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Oral History Interview with Gordon Patrick Hannan, April 22, 2002 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Gordon Patrick Hannan, April 22, 2002

Interview with Gordon Patrick Hannan, a paratrooper veteran of World War II, serving in Africa, Italy, and the Netherlands. Hannan answers questions regarding his service, such as the jumps he made over Italy and Holland. Also covered is his participation in liberating one of the German concentration camps.
Date: May 14, 2003
Creator: Meschede, Robert & Hannan, Gordon Patrick
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History

Oral History Interview with Robert Weinberg, June 14, 2000

Access: Use of this item is restricted to the UNT Community
Interview with Robert Weinberg, Army Air Forces veteran (776th Bomb Squadron, 464th Bomb Group, 15th Air Force), concerning his experiences as a B-24 navigator; also his experiences as a prisoner-of-war of the Germans in the European Theater during World War II. Enlistment in the Aviation Cadet Program, 1942; Cadet Classification Center, San Antonio, Texas, 1943; basic training, Lackland Field, San Antonio, 1943; pre-flight training, Ellington Field, Houston, Texas, 1943; navigation school, Hondo Army Air Field, Hondo, Texas, 1943; crew assignment and bomber transition training, Pocatello, Idaho, 1943; assignment to the 464th Bomb Group at Gioia del Colle, Italy, 1944; transfer to Patanella, Italy, June 1, 1944; mission to Wiener Neustadt, Austria, May 10, 1944; comments about the Tuskegee Airmen (99th Fighter Squadron, 332nd Fighter Group); mission to the Pardubice, Czechoslovakia, synthetic oil facility and the downing of his plane, August 24, 1944; his capture by the Hitler Youth; initial incarceration in Czechoslovakia; harassment by German civilians; interrogations at Oberursel, Germany; Stalag Luft III, Labor Day, 1944; prison camp routine; forced march and train trip to Stalag Luft VII-A, Moosburg, Germany, January 27-February 12, 1945; living conditions at Stalag Luft VII-A; excerpts from his prison camp diary; liberation, April 25, 1945.
Date: June 14, 2000
Creator: Alexander, William J. & Weinberg, Robert
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Hijack & Auto Talks] (open access)

[News Script: Hijack & Auto Talks]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story of an Ethiopian airliner which signaled Italian Control Towers that it had been taken over by a hijacker. More than 127-thousand members of the United Auto Workers who are ready to go on strike if their negotiators fail to reach a new contract agreement with Chrysler.
Date: September 14, 1973, 6:30 a.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Hijack Scare] (open access)

[News Script: Hijack Scare]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story of west German air safety officials who say that the pilot of an Ethiopian jetliner, flyer Emperor Haile Selassie home to Ethiopia, accidentally pushed the wrong button and set off a false hijacking scare over Italy.
Date: September 14, 1973, 12:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Letter from D. W. Kempner to Mario Santochia, March 14, 1952] (open access)

[Letter from D. W. Kempner to Mario Santochia, March 14, 1952]

Letter from D. W. Kempner to Mario Santochia discussing about the letter received and asking to share the charges for the car, for being chauffeur during the trip.
Date: March 14, 1952
Creator: Kempner, Daniel W. (Daniel Webster), 1877-1956
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History