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Newsmap. Monday, October 12, 1942 : week of October 2 to October 9

Front: Text describes action on various war fronts: Aleutians, New Guinea, Solomons, Far eastern waters, Russia, Mediterranean, Western Europe. Large world map is keyed to text and illustrates time zones around the world. Inset maps show Aleutian Islands; Southwest Pacific. Includes photographs: Nazi medium artillery field pieces, Long range patrol, Canadian paratroopers graduate, "Paratroopers train for action". Back: Convoy. 15 photographs with text describe a typical journey of a convoy of troops across an ocean.
Date: October 12, 1942
Creator: [United States.] Army Orientation Course.
Object Type: Poster
System: The UNT Digital Library

Newsmap. Monday, April 12, 1943 : week of April 2 to April 9, 187th week of the war, 69th week of U.S. participation

Front: Text describes action on various war fronts: Russia, Solomons, New Guinea, Aleutians, Bolivia, Tunisia, Air offensive. Large world map is keyed to text and illustrates time zones around the world. Inset maps show Sicily and Tunis. Includes photographs: Malaria control, Super block-buster [8,000 lb. aerial bomb], Change of ownership [captured Mercedes Benz troop-carrier], Bren-gun carriers support British Grenadiers in Kasserine Pass, Italian troops in the African war zone. Back: The Marine Corps. A unified fighting force. Graphic image shows helmeted Marine soldiers with rifles attacking a tropical island with ships and transport boats in background, as well as various photos of parachutes, bombardments, etc.
Date: April 12, 1943
Creator: [United States.] Army Orientation Course.
Object Type: Poster
System: The UNT Digital Library

Newsmap. Monday, July 12, 1943 : week of July 1 to July 8, 200th week of the war, 82nd week of U.S. participation

Front: Text describes action on various war fronts: Russia, Southwest Pacific, Air offensive, Crete, Kiska. Maps: Key Japanese bases; Solomon Islands; New Georgia Islands, Battle area near Moscow. Photographs: Smoke rises from the Japanese airfield at Munda; Fortress over Huls. Back: Map of the battle area on the Eastern front.
Date: July 12, 1943
Creator: [United States.] Army Orientation Course.
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

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. 248th week of the war, 130th week of U.S. participation

Front: Text describes action on various war fronts: France, Eastern front, Italy, Pacific, China, Southeast Asia. Maps: Schouten Islands; Channel Coast; Italy. Back: "The battle-line is where the Infantry is"... Large photograph of infantryman with text describing the importance of the infantry.
Date: June 12, 1944
Creator: [United States.] Army Service Forces. Army Information Branch.
Object Type: Poster
System: The UNT Digital Library

Newsmap for the Armed Forces : Army Plan for Unifying Armed Forces

Front: Text and chart show chain of command and organizational structure in the proposed unified armed forces. The plan was presented to the Senate Military Affairs Committee on 30 October 1945. Back: Illustration of a young woman with crossed fingers has caption emphasizing the need to save some of that hard-earned money.
Date: November 12, 1945
Creator: [United States.] Army Information Branch.
Object Type: Poster
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Floyd Mumme, April 12, 2002 transcript

Oral History Interview with Floyd Mumme, April 12, 2002

Interview with Floyd Mumme, a medic during World War II. He discusses boot camp, being deployed to Saipan, Japanese trying to steal food, working in the Army Medical Corps, and treating wounds in combat.
Date: April 12, 2002
Creator: Misenhimer, Richard & Mumme, Floyd C.
Object Type: Sound
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Charles Pase, April 12, 2001 transcript

Oral History Interview with Charles Pase, April 12, 2001

Interview with Charles Pase, a marine during World War II. He discusses joining the Marines and training on New Zealand and other Pacific islands. He describes landing on Tarawa, the battle of Tarawa itself, and locating and burying the dead bodies after the battle. He also talks about going to Hawaii for more training before going to Saipan, various guns and artillery he used, encountering natives on Saipan and being in Nagasaki after the bomb was dropped. He relates ancedotes about having tonsillitis during the Tarawa attack, fights that some Marines got into with local Hawaiians while training there and prejudices against Japanese-Americans, mistaking a land crab that pinched the back of his neck for a bayonet, getting Dengue Fever, and faking a landing on April Fools' Day.
Date: April 12, 2001
Creator: Cox, Floyd & Pase, Charles
Object Type: Sound
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Beal S. Powell to Lena Lawson, May 12, 1945] (open access)

[Letter from Beal S. Powell to Lena Lawson, May 12, 1945]

Letter from Beal S. Powell to Lena Lawson, discussing his homesickness and the letters he has received. Powell writes he is in love with Dona and cannot wait to be back home with her.
Date: May 12, 1945
Creator: Powell, Beal S.
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Corporal Park B. Fielder to his family, August 12, 1945] (open access)

[Letter from Corporal Park B. Fielder to his family, August 12, 1945]

Letter from Corporal Park B. Fielder to his family, on August 12, 1945, relating his reaction and that of the soldiers in his outfit to the news that Japan has surrendered and the war is over. He is delighted at the thought of coming home and starting a family.
Date: August 12, 1945
Creator: Fielder, Park B.
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Portrait of Colonel Valin Woodward]

Portrait of Colonel Valin Woodward in his military uniform and wearing his awards.
Date: January 12, 1965
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Obituary for Burton Edwin Estill] (open access)

[Obituary for Burton Edwin Estill]

Obituary for Burton Edwin Estill, a World War II veteran. He was born February 24, 1924, and died June 10, 2007 at the age of eighty-three. The text includes details about the memorial service, memorials, brief biography, and surviving family members. A portion of a photograph and separate news article is visible on the back.
Date: June 12, 2007
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Clipping
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Boxing Match]

Copy photograph of two boxers and a referee in a boxing ring during CatClaw Fest. Soldiers sit around watching the ring. The referee is Arthur Hyatt, the boxer on the left is Jerome Bentar, and the boxer on the right is James Hart. Al Hostak, the trainer of the Black Cats, stands at the extreme right corner of the ring.
Date: May 12, 1944
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Referee and Donald Coombes]

Copy photograph of Lt. Hyatt, the referee, holding up the hand of Donald Coombes after Coombes won a boxing match.
Date: May 12, 1944
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Coombes Against McGuire]

Copy photograph of Donald Coombes fighting in a boxing match against McGuire. Coombes won the match.
Date: May 12, 1944
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Soldiers at a Machine Gun]

Photograph of Private Frank kneeling and PFC. J. Wisely sitting in front of a machine gun.
Date: November 12, 1941
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Einsiedel Wedding Photo]

Photograph of Ray and Ginny Einsiedel on their wedding day. He wears his military uniform, and she wears flowers on her jacket.
Date: December 12, 1943
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Soldiers by Rear of Truck]

Photograph of soldiers by the rear of a truck on a snow range. Those standing are, from left to right, Cpl. Thomas, Staff Sgt. Underwood, Pvt. Spera, and Pvt. Blankenship. The soldiers kneeling in the front are Pvt. Adler and Pfc. Jarvis.
Date: November 12, 1941
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

Oral History Interview with Jean Balch, October 12, 1996

Access: Use of this item is restricted to the UNT Community
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

[Soldiers Test Firing an M4 Tank]

Photograph of three soldiers on an M4 tank. Two of the soldiers are standing behind the tank's turret and look to the left with binoculars, while the other man sits within a hatch on the tank's turret. The reverse side of the photo has a note that says they were testing sandbag and armor plate reinforcement on tanks.
Date: March 12, 1945
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Soldier by Half-Track]

Photograph of an unidentified soldier standing at the front of a half-track in Heidenheim, Germany.
Date: August 12, 1945
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from John Todd Willis, Jr. to his Parents, September 12, 1944] (open access)

[Letter from John Todd Willis, Jr. to his Parents, September 12, 1944]

Letter from John Todd Willis, Jr. to his parents Clara and John T. Willis, Sr. on September 12, 1944, detailing a day spent in town with Marvin White and Bob Smith, and asking for number 3 print paper so that he can get his pictures enlarged. He plans to send the small pictures he had printed home to his parents.
Date: September 12, 1944
Creator: Willis, John Todd, Jr.
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from John Todd Willis, Jr. to his Parents, November 12, 1944] (open access)

[Letter from John Todd Willis, Jr. to his Parents, November 12, 1944]

Letter from John Todd Willis, Jr. to his parents Clara and John T. Willis, Sr. on November 12, 1944, telling them about a visit he had from some soldiers who are also from Waco. They went to the friend's camp and talked. Willis mentions that it's been very cold, so much so that he sleeps with four blankets and is still cold.
Date: November 12, 1944
Creator: Willis, John Todd, Jr.
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History