[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

Oral History Interview with Evelyn Myers McCune, August 4, 1996

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Transcript of an interview with Evelyn Myers McCune, nurse, concerning her experiences as a civilian secretary with the State Department in Washington, D.C., before the and during World War II. McCune discusses her educational background; decision to take a position with the State Department in early 1941; adjustments in moving from a town of 2,500 people to the nation's capitol; personal observations of the activities at the Japanese embassy on December 7, 1941; wartime living conditions, rationing, and transportation adjustments; social life; comments and observations of Secretary of State Cordell Hull, Japanese ambassadors Saburo Kurusu and Kichisabura Nomura, Ambassador Joseph Grew, and Eleanor Roosevelt; working with diplomatic codes; incident involving President Roosevelt's stamp collection; and her decision to join the Cadet Nurse Corps, 1944.
Date: August 4, 1996
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & McCune, Evelyn Myers, 1918-
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
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

[Photograph 2012.201.B1320.0431]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Fay Hancock (left) wears the winter uniform of the U. S. cadet nurse corps--a jacket suit of gray wool--while Sonja Gover wears the summer outfit of gray and white striped cotton."
Date: August 18, 1943
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma 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".
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Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

Oral History Interview with Anna K. Schelper, October 24, 2007

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Interview with Major Anna K. Schelper, a Army WWII veteran from San Antonio, Texas. Schelper discusses her parents, growing up, her education and becoming a nurse, joining the Army Nurse Corps, experiences serving throughout the Pacific Theater, service in hospitals after the war, continued education and promoting, and reflections on her career and being a servicewoman. In appendix are Schelper's Army service record, a letter from two former patients to the 23rd Field Hospital, a scan of some of her letters which were printed in a book, and a scan of some sections from The Army Nurse Corps: Yesterday and Today by Mary M. Roberts.
Date: October 24, 2007
Creator: Quick, Janice & Schelper, Anna K.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
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

Oral History Interview with Barton B. Wallace, Jr., September 19, 2003

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Interview with Barton B. Wallace, Jr., engineer and Army veteran (Quartermaster Corps Graves Registration Service-China Zone), concerning his experiences with Recovery Team No. 4 in the recovery of the remains of American military personnel in China, 1945-46. Appendix consists of letters, chronology, Separation Qualification Record, and extracts from various forms.
Date: September 19, 2003
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Wallace, Barton B., Jr.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interview with Thomas Jenny, April 3, 2013

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Interview with Thomas Jenny, a Marine Corps and Air America pilot from Miami, Florida, who served in Southeast Asia during the Vietnam War. Jenny discusses his interest in aviation, entering the Naval Flight Training Program, flight training, joining the Marine Corps, assignment to Korea, working for Pan-Am, joining Air America, and flying a variety of aircraft and missions from Thailand and Laos.
Date: April 3, 2013
Creator: Ferguson, J. Michael & Jenny, Thomas
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
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 W. D. Whitson, November 15, 1995

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Transcript of an interview with William D. Whitson, a businessman and an Army Air Corps veteran (442nd Bomb Squadron, 8th Air Force), from Denton, Texas, concerning his experiences as a B-17 pilot in the European Theater during World War II. Whitson discusses flight training, his flight from the U.S. to Grafton-Underwood, England, his personal relationship with Curtis Le May, his missions and German defenses, his nineteenth mission and crash landing, and his twenty-fifth mission.
Date: November 15, 1995
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Whitson, William D.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
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

Phantom in the Sky: A Marine’s Back Seat View of the Vietnam War

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Phantom in the Sky is the story of a Radar Intercept Officer (RIO) in the back seat of the supersonic Phantom jet during the Vietnam War—a unique, tactical perspective of the “guy in back,” or GIB, absent from other published aviation accounts. During the time of Terry L. Thorsen’s service from 1966 to 1970, the RIO played an integral part in enemy aircraft interception and ordnance delivery. In Navy and Marine F-4 Phantom jets, the RIO was a second pair of eyes for the pilot, in charge of communications and navigation, and great to have during emergencies. Thorsen endured the tough Platoon Leaders Course at Quantico and barely earned a commission. He underwent aviation and intercept training while suffering airsickness issues—and still earned his wings. Thorsen joined the oldest and most decorated squadron in the Marine Corps, the VMFA-232 Red Devils in southern California, as it prepared for deployment to Vietnam. In combat, Thorsen felt angst when he saw the sky darken around him from anti-aircraft artillery explosions high above the Ho Chi Minh Trail. On his first close air support mission in support of ground troops (the majority of his Marine aviation missions), he witnessed tracers whiz by his …
Date: March 2019
Creator: Thorsen, Terry L.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interview with Lyle Specht, May 3, 1993

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Interview with Lyle Specht, a Marine Corps veteran, concerning his combat experiences with the 6th Marines at Guadalcanal, Tarawa, and Okinawa in the Pacific Theater during World War II.
Date: May 3, 1993
Creator: Byrd, Richard & Specht, Lyle
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library