Proposed Clean Power Plan Federal Plan and Model Rules Public Hearings (open access)

Proposed Clean Power Plan Federal Plan and Model Rules Public Hearings

This is speaker order for the proposed clean power plan federal plan and model rules public hearings on November 17, 2015
Date: November 17, 2015
Creator: United States. Environmental Protection Agency.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Transcript of Oral History Interview with Thomas Waddell Pollard, November 17, 2015 (open access)

Transcript of Oral History Interview with Thomas Waddell Pollard, November 17, 2015

Transcript of interview with Thomas Waddell Pollard, a County Judge in Kerr County, from Kerrville, Texas. Pollard recounts his time going to school at Tivy Elementary, Tivy Junior High, and Tivy High School, his education at the University of Texas and South Texas College of Law, and his law practice.
Date: November 17, 2015
Creator: Collins, Kelli
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with William Osteen, November 17, 2015 (open access)

Oral History Interview with William Osteen, November 17, 2015

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with William Osteen. Osteen was drafted into the Army April 29, 1942. He was in Company D, 182nd Infantry Regiment of the 23rd Infantry (Americal) Division. He completed basic training in California. He worked some with machine guns, though primarily as a mechanic in D Company. His company shipped out of Fort Ord on a Norwegian freighter to Guadalcanal, and helped with clean up after the main battle was over. From there they spent a year in Bougainville, arriving in November 1943. They held the perimeter and participated in the Battle for Hill 260. From there they took an LST to Leyte, Philippines, carrying tanks and trucks to secure the island. And, then on to Yokohama, Japan continuing with clean up. He was discharged in Seattle Washington in 1945. He used his G.I. Bill to go to school, learning auto mechanics and welding, and took a job as a blacksmith.
Date: November 17, 2015
Creator: Osteen, William
System: The Portal to Texas History