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Asian Pacific Americans in the United States Congress
This report presents information on Senators, Representatives, and Delegates, including previous occupations and leadership positions (such as committee and subcommittee chairmanships), and the bipartisan and bicameral Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus. It also provides a list of Members' and Delegates' party affiliations, length and dates of service, and committee assignments. Also included in the report is a map showing the total number of Asian Pacific Americans and the states or territories they represent in the 113th Congress.
Date:
June 12, 2013
Creator:
Tong, Lorraine H.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Jean Balch, October 12, 1996
Interview with Navy veteran Jean Balch, including Balch's personal experiences about the Pacific theater, being a prisoner-of-war of the Japanese during World War II, boot camp, radio, radar, and gunnery school, operations during the Leyte invasion, missions over Luzon, and raids on Japanese installations on Formosa and Saigon, French Indo-China. Additionally, Balch talks about his plane being shot down on a raid to Hong Kong and his capture on January 16, 1945, interrogations and beatings by the Kempei-tai, imprisonment at Ofuna, Honshu, solitary confinement for six months and continued interrogation, beatings by Japanese prison guards, starvation diet, the end of the war and liberation, and his participation in the war crimes trials held by the International Military Tribunal.
Date:
October 12, 1996
Creator:
Alexander, William J. & Balch, Jean
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Henry Stanley, March 12, 1973
Interview with Henry Stanley, a Army Air Corps WWII veteran and POW who survived the Bataan Death March. Stanley discusses joining the Air Corps and prewar service, the Japanese invasion, Bataan and Corregidor, capture by Japanese forces, the march, internment at Clark Field, transit to Japan and internment there, and the war's end. In appendix are letters Stanley wrote during the war, telegrams and letters to his family from the War Department regarding his status, and a statement recording his health during the war.
Date:
March 12, 1973
Creator:
Marcello, Ronald E.
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Newsmap. For the Armed Forces. 287th week of the war, 169th week of U.S. participation
Front: Text describes action on various war fronts: Iwo Battle Bitter; Americans Take Cologne - Soviets Reach Baltic. Maps: Pacific spearheads; The Rhine. Back: Text and photographs highlight the bitter battle on the tiny island of Iwo Jima.
Date:
March 12, 1945
Creator:
[United States.] Army Service Forces. Army Information Branch.
Object Type:
Poster
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Newsmap. For the Armed Forces. 283rd week of the war, 165th week of U.S. participation
Front: Text describes action on various war fronts: Allies close on Reich from two sides, Aircraft strike over wide Pacific area, Manila liberation frees prisoners. Maps: [Germany]; [Pacific area]; Manila liberated. Insets: Manila Back: Text and 17 photographs show Japan in 1939.
Date:
February 12, 1945
Creator:
[United States.] Army Service Forces. Army Information Branch.
Object Type:
Poster
System:
The UNT Digital Library
[FRUPAC War Map: April 12, 1944]
Map overlay documenting the activities of the US Naval operations, Japanese ships, cargo ships, and weather patterns on April 12, 1944. The overlay contains annotations regarding the Commander of the Central Pacific, US Task Forces 57, 58, and 50.17, the USS Finback (SS-230), USS Indianapolis (CA-35), Japanese Destroyers Kazegumo and Matsu, Submarines RO-112, I-162, I-176, I-174, and RO-41, Cargo Ship Hokushin Maru, and Torpedo Boat Tender Kamikaze Maru. Significant events visible on the map include Task Force 57 attacking and the USS Finback attacking.
Date:
April 12, 1944
Creator:
Fleet Radio Unit Pacific
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[FRUPAC War Map: October 12 - 14, 1943]
Map overlay documenting the activities of the US Naval operations, Japanese ships, cargo ships, and weather patterns from October 12 to 14, 1943. The overlay contains annotations regarding the USS Cero (SS-225), USS Chickasaw (AT-83), Commander Task Unit 17.14.2, Japanese Cargo Ships Gosei Maru, Gokoku Maru, Kiyosumi Maru, Hie Maru, Awata Maru, Nichinan Maru, and Nanshin Maru Cruisers Naka and Isuzu, Destroyers Nowake, Maikaze, and Yamagumo, Aircraft Carriers Junyo and Hayataka, ship Honkan, Destroyer Division 7, and Cruiser Divisions 5 and 16. Significant events visible on the map include several convoys being tracked, the USS Cero sinking an auxiliary cargo ship on October 12 at 11:18, and CTU 17.14.2 reporting two light cruisers on October 13 at 12:35.
Date:
1943-10-12/1943-10-14
Creator:
Fleet Radio Unit Pacific
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[FRUPAC War Map: September 12 - September 16, 1943]
Map overlay documenting the activities of the US Naval operations, Japanese ships, cargo ships, and weather patterns from September 12 to September 16, 1943. The overlay contains annotations regarding the USS Permit (SSN-594), Hypo. SUB, SC-669, USS Navajo, I TARE Division, 13th Air Force. Significant events visible on the map include the sinking of the Navajo by an unknown explosion.
Date:
1943-09-12/1943-09-16
Creator:
Fleet Radio Unit Pacific
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History