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Elisabet Ney, Sculptor (open access)

Elisabet Ney, Sculptor

Biography about the sculptor, Elisabet Ney.
Date: 1916
Creator: Taylor, Bride Neill
System: The Portal to Texas History
Clinical anatomy of the European hamster, Cricetus cricetus, L. (open access)

Clinical anatomy of the European hamster, Cricetus cricetus, L.

This handbook outlines the external and internal anatomy of the European hamster, including "clinically relevant systems such as the respiratory system" (p. iii). It also includes a diagram of the normal distribution of hamsters throughout Germany. The index begins on page 211.
Date: 1978
Creator: Reznik, Gerd.; Schuller, Hildegard M.; Mohr, U. (Ulrich); Walter, Paul C. & Dodson, Peter
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interview with Aletha Barsanti, January 17, 2003

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Interview with Aletha Barsanti regarding her experiences as the wife of U. S. Army General Olinto Barsanti. They married in 1942. She remembers their courtship in San Antonio; their assignments in Europe, Japan, and Washington, D.C.; raising their children; his activities in the Korean War; his promotion to general; military protocol for the wives of general officers; and his one-year tour in the Vietnam War as the commander of the 101st Airborne Division. He was diagnosed with stomach cancer and died in May 1973.
Date: January 17, 2003
Creator: Lane, Peter B. & Barsanti, Aletha
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Harold Galloway, March 17, 1984 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Harold Galloway, March 17, 1984

Interview with Judge Harold Galoway, an army veteran from Yantis, Texas. This interview contains his recollections as a World War II medical corpsman in Europe. Army life and the health problems of soldiers are discussed.
Date: March 17, 1984
Creator: Gilbreath, David W. & Galloway, Harold
System: The UNT Digital Library
The War with Germany: A Statistical Summary (open access)

The War with Germany: A Statistical Summary

Book containing statistical figures regarding the United States of America's conflict with Germany during World War I, including statistics for casualties, expenditures, and ordnance. Index starts on page 151.
Date: 1919
Creator: Ayres, Leonard Porter, 1879-1946
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interview with Eleonore Greenfield, November 2, 2009

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Interview with Eleonore Greenfield, Germany-born immigrant to Weatherford, Texas, as part of the DFW Metroplex Immigrants Oral History Project. The interview includes Greenfield's personal experiences of childhood and education in Germany, escaping to Berlin from the Soviet army, and again to Bavaria, and marriage to an America GI. Greenfield also discusses her family's experiences with occupying U.S. Army forces, the decision to settle in Weatherford, the struggle to pass on German language and culture to her children and grandchildren, and her family history. The interview includes an appendix with photographs.
Date: November 2, 2009
Creator: Liles, Debbie & Greenfield, Eleonore
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interview with William Barsanti, June 26, 2004

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Interview with accountant and Army veteran William Barsanti. The interview includes Barsanti's personal experiences about the European Theater during World War II, his youth in an Italian immigrant family, graduating from high school and enrolling in college, then in the Enlisted Reserve Corps, being inducted into the U.S. Army, basic training, being selected for the Army Specialized Training Program, transferring to the 106th Infantry Division, and his assignment to Cannon Company as a supply sergeant. Barsanti also talks about the living conditions at Stalag XII-A and Stalag II-D, Stargard, Germany, evacuating to Bremervorde, Germany, liberation, and his postwar business career in Europe.
Date: June 26, 2004
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Barsanti, William
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interview with Seth Bailey, December 12, 2007

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Interview with Seth Bailey, veteran of Operation Iraqi Freedom, as part of the Tarrant County War Veterans Oral History Project. The interview includes Bailey's personal experiences of childhood and education in Athens, Texas, enlisting in the U.S. Army, basic training at Ft. Benning, Georgia, including experiences in Ranger Indoctrination Program and injuries sustained in "jump school," as well as his combat experiences in Karbala, Ramadi, and Al Asad. Bailey also talks about his family's tradition of military service, his assignment to a unit in Darmstadt, Germany, his deployment to Iraq and performance of long-range surveillance missions, continuing struggles with injury from basic training, with the Army health care system, and with substance abuse. Additionally, Bailey discusses his treatment at the Walter Reed Army Hospital, being discharged from the Army, returning to Arlington, Texas, and gives his opinions regarding the benefits of military service and regarding women in the military.
Date: December 12, 2007
Creator: Russell, Amy & Bailey, Seth
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interview with Wilbur H. Ford, November 18, 1999

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Interview with Army Air Forces veteran Wilbur H. Ford. The interview includes Ford's personal experiences about being a B-17 pilot in the European Theater during World War II, training, transferring to the Army Air Force from the Army, flight training, B-17 transition training, and crew training. Ford also talks about his assignment to the 401st Bomb Group, enemy flak, the highlights of his nine missions over Germany, battle damage to his plane, the Dresden raid, returning to the States, and transition training in B-29s for transfer to the Pacific Theater.
Date: November 18, 1999
Creator: Alexander, William J. & Ford, Wilbur H.
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interview with Giancarlo Quijano, October 11, 2012

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Interview with Giancarlo Quijano, West German-born Colombian immigrant to Denton, Texas, for the DFW Metroplex Immigration Oral History Project. The interview includes Quijano's personal experiences from his childhood in West Germany, life in Colombia during the 1990s violence, his family's immigration to Texas, his expectations of the U.S., and the subsequent culture shock. Quijano talks about the transition to American life, attending college as an international student, his experiences with the citizenship process, and his thoughts on the immigration debate.
Date: October 11, 2012
Creator: Duque, Samantha & Quijano, Giancarlo
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interview with Marjorie Rae Lutkins Babcock, March 31, 2013

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Interview with Marjorie Rae Lutkins Babcock, Women's Army Corps Enlisted, Keypunch Operator, and Korean War-ere Veteran, for the Women Veterans Oral History Project. The interview includes Babcock's personal experiences of childhood in Michigan, basic training at Fort Lee, Virginia, duty assignments at Governor's Island, New York and Hanau, Germany, her temporary duty assignment at the Pentagon, her placement in the Veterans of Foreign War's Women's Auxiliary despite veteran status, and her brother's experience in the Merchant Marines during World War II. Additionally, the interview includes her reason for enlisting, her family's reaction to her enlistment, impressions of post-war Germany, advice for future women service members, her views on service and women in combat, and her daughter's views of the military and the military service of her mom and other family members. The interview includes an appendix with photographs and a list detailing Babcock's military career.
Date: March 31, 2013
Creator: Hedrick, Amy & Babcock, Marjorie Rae Lutkins
System: The UNT Digital Library
Scrapbook 1 (open access)

Scrapbook 1

Scrapbook Photographs of Wedding couple; Sketch of a bathing suit with metal embellishments; Lilli Wolff showing a dress; Festival costumes(?)
Date: 1930/1969
Creator: Wolff, Lilli
System: The UNT Digital Library
Kriegsgeschichtliche Einzelschriften, Issue 6 (open access)

Kriegsgeschichtliche Einzelschriften, Issue 6

Book containing two German war histories.
Date: 1885
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library
Kriegsgeschichtliche Einzelschriften, Issue 5 (open access)

Kriegsgeschichtliche Einzelschriften, Issue 5

Book containing two German war histories.
Date: 1884
Creator: Nostiss, August Ludwig Ferdinand Karl
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Brochure of the Military Government in Germany] (open access)

[Brochure of the Military Government in Germany]

Book concerning the "Military Government [in] Germany" now that the allied forces had made their way into Germany. The Table of Contents shows each section dealing with the abrogation, dissolution, or altering of policies that had been set forth by the Nazi Party in 1933. The text on the front page says this book contains "Proclamation, Laws, Ordinaces and Notices. Directives and Instructions to German Police."
Date: November 7, 1944
Creator: United States. Army.
System: The Portal to Texas History
From Pomerania to America (open access)

From Pomerania to America

Book discussing the history of the Radde Family from their European ancestors in Pomerania to their arrival in America. Included are various photographs and maps, as well as a list of Radde family members from the Federal Records Center: "Index to Passenger List of Vessels Arriving in Baltimore from 1820-1897." Index begins on page 87.
Date: 1989
Creator: Radde, Rebecca D.
System: The Portal to Texas History

Storming the City: U.S. Military Performance in Urban Warfare from World War II to Vietnam

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Book describing military philosophy before and after WWII, with full chapters analyzing how the U.S. Army and Marine Corps engaged in urban warfare during four specific battles: Aachen (October 1944), Manila (February 1945), Seoul (September 1959), and Hue (February 1968). Index starts on page 363.
Date: October 2015
Creator: Wahlman, Alec
System: The UNT Digital Library
Family History of Martin and Carolina Echtle (open access)

Family History of Martin and Carolina Echtle

History of the Echtle family including family tree listings for each of the surviving (2nd-generation) children, notes about the Echtle family reunions, and a narrative reflecting on the family's history in the U.S., which celebrated a 100th anniversary in 1982.
Date: July 1982
Creator: Echtle, Paul
System: The Portal to Texas History
Brief History of the Balzen Family in Texas (open access)

Brief History of the Balzen Family in Texas

History of the Balzen family in Texas including narratives and family charts for the various branches of the family, and anecdotes about family members, with reproductions of the family brand, maps, and other supplementary materials. The text includes a number of handwritten corrections and additions.
Date: July 14, 1982
Creator: Balzen, Richard W. & Balzen, Martha C.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Eugene R. Cronin, February 1, 1972 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Eugene R. Cronin, February 1, 1972

Interview with Eugene Cronin, a US Army Air Corps WWII veteran and POW from Kansas City, Missouri. Cronin discusses his time as a B-24 crewmember stationed at Cerignola, Italy, the kinds of missions flown, his being shot down over Hungary and captured by the German Army, and his experiences in captivity at Vienna, Frankfurt, and Stalag Luft #1 near Barth in Western Pommerania.
Date: February 1, 1972
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Cronin, Eugene R.
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interview with Inga Czerner, January 4, 1990

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Interview with Inga Czerner (née Israelski), a German-Jewish expatriate from Frankfurt-am-Main. Czerner discusses Hitler's rise to power and the initial effect of Nazi power on Jews, her father's departure for Russia, growing up in Frankfurt, growing antisemitism, the Gestapo, her schooling, the Kristallnacht, hiding, fleeing Germany to England without her mother, loss of her family members to the Holocaust, learning her father survived the war, moving to the US and marrying her husband Albert, and reflections on the Holocaust and Jewishness.
Date: January 4, 1990
Creator: Rosen, Keith & Czerner, Ingaborg Rosa
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interview with Jack Browder, January 15, 1998

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Interview with Jack Browder, a Army WWII veteran from Duncan, Oklahoma. Browder was a staff officer with the 741st Tank Battalion in Europe; he recounts his education and entry to active duty in 1941, transfer to the new 741st, armor training and exercises, duties as a supply officer, preparations for the Normandy invasion, DD tanks, D-Day, attachment to the 2nd Infantry Division and advances through northern France, the M4 Sherman, his thoughts on General George S. Patton, the Battle of Saint Lô, souvenirs and trading, the Battle of the Bulge, crossing Germany into Czechoslovakia, returning to the States, and postwar service.
Date: January 15, 1998
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Browder, Jack
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interview with Alfred Czerner, January 16, 1990

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Interview with Alfred Czerner, a Army WWII veteran and German-Jewish expatriate from Frankfurt-am-Main. Czerner discusses growing up in the crises of the Weimar Republic, politics at the time, his parents' background, the Jewish community in Frankfurt and Jewish identity, his father's unemployment after the rise of the Nazis, fleeing Germany and moving to Brooklyn in 1938, news of concentration camps, work in New York, attending school and perfecting his English, becoming an Army intelligence officer, service at Camp Ritchie with Henry Kissinger and meeting Eleanor Roosevelt, transfer to Europe and service with the 78th Infantry Division, witnessing Buchwenwald, service in Berlin postwar and operations carried out there, meeting and marrying his wife, and reflections on the Holocaust.
Date: January 16, 1990
Creator: Rosen, Keith & Czerner, Alfred
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Harry A. Thompson, April 18, 1973 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Harry A. Thompson, April 18, 1973

Interview with Harry Thompson, an Army WWII veteran and POW from Dallas, Texas. Thompson discusses being drafted before the war and training for field artillery at Fort Sill, his assignment to the 99th Infantry Division, training in England, the Siegfried Line, the Battle of the Bulge and his capture at Büllingen, Belgium, being interrogated and transported into Germany, and his experiences in internment at Limburg.
Date: April 18, 1973
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Thompson, Harry A.
System: The UNT Digital Library