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[Anderson Scrapbook 1]
Scrapbook featuring images from Lieutenant Richard A. Anderson's time in the Navy aboard the USS Skirmish during World War II, along with military correspondence and clippings. Included is a booklet entitled "Navy Day 1945: U.S.S. Skirmish" featuring photographs and a written history of the U.S.S. Skirmish's activities during WWII and a listing of personnel.
Date:
[1942..1945]
Creator:
Anderson, Richard Alan
System:
The Portal to Texas History
An Artist at War: The Journal of John Gaitha Browning
An edited version of artist John Gaitha Browning's personal journal from his time in the United States Army during World War II, specifically two years in the South Pacific. The book includes typewritten journal entries, reformatted journal entries, some of his illustrations, photographs, letters he wrote, and maps of where he was stationed. Includes an epilogue about Browning's life after the final entry. Index starts on page 325.
Date:
1994
Creator:
Toliver, Oleta Stewart
System:
The UNT Digital Library
[Cecelia McKie Scrapbook]
Scrapbook compiled by Cecelia McKie during World War II. The scrapbook contains letters to 62 families of civilian internees and P.O.W.s, many of whom sent thank you letters in response to messages McKie transcribed from Radio Tokyo broadcasts made by prisoners of war primarily held at Santo Tomas Internment Camp, Manila, Philippines.
Date:
1943~
Creator:
McKie, Cecelia, 1903-1982
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Compilation of War Laws of the Various States and Insular Possessions
Text containing the laws related to World War I that were enacted within the United States and possessions in the Caribbean. Summaries of the laws are organized by topic, which are listed alphabetically in the table of contents (pp. 5-6). Index starts on page 185
Date:
1919
Creator:
United States. Army. Office of the Judge Advocate General
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Deliverance! It has Come!: In The Philippines 1942-1945, Diary
Annotated transcription of the diary of Herman Knight Beaber documenting his years as a missionary in the Philippines and his internment in Los Banos as an Enemy Alien, a civilian prisoner of the Japanese.
Date:
2001
Creator:
Beaber, John S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Experiment Station Record, Volume 13, 1901-1902
Volume provides abstracts of agricultural experiments conducted during the year. Also includes statistics, convention reports, bulletins, and bibliographies. Name and subject indexes start on page 1113.
Date:
1902
Creator:
United States. Office of Experiment Stations.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Experiment Station Record, Volume 14, 1902-1903
Volume provides abstracts of agricultural experiments conducted during the year. Also includes statistics, convention reports, bulletins, and bibliographies. Name and subject indexes start on page 1141.
Date:
1903
Creator:
United States. Office of Experiment Stations.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Experiment Station Record, Volume 15, 1903-1904
Volume provides abstracts of agricultural experiments conducted during the year. Also includes statistics, convention reports, bulletins, and bibliographies. Name and subject indexes start on page 1141.
Date:
1904
Creator:
United States. Office of Experiment Stations.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
General Index to Experiment Station Record Volumes 13-25, 1901-1911
A topical, alphabetically arranged index to volumes 13-25 including experiment station records, publications reviewed, and foreign publications. In has a 'Consolidated Table of Contents' which lists all editorial notes and publications of the experiment stations and Department of Agriculture from the referenced volumes
Date:
June 27, 1913
Creator:
United States. Office of Experiment Stations.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
In God's hands: a posthumous autobiography of Stephen Lloyd Smith
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A portion of missionary Stephen Lloyd Smith's unpublished autobiography, "In God's Hands," depicting the experience of his family as civilian internees of the Japanese in the Philippines during World War II.
Date:
May 1, 2001
Creator:
Smith, Stephan Lloyd, 1893-1983 & Smith, Donald P., 1922-
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Living in the Shadow of a Hell Ship: The Survival Story of U.S. Marine George Burlage, a WWII Prisoner-of-War of the Japanese
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U.S. Marine George Burlage was part of the largest surrender in American history at Bataan and Corregidor in the spring of 1942, where the Japanese captured more than 85,000 troops. More than forty percent would not survive World War II. His prisoner-of-war ordeal began at Cabanatuan near Manila, where the death rate in the early months of World War II was fifty men a day. Sensing that Cabanatuan was a death trap, he managed to get transferred to the isolated island of Palawan to help build an airfield for his captors. Malaria and other tropical diseases caused him to be sent to Manila for treatment in 1943 (a year later, 139 of his fellow POWs were massacred on Palawan). After another year of building airfields, Burlage survived a 38-day voyage in the hull of a Japanese hell ship and ended the war as a miner for Mitsubishi in northern Japan. By sheer luck, strength, and a bit of sabotage, he survived and was freed in September 1945 after the Japanese surrendered. He had endured starvation and torture and lost half of his prewar weight, but no one had killed him. After the war Burlage became a journalist and wrote about …
Date:
September 15, 2020
Creator:
Burlage, Georgianne
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Nursing Alumnae Association Scrapbook, 1895-1964
Scrapbook documenting the history of the John Sealy Hospital Training School for Nurses, which was established in 1890. It includes portraits and lists of names for classes of nurses and administrators, images and information related to the classes and hospital work, and class reunions.
Date:
unknown
Creator:
unknown
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Anna K. Schelper, October 24, 2007
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Interview with Major Anna K. Schelper, a Army WWII veteran from San Antonio, Texas. Schelper discusses her parents, growing up, her education and becoming a nurse, joining the Army Nurse Corps, experiences serving throughout the Pacific Theater, service in hospitals after the war, continued education and promoting, and reflections on her career and being a servicewoman. In appendix are Schelper's Army service record, a letter from two former patients to the 23rd Field Hospital, a scan of some of her letters which were printed in a book, and a scan of some sections from The Army Nurse Corps: Yesterday and Today by Mary M. Roberts.
Date:
October 24, 2007
Creator:
Quick, Janice & Schelper, Anna K.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Ben Kelley, March 26, 1982
Interview with Ben Kelley regarding his experiences in the military and as a prisoner of war of the Japanese during World War II. He was part of the 36th Division, Texas National Guard, 131st Field Artillery, 2nd Battalion. He was captured on the island of Java in March of 1942 and spent the duration of the war thereafter as a prison of war in camps in South East Asia and in Japan.
Date:
March 26, 1982
Creator:
Marcello, Ronald E. & Kelley, Ben
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Bennie G. Snider, June 10, 2002
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Interview with banker and Navy veteran Bennie G. Snider. The interview includes Snider's personal experiences about the Pacific Theater during World War II, youth and education in Denton, Texas, joining the Navy, and boot training and electrical engineering school. Snider talks about duties aboard the USS Hancock, his assignment to Task Group 58 and the invasion of the Philippines, as well as the invasions of Iwo Jima and Okinawa, kamikaze attacks and the Hancock being hit by a kamikaze, burials at sea, and his postwar duties aboard the Hancock as part of Operation MAGIC CARPET.
Date:
June 10, 2002
Creator:
Lane, Peter B. & Snider, Bennie, G.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Billy Allen, March 1, 1976
Interview with Billy Allen, a Marine WWII veteran and POW from Van Alstyne, Texas. Allen discusses his entry into the Marine Corps, deployment to Shanghai with the China Marines in 1940-41, arrival in the Philippines, the Japanese attack on Mariveles Navy Yard, the retreat to Corregidor, capture by the Japanese, and experiences in internment at Bilibid Prison in Manila, Cabanatuan, Osaka, and Tsuruga, Fukui Prefecture.
Date:
March 1, 1976
Creator:
Marcello, Ronald E. & Allen, Billy
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Bruce Gordon Elliot, May 17, 2002
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Interview with Bruce Elliot, a Navy veteran and POW from Montezuma, Kansas. Elliot discusses his family, joining the Navy and volunteering for Asiatic service, the start of war and the bombing of Cavite Navy Yard in the Philippines, retreat to Corregidor, capture by the Japanese, escaping internment on Palawan and joining Moro guerillas, sabotage, linking up with Australian forces, evacuation to Australia and returning to the United States, becoming a deepsea diver, and Korean War service. In appendix are a photo of Elliot, a map of the Philippines, two photos of a POW camp on Palawan, and a photo of three of his comrades.
Date:
May 17, 2002
Creator:
Alexander, Bill & Elliot, Bruce Gordon
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 Caleb H. Canby, III, August 5, 1997
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Transcript of an interview with Caleb H. Canby, III, a Marine Corps veteran (Scout-Bomber 243, 1st Marine Air Wing), concerning experiences in the Pacific Theater during World War II. Canby discusses his family background and education; decision to join the Marine Corps, 1942; boot camp at Parris Island, South Carolina; advanced training at Quantico, Virginia, 1943-44; assignment to Scout-Bomber Squadron 243 at Emirau, Solomon Islands, 1944-45; his work in the flight department processing pilots' flight logs; transfer to Mangaldan, Luzon, 1945; assignment to Mindanao in March, 1945; contraction of hepatitis and return to the U. S.
Date:
August 5, 1997
Creator:
Jackson, Sarah C. & Canby, Caleb H., III
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Captain Victor Delano, March 13, 1998
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Transcript of an interview with Captain Victor Delano, a Navy veteran, concerning his experiences in the Pacific Theater during World War II. Delano discusses his first assignment to the battleship USS West Virginia and his experiences during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941; assignment to the antiaircraft cruiser USS San Juan, 1942; naval battles around Guadalcanal; Battle of Savo Island; assignment to the destroyer USS Wedderburn, 1944; Battle of Leyte Gulf, 1944; Pacific typhoons; Iwo Jima and Okinawa operations, 1945.
Date:
March 13, 1998
Creator:
Alexander, William J. & Delano, Victor
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Charles C. Brabham, Jr., September 9, 2003
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Interview with Army veteran Charles C. Brabham Jr. The interview includes Brabham's personal experiences about the Southwest Pacific Theater during World War II, his youth in Dallas during the Great Depression, joining the 112th Cavalry at age 16, his mobilization and various assignments, and his medical evacuation die to malaria, dysentery, and hookworm.
Date:
September 9, 2003
Creator:
Johnston, Glenn T. & Brabham, Charles C., Jr.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Clarence Kingsley, November 21, 2003
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Interview with Charles Kingsley, a Texas National Guard WWII veteran from Dallas, Texas, who served in the 112th Cavalry. Kingsley discusses his upbringing, joining the Guard, the Louisiana Maneuvers, deployment to New Caledonia, his troop's machine gun section/platoon, Woodlark Island, the Battle of Arawe, New Guinea and the Battle of Drinumor River, the Battles of Leyte and Luzon, his thoughts on the generals he served, and thoughts on the 112th.
Date:
November 23, 2003
Creator:
Johnston, Glenn T. & Kingsley, Clarence
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Clyde C. Childress, February 8, 1972
Interview with Clyde C. Childress, an Army WWII veteran who served with Filipino guerrillas. Childress discusses joining the army, deployment to the Philippines before the war, the Japanese invasion, forming guerrilla groups, operations and survival on Mindanao, and the Allied invasion and liberation. In appendix are a congressional recognition of Childress and others guerrillas' service in the war, an autobiographical account written by Childress, and a series of action briefs reporting the guerrillas' operations.
Date:
February 8, 1971
Creator:
Marcello, Ronald E.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Colonel John. E. Olson, March 15, 1998
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Interview with Colonel John E. Olson, a Army WWII veteran and POW from Leavenworth, Kansas. Olson discusses his family background, commissioning in the Army from West Point, assignment to the Philippines in 1939 as an infantry officer, the start of the war, withdrawal to Bataan and the ensuing battle and surrender, the Bataan Death March, internment at Cabanatuan, transfer to Osaka, experiences there in internment at a factory labor camp, liberation, organizing the evacuation of POWs, returning to the US, and his postwar career.
Date:
March 15, 1998
Creator:
Alexander, Bill & Olson, John E.
System:
The UNT Digital Library