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History From the Bottom Up
Sound recording of a talk at the 1977 Oral History Association Colloquium in San Diego titled "History From the Bottom Up".
Date:
October 22, 1977
Creator:
Oral History Association
System:
The UNT Digital Library
San Diego Workshop Welcome
Sound recording of Wyatt and Schultz giving a welcome speech during an Oral History Association Workshop in San Diego, California.
Date:
October 20, 1977
Creator:
Oral History Association
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Interviewing Techniques
Sound recording of a talk titled "Interviewing Techniques" given during the 1977 Oral History Association Colloquium in San Diego, California. The talk is specifically about techniques of mass media interviewing.
Date:
October 22, 1977
Creator:
Oral History Association
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History in Hawaii
Sound recording of a talk titled "Oral History in Hawaii" given during the 1977 Oral History Association Colloquium in San Diego, California.
Date:
October 23, 1977
Creator:
Oral History Association
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The Why of Oral History
Sound recording of a talk titled "The Why of Oral History" given during an oral history workshop in San Diego, California. Research for the talk was done by Manfred Waserman, teaching by Gwendolyn Safier, and preservation by Kenneth W. Rock.
Date:
October 20, 1977
Creator:
Oral History Association
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Funding Oral History
Sound recording of talk titled "Funding Oral History" given during the 1977 Oral History Association given by Willa K. Baum and Thomas Charlton in San Diego, California.
Date:
October 21, 1977
Creator:
Oral History Association
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Latin American Oral History
Sound recording of a talk titled "Latin American Oral History" given during the 1977 Oral History Association Colloquium in San Diego, California.
Date:
October 21, 1977
Creator:
Oral History Association
System:
The UNT Digital Library
[Oral History Workshop]
Sound recording of an oral history workshop in San Diego, California.
Date:
October 20, 1977
Creator:
Oral History Association
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Wind, Water, and Quake
Sound recording of a talk titled "Wind, Water, and Quake" recorded during the 1977 Oral History Association Colloquium in San Diego, California.
Date:
October 23, 1977
Creator:
Oral History Association
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Film History
Sound recording of a talk titled "Reel-on-Reel Film History" given at the 1977 Oral History Association Colloquium in San Diego, California.
Date:
October 22, 1977
Creator:
Oral History Association
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Reliability of Memory
Sound recording of a talk titled "Reliability of Memory" given during the 1977 Oral History Association Colloquium in San Diego, California.
Date:
October 22, 1977
Creator:
Oral History Association
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Philanthropic Foundations
Sound recording of a talk titled "Philanthropic Foundations" recorded during the 1977 Oral History Association Colloquium in San Diego, California.
Date:
October 22, 1977
Creator:
Oral History Association
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Tale of Two Cities
Sound recording of a talk titled "Tale of Two Cities" given during the 1977 San Diego Colloquium in San Diego, California. The cities mentioned in the talk are Houston, Texas and Phoenix, Arizona.
Date:
October 21, 1977
Creator:
Oral History Association
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Carl Peltier, March 4, 2001
Interview with Carl Peltier, a U. S Marine during World War II. He begins by discussing his reaction to the attack on Pearl Harbor. He then joined the Marines when he was old enough. He trained in San Diego before shipping out to Hawaii where he joined the 2nd Marine Division. Further training included heavy weapons and mortars. Later, he landed on Saipan and describes his small arms and rations. He witnessed General Simon Buckner getting killed on Okinawa. He was later wounded on Okinawa. After the war ended, Peltier served in the Pentagon during the Korean War.
Date:
March 4, 2001
Creator:
Nichols, Chuck & Peltier, Carl
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Cleatus A. LeBow, May 2, 2006
Interview with Cleatus A. LeBow, a serviceman in the U. S. Navy during World War II. LeBow joined the navy in 1943 and went from Lubbock, Texas to San Diego for recruit training. He shipped out to Pearl Harbor aboard an LST from San Francisco. At Pearl Harbor, he was assigned to a work detail aboard the USS Oklahoma, which had just been righted. Shortly thereafter, he boarded the USS Indianapolis to serve as a range finder operator on one of the gun turrets. Upon leaving Hawaii, the Indianapolis went to Tarawa and then the Marshall Islands. LeBow witnessed Japanese civilian suicides on Saipan. He also witnessed the flag-raising on Iwo Jima from his range finder position aboard the ship. LeBow describes being hit by a kamikaze off Okinawa. He also discusses delivering atomic bomb components to Tinian and being torpedoed on the way to the Philippines. He describes abandoning the ship and spending five days in the water, including his faith in God, hallucinations, rescue, and his recovery.
Date:
May 2, 2006
Creator:
Misenhimer, Richard & Lebow, Cleatus A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Jerell E. Crow, August 24, 2002
Interview with Jerell E. Crow. He entered the Coast Guard in 1940 and trained in Florida and New York City. He served aboard a Landing Ship, Tank (LST) when those ships were first introduced. He traveled to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania to the Neville Island Shipyard operated by the Dravo Corporation as part of a crew that brought an LST down the Mississippi River to New Orleans. From there, the crew practiced operations at Biloxi, Mississippi. Eventually, Crow travelled to San Diego aboard the LST through the Panama Canal. From there, he went to Guadalcanal and unloaded tanks. Eventually, his ship was hit at Saipan and he was wounded. He also served aboard an LST during the invasions of Iwo Jima and Okinawa. Afterwards, Crow's LST was present in Tokyo Bay for the surrender. He visited Hiroshima while on occupation duty after the atomic bomb was dropped. Eventually, his LST made its way back to San Francisco where he was discharged.
Date:
August 24, 2002
Creator:
Rabalais, Larry & Crow, Jerell E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Arwin Bowden, March 9, 2000
Interview with Arwin Bowden, a marine during World War II. He begins by discussing his training in San Diego and New Zealand before the Battle of Tarawa. He describes being wounded in the battle, the casualties he saw, and being shipped back to Pearl Harbor for treatment before joining the battle of Saipan. He describes ancedotes about Japanese killing themselves rather than surrendering, eating food from a garden watered from rainwater running down from outhouses, the wages he made, and the time he had leave.
Date:
March 9, 2000
Creator:
Cox, Floyd & Bowden, Arwin J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with James William Harrison, January 27, 2005
Interview with James William "Bill" Harrison, a serviceman in the U. S. Navy during World War II. He explains how he joined the navy in San Diego without going to boot camp. He worked on an oil tanker that shipped out to Pearl Harbor a month after the attack there and transported fuel out of San Diego to various ships at sea. He was then transfered to Admiral Nimitz's public relations department. There he and two others wrote stories about the action in the Pacific theater, particularly about the Battle of Midway. They also contributed to a radio show and worked with the national press corps. He then worked at the Naval Air Station in Seattle before traveling to Hilo, Hawaii to meet with soldiers who had returned from Tarawa. In Texas, he attended officer training school and college at Southwestern University. After the war ended, he studied at the University of Texas and University of Oklahoma for law school. He recalls an incident in which his office released a story about a cat that had kittens on board a cruiser; they reported this good news from the Pacific prior to the Battle of Midway. He also met Admirals Nimitz …
Date:
January 27, 2005
Creator:
Parish, Brainerd & Harrison, James William
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with James Phinney, July 15, 2010
Interview with James (Jim) Phinney, an aircraft electrician for the U. S. Navy during Wold War II. He discusses joining the Navy, going through boot camp and becoming an aircraft electrician. He was assigned to the USS Lexington but abandoned ship after it was hit by a torpedo. He was rescued and was then sent to San Diego to be reassigned to the USS Enterprise. He mentions being at Guadalcanal and later aboard a sub-chaser. The crew crossed the Equator and consequently participated in an initiation ceremony, during which time Admiral Halsey was nearly shot by one of the ship's pilots who forgot to lock his gun. He also recalls some of the food he ate while at sea.
Date:
July 15, 2010
Creator:
Cox, Floyd; Phinney, James & O'Konski, Susan
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Alan Hildebrandt, November 12, 2009
The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Alan Hildebrandt. Hildebrandt enlisted in the Army Air Forces in July of 1942. He describes the planes he flew during training, including the PT-19, the BT-13 and the UC-78. Hildebrandt was commissioned and received his pilot rating in November of 1943. Upon graduation he trained on the B-26 at Laughlin Field. Hildebrandt served as a pilot in the 95th Bomb Squadron, 17th Bomb Group, 12th Air Force. They first traveled to Morocco, North Africa, then to northern Italy and Southern France. Their job was to bomb Marshaling yards, bridges and troop replacements. Hildebrandt describes some of his missions. He flew a total of 64 missions and was discharged in July of 1945.
Date:
November 12, 2009
Creator:
Hildebrandt, Alan
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Albert Jeffers, December 28, 2011
The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Albert Jeffers. Jeffers joined the Navy in 1943 and received basic training in Illinois. He received diesel engine maintenance and repair training at submarine school in Connecticut. Upon completion, he was assigned to the engine room aboard the USS Threadfin (SS-410) as a fireman, first class. He participated in the tracking operation that led to the sinking of the Japanese battleship Yamato. He was transferred to the USS Menhaden (SS-377) and was the first to welcome Admiral Nimitz during a change of command ceremony. Jeffers was discharged in 1946 and went on to earn a degree in mechanical engineering as well as a law degree.
Date:
December 28, 2011
Creator:
Jeffers, Albert
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Albert Finley, April 11, 2006
The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Albert Finley. Finley joined the Marine Corps around December of 1943. He provides vivid details of his boot camp experiences. He served with Headquarters Company, 4th Marines, as a radar mechanic on Corsairs, repairing radio and radar gear. Beginning in September of 1944 they traveled to Guam, Kwajalein, Pearl Harbor and Majuro in the Marshall Islands. Finley shares a number of anecdotal stories, including working with POWs. He was discharged in the fall of 1946.
Date:
April 11, 2006
Creator:
Finley, Albert
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Al Hiegel, September 18, 2005
Transcript of an oral interview with Al Heigel. When Heigel finished high school in June, 1944, he joined the Navy at Little Rock, Arkansas and went for boot training at San Diego. He was assigned as a radar operator and reported aboard the USS Independence (CVL-22) at Pearl Harbor. Heigel describes the light carrier and its construction and features. He also speaks of the time the Independence was hit by a torpedo off Tarawa in 1943. Heigel then describes events off Okinawa: watching the USS Franklin (CV-13) being bombed off Okinawa; locating and shooting down kamikazes; describing battle stations; aircraft water landings; being in a typhoon, etc. After the war ended, the Independence served as a troop transport taking GIs back home to the US. He describes bunks in the hangar deck and arriving in Portland, Oregon. As the Independence was being prepared for the Bikini Atoll atomic tests, Heigel got off becuase he had the requisite amount of points allowing him to be discharged. He then entered the lumber business, married and raised family.
Date:
September 18, 2005
Creator:
Heigel, Al
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with A. K. Sheffield, May 20, 2016
The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with A K Sheffield. Sheffield joined the Navy in late 1943. He completed Armed Guard School in San Diego. He served with the Navy Armed Guard aboard a transport ship, and traveled to the Philippine Islands. In May of 1944, Sheffield was aboard the SS Henry Bergh when it ran aground on the Farallon Islands, and shares details of those events. He traveled through the Pacific Islands, to Japan and throughout the Atlantic. Sheffield does not speak of participating in any battles or combat. He returned home aboard USS Iowa (BB-61) after the war ended in late 1945.
Date:
May 20, 2016
Creator:
Sheffield, A. K.
System:
The Portal to Texas History