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UNT Oral History Program
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University of North Texas
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Orange County Historical Society
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Collection
UNT Oral Histories
122
World War Two Collection
72
Texas Oral History Collection
63
United States Experiment Station Record
4
Harris and Eliza Kempner
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National Museum of the Pacific War Digital Archive
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Private Papers of Daniel Kempner Thorne
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World War II Pacific Theater Oral History Project
18
World War II Prisoners of War Oral History Project
16
World War II Pearl Harbor Survivors Oral History Project
12
Experiment Station Record
4
Caltex Oral History Project
3
Documenting the War Collection
2
Personal Papers (MS 80-0002)
2
World War II War Crimes Oral History Project
2
General Curtis LeMay Oral History Project
1
Korean War Oral History Project
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States
Decade
Month
Oral History Interview with Jess Stanbrough, April 15, 1985
Interview with Jess Stanbrough, a Texas National Guard WWII veteran from Wichita Falls, Texas, who served and was captured with the 2nd Battalion, 131st Field Artillery (the "Lost Battalion.") Stanbrough discusses his time in the Guard before the war, deployment to the Pacific, the fall of Java and being captured, experiences in internment at Tanjong Priok and Bicycle Camp in Batavia, operating a clandestine radio, transfer to Japan, being an iron smelter at Kamaishi, Honshu, American air and naval bombardment, and liberation.
Date:
April 15, 1985
Creator:
Marcello, Ronald E. & Stanbrough, Jess
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interviews with Charles W. Burris: April 1984 & May 1985
Interview with Charles Burris, Army Air Corps veteran and survivor of the Bataan Death March, concerning his experiences as a prisoner-of-war of the Japanese during World War II. Burris discusses the fall of Bataan and his capture, the Bataan Death March, Camp O'Donnell (1942), Cabanatuan (1942-1944), Bilibid Prison in Manila (1944), the hell ship to Japan (1944), Fukuoka, Kyushu (1945), and his liberation.
Date:
{1984-04-05,1985-02-21,1985-05-14,1985-05-31}
Creator:
Cruz, Richard A. (Richard Alan) & Burris, Charles W., 1917-
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with William A. Visage, July 15 and 16, 1987
Interview with William Visage, an accountant, Army veteran (2nd Battalion, 131st Field Artillery, Texas National Guard), and a member of the "Lost Battalion," concerning his experiences as a prisoner-of-war of the Japanese during World War II. Visage discusses the fall of Java and his capture, Surabaja, Java (1942), Changi Prison Camp in Singapore (1942), the hell ship to Japan (1942), the Nagasaki shipyards (1942-1945), Arao, Kyushu, his liberation, and his observations of Nagasaki after the dropping of the A-bomb.
Date:
{1987-07-15,1987-07-16}
Creator:
Marcello, Ronald E. & Visage, William A.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Jack Kenner, April 4, 1980
Interview with Jack Kenner, an Army veteran (2nd Battalion, 131st Field Artillery, Texas National Guard) and a member of the "Lost Battalion," concerning his experiences as a prisoner-of-war of the Japanese during World War II. Kenner talks about the fall of Java and his capture, Bicycle Camp in Batavia (1942), Changi Prison Camp in Singapore (1942), the hell ship to Japan (1942), Hakodate, Sapporo, and Muroran, Hokkaido (1942-1945), and his liberation.
Date:
April 4, 1980
Creator:
Marcello, Ronald E. & Kenner, Jack W., 1920-
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interviews with Pete Evans, 1984
Interview with Pete Evans, a Texas National Guard veteran and POW from Hamby, Texas. Evans discusses his time as a member of 2nd Battalion, 131st Field Artillery (the "Lost Battalion") which was captured by the Japanese in March, 1942, including: his upbringing; entering the Guard and training; mobilization, the Louisiana Maneuvers, and deployment to East Asia; diversion from the Philippines to Brisbane and then Java, after December 7th, 1941; assignment to Sangosari near Malang; the Japanese invasion and the American surrender; and experiences in internment at Surabaya, Tanjong Priok in Batavia, Changi Camp in Singapore, Nagasaki, and the Orio district of Kitakyūshū.
Date:
{1984-02-15,1984-02-29,1984-03-07}
Creator:
Marcello, Ronald E. & Evans, Pete
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interviews with Charles W. Burris, 1984-1985
Interview with Charles Burris, Army Air Corps veteran from Tulsa, Oklahoma, concerning his experiences as a prisoner-of-war of the Japanese during World War II and as a survivor of the Bataan Death March. Burris discusses his training, the fall of Bataan, Camp O'Donnell, Fukuoka, Kyushu, and being set free.
Date:
{1984-04-05,1985-02..1985-05}
Creator:
Cruz, Richard & Burris, Charles W.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with William J. Stewart, June 11, 1981
Interview with William J. Stewart, a United States Navy veteran from Cherryvale, Kansas. Stewart discusses his experiences as a prisoner-of-war of the Japanese during World War II after his cruiser, the USS Houston, was sunk off the coast of Java in 1942.
Date:
July 11, 1981
Creator:
Marcello, Ronald E. & Stewart, William J.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Donald C. Brain, March 11, 1981
Interview with Donald C. Brain, a United States Navy veteran from Long Beach, California. Brain discusses his experiences as a prisoner-of-war of the Japanese during World War II after his cruiser, the USS Houston, was sunk off the coast of Java in 1942.
Date:
March 11, 1981
Creator:
Marcello, Ronald E. & Brain, Donald C.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Martin Chambers, April 8, 1982
Interview with Martin Chambers, a United States Army veteran from Milam, Texas. Chambers discusses his experiences as a prisoner-of-war of the Japanese during World War II and as a member of the 26th Brigade and eventually the 2nd Battalion, 131st Field Artillery, also known as the "Lost Battalion."
Date:
April 8, 1982
Creator:
Marcello, Ronald E. & Chambers, Martin
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with General Robert E. Galer, March 14, 1998
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Transcript of an interview with General Robert E. Galer, a Marine Corps veteran (VMF-224) and recipient of the Medal of Honor, concerning his experiences in the Pacific Theater during World War II. Galer discusses his pre-war training at Pensacola and Quantico; assignment to Saint Thomas and reminiscences about the "destroyers-for bases" deal, 1940; experiences at Ewa during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941; assignment to Guadalcanal as commander of VMF-224, August 30, 1942-December 31, 1942; air combat around Guadalcanal; his receiving the Medal of Honor; reassignment to the States for war bond drives; experiences on Iwo Jima, February-March, 1945, as commander of a 584 Radar Team; and assignment to the Philippines and Okinawa, 1945.
Date:
March 14, 1998
Creator:
Alexander, William J. & Galer, Robert E., 1913-2005
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Robert E. Galer, August 27, 1998
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Interview with General Robert E. Galer, a Marine Corps veteran (VMF-224) and recipient of the Medal of Honor, concerning his experiences concerning the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941; the Guadalcanal Campaign as commander of VMF-224; and as head of the 584 Radar units during the campaigns for the Philippines, Iwo Jima, and Okinawa. Navy ROTC at the University of Washington, 1931-35; pilot training at Sand Point, Pensacola, and Quantico, 1935-38; assignment to amphibian squadron on Saint Thomas, Virgin Islands, 1938-40, and his minor role in the "destroyers-for-bases" deal with Great Britain, 1940; assignment as commander of VMF-224, 1942; description of the Grumman Wildcat fighter plane; assignment to Henderson Field, Guadalcanal, 1942; episodes involving aerial combat against the Japanese; aerial combat tactics; living conditions at Henderson Field; shot down for the first time on September 12, 1942; shot down for a second time on October 2, 1942; personnel problems with dysentery and malaria; reassignment to COMAIRPAC, November, 1943; Command and Staff College, 1943; awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor for twenty-nine consecutive days of combat and eleven-and-one-half kills; meeting President Franklin D. Roosevelt in the Oval Office; development of the 584 Radar for close-air support; Iwo Jima, …
Date:
August 27, 1998
Creator:
Marcello, Ronald E.; Lane, Peter B. & Galer, Robert E., 1913-2005
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interviews with Howard Yergin, January 1986
Interview with Howard Yergin, an employee of Caltex Petroleum Corporation from New York City. Yergin discusses his career with the company, including his education and Army service, hiring by Caltex, move to Shanghai in 1948 and business conducted there, businessmen who helped reestablish Caltex's Chinese market after WWII, fleeing China in 1949, attempts at recouping capital from the Chinese government, operations in Hong Kong, changes in the oil market over the years, corporate financing, internal reorganization, OPEC, Persian Gulf economies, South African operations, the tanker fleet, and the company's move from New York to Dallas.
Date:
{1986-01-23,1986-01-24}
Creator:
Marcello, Ronald E. & Yergin, Howard
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Personal Diary of Frank Fujita, Jr.
A copy of Frank Fujita Jr.'s war diary, obtained by Dr. Ron Marcello to accompany Fujita's oral history interview. Fujita was an Texas National Guard WWII veteran and POW from the 2nd Battalion, 131st Field Artillery Regiment captured on Java in March 1942. Included is Fujita's original bound diary, and a rewritten version he made in a Japanese logbook in internment and continued. They contain daily activities, doodles, lists of dozens of servicemen and captives encountered, and the key to an encoded script Fujita developed for sensitive information. Also included is a postwar newspaper clipping about Fujita's unit.
Date:
December 19, 1970
Creator:
Marcello, Ronald E. & Fujita Jr., Frank
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Herbert M. Fish, July 31, 1985
Interview with Herbert M. Fish, an executive at Caltex Petroleum Corporation from Boston, Massachusetts. Fish discusses his time working at Shell Oil during the Depression, experience in the U.S. Army, his duties at Caltex, marketing with Chinese agents and visiting China, dealing with Japanese executives, and Caltex European operations.
Date:
August 31, 1985
Creator:
Marcello, Ronald E. & Fish, Herbert M.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interviews with James Voss, 1986
Interview with James Voss, a lawyer and employee of the Caltex Petroleum Company from San Antonio, Texas. Voss discusses his earlier life and joining Caltex, work on company claims involving postwar China and other assets affected by World War II, the crude oil market, effects of the Chinese Communist Revolution on the company and markets, company operations in Japan and reconstruction, the company in Korea and Vietnam, mergers, purchases, divestments, expansion in the Mid East, South Africa, re-entry into China, and reflections on the energy business and his career.
Date:
1986-01-09/1986-06-20
Creator:
Marcello, Ronald E.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Stephen E. Van Nostrand, April 20, 1987
Interview with Stephen E. Van Nostrand, former executive at Caltex Petroleum Corporation. The interview includes Van Nostrand's personal experiences about service during World War II, employment with Caltex in China, the formation of Ryuku Oil Corporation, and holding various positions within Caltex. Van Nostrand talks about joint ventures with Nippon Oil Company and Koa Oil Company, increasing the refining capacity from 60,000 bbls. to 900,000 bbls. per day, crude oil contracts, the Nippon Petroleum Refining Company, refinery rehabilitation and construction, his role in Caltex operations in Japan, the Nippon Oil Staging Terminal Company, relations between Caltex (Japan) and New York headquarters, OPEC and its effects upon Caltex, character sketches of Neal Lilley, Alec Singleton, and James Voss, and various Japanese oil executives. The interview includes a personal history of S. Nomura.
Date:
April 20, 1987
Creator:
Marcello, Ronald E. & Van Nostrand, Stephen E.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with William Tucker, September 25, 1985
Interview with William Tucker, a business executive from Boston, regarding his experiences working for Caltex Petroleum Corporation, their refinery construction and expansion during World War II and after the war, the oil industry, and Caltex in India, Australia, Germany, Japan, Korea, and South Africa.
Date:
September 25, 1985
Creator:
Marcello, Ronald E. & Tucker, William
System:
The UNT Digital Library
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.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with George W. McDaniel, October 23, 1973
Interview with George W. McDaniel, draftsman and U.S. Marine Corps WWII veteran, concerning his experiences as a prisoner-of-war of the Japanese during World War II. McDaniel discusses the fall of Wake island and capture; hell ship to China, 1942; Wusong Prison Camp, Shanghai, 1942; Kiangwang Prison Camp, 1942-45; Pusan, Korea, 1945; Hakodate, Hokkaido, 1945; liberation.
Date:
October 23, 1973
Creator:
Marcello, Ronald E. & McDaniel, George W., 1915-
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Burton S. Pearsall, April 20 and 21, 1997
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Transcript of an interview with Burton S. Pearsall, a Marine Corps veteran, concerning his experiences as a dive-bomber pilot in the Pacific Theater during World War II. Appendix includes photos, newspaper articles, samples of flight log, and US Marine Corps certificate.
Date:
{1997-04-20,1997-04-21}
Creator:
Jackson, Sarah C. & Pearsall, Burton S.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with General Alpha Lyons Bowser, March 12, 1998
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Transcript of an interview with General Alpha Lyons Bowser, a Marine Corps veteran (3rd Battalion, 12th Marine Regiment, 3rd Marine Division), concerning his experiences as an artillery officer in the Pacific Theater during World War II. Bowser also discusses his role in planning the Inchon landing, 1950, during the Korean War.
Date:
March 12, 1998
Creator:
Alexander, William J. & Bowser, Alpha Lyons
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Harry Strawn, August 16, 1997
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Transcript of an interview with Harry C. Strawn, Army Air Forces veteran (31st Fighter Group, 12th Air Force; and 413th Fighter Group, 14th Air Force), concerning his experiences as a fighter pilot in the European, Mediterranean, and Pacific Theaters during World War II. Appendix includes the introduction to "In a now forgotten sky: the 31st fighter group in WW2" by Dennis C. Kucera.
Date:
August 16, 1997
Creator:
Alexander, William J. & Strawn, Harry C., 1918-
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Eldridge Rayburn, January 16, 1980
Audio interview with Eldridge Rayburn, a veteran of the Texas National Guard from Lubbock, Texas, about his experiences as a member of the "Lost Battalion" captured at Java in 1942 by the Japanese army during World War II. Rayburn discusses his memories of being in a Field Artillery unit, a prisoner of war, and surviving.
Date:
January 16, 1980
Creator:
Marcello, Ronald E. & Rayburd, Eldridge
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with George Detre, August 17, 1978
Transcript of an interview with George Detre, a Navy veteran from Warren, Ohio, and a survivor of the sinking of the USS Houston. Detre discusses concerning his experiences during World War II, including as a prisoner-of-war of the Japanese.
Date:
August 17, 1978
Creator:
Marcello, Ronald E. & Detre, George
System:
The UNT Digital Library