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Oral History Interview with John G. Solis, March 31, 2009 transcript

Oral History Interview with John G. Solis, March 31, 2009

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with John G. Solis of Irving, Texas. He discusses enlisting in the U.S. Navy on September 17, 1942, and was sent to the Naval Air Station in Corpus Christi, Texas for bootcamp. In bootcamp Mr. Solis talks about learning to shoot rifles by shooting clay pigeons and presentations held to teach how to identify enemy aircraft. While learning to fly, Mr. Solis was assigned to Bombing Squadron 1. In 1944 Mr. Solis ended up with the Torpedo Squadron 100 flying torpedo planes in Oahu, Hawaii. His squadron never saw combat, but he did witness U.S. ships getting destroyed by Kamikaze planes during the Okinawa invasion. He helped in some Naval strikes in Japan from March to June of 1945 before returning to the states for leave. Mr. Solis was still at home on leave when the war officially ended, and he was discharged on September 14th of 1948 due to signing up for a 6-year contract instead of the normal 4-year one.
Date: March 31, 2009
Creator: Solis, John G.
Object Type: Sound
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with John G. Solis, March 31, 2009 (open access)

Oral History Interview with John G. Solis, March 31, 2009

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with John G. Solis of Irving, Texas. He discusses enlisting in the U.S. Navy on September 17, 1942, and was sent to the Naval Air Station in Corpus Christi, Texas for bootcamp. In bootcamp Mr. Solis talks about learning to shoot rifles by shooting clay pigeons and presentations held to teach how to identify enemy aircraft. While learning to fly, Mr. Solis was assigned to Bombing Squadron 1. In 1944 Mr. Solis ended up with the Torpedo Squadron 100 flying torpedo planes in Oahu, Hawaii. His squadron never saw combat, but he did witness U.S. ships getting destroyed by Kamikaze planes during the Okinawa invasion. He helped in some Naval strikes in Japan from March to June of 1945 before returning to the states for leave. Mr. Solis was still at home on leave when the war officially ended, and he was discharged on September 14th of 1948 due to signing up for a 6-year contract instead of the normal 4-year one.
Date: March 31, 2009
Creator: Solis, John G.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Advanced Oil Recovery Technologies for Improved Recovery From Slope Basin Clastic Reservoirs, Nash Draw Brushy Canyon Pool, Eddy County, Nm (open access)

Advanced Oil Recovery Technologies for Improved Recovery From Slope Basin Clastic Reservoirs, Nash Draw Brushy Canyon Pool, Eddy County, Nm

The overall objective of this project is to demonstrate that a development program based on advanced reservoir management methods can significantly improve oil recovery at the Nash Draw Pool (NDP). The plan includes developing a control area using standard reservoir management techniques and comparing its performance to an area developed using advanced reservoir management methods. Specific goals are (1) to demonstrate that an advanced development drilling and pressure maintenance program can significantly improve oil recovery compared to existing technology applications and (2) to transfer these advanced methodologies to oil and gas producers in the Permian Basin and elsewhere throughout the U.S. oil and gas industry.
Date: December 31, 2002
Creator: Murphy, Mark B.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Advanced Oil Recovery Technologies for Improved Recovery From Slope Basin Clastic Reservoirs, Nash Draw Brushy Canyon Pool, Eddy County, Nm (open access)

Advanced Oil Recovery Technologies for Improved Recovery From Slope Basin Clastic Reservoirs, Nash Draw Brushy Canyon Pool, Eddy County, Nm

The Nash Draw Brushy Canyon Pool (NDP) in southeast New Mexico is one of the nine projects selected in 1995 by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) for participation in the Class III Reservoir Field Demonstration Program. The goals of the DOE cost-shared Class Program are to: (1) extend economic production, (2) increase ultimate recovery, and (3) broaden information exchange and technology application. Reservoirs in the Class III Program are focused on slope basin and deep-basin clastic depositional types. Production at the NDP is from the Brushy Canyon formation, a low-permeability turbidite reservoir in the Delaware Mountain Group of Permian, Guadalupian age. A major challenge in this marginal-quality reservoir is to distinguish oil-productive pay intervals from water-saturated non-pay intervals. Because initial reservoir pressure is only slightly above bubble-point pressure, rapid oil decline rates and high gas/oil ratios are typically observed in the first year of primary production. Limited surface access, caused by the proximity of underground potash mining and surface playa lakes, prohibits development with conventional drilling. Reservoir characterization results obtained to date at the NDP show that a proposed pilot injection area appears to be compartmentalized. Because reservoir discontinuities will reduce effectiveness of a pressure maintenance project, the pilot …
Date: October 31, 2001
Creator: Murphy, Mark B.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Carlsbad Quadrangle: Field Data]

Documentation outlining characteristics of field data samples taken in the Carlsbad quadrangle.
Date: August 31, 1981
Creator: National Uranium Resource Evaluation Program
Object Type: Dataset
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Carlsbad Quadrangle: Sediment Site Data]

Data gathered at stream sediment sites in the Carlsbad quadrangle, including applicable water chemistry measurements (e.g., pH, conductivity, alkalinity) and elemental analyses.
Date: August 31, 1981
Creator: National Uranium Resource Evaluation Program
Object Type: Dataset
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Carlsbad Quadrangle: Well Water Data]

Data gathered at well water sites in the Carlsbad quadrangle, including applicable water chemistry measurements (e.g., pH, conductivity, alkalinity), physical measurements (e.g., temperature, well description, scintillometer readings), and elemental analyses.
Date: August 31, 1981
Creator: National Uranium Resource Evaluation Program
Object Type: Dataset
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Las Cruces Quadrangle: Field Data]

Documentation outlining characteristics of field data samples taken in the Las Cruces quadrangle.
Date: August 31, 1981
Creator: National Uranium Resource Evaluation Program
Object Type: Dataset
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Las Cruces Quadrangle: Sediment Site Data]

Data gathered at stream sediment sites in the Las Cruces quadrangle, including applicable water chemistry measurements (e.g., pH, conductivity, alkalinity) and elemental analyses.
Date: August 31, 1981
Creator: National Uranium Resource Evaluation Program
Object Type: Dataset
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Las Cruces Quadrangle: Well Water Data]

Data gathered at well water sites in the Las Cruces quadrangle, including applicable water chemistry measurements (e.g., pH, conductivity, alkalinity), physical measurements (e.g., temperature, well description, scintillometer readings), and elemental analyses.
Date: August 31, 1981
Creator: National Uranium Resource Evaluation Program
Object Type: Dataset
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Fort Sumner Quadrangle: Field Data]

Documentation outlining characteristics of field data samples taken in the Fort Sumner quadrangle.
Date: August 31, 1981
Creator: National Uranium Resource Evaluation Program
Object Type: Dataset
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Fort Sumner Quadrangle: Sediment Site Data]

Data gathered at stream sediment sites in the Fort Sumner quadrangle, including applicable water chemistry measurements (e.g., pH, conductivity, alkalinity) and elemental analyses.
Date: August 31, 1981
Creator: National Uranium Resource Evaluation Program
Object Type: Dataset
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Fort Sumner Quadrangle: Well Water Data]

Data gathered at well water sites in the Fort Sumner quadrangle, including applicable water chemistry measurements (e.g., pH, conductivity, alkalinity), physical measurements (e.g., temperature, well description, scintillometer readings), and elemental analyses.
Date: August 31, 1981
Creator: National Uranium Resource Evaluation Program
Object Type: Dataset
System: The UNT Digital Library
Hydrogeochemical and Stream Sediment Reconnaissance Basic Data for Carlsbad Quadrangle, New Mexico (open access)

Hydrogeochemical and Stream Sediment Reconnaissance Basic Data for Carlsbad Quadrangle, New Mexico

This report presents field and laboratory data for 467 water samples and 1680 soil samples collected from the Carlsbad quadrangle in New Mexico.
Date: August 31, 1981
Creator: National Uranium Resource Evaluation Program
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Hydrogeochemical and Stream Sediment Reconnaissance Basic Data for Fort Sumner Quadrangle, New Mexico (open access)

Hydrogeochemical and Stream Sediment Reconnaissance Basic Data for Fort Sumner Quadrangle, New Mexico

This report presents field and laboratory data for 647 water samples and 1136 soil samples collected from the Fort Sumner quadrangle in New Mexico.
Date: August 31, 1981
Creator: National Uranium Resource Evaluation Program
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Hydrogeochemical and Stream Sediment Reconnaissance Basic Data for Las Cruces Quadrangle, New Mexico (open access)

Hydrogeochemical and Stream Sediment Reconnaissance Basic Data for Las Cruces Quadrangle, New Mexico

"Field and laboratory data are presented for 501 water samples and 1,817 sediment samples from the Las Cruces Quadrangle, New Mexico. The samples were collected and uranium analysis performed by Los Alamos National Laboratory; multielement analysis and data reporting were performed by the Uranium Resource Evaluation Project at Oak Ridge, Tennessee." (Abstract)
Date: August 31, 1981
Creator: National Uranium Resource Evaluation Program
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Hydrogeochemical and Stream Sediment Reconnaissance Basic Data for Raton Quadrangle, New Mexico (open access)

Hydrogeochemical and Stream Sediment Reconnaissance Basic Data for Raton Quadrangle, New Mexico

Abstract: Field and laboratory data are presented for 776 water samples and 1,333 sediment samples from the Raton Quadrangle, New Mexico. Uranium values have been reported by Los Alamos National Laboratory in Report GJBX-138(78). The samples were collected by Los Alamos National Laboratory; laboratory analysis and data reporting were performed by the Uranium Resource Evaluation Project at Oak Ridge, Tennessee.
Date: August 31, 1981
Creator: National Uranium Resource Evaluation Program
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library

Hydrogeochemical and Stream Sediment Reconnaissance Basic Data for Raton Quadrangle, New Mexico: Appendix

Data collected as part of a report on the Raton New Mexico quadrangle including laboratory and field data on waters and sediments.
Date: August 31, 1981
Creator: National Uranium Resource Evaluation Program
Object Type: Dataset
System: The UNT Digital Library
Hydrogeochemical and Stream Sediment Reconnaissance Basic Data for Roswell Quadrangle, New Mexico (open access)

Hydrogeochemical and Stream Sediment Reconnaissance Basic Data for Roswell Quadrangle, New Mexico

"Field and laboratory data are presented for 842 water samples and 1270 sediment samples from Roswell Quadrangle, New Mexico. The samples were collected by Los Alamos National Laboratory; laboratory analysis and data reporting were performed by the Uranium Resource Evaluation Project at Oak Ridge, Tennessee."
Date: August 31, 1981
Creator: National Uranium Resource Evaluation Program
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Roswell Quadrangle: Field Data]

Documentation outlining characteristics of field data samples taken in the Roswell quadrangle.
Date: August 31, 1981
Creator: National Uranium Resource Evaluation Program
Object Type: Dataset
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Roswell Quadrangle: Sediment Site Data]

Data gathered at stream sediment sites in the Roswell quadrangle, including applicable water chemistry measurements (e.g., pH, conductivity, alkalinity) and elemental analyses.
Date: August 31, 1981
Creator: National Uranium Resource Evaluation Program
Object Type: Dataset
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Roswell Quadrangle: Well Water Data]

Data gathered at well water sites in the Roswell quadrangle, including applicable water chemistry measurements (e.g., pH, conductivity, alkalinity), physical measurements (e.g., temperature, well description, scintillometer readings), and elemental analyses.
Date: August 31, 1981
Creator: National Uranium Resource Evaluation Program
Object Type: Dataset
System: The UNT Digital Library
Hydrogeochemical and Stream Sediment Reconnaissance Basic Data for Aztec Quadrangle, New Mexico (open access)

Hydrogeochemical and Stream Sediment Reconnaissance Basic Data for Aztec Quadrangle, New Mexico

From Abstract: "Field and laboratory data are presented for 331 water samples and 1,693 sediment samples from the Aztec Quadrangle, New Mexico. Uranium values have been reported by Los Almos National Laboratory in Report GJBX-129(78). The samples were collected by Los Almos National Laboratory; laboratory analysis and data reporting were performed by the Uranium Resource Evaluation Project at Oak Ridge, Tennessee."
Date: July 31, 1981
Creator: National Uranium Resource Evaluation Program
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library

Hydrogeochemical and Stream Sediment Reconnaissance Basic Data for Aztec Quadrangle, New Mexico: Appendix

Data collected as part of the National Uranium Resource Evaluation (NURE) Program including laboratory data on waters and sediments as well as field data.
Date: July 31, 1981
Creator: National Uranium Resource Evaluation Program
Object Type: Dataset
System: The UNT Digital Library