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Oral History Interview with Abelino Alviar, March 14, 2003 transcript

Oral History Interview with Abelino Alviar, March 14, 2003

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Abelino Alviar. Alviar joined the Army in May of 1944. In early 1945, he joined the 778th Anti-aircraft Artillery Automatic Weapons Battalion. They deployed to Le Havre, France, and traveled to Munich, Germany, arriving after the Battle of the Ardennes. Alviar provided guard duty, and served as a gunner on the half-track supporting the 1st Infantry Division as they fought into Germany. He also worked as a translator and helped transport supplies to the front line. He returned home and was discharged in May of 1946.
Date: March 14, 2003
Creator: Alviar, Abelino
Object Type: Sound
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Abelino Alviar, March 14, 2003 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Abelino Alviar, March 14, 2003

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Abelino Alviar. Alviar joined the Army in May of 1944. In early 1945, he joined the 778th Anti-aircraft Artillery Automatic Weapons Battalion. They deployed to Le Havre, France, and traveled to Munich, Germany, arriving after the Battle of the Ardennes. Alviar provided guard duty, and served as a gunner on the half-track supporting the 1st Infantry Division as they fought into Germany. He also worked as a translator and helped transport supplies to the front line. He returned home and was discharged in May of 1946.
Date: March 14, 2003
Creator: Alviar, Abelino
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Relation of Ponded Floodwater from Hurricane Beulah to Ground Water in Kleberg, Kenedy, and Willacy Counties, Texas (open access)

Relation of Ponded Floodwater from Hurricane Beulah to Ground Water in Kleberg, Kenedy, and Willacy Counties, Texas

Report on how ponded floodwater from Hurricane Beulah affected the groundwater in Kleberg, Kenedy, and Willacy Counties, Texas.
Date: December 1971
Creator: Baker, E. T. (Ernest T.), 1931-
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Dr. Dan Wallace Bacon, March 3, 1998 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Dr. Dan Wallace Bacon, March 3, 1998

Interview with Dr. Dan Wallace Bacon, a physician from Kerrville, Texas, who also served as the city and Kerr County health officer. Dr. Bacon discusses his family history, as well as his education, medical career, brief stint in the Air Force, and general town life in Kerrville. While working at Peterson Hospital in Kerrville, he treated trauma victims from car accidents on Highway 27. In the Air Force, he briefly practiced psychiatry, served as a prison doctor, and finally switched to obstetrics and gynecology. He relates stories from his time as an obstetrician, as well as a general practitioner and family physician. He also discusses the history of minority communities in Kerrville, especially during integration, and the founding of the Kerrville Veteran's Hospital. Dr. Bacon's further remembrances, as well as a historical profile of the Kerrville VA Hospital, are included at the end of the interview transcript.
Date: March 3, 1998
Creator: Bethel, Ann & Bacon, Dan Wallace
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Soil Survey of Padre Island National Seashore, Texas: Special Report (open access)

Soil Survey of Padre Island National Seashore, Texas: Special Report

Text describes the area, climate, agricultural history and statistics, soil-survey methods and definitions, soils and crops, land uses and agricultural methods, irrigation, and morphology and genesis of soils of Padre Island National Seashore, Texas.
Date: May 2007
Creator: Brezina, Dennis N.
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
Regional Water Plan: Region N (Coastal Bend), 2016, Volume 1. Executive Summary and Regional Water Plan (open access)

Regional Water Plan: Region N (Coastal Bend), 2016, Volume 1. Executive Summary and Regional Water Plan

Water plan for Region N (Coastal Bend) describing water resources and suppliers for the area, usage statistics and forecasts, water needs, water management strategies, water conservation plans, drought response plans, and the process of creating the plan.
Date: December 2015
Creator: Coastal Bend Regional Water Planning Group
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Around the Bend, Volume 1, Number 2, April 1995 (open access)

Around the Bend, Volume 1, Number 2, April 1995

Quarterly newsletter discussing news and events related to the Corpus Christi Bay National Estuary Program, as well as research and information related to the bays, estuaries, and bayous in the Copano, Aransas, Corpus Christi, Nueces, Baffin and upper Laguna Madre bay systems.
Date: April 1995
Creator: Corpus Christi Bay National Estuary Program
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Around the Bend, Volume 1, Number 3, June 1995 (open access)

Around the Bend, Volume 1, Number 3, June 1995

Quarterly newsletter discussing news and events related to the Corpus Christi Bay National Estuary Program, as well as research and information related to the bays, estuaries, and bayous in the Copano, Aransas, Corpus Christi, Nueces, Baffin and upper Laguna Madre bay systems.
Date: June 1995
Creator: Corpus Christi Bay National Estuary Program
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Around the Bend, Volume 1, Number 4, Fall 1995 (open access)

Around the Bend, Volume 1, Number 4, Fall 1995

Quarterly newsletter discussing news and events related to the Corpus Christi Bay National Estuary Program, as well as research and information related to the bays, estuaries, and bayous in the Copano, Aransas, Corpus Christi, Nueces, Baffin and upper Laguna Madre bay systems.
Date: Autumn 1995
Creator: Corpus Christi Bay National Estuary Program
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Around the Bend, Volume 2, Number 1, [Winter 1995] (open access)

Around the Bend, Volume 2, Number 1, [Winter 1995]

Quarterly newsletter discussing news and events related to the Corpus Christi Bay National Estuary Program, as well as research and information related to the bays, estuaries, and bayous in the Copano, Aransas, Corpus Christi, Nueces, Baffin and upper Laguna Madre bay systems.
Date: 1995-24~
Creator: Corpus Christi Bay National Estuary Program
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Around the Bend, Volume 2, Number 2, Spring 1996 (open access)

Around the Bend, Volume 2, Number 2, Spring 1996

Quarterly newsletter discussing news and events related to the Corpus Christi Bay National Estuary Program, as well as research and information related to the bays, estuaries, and bayous in the Copano, Aransas, Corpus Christi, Nueces, Baffin and upper Laguna Madre bay systems.
Date: Summer 1996
Creator: Corpus Christi Bay National Estuary Program
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Around the Bend, Volume 2, Number 3, Summer 1996 (open access)

Around the Bend, Volume 2, Number 3, Summer 1996

Quarterly newsletter discussing news and events related to the Corpus Christi Bay National Estuary Program, as well as research and information related to the bays, estuaries, and bayous in the Copano, Aransas, Corpus Christi, Nueces, Baffin and upper Laguna Madre bay systems.
Date: Summer 1996
Creator: Corpus Christi Bay National Estuary Program
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Around the Bend, Volume 2, Number 4, Fall 1996 (open access)

Around the Bend, Volume 2, Number 4, Fall 1996

Quarterly newsletter discussing news and events related to the Corpus Christi Bay National Estuary Program, as well as research and information related to the bays, estuaries, and bayous in the Copano, Aransas, Corpus Christi, Nueces, Baffin and upper Laguna Madre bay systems.
Date: Autumn 1996
Creator: Corpus Christi Bay National Estuary Program
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Around the Bend, Volume 3, Number 1, Winter 1996 (open access)

Around the Bend, Volume 3, Number 1, Winter 1996

Quarterly newsletter discussing news and events related to the Corpus Christi Bay National Estuary Program, as well as research and information related to the bays, estuaries, and bayous in the Copano, Aransas, Corpus Christi, Nueces, Baffin and upper Laguna Madre bay systems.
Date: Winter 1996
Creator: Corpus Christi Bay National Estuary Program
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Around the Bend, Volume 3, Number 2, Spring 1997 (open access)

Around the Bend, Volume 3, Number 2, Spring 1997

Quarterly newsletter discussing news and events related to the Corpus Christi Bay National Estuary Program, as well as research and information related to the bays, estuaries, and bayous in the Copano, Aransas, Corpus Christi, Nueces, Baffin and upper Laguna Madre bay systems.
Date: Spring 1997
Creator: Corpus Christi Bay National Estuary Program
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Around the Bend, Volume 3, Number 3, Summer 1997 (open access)

Around the Bend, Volume 3, Number 3, Summer 1997

Quarterly newsletter discussing news and events related to the Corpus Christi Bay National Estuary Program, as well as research and information related to the bays, estuaries, and bayous in the Copano, Aransas, Corpus Christi, Nueces, Baffin and upper Laguna Madre bay systems.
Date: Summer 1997
Creator: Corpus Christi Bay National Estuary Program
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Around the Bend, Volume 3, Number 4, Fall 1997 (open access)

Around the Bend, Volume 3, Number 4, Fall 1997

Quarterly newsletter discussing news and events related to the Corpus Christi Bay National Estuary Program, as well as research and information related to the bays, estuaries, and bayous in the Copano, Aransas, Corpus Christi, Nueces, Baffin and upper Laguna Madre bay systems.
Date: Autumn 1997
Creator: Corpus Christi Bay National Estuary Program
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Around the Bend, Volume 4, Number 1, Winter 1998 (open access)

Around the Bend, Volume 4, Number 1, Winter 1998

Quarterly newsletter discussing news and events related to the Corpus Christi Bay National Estuary Program, as well as research and information related to the bays, estuaries, and bayous in the Copano, Aransas, Corpus Christi, Nueces, Baffin and upper Laguna Madre bay systems.
Date: 1998-01~
Creator: Corpus Christi Bay National Estuary Program
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Around the Bend, Volume 4, Number 2, Spring 1998 (open access)

Around the Bend, Volume 4, Number 2, Spring 1998

Quarterly newsletter discussing news and events related to the Corpus Christi Bay National Estuary Program, as well as research and information related to the bays, estuaries, and bayous in the Copano, Aransas, Corpus Christi, Nueces, Baffin and upper Laguna Madre bay systems.
Date: Spring 1998
Creator: Corpus Christi Bay National Estuary Program
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Around the Bend, Volume 4, Number 3, Summer 1998 (open access)

Around the Bend, Volume 4, Number 3, Summer 1998

Quarterly newsletter discussing news and events related to the Corpus Christi Bay National Estuary Program, as well as research and information related to the bays, estuaries, and bayous in the Copano, Aransas, Corpus Christi, Nueces, Baffin and upper Laguna Madre bay systems.
Date: Summer 1998
Creator: Corpus Christi Bay National Estuary Program
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Around the Bend, Volume 5, Number 1, Winter 1999 (open access)

Around the Bend, Volume 5, Number 1, Winter 1999

Quarterly newsletter discussing news and events related to the Corpus Christi Bay National Estuary Program, as well as research and information related to the bays, estuaries, and bayous in the Copano, Aransas, Corpus Christi, Nueces, Baffin and upper Laguna Madre bay systems.
Date: 1999-01~
Creator: Corpus Christi Bay National Estuary Program
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Around the Bend, Volume 5, Number 2, Spring 1999 (open access)

Around the Bend, Volume 5, Number 2, Spring 1999

Quarterly newsletter discussing news and events related to the Corpus Christi Bay National Estuary Program, as well as research and information related to the bays, estuaries, and bayous in the Copano, Aransas, Corpus Christi, Nueces, Baffin and upper Laguna Madre bay systems.
Date: Spring 1999
Creator: Corpus Christi Bay National Estuary Program
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Around the Bend, Volume 5, Number 3, Summer 1999 (open access)

Around the Bend, Volume 5, Number 3, Summer 1999

Quarterly newsletter discussing news and events related to the Corpus Christi Bay National Estuary Program, as well as research and information related to the bays, estuaries, and bayous in the Copano, Aransas, Corpus Christi, Nueces, Baffin and upper Laguna Madre bay systems.
Date: Summer 1999
Creator: Corpus Christi Bay National Estuary Program
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History

Los Amigos Windmill Quadrangle

Topographic map of a portion of Texas from the United States Geological Survey (USGS) project. The map includes towns, historic or notable sites, bodies of water, and other geologic features. Scale 1:24,000
Date: 1975
Creator: Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History