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Oral History Interview with Bunichi Ohtsuka, March 18, 1995

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Interview with Bunichi Ohtsuka, a veteran of the Imperial Japanese Air Force, concerning his experiences while training to become a kamikaze pilot in 1945.
Date: March 18, 1995
Creator: Byrd, Richard W. & Ohtsuka, Bunichi
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interview with Ken Towery, March 19, 1995

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Interview with Ken Towery. Towery joined the Army in early 1941 and was sent to Corregidor to join a coast artillery unit. He recalls several details about life under siege at Corregidor before he was captured by the Japanese and taken to Cabanatuan. He left the Philippines later that year and was taken to China. Towery shares his opinions about being a POW as well as several anecdotes. He also comments on being liberated by Russians and how the Russians and Chinese communists cooperated right after the war. When he was liberated, Towery was put aboard a hospital ship at Port Arthur.
Date: March 19, 1995
Creator: Byrd, Richard W. & Towery, R. Ken
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interview with Dorothy Still Danner, March 19, 1995

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interview with Dorothy Still Danner. Danner graduated from nursing school in Los Angeles in 1935. In 1939, she applied and was accepted as a nurse in the Navy. After a while, she received orders for the Philippines and arrived in early 1940 on a two-year assignment. Danner recalls the idyllic setting prior to the war before describing activities just after the Japanese invasion. She was stationed at a hospital at Sangley Point near Cavite in Luzon, Philippines. She was captured by the Japanese and interned at Santo Tomas starting in March 1942. Sometime in 1943, she was sent to Los Banos.
Date: March 19, 1995
Creator: Byrd, Richard W. & Danner, Dorothy Still
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interview with Ernest Gordon, March 19, 1995

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Interview with Ernest Gordon. Gordon was born in Scotland and joined the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders in 1939 at Stirling Castle. He was sent to Singapore in January 1940 before the Japanese invaded. Gordon recalls defending the Malay Peninsula starting in January 1942. Gordon was the last to go over the causeway into Singapore before it was destroyed. As Singapore fell, Gordon escaped to Sumatra. When Sumatra fell, Gordon escaped on a sailboat but was captured asea and sent back to Singapore where he entered Changi. He was sent north to build the Death Railway. He describes the conditions along the railway and the work environment.
Date: March 19, 1995
Creator: Byrd, Richard W. & Gordon, Ernest
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with John Bumgarner, March 18, 1995 (open access)

Oral History Interview with John Bumgarner, March 18, 1995

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with John Bumgarner. He discusses his childhood and education and what led him to join the US Army. He describes his experiences as a doctor during World War Two and how he was captured and lived in a Japanese POW camp.
Date: March 18, 1955
Creator: Bumgarner, John & Marcello, Ronald E.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Mei Nakano, March 18, 1995 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Mei Nakano, March 18, 1995

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Mei Nakano. Nakano is a Japanese-American and was an internee at the Amache Internment Camp in Colorado. She was born in 1924 in Olathe, Colorado. She provides detail of her life growing up in Colorado and various prejudices she received from teachers and classmates. They moved to Los Angeles, California in 1935 where she graduated from high school. She provides detail of the discrimination she and her family received in California, particularly after 7 December 1941. As notices were going out to other Japanese-American families regarding evacuation, Nakano describes her family’s preparations for the inevitable. They were evacuated by the War Relocation Authority to the Santa Anita Racetrack and in 1942 transferred to the Amache Internment Camp in Colorado. She provides much detail of life in these camps. Nakano returned to California after the war.
Date: March 18, 1995
Creator: Nakano, Mei
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Alan Tanaguchi, March 18, 1995 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Alan Tanaguchi, March 18, 1995

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Alan Tanaguchi. Tanaguchi was a Japanese-American internee at the Gila River Camp in Arizona during World War II. At 19 years old, after the attack on Pearl Harbor, Tanaguchi became a part of the internment program of the War Relocation Authority. He provides detail of life growing up in Stockton, California before December 7, 1941 and after, and experiences of bigotry and racism among his peers. He provides detail of his father being in the Justice Department internment group. He served as the dean of the College of Architecture at the University of Texas at Austin, and at Rice University in Houston. He designed an addition to the Nimitz Museum.
Date: March 18, 1995
Creator: Tanaguchi, Alan
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Abelino Alviar, March 14, 2003 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Abelino Alviar, March 14, 2003

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Abelino Alviar. Alviar joined the Army in May of 1944. In early 1945, he joined the 778th Anti-aircraft Artillery Automatic Weapons Battalion. They deployed to Le Havre, France, and traveled to Munich, Germany, arriving after the Battle of the Ardennes. Alviar provided guard duty, and served as a gunner on the half-track supporting the 1st Infantry Division as they fought into Germany. He also worked as a translator and helped transport supplies to the front line. He returned home and was discharged in May of 1946.
Date: March 14, 2003
Creator: Alviar, Abelino
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Receipt for Receipt for a Cash Payment of $4660.00] (open access)

[Receipt for Receipt for a Cash Payment of $4660.00]

Receipt for a payment of $4,660 made by Alex “Tex” Bradford to the Kinsel Motor Company in San Antonio, Texas. Payment was made by check with a total amount of $8,257 with a remaining balance of $3,597. In the top left corner of the document is a faded purple stamp that reads, “THIS PAYMENT ACCEPTED FOR AND SUBJECT TO APPROVAL OF GMAC.”.
Date: March 5, 1937
Creator: Kinsel Motor Company
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Telegram from Senator Tom Connally to T. N. Carswell - March 3, 1943] (open access)

[Telegram from Senator Tom Connally to T. N. Carswell - March 3, 1943]

A Western Union telegram sent to T. N. Carswell, San Antonio, Texas, from Tom Connally, Washington, D. C. via Abilene Texas, dated March 3, 1943. Connally replies to a telegram from Carswell and advises that a strike bill is pending and that he is doing all he can. The reverse side includes stamp - 1943 MAR 4 AM 9 54--A R SAN ANTONIO, TEX.
Date: March 3, 1943
Creator: Connally, Tom
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Selective Service System Itinerary for T. N. Carswell - March 30, 1943] (open access)

[Selective Service System Itinerary for T. N. Carswell - March 30, 1943]

An itinerary for Thomas N. Carswell, Clerical Audit Supervisor for work in Tarrant County (Texas) dated March 30, 1943, for work performed from March 21-26, 1943.
Date: March 30, 1943
Creator: Carswell, T. N. (Thomas Norwood)
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Selective Service System Itinerary for T. N. Carswell - March 19, 1943] (open access)

[Selective Service System Itinerary for T. N. Carswell - March 19, 1943]

An itinerary for Thomas N. Carswell, Clerical Audit Supervisor for work in Bexar County from March 1-18, 1943. The itinerary is dated March 19, 1943.
Date: March 19, 1943
Creator: Carswell, T. N. (Thomas Norwood)
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Selective Service System Itinerary for T. N. Carswell - March, 1943] (open access)

[Selective Service System Itinerary for T. N. Carswell - March, 1943]

An itinerary for Thomas N. Carswell for work in Bexar County from March 2-13, 1943.
Date: 1943-03-02/1943-03-13
Creator: Carswell, T. N. (Thomas Norwood)
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Selective Service System Itinerary for T. N. Carswell - March 1, 1944] (open access)

[Selective Service System Itinerary for T. N. Carswell - March 1, 1944]

An itinerary (supplement) for T. N. Carswell for work in Bexar County performed from February 12, 1944 through March 1, 1944. Approved by L. M. Fellbaum, Major, Q. M. C., Policy Supervisor.
Date: March 1, 1944
Creator: Fellbaum, L. M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Selective Service System Itinerary for T. N. Carswell - March 1, 1944] (open access)

[Selective Service System Itinerary for T. N. Carswell - March 1, 1944]

An itinerary (supplement) for T. N. Carswell for work in Bexar County performed from February 10, 1944 through March 1, 1944. Approved and signed by L. M. Fellbaum, Major, Q. M. C., Policy Supervisor.
Date: March 1, 1944
Creator: Fellbaum, L. M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Texas Gay Task Force information packet] (open access)

[Texas Gay Task Force information packet]

A report to aid in the repeal of Section 21:06 of the TPC, made by the TGTF on March 1977.
Date: March 1977
Creator: Texas Gay Task Force
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Jessie Degollado, March 9, 2019 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Jessie Degollado, March 9, 2019

Interview with Jessie Degollado, a reporter at KSAT 12 News in San Antonio. She discusses her family and growing up in Laredo, Texas, as well as her education at Baylor University and her career in the news.
Date: March 9, 2019
Creator: Aguilar, Rebecca & Degollado, Jessie
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Bernice Kearney, March 8, 2019 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Bernice Kearney, March 8, 2019

Interview with Bernice Kearney, the news director at KSAT 12 News in San Antonio. She discusses her background and career as a news producer.
Date: March 8, 2019
Creator: Aguilar, Rebecca & Kearney, Bernice
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Nora Lopez, March 8, 2019 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Nora Lopez, March 8, 2019

Interview with Nora Lopez, metro editor at the San Antonio Express News newspaper. She discusses her childhood and visiting family regularly in Mexico, as well as becoming an American citizen in 2008. She also talks about her education and her career in newspaper journalism.
Date: March 8, 2019
Creator: Aguilar, Rebecca & Lopez, Nora
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Minutes for the TXSSAR First General Convention Session: March 11, 1995] (open access)

[Minutes for the TXSSAR First General Convention Session: March 11, 1995]

Minutes from an annual conference of the Texas Sons of the American Revolution, held on March 11, 1995 at 9:00 a.m., in San Antonio, Texas, summarizing activities and business discussed at the First General Convention Session. The opening session was called to order by President Floyd, who thanked the hotel staff for their help putting on the convention.
Date: March 11, 1995
Creator: Sons of the American Revolution. Texas Society.
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Minutes for the TXSSAR Board of Managers Meeting: March 14, 1980] (open access)

[Minutes for the TXSSAR Board of Managers Meeting: March 14, 1980]

Minutes from a meeting of the TXSSAR Board of Managers, held on March 14, 1980, in San Antonio, Texas, including a summary of activities and business discussed. The meeting was called to order by President Benjamin, with Chaplain A. J. Frank giving the invocation.
Date: March 1980
Creator: Sons of the American Revolution. Texas Society.
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Minutes for the TXSSAR Annual Meeting: March 30 - 31, 1973] (open access)

[Minutes for the TXSSAR Annual Meeting: March 30 - 31, 1973]

Minutes from an annual meeting of the Texas Sons of the American Revolution, held from March 30th through March 31st, 1973 at San Antonio, Texas, including a summary of activities and business discussed. The meeting was called to order by President Oliver Chamberlin.
Date: March 1973
Creator: Sons of the American Revolution. Texas Society.
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Minutes for the TXSSAR Board of Managers Meeting: March 31, 1973] (open access)

[Minutes for the TXSSAR Board of Managers Meeting: March 31, 1973]

Minutes from a meeting of the TXSSAR Board of Managers, held on Sunday, March 31, 1973 at the El Tropicano Motor Hotel, in San Antonio, Texas, including a summary of activities and business discussed. The meeting was called to order and presided by President Karl E. Wallace, Sr. The document was approved and signed by Wallace.
Date: March 1973
Creator: Sons of the American Revolution. Texas Society.
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Minutes for the TXSSAR Council of Chapter Presidents Meeting: March 11, 1995] (open access)

[Minutes for the TXSSAR Council of Chapter Presidents Meeting: March 11, 1995]

Minutes from a meeting of the TXSSAR Council of Chapter Presidents, held on March 11, 1995, in San Antonio, Texas, including a summary of activities and business discussed. The 4th annual meeting for the ae94, ae95 Council was called to order by Chairman Gerald Wikle. Included with the minutes are the Council of Chapter Presidents list of attendees.
Date: March 1995
Creator: Sons of the American Revolution. Texas Society.
System: The UNT Digital Library