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Oral History Interview with E. B. Potter, October 8, 1994

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Interview with E. B. "Ned" Potter, Navy WWII veteran from Norfolk, Virginia, who served in the intelligence section of the 14th Naval District. Potter discusses his education, teaching, commissioning into the Navy and training in communications, assignment to Oahu, codes and ciphers, interception, President Roosevelt's visit, WAVES, and leaving active duty at the end of the war and becoming a history professor. In appendix is a letter from Potter to Marcello with revisions to the interview.
Date: October 8, 1994
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Potter, E. B. (Ned)
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interview with Carl Denmon, April 8, 2006

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Interview with Carl Denmon, African-American alumnus of North Texas State University. The interview includes Denmon's personal experiences about childhood in Houston, Texas and undergraduate education at Wiley College. Additionally, Denmon discusses his employment as band director at Fred Moore High School in Denton, graduate studies in Music and Education at NTSU, his career with and retirement from Dallas County Community College, and his perceptions of changes in Denton and at North Texas over forty years.
Date: April 8, 2006
Creator: Johnson, Michael & Denmon, Carl
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interview with Dennis Dunkins, March 8, 2006

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Interview with Dennis Dunkins, African-American alumnus of North Texas State University. The interview includes Dunkins' personal experiences of childhood and education, enrolling in North Texas, majoring in Industrial Technology and his graduation in 1963, having a career with General Motors, as a business owner, and with Fort Worth ISD. Additionally, Dunkins speaks about off-campus life in "Shack Town" and support from black citizens of Denton, social life among African-American students and relations with white students and faculty, efforts to desegregate public facilities in Denton, and his summer jobs with Texas & Pacific Railroad Company. The interview includes a photograph of the University of North Texas Trailblazers in 2005.
Date: March 8, 2006
Creator: Yancey, Sherelyn & Dunkins, Dennis
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interview with Jack Hill, December 8, 2006

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Interview with Jack Hill, former employee of the Texas Textile Mill, as part of the Texas Textile Mill Oral History Project. The interview includes Hill's personal experiences about his childhood, working at Wilson's Grocery Store and Cole's Groceries, enlisting in the Army Air Forces during World War II, and serving in the China-Burma-India Theater. Hill also discusses his family's experience in the Great Depression, his lay-off due to new child labor laws, the tornado of 1948, and his career in retail sales.
Date: December 8, 2006
Creator: Kilgore, Deborah & Hill, Jack
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interview with Ted A. Crozier, August 8, 2002

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Interview with Army veteran Ted A. Crozier. The interview includes Crozier's personal experiences about his service as an aviation officer for General Olinto Barsanti, commander of the 101st Airborne Division. Crozier talks about his Pre-Vietnam reminiscences about Barsanti and his role in facilitating the transition of the 101st Airborne Division to the use of helicopters.
Date: August 8, 2002
Creator: Lane, Peter B. & Crozier, Ted A.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interview with David Braden, October 8, 1994

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Interview with David Braden, an Army Air Force WWII veteran from Dallas, Texas. Braden served as a navigator/radar-bombardier on a B-29 Superfortress in the Pacific; he recounts being in ROTC at North Texas Agricultural College and signing up for the Air Corps Reserves, flight training, the B-29, his crewmates, assignment to Saipan, organization of a bombing mission, the jetstream, flak and fighters, being shot down, switching crews, targets, briefings, recreation, Japanese holdouts on Saipan, fighter escorts, returning stateside, and leaving the service. In appendix is a letter sent to Dr. Marcello by Braden containing some corrections for the interview.
Date: October 8, 1994
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Braden, David, 1924-
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interview with Richard E. Cole, August 8, 2000

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Interview with Army Air Forces veteran Richard E. Cole describing personal experiences about being Jimmy Doolittle's co-pilot during the Tokyo Raid on April 8, 1942, pre-war education, flight training, volunteering for a secret mission and meeting Colonel Doolittle, being assigned as Doolittle's co-pilot, mission training, various B-25 missions against Japanese targets in China and Burma, flying supplies over "The Hump." transferring to the states and volunteering for service in Burma with the 1st Air Commandos to support Wingate's Chindits and Merrill's Marauders, and reunions of Doolittle's Raiders the following war.
Date: August 8, 2001
Creator: Alexander, William J. & Cole, Richard E.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interview with N. Jesse James, October 8, 1993

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Interview with Major N. Jesse James concerning his experiences before, during, and after his employment in the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression. James worked at a camp in Pineville, Kentucky (Company 548).
Date: October 8, 1993
Creator: McLemore, Laura L. & James, N. Jesse
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interview with Charles D. Lewis, October 8, 1993

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Interview with Charles Lewis concerning his experiences before and during his employment in the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression. Lewis worked at camps in Chillicothe, Ohio (Company 502) and Xenia, Ohio (Company 3542). Includes an appendix.
Date: October 8, 1993
Creator: Polatti, Gaylon & Lewis, Charles D.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with C. R. Gross, April 8, 1974 (open access)

Oral History Interview with C. R. Gross, April 8, 1974

Interview with C. R. Gross, civil servant and Army Air Corps veteran. The interview includes Gross' personal experiences at Hickam Field with the Finance Detachment during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Date: April 8, 1974
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Gross, C. R.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Cecil E. Shuford, November 8, 1974 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Cecil E. Shuford, November 8, 1974

Interview with Cecil Shuford, former college professor, writer, and poet, concerning the evolution of the Journalism Department at North Texas State University, his philosophy on the training of professional journalists, his theories on creative writing, and his impressions of various presidential administrations at the University.
Date: November 8, 1974
Creator: Rainbolt, William & Shuford, Cecil E.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Clyde C. Childress, February 8, 1972 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Clyde C. Childress, February 8, 1972

Interview with Clyde C. Childress, an Army WWII veteran who served with Filipino guerrillas. Childress discusses joining the army, deployment to the Philippines before the war, the Japanese invasion, forming guerrilla groups, operations and survival on Mindanao, and the Allied invasion and liberation. In appendix are a congressional recognition of Childress and others guerrillas' service in the war, an autobiographical account written by Childress, and a series of action briefs reporting the guerrillas' operations.
Date: February 8, 1971
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Jim Earthman, December 8th, 1972 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Jim Earthman, December 8th, 1972

Interview with Representative Jim Earthman, a Texas State legislator from Houston, Texas. Earthman discusses his experiences in the second, third, and fourth special sessions of the 62nd Legislature, specifically his feelings on state funding of primaries, the "Dirty Thirty," the selection of candidates for House Speaker, opposition to the election of Rayford Price, the legislature's budgeting hearings, his opinion of Bill Heatly, his opinion of Preston Smith, insurance rate making, insurance companies, and his thoughts about his own career on leaving office.
Date: December 8, 1972
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Earthman, Jim
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Arthur Dodge Jr., January 8, 1971 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Arthur Dodge Jr., January 8, 1971

Interview with Arthur B. Dodge, Jr., a US Army WWII veteran from Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Dodge recounts his service in M Company, 350th Infantry Regiment, 88th Infantry Division, which landed in Morocco and moved through Algeria in late-1943, before landing in Italy, where his unit took up position on the Cassino-Rapido-Garigliano front in March, 1944. Dodge describes prolonged skirmishing with German forces near Tremesuoli, Lazio, the breakout from Cassino, advancing into northern Italy, and finishing the war in the Po Valley.
Date: January 8, 1971
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Dodge Jr., Arthur B.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interview with Walter L. Henry, October 8, 1993

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Transcript of an interview with Dr. Walter Henry concerning his experiences while employed by the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression. Henry worked at a camp in Pine Valley, California (Company 901).
Date: October 8, 1993
Creator: Hudson, Linda S. & Henry, Walter L., 1918-
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Joseph H. Strittmatter, June 8, 1974 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Joseph H. Strittmatter, June 8, 1974

Interview with Navy veteran Joseph H. Strittmatter. The interview includes Strittmatter's personal experiences with VP-24 at Ford Island Naval Air Station during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Date: June 8, 1974
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Strittmatter, Joseph H.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Nick L. Kouretas, June 8, 1976 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Nick L. Kouretas, June 8, 1976

Interview with Nick Kouretas, U.S. Navy veteran, concerning his experiences aboard the cruiser USS Raleigh during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Date: June 8, 1976
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Kouretas, Nick L.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Arch Gibson, April 8, 1976 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Arch Gibson, April 8, 1976

Interview with Arch Gibson, a Navy veteran, concerning his experiences aboard the destroyer tender USS Whitney during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Date: April 8, 1976
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Gibson, Arch
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Charles Timlin, July 8, 1978 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Charles Timlin, July 8, 1978

Interview with Charles Timlin, a Navy WWII veteran from Fort Worth, Texas. Timlin discusses his experiences aboard the USS Vestal during the attack on Pearl Harbor, including is entry into the service, assignment to the Vestal, training and life on the ship, the night before the attack, events during the morning of the attack, and some details about service in the war afterwards.
Date: July 8, 1978
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Timlin, Charles
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with James A. Sierman, July 8, 1978 (open access)

Oral History Interview with James A. Sierman, July 8, 1978

Interview with James Sierman, a Navy veteran, concerning his experiences aboard the destroyer-minesweeper USS Wasmuth during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Date: July 8, 1978
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Sierman, James A., 1921-
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Eugene Woodward, July 8, 1978 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Eugene Woodward, July 8, 1978

Interview with Eugene Woodward, a Navy veteran, concerning his experiences aboard the cruiser USS Phoenix during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Date: July 8, 1978
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Woodward, Eugene, 1922-
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Leo Kurmadas, July 8, 1978 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Leo Kurmadas, July 8, 1978

Interview with Leo Kurmadas, a Navy veteran, concerning his experiences aboard the auxiliary repair ship USS Medusa during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Date: July 8, 1978
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Kurmadas, Leo, 1922-
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with James A. McClelland, July 8, 1978 (open access)

Oral History Interview with James A. McClelland, July 8, 1978

Interview with James McClelland, a Navy veteran, concerning his experiences aboard the cruiser USS Helena during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Date: July 8, 1978
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & McClelland, James A., 1912-
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Jose Amancio Perez, July 8, 1978 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Jose Amancio Perez, July 8, 1978

Interview with Jose Amancio Perez, U.S. Army WWII Veteran. Perez discusses his experiences at Camp Malakole with A Company (Antiaircraft), 251st Coast Artillery, California National Guard, during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Date: July 8, 1978
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Perez, Jose Amancio, 1919-
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library