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Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD)...letter? (open access)

Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD)...letter?

This is a letter from Melody Musgrove regarding autism spectrum disorder.
Date: July 6, 2015
Creator: Musgrove, Melody
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Tom Lemond, January 6, 2015 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Tom Lemond, January 6, 2015

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Tom Lemond. Lemond was born in Tahoka, Texas on 6 November 1923. After enlisting in the Army Air Corps in 1942, he was accepted into the pilot training program. Upon completing the various phases of training at different bases, he was sent to Ardmore, Oklahoma where he joined a B-17 crew as a co-pilot. After being assigned to the 418th Bomb Squadron the crew flew a new B-17 to England. Lemond recalls in detail a mission over Augsburg, Germany in March 1944 in which his aircraft had a midair collision with another B-17. Only he and another crew member survived. He was befriended by members of the French Underground until he and a RAF crewman were exposed by a traitor. He comments about the treatment he received from members of the German Gestapo while imprisoned in the Fresnes, Val de-Marn prison. As American forces neared his place of imprisonment, his captors left and he walked out of the prison. Lemond was picked up by American forces and taken to Paris where he was debriefed before he returned to England and rejoined his unit. Soon thereafter, he returned to …
Date: January 6, 2015
Creator: Lemond, Tom
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Roy Beck, August 6, 2015 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Roy Beck, August 6, 2015

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Roy Beck. Beck was drafted into the Army in September, 1943 and went to basic training in Missouri. From there, he went to a trade school in New York to become an electrician. His first assignment was in the Aleutian Islands at Amchitka where he worked as an electrician rigging wiring and working on poles. He also went to Attu and helped build a landing strip on Shemya Island before returning to the US and being discharged in June 1946.
Date: August 6, 2015
Creator: Beck, Roy
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Lloyd Bailey, March 6, 2015 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Lloyd Bailey, March 6, 2015

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Lloyd Bailey. Bailey was born in Kansas City, Missouri on 16 February 1922 and graduated from high school in Waco, Texas in 1940. After attending Texas A&M for one year, he enlisted in the Army. He went to Camp Wolters in Mineral Wells, Texas for basic training. While there, he was recruited by Federal Bureau of Investigation agents to participate in an internal security program. Following basic entered the Corps of Engineers Officer Candidate School at Fort Belvoir, Virginia. On 2 February 1943 he was commissioned a second lieutenant and assigned to the 386th Engineer Battalion, an African American unit stationed at Camp Sutton, North Carolina. In 1943, the battalion boarded the SS Louis Pasteur and sailed to Casablanca where they cleaned up the dock area to facilitate unloading cargo. He tells of the unit traveling by rail to Iran. Soon after arriving in Iran the battalion sailed to Naples, Italy. His platoon was sent to Anzio and assigned the task of removing land mines. Three of his men were lost while doing this job. He was assigned to oversee the construction of the largest Butler Building ever …
Date: March 6, 2015
Creator: Bailey, Lloyd
System: The Portal to Texas History
UNT 125th Anniversary Steering Committee Third Meeting (open access)

UNT 125th Anniversary Steering Committee Third Meeting

Document created by UNT's 125th Anniversary Steering Committee about the prioritization of possible events, programs, and activities for the 125th Celebration. A list of attending committee representatives is included as well as a brief agenda.
Date: May 6, 2015
Creator: University of North Texas 125th Anniversary Steering Committee
System: The UNT Digital Library
UNT 125th Anniversary Steering Committee Third Meeting (open access)

UNT 125th Anniversary Steering Committee Third Meeting

Document created by UNT's 125th Anniversary Steering Committee about the prioritization of possible events, programs, and activities for the 125th Celebration. A list of attending committee representatives is included as well as a detailed agenda.
Date: May 6, 2015
Creator: University of North Texas 125th Anniversary Steering Committee
System: The UNT Digital Library
Share the ride to St. Patrick's events with DART, Uber and MADD (open access)

Share the ride to St. Patrick's events with DART, Uber and MADD

News release about DART running additional rail service and Uber offering discounted rides to first time users on the day of a St. Patrick's Day parade as part of a partnership between DART, Uber, and Mothers Against Drunk Driving with the goal of reducing the number of intoxicated drivers on the road.
Date: March 6, 2015
Creator: Lyons, Morgan; Ball, Mark; Hancock, Debbee & Wedel, Heather
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Central Railway Selects Two Possible Dallas Station Locations (open access)

Texas Central Railway Selects Two Possible Dallas Station Locations

News release about the Texas Central Railway Co. announcing its selection of two locations in Dallas as candidate sites fora future high-speed rail station in conjunction with a high-speed rail project which would connect Dallas, Fort Worth, and Arlington.
Date: February 6, 2015
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History