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Oral History Interview with Dean Stephens, October 8, 2004 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Dean Stephens, October 8, 2004

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Dean Stephens. Stephens was born in Red Oak, Oklahoma. After finishing two years of college he attempted to join the Coast Guard but was rejected. He went to work at Emerson Electric, a defense plant that made gun turrets for bombers. He was drafted 15 January 1943 and went to Wichita Falls, Texas for basic training. After basic, he was sent to weather observer school at Chanute Field, Illinois. After ten months of training he went to Perrin Field in Sherman, Texas. On 15 July 1943 he went aboard the USS Hermitage (AP-54) bound for Bombay. After arriving at Karachi, he volunteered to go to Burma. He was then sent to Pushkar, India where he helped build a weather station. After five months he flew to Mangkuan, China in an L-5 aircraft. After a three day trek by foot, he arrived at a camp where he joined a team of nine others comprising the Signal Air Warning group. Their job was to pass weather conditions every six hours to a collection point that drew area weather maps. Stephens recalls leeches being a constant problem and being accidentally burned …
Date: October 8, 2004
Creator: Stephens, Dean
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0528 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0528

Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, Greg Abbott, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Whether a seawall funded from assessments levied pursuant to Local Government Code, chapter 372, subchapter A or B, may be built on privately-owned land (RQ-0528-GA)
Date: March 8, 2007
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Installation Summary - FORT SILL (open access)

Installation Summary - FORT SILL

Contains info on location, size, history, missions, major units/tenants, and population.
Date: September 8, 2005
Creator: United States. Department of Defense.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Homer Faseler, December 8, 2005 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Homer Faseler, December 8, 2005

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Homer Faseler. Faseler joined the Army Air Forces in 1944 after he finished high school. Once out of basic training, Faseler went to aerial gunnery school. Then, he was assigned as a tailgunner aboard a B-17 and headed for Europe assigned to the 390th Bomb Group. He flew 10 combat missions and was discharged in February, 1946.
Date: December 8, 2005
Creator: Faseler, Homer F.
System: The Portal to Texas History
[TDNA Officers and Directors, 2008] (open access)

[TDNA Officers and Directors, 2008]

Texas Daily Newspaper Associations' elected officials for the Officers and Directors positions. Gary Borders has been nominated president, Nelson Clyde IV has been elected vice president, Darrell Coleman as treasurer, and Charles Moser as the chairman of the TDNA directors. The directors currently are, Stephen A. Beasley, Patrick J. Birmingham, M. Olaf Frandsen, Belinda Gaudet and Matt Oliver with three spots being vacant.
Date: October 8, 2007
Creator: Texas Daily Newspaper Association
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Lawrence Sykora, May 8, 2008 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Lawrence Sykora, May 8, 2008

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Lawrence Sykora. Sykora joined the Army Air Forces in May of 1943. He completed schooling in Radio, Mechanics and Aerial Gunnery by February of 1944. He was assigned to the 14th Air Force, 308th Bomb Group, 374th Bomb Squadron. He deployed to China, serving as a radio operator and top turret gunner aboard B-24s. They made numerous trips over the Himalaya Mountains. They supported Chinese ground forces by attacking airfields, coal yards, docks, oil refineries and fuel dumps in French Indochina and Burma. Sykora completed 39 missions, returned to the US and was discharged in late September 1945.
Date: May 8, 2008
Creator: Sykora, Lawrence
System: The Portal to Texas History
BRAC Analysis - Notes and Research (open access)

BRAC Analysis - Notes and Research

Contains installation capacity data for Ellsworth AFB, SD and Dyess AFB, TX from Air Force Team Analyst Art Beauchamp
Date: December 8, 2005
Creator: United States. Defense Base Closure and Realignment Commission.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Technical Cross-Service Group - Meeting Minutes of June 8, 2004. (open access)

Technical Cross-Service Group - Meeting Minutes of June 8, 2004.

DISREGARD RESTRICTION HEADER AND FOOTER - Technical Cross-Service Group - Meeting Minutes of June 8, 2004.
Date: July 8, 2005
Creator: United States. Department of Defense.
System: The UNT Digital Library