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Oral History Interview with Bill Smith, April 11, 2013 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Bill Smith, April 11, 2013

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents and interview Bill Smith. Smith went into the Army in February 1942. After basic training, Smith was shipped to Australia with the 440th Signal Construction Battalion and they built telephone lines. From there, he went to Port Moresby, still building communications infrastructure. When the invasion of the Philippines occurred, Smith went to Luzon and continued with the 440th. He also went to Okinawa with them. When the war ended, Smith went home and was discharged in late 1945.
Date: April 11, 2013
Creator: Smith, Bill
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Ignacio Lopez, April 11, 2013 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Ignacio Lopez, April 11, 2013

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Ignacio Lopez. Lopez was drafted into the Army in 1943 and made a company clerk at New Caldonia because he could type. His unit evetually joined the 24th Infantry Division in the Philippines. He also went to Japan after the war ended. He returned to the US and was discharged at Fort Sam Houston, whereupon he took a civilian job operating IBM machines.
Date: April 11, 2013
Creator: Lopez, Ignacio
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Frank Muoio, April 11, 2000 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Frank Muoio, April 11, 2000

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Frank Muoio. Muoio joined the Navy in early 1942 and went aboard the USS Thomas Jefferson (APA-30) after training in Rhode Island. His first trip was to Brisbane delivering materiel. From there, he went to the invasions of North Africa, Sicily and Italy. Muoio shares several anecdotes about his experiences aboard the Thomas Jefferson. He went ashore during the invasion of Salerno. He was also involved in the Normandy invasion as well as Okinawa.
Date: April 11, 2000
Creator: Muoio, Frank
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Glenn E. Neff, April 11, 2012 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Glenn E. Neff, April 11, 2012

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Glenn E. Neff. After Neff finished high school, he entered the service in March, 1945. Neff discusses several anecdotes about his training days at Camp Robinson, Arkansas. While he was training, the war in Europe ended. Neff headed for the Pacific and contracted pneumonia aboard the troopship and spent most of his time on the voyage in sick bay. En route to the Philippines, the atomic bombs were dropped and the war ended. Neff's group went on to Leyte and he describes his impressions of camp life near Tacloban. While there, Neff recalls participating in some mopping-up operations, and pulling guard duty to a Japanese prison stockade. After several months in the Philippines, Neff was transferred up to Guam. At Guam, Neff encountered his high school algebra teacher and another classmate from back home. They toured the island together. Also on Guam, Neff put up a lot of communication wires in the coconut trees and laid cables underground. Neff left Guam and returned to the US for discharge in November, 1946.
Date: April 11, 2012
Creator: Neff, Glenn E.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Elvin Moore, April 11, 2011 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Elvin Moore, April 11, 2011

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Elvin Moore. Moore served as an Army Medic on Guam. He was drafted in 1943 and after training was sent to Guam to work at an Army hospital camp. His father knew Lyndon B. Johnson and Admiral Chester W. Nimitz. One of his father's letters led to an invitation to visit Nimitz at CINCPAC headquarters. He remained on Guam until the end of the war. He was discharged January 1945.
Date: April 11, 2011
Creator: Moore, Elvin
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Raul Treto, April 11, 2006 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Raul Treto, April 11, 2006

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Raul Treto. Treto was born in Harlingen, Texas 4 November 1921. In September 1942 he was drafted into the Army and sent to Camp Robinson, Arkansas for eighteen weeks of basic training. Upon completion of basic he was assigned to the 98th Signal Battalion and sent to Camp Blanding, Florida for advanced training. In June 1944 the battalion traveled by troop train to Camp Stoneman, California. Boarding a liberty ship, they proceeded on a thirty day voyage to Aitape, Papua New Guinea. Upon arrival in New Guinea, Treto was assigned to a radio platoon. While on New Guinea he saw a USO Show put on by Bob Hope. He tells of going to Morotai as well as taking part in the invasion of Luzon. During August 1945 he was selected to go aboard the USS Mount Olympus (AGC-8) as part of the crew manning the radios and was on board in Tokyo Bay when the surrender of Japan was officially accepted. He returned to his unit which was stationed outside Yokohama. He returned to the United States and was discharged December 1945.
Date: April 11, 2006
Creator: Treto, Raul
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with John McAllister, April 11, 2007 (open access)

Oral History Interview with John McAllister, April 11, 2007

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with John McAllister. McAllister joined the Army Reserve at Texas A&M and was called to active duty in February 1943. He received basic training at Camp Sibert and learned to fire a 4.2-inch mortar. He then studied chemical engineering at MIT under the Army Specialized Training Program. Upon completion, he was assigned to Fort Shelby as an acting sergeant. He then attended OCS in Edgewood and graduated as a second lieutenant. There he processed 643 German prisoners of war that had been flown in from the Battle of the Bulge. He was transferred to the 71st Chemical Mortar Battalion as a platoon leader and sent to Okinawa. After the war ended, he went ashore for guard duty and discovered that the island, though secure, still had tens of thousands of Japanese holdouts. He was assigned to a POW camp, where he found the prisoners to be cooperative and in good spirits. McAllister then returned home and joined the Reserves. He earned a degree in chemical engineering and got a job with DuPont. During the Korean War, he was called to active duty and sent to Edgewood to study atomic, …
Date: April 11, 2007
Creator: McAllister, John
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Albert Finley, April 11, 2006 (open access)

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 John Eberle, April 11, 2001 (open access)

Oral History Interview with John Eberle, April 11, 2001

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with John Eberle. Born in 1921, he enlisted in the Navy in 1939. He was assigned to Torpedo Squadron VT-6 of the Enterprise Air Group. He describes events on the USS Enterprise (CV-6) while at sea during the attack on Pearl Harbor. He shares an anecdote about the remains of Admiral Kidd. He relates stories about the Battle of Midway; escorting to the USS Hornet (CV-8) in conjunction with the Doolittle Raid; the sinking of the USS Wasp (CV-7); the Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands and the loss of the USS Hornet; and experiencing a typhoon while on an aircraft carrier. He also shares stories about being an aircraft maintenance officer in San Diego, California. He retired from the Navy Reserve in 1976.
Date: April 11, 2001
Creator: Eberle, John
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with H. James Avery, April 11, 2001 (open access)

Oral History Interview with H. James Avery, April 11, 2001

Transcript of an oral interview with James Avery. Mr Avery was a junior at the University of Illinois when Pearl Harbor was attacked. He signed up with the Army Air Corps since they would let him finish his degree before they would take him. However, the Army Air Corps was not able to honor its commitment since they needed pilots badly. In March 1943, they called him up and sent him to Lackland Air Base for the preflight program. From there, Avery went to Fort Stockton where he learned to fly in a Fairchild PT-19 and then to Goodfellow Field in San Angelo to learn to fly a BT-13. After two months of basic training, he went to Reese Air Base in Lubbock to train in the AT-17 and got his wings there in January 1944. Avery wanted to fly the B-26 and he got his wish; reporting first to Del Rio and then to Barksdale Field where he got his crew assigned. There were six of them in the crew. After about three months at Barksdale, they went to Savannah, Georgia to pick up a brand new airplane. However, they had to wait six weeks for their ship; Martin …
Date: April 11, 2001
Creator: Avery, H. James
System: The Portal to Texas History
Ashland VS Greensburg High School Musical Concert (open access)

Ashland VS Greensburg High School Musical Concert

Photograph of an advertisement of an Ashland VS Greensburg High School Musical Concert. Possibly involved in the concert of the owner of the poster being Dr. Coggins.
Date: April 11, 1924
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Letters From Crows' Nest Valley Mining Syndicate to John H. Camp (open access)

Letters From Crows' Nest Valley Mining Syndicate to John H. Camp

Letters Letto John H. Camp from Thomas B. Elliott, Secretary for the Crows' Nest Valley Mining Syndicate.
Date: 1917-04-11/1917-04-16
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[Certificate designating land to Pedro J. Gonzalez] (open access)

[Certificate designating land to Pedro J. Gonzalez]

Certificate designating land to Pedro J. Gonalez. An icon of two people and land surrounded by the text "C.C.I." and Central Campesino Independiente" is printed to the left of a small text column. Further down the page is a wide column of paragraphed text positioned to the right of a narrower text column and a printed seal. The word "copy" has been handwritten at the top of the page while markings have been made across text near the page's bottom.
Date: April 11, 1972
Creator: Parlee, Lorena, 1945-2006
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Letter from Pedro J. Gonzalez to Roberto Fierro Villalobos, 10] (open access)

[Letter from Pedro J. Gonzalez to Roberto Fierro Villalobos, 10]

Letter from Pedro J. Gonzalez to Roberto Fierro Villalobos. A long, curving title is printed above small lines of text that are positioned beside a bird icon, below which is a printed date. Beneath the date is a wide column of text positioned to the right of a smaller text column, a stamped seal, and handwriting. The wider column of text continues onto the back side of the page, ending above a signature.
Date: April 11, 1979
Creator: Parlee, Lorena, 1945-2006
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Memo/3rd Complaint] (open access)

[Memo/3rd Complaint]

Memo/3rd Complaint. A number and word are handwritten near the top left corner of the first page, to the left of two wide paragraphs of printed text. The paragraphs continue across three more pages, with the text on the final page ending near the middle of the page.
Date: April 11, 1973
Creator: Parlee, Lorena, 1945-2006
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Tandy Corporation Publicity Questionnaire for Ralph Franklin Cook] (open access)

[Tandy Corporation Publicity Questionnaire for Ralph Franklin Cook]

Publicity questionnaire from the Tandy Corporation, Corporate Relations Department, filled in for Ralph Franklin Cook the Vice President & Treasurer of Leonard's on April 11, 1972.
Date: April 11, 1972
Creator: Leonard's Department Store.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Southern Union Gas Company Monthly Statement (2504 AVE O): May 1952 (open access)

Southern Union Gas Company Monthly Statement (2504 AVE O): May 1952

Monthly gas statement sent to D. W. Kempner at 2504 Avenue O listing gas usage at the address and amount due.
Date: April 11, 1952
Creator: Southern Union Gas Company
System: The Portal to Texas History
Southern Union Gas Company Monthly Statement (2504 AVE O FRONT): May 1952 (open access)

Southern Union Gas Company Monthly Statement (2504 AVE O FRONT): May 1952

Monthly gas statement sent to D. W. Kempner at 2504 Avenue O Front listing gas usage at the address and amount due.
Date: April 11, 1952
Creator: Southern Union Gas Company
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Invoice for Aluminum, April 1952] (open access)

[Invoice for Aluminum, April 1952]

Invoice for items sold to D. W. Kempner by Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company, including aluminum shipped on April 9th, 1952 worth $1.08. Written paid by check on April 21st, 1952.
Date: April 11, 1952
Creator: Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company
System: The Portal to Texas History
William Waybourn Resolution (open access)

William Waybourn Resolution

A resolution from the Metropolitan Community Church of Dallas designated William Waybourn as an honorary member of The Cathedral of Hope; the resolution is signed by a number of individuals, including Michael S. Piazza.
Date: April 11, 1991
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Minutes for the TXSSAR Arlington Chapter meeting: April 11, 2015] (open access)

[Minutes for the TXSSAR Arlington Chapter meeting: April 11, 2015]

Minutes from the April 11, 2015 Texas Society, Sons of the American Revolution Arlington Chapter meeting.
Date: April 11, 2015
Creator: Texas Society Sons of the American Revolution, Arlington Chapter 7
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Order Form for Cyanogas Ant Killer and Cyanogas A Dust, April 1956] (open access)

[Order Form for Cyanogas Ant Killer and Cyanogas A Dust, April 1956]

Invoice for items sold to Daniel W. Kempner by American Florist Supply Co., including Cyanogas ant killer and cyanogas A dust.
Date: April 11, 1956
Creator: American Florist Supply Company
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Minutes for the TXSSAR Arlington Chapter meeting: April 11, 2020] (open access)

[Minutes for the TXSSAR Arlington Chapter meeting: April 11, 2020]

Minutes from the Texas Society, Sons of the American Revolution, Arlington chapter virtual meeting on April 11, 2020.
Date: April 11, 2020
Creator: Texas Society Sons of the American Revolution, Arlington Chapter 7
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Congregation Adath Yeshurun Board of Trustees Minutes: April 11, 1938] (open access)

[Congregation Adath Yeshurun Board of Trustees Minutes: April 11, 1938]

Minutes for a regular meeting of the Congregation Adath Yeshurun Board of Trustees documenting attendees, topics of discussion, and committee reports. This meeting included a discussion of securing a cantor for the congregation, the merits of the two cantor candidates, and their salary requests.
Date: April 11, 1938
Creator: Congregation Adath Yeshurun. Board of Trustees.
System: The Portal to Texas History