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Ensemble: 2005-04-10 – Opera Theatre

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Opera Theatre performance of Albert Herring at the UNT College of Music Lyric Theater.
Date: April 10, 2005
Creator: University of North Texas. Division of Vocal Studies. Opera.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Donald Good, October 10, 2005 transcript

Oral History Interview with Donald Good, October 10, 2005

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Donald Good. Good was born 30 July 1918 in Aurora, Indiana and graduated from high school in 1937. In 1941 he joined the US Army and received his basic training at Camp Shelby, Mississippi. He was then sent to Camp Polk, Louisiana for twelve weeks of maneuvers. He then went to Camp Kilmer, New Jersey to board RMS Queen Mary and landed in Scotland. Good recalls being in Liege, Belgium during the Battle of the Bulge and describes the weather conditions they endured. He remembers his unit working with the 3rd Moroccan Division, assigned to the American 3rd Army, and describes their living habits and method of combat.
Date: October 10, 2005
Creator: Good, Donald
System: The Portal to Texas History

Ensemble: 2005-11-10 – Canticum Novum

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Concert performed at UNT College of Music Recital Hall.
Date: November 10, 2005
Creator: University of North Texas. Canticum Novum.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Bill Freeman, November 10, 2005 transcript

Oral History Interview with Bill Freeman, November 10, 2005

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with William Freeman. Freeman was born in Chapman, Kansas on 5 September 1922. Upon enlisting in the Army Air Corps in 1942, he was sent to Maxwell Air Force Base, Georgia for basic training. He tells the various training planes he flew prior to receiving his commission. Upon graduation he was sent to Ephrata Army Air Base, Washington where he began on the job training as the co-pilot of a B-17 bomber. Freeman recalls his various assignments until December 1943 when he reported to Cannon Army Air Base, Clovis, New Mexico for transitional training in the B-29 bomber. Upon completion of training he was assigned to the Air Transport Command and began flying planes to India. Following the Japanese surrender, he returned to the United States where he began flying weather mapping missions. This was followed by assignment in the Pacific where he flew geographical mapping missions. Freeman concludes the interview by telling of his life after being discharged in January 1948.
Date: November 10, 2005
Creator: Freeman, Bill
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Frederick Leiby, November 10, 2005 transcript

Oral History Interview with Frederick Leiby, November 10, 2005

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Frederick Leiby. Leiby was born in Pennsylvania in 1923 and worked in a defense plant after finishing high school in 1941. in 1942, he passed the aviation cadet exam and was called up for active duty in January, 1943. He trained as a navigator at Selman Field, Louisiana for eight months before flying a new B-17 to North Africa. From there, Leiby went to Forge, Italy to join the 99th Bomb Group. He was shot down on his 39th mission and captured by the Germans in Italy in April 1944. In early 1945, Leiby was transfered to a POW camp near Nuremburg. From there, he was marched to Moosburg. During the march, he attempted escape, but was recaptured. After being liberated, Leiby returned to the US and attended an intelligence school. He also served in a military police unit in Massachusetts. He eventually attended Georgetown University and stayed in the inactive reserves. Leiby eventually made his way into the Foreign Service where he went to Vietnam.
Date: November 10, 2005
Creator: Leiby, Frederick
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Jack Schaefer, November 10, 2005 transcript

Oral History Interview with Jack Schaefer, November 10, 2005

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Jack Schaefer. Schaefer was 11 years old when Pearl Harbor was attacked. While in high school, Schaefer worked part-time and contributed the entirety of his wages to the household. He accumulated war savings stamps, participated in bond drives, and collected scrap metal to support the war effort. His family supplemented their meat rations by raising rabbits. In 1950, he joined the Air Force, with a professional background in photography. He reported to the Wright-Patterson Motion Picture Department in Dayton, Ohio. In 1951, as part of a national effort to deploy combat camera teams worldwide, he was assigned to the newly formed Air Photographic and Charting Service and sent to Germany to conduct photographic surveillance of the occupation and rehabilitation of Europe. In 1957, he became a photographer for the DOD and the White House. During the course of his career, he filmed historic figures such as General de Gaulle and President Kennedy. In Vietnam, he couriered classified material into Saigon, receiving a Purple Heart after taking fragments from a grenade. Schaefer was then promoted to oversee all out-of-country photography and worked on the film, A Day in the …
Date: November 10, 2005
Creator: Schaefer, Jack
System: The Portal to Texas History