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Oral History Interview with Lewis R. Hopkins, January 15, 2004 transcript

Oral History Interview with Lewis R. Hopkins, January 15, 2004

Interview with Lewis R. Hopkins, a pilot during World War II. He describes growing up on a farm in Georgia, going to college at Berry, and working for Sears, Roebuck, and the Royal Typewriter Company before joining the U. S. Navy. He tells an anecdote about joining the navy so he could go to New York to see the World's Fair, since he had heard the Atlanta Reserve would be making a trip to the Fair. He began flight training in Florida in December 1940, finished the next September, then drove cross-country to San Francisco after the Pearl Harbor attack. He eventually joined the USS Enterprise in April 1942 and saw the B-25 bombers in the Doolittle Raid take off. He was part of Bombing Squadron Six and trained under Commander Best to learn how to do scouting flights, navigation, and dive bombing. He then describes his participation in the Battle of Midway, the hours before take-off, his first view of the Japanese fleet, and his bombing mission. He was later assigned to the USS Hornet and had to fly off to a little island so that planes from the USS Wasp could land on the Hornet after their ship …
Date: January 15, 2004
Creator: Cox, Floyd & Hopkins, Lewis R.
Object Type: Sound
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from I. H. Kempner to Mr. and Mrs. Erich Goldberger, January 15, 1949] (open access)

[Letter from I. H. Kempner to Mr. and Mrs. Erich Goldberger, January 15, 1949]

Letter from I. H. Kempner to Mr. and Mrs. Erich Goldberger thanking them for remembering his birthday and sending him a card of good wishes.
Date: January 15, 1949
Creator: Kempner, Isaac H. (Isaac Herbert), 1873-1967
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from I. H. Kempner to Mr. and Mrs. Erick Goldberger, January 15, 1951] (open access)

[Letter from I. H. Kempner to Mr. and Mrs. Erick Goldberger, January 15, 1951]

Letter from I. H. Kempner to Mr. and Mrs. Erick Goldberger discussing his appreciation for their birthday wishes.
Date: January 15, 1951
Creator: Kempner, Isaac H. (Isaac Herbert), 1873-1967
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Isaac H. Kempner to Eric Goldberger, January 15, 1957] (open access)

[Letter from Isaac H. Kempner to Eric Goldberger, January 15, 1957]

Letter from Isaac H. Kempner to Eric Goldberger thanking for the birthday wishes
Date: January 15, 1957
Creator: Kempner, Isaac H. (Isaac Herbert), 1873-1967
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Elizabeth Upshur Teackle to her husband, Littleton Dennis Teackle, January 15, 1810] (open access)

[Letter from Elizabeth Upshur Teackle to her husband, Littleton Dennis Teackle, January 15, 1810]

Letter from Elizabeth Upshur Teackle to her husband Littleton Dennis Teackle. She talks of sending hair in a locket and her love for him. She says she will write to his mother, Elizabeth Dennis Teackle, and tells him to talk highly of his wife in the American nobility circles.
Date: January 15, 1810
Creator: Teackle, Elizabeth Uphsur
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History