

Interview with Navy veteran R. D. Nicholas. The interview includes Nicholas' personal experiences while aboard the battleship USS California during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.

Interview with John Hubenak, U.S. Navy WWII veteran, concerning his experiences at Ford Island Naval Air Station with the Fleet Air Wing Two during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.

Interview with Democratic attorney and member of the Texas House of Representatives L. DeWitt Hale, from Corpus Christi, Texas. In the interview, Hale discusses his experiences as a member of the Sixty-fourth Legislature. He also expresses his personal thoughts and memories on the House speakership race, appropriations, committee appointments, public school financing, public utilities legislation, constitutional revisions, personal legislation, and comments on fellow politician Governor Dolph Briscoe.

Interview with John E. Darst, U.S. Navy WWII veteran, about his experiences while aboard the minelayer USS Sicard during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.

Interview with Robert Saunders, U.S. Army veteran, concerning his experiences at Schofield Barracks with the 35th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Battalion, M Company during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.

Interview with Dr. George Clarence Moffett, a farmer, oilman, and former state legislator from Denton, Texas. In the interview, Dr. Moffett describes his personal experiences as a member of the House and Senate of Texas for thirty-four years and as a Delegate to Democratic National Convention in Houston in 1928. He comments about Governors W. Lee O'Daniel, Coke Stevenson, and Allan Shivers and talks about oil legislation.

Interview with James H. Sorenson Jr., president of First National Bank in Rockport, Texas. Sorenson discusses his growing up in the Corpus area, his education, his service in World War Two, the Rockport areas growth and changes through the years, the local economy, property developments, his family's ties to the region, natural conservation, local politics, the Aransas County Navigation District, the Intracoastal Channel, hurricanes, oil and gas, the school system, recreation in the area, the country club, and public utilities and services.

Interview with Frederick E. Gaupp, a college professor, concerning the experiences of a German intellectual during the period of the Weimar Republic and the early Hitler years. Gaupp discusses his middle-class family background, his service in World War I with a Rhenish artillery regiment, his education at the University of Breslau, the Sparticist uprising, Kapp Putsch, Freicorps activities, rampant inflation (1923-1924), and the effects of Allied reparations. He also talks about his employment with Ullstein (Berlin) publishing house, fighting between the Brown Shirts and the Communists, the role of the lower middle-class in supporting the Nazis, the Nazi suppression of Ullstein, and his decision to leave Germany in 1935.

Interview with George P. Lawley, an Army WWII veteran and POW from Odessa, Texas. Lawley discusses his time with the so-called "Lost Battalion" on Java and his experiences as a Japanese prisoner-of-war, including: joining the National Guard in 1940 and training, deployment for East Asia with 2nd Battallion, 131st Field Artillery Regiment; diversion to Java at the start of the war; the Japanese attack and his unit's capture; and his experiences in internment and labor at Tanjong Priok in Batavia, Changi Camp in Singapore, Thanbyuzayat and several camps on the Burma Railway, and near Nagasaki.

Interview with homemaker Billie Simpson Barker. The interview includes Barker's personal experiences about rural life in Denton County, Texas from 1925-1985. Barker talks about her father's sawmill operation, creek flooding, threshing operations, changes in land ownership, her husband's death, effects of the Great Depression, social life, the county's longtime residents, recreational activities, epidemics, wildlife problems, the tornado of June 8, 1937, her childhood, and homemade clothing.

Interview with Willie Jordan, a farmer and former member of the Civilian Conservation Corps from Newport, Texas, regarding his experiences and memories of participating in the CCC during the Great Depression.

Interview with Navy veteran Russell R. Argabrite. The interview includes Argabrite's personal experiences while aboard the battleship USS California during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.

Interview with Navy veteran John Korba. The interview includes Korba's personal experiences while aboard the battleship USS West Virginia during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.

Interview with Lore Price, a Holocaust survivor from Gelsenkirchen, North Rhine-Wesphalia, Germany. Price discusses her family, growing up, antisemitism, the Kristallnacht and subsequent growth of arrests and deportations, the Berlin ghetto, the Riga ghetto, the Riga concentration camp and events there, transfer to camps at Stutthof and Thorn, a forced march to Bromberg, escaping and hiding, becoming a nurse with Polish soldiers, the end of the war and immigration to Israel, and reflections on the experience of the Holocaust.

Interview with Representative Ben Bynum, a Democratic Texas state legislator from Amarillo, Texas. Bynum discusses his experience during the regular session of the 63rd legislature, including: the large influx of freshman representatives and their effect on the session; the political makeup of the House; debates in the House; the selection of committee chairmen; and the Ethics Commission and related reform legislation.

Interview conducted in 1972 for the World War II Prisoners of War Oral History Project with Louis B. Read, a businessman, an Army veteran, and a survivor of the Bataan Death March, concerning his experiences as a prisoner-of-war of the Japanese during World War II.