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Oral History Interview with William Most, December 17, 2019 (open access)

Oral History Interview with William Most, December 17, 2019

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with William Most. Most joined the Marine Corps in late 1944 and went to basic training at Parris Island. After further training in North Carolina, he shipped overseas to Guam where he joined replacements fro the 22nd Marine Regiment, 6th Marine Division. He joined them in time for their move from Okinawa to China after he war ended. While in CHina on occupation duty, Most was made a clerk typist. he remained in that postition until he was discharged in November 1946.
Date: December 17, 2019
Creator: Most, William
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Francis Kellems, October 17, 2019 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Francis Kellems, October 17, 2019

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Francis Kellems. Kellems joined the Navy in September 1943. After boot camp, he was assigned to USS Hubbard (DE-211). He served as a baker aboard the ship and recalls antisubmarine partols in the Atlantic.
Date: October 17, 2019
Creator: Kellems, Francis
System: The Portal to Texas History
[State Historian Visit, version 2] (open access)

[State Historian Visit, version 2]

Document containing information relating to historical preservation and the archiving of Texas Society, Sons of the American Revolution (TXSSAR) files.
Date: October 17, 2019
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library
[TXSSAR McKinney Chapter #63 meeting minutes: October 17, 2019] (open access)

[TXSSAR McKinney Chapter #63 meeting minutes: October 17, 2019]

Minutes for October 17, 2019 TXSSAR meeting, held by the McKinney chapter. Photographs have been included in the document.
Date: October 17, 2019
Creator: Texas Society Sons of the American Revolution, McKinney Chapter 63
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Clyde Covey, July 17, 2019 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Clyde Covey, July 17, 2019

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Clyde Covey. Covey joined the Navy in October of 1945. He served as a Fireman aboard the patrol craft escort, the PCE-870, in Hawaii, completing patrols around Pearl Harbor, and in between the equator and the Aleutians. They had about nine different posts, where they would send up weather balloons with transmitters, radioing weather information back to Pearl Harbor. Covey later completed motor machinist school, and was assigned to PCE-852 at the Underwater Sound Laboratories in New London, Connecticut, developing underwater communication. He received his discharge in December of 1948.
Date: July 17, 2019
Creator: Covey, Clyde
System: The Portal to Texas History
[TXSSAR McKinney Chapter #63 meeting minutes: January 17, 2019] (open access)

[TXSSAR McKinney Chapter #63 meeting minutes: January 17, 2019]

Minutes for the January 17, 2019 TXSSAR meeting, held by the McKinney chapter. Photographs have been included in the document.
Date: January 17, 2019
Creator: Texas Society Sons of the American Revolution, McKinney Chapter 63
System: The UNT Digital Library
DART, Coors Light to 'Freeze the Keys' New Year's Eve (open access)

DART, Coors Light to 'Freeze the Keys' New Year's Eve

News release about DART partnering with Coors Light to provide free rides on New Year's Eve, with the goal of reducing the number of intoxicated drivers.
Date: December 17, 2018
Creator: Lyons, Morgan & Ball, Mark
System: The Portal to Texas History
November 17, 2018 - Flag Retirement Ceremony (open access)

November 17, 2018 - Flag Retirement Ceremony

Document containing information about a flag retirement ceremony held on November 17, 2018.
Date: November 17, 2018
Creator: Texas Society Sons of the American Revolution, Dallas Chapter 2
System: The UNT Digital Library
Aquiline Books: Mock operating budget for fiscal year 2019 (open access)

Aquiline Books: Mock operating budget for fiscal year 2019

Handout presented for the 2018 Association of University Presses Annual Meeting. This text contains a mock operating budget for Aquiline Books, a University of North Texas Libraries publishing service.
Date: June 17, 2018
Creator: Hawkins, Kevin S.
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Membership certificate, Robert Christian Slaughter] (open access)

[Membership certificate, Robert Christian Slaughter]

A membership certificate for Robert Christian Slaughter certifying that he is a member of The Texas Society, Sons of the American Revolution, as a descendant of Samuel Pruitt. The NSSAR seal is attached and the certificate is signed by NSSAR's President General and Secretary General and the TXSSAR State President and State Secretary.
Date: April 17, 2018
Creator: Texas Society Sons of the American Revolution, Arlington Chapter 7
System: The UNT Digital Library
[TXSSAR McKinney Chapter #63 meeting minutes: March 17, 2018] (open access)

[TXSSAR McKinney Chapter #63 meeting minutes: March 17, 2018]

Minutes for the March 17, 2018 TXSSAR meeting, held by the McKinney chapter.
Date: March 17, 2018
Creator: Texas Society Sons of the American Revolution, McKinney Chapter 63
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Bronze Service Medal ceremony rules and context] (open access)

[Bronze Service Medal ceremony rules and context]

A document that provides information about the Bronze CAR-SAR Medals of Appreciation that explains its meaning and purpose in awarding it. There is also a mention of the dress-code for presenting the award.
Date: January 17, 2018
Creator: Texas Society Sons of the American Revolution, Arlington Chapter 7
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Clarence Bohanan, January 17, 2018 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Clarence Bohanan, January 17, 2018

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Clarence Bohanan. Bohanan joined the Army in December, 1943 and trained in San Antonio. Once he was assigned to the 724th Railway Operating Battalion, his unit was rushed to France after the invasion of Normandy. He shares several anecdotes about his time in France. He also recalls operating during the Battle of the Bulge and after the war during the occupation. Bohanan was discharged in April 1946 and stayed in Germany working for a decade.
Date: January 17, 2018
Creator: Bohanan, Clarence
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: KP-0177 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: KP-0177

Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, Ken Paxton, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Restrictions on the use of a school district's public funds to provide transportation to and from polling places and for political communications for or against a particular measure or candidate (RQ-020 I-KP).
Date: January 17, 2018
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with John Scott, November 17, 2017 (open access)

Oral History Interview with John Scott, November 17, 2017

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with John Scott. Scott joined the Marine Corps in October 1943 and trained at San Diego. In February 1944, he shipped to Hawaii and the 10th Marine Regiment, 2nd Marine Division at Camp Tarawa. He was on a 75mm pack howitzer at Saipan and recalls details about the invasion. Scott share several anecdotes from his experiences on Saipan. He was at Okinawa, but his unit remained in reserve without going ashore. He also recalls details about the occupation of Japan, where he remained until the end of the year. Scott returned to the US and was discharged in January 1946.
Date: November 17, 2017
Creator: Scott, John
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Sara Ella Kurth, October 17, 2017 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Sara Ella Kurth, October 17, 2017

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Sara-Ella Kurth. Kurth was born in October 1928 in Huntsville, Texas. She graduated high school in 1945. She describes hearing the news about the attack on Pearl Harbor, and how this affected her family. She had two first cousins aboard the USS New Orleans (CL/CA-32) who participated in the attack and describes their experiences. She describes how her family bought the savings stamps and bonds at school and participated in drives to raise money. Her family actively collected materials, rationed and had a Victory Garden to help with the efforts. She provides detail of the two German POW camps near Lufkin, Texas. Kurth served in the Central Intelligence Agency, and was shipped to an Air Force camp in Japan, from 1957 through 1960.
Date: October 17, 2017
Creator: Kurth, Sara Ella
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: KP-0169 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: KP-0169

Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, Ken Paxton, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Whether a municipal utility district may use its surplus funds to repair or replace clustertype mailbox facilities that serve residences in the district (RQ-0160-KP).
Date: October 17, 2017
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Jean Adams, September 17, 2017 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Jean Adams, September 17, 2017

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Jean Adams. Adams was born in Washington, DC. Her father served in the military as well as her two brothers. She attended an all-girls school in Washington and graduated from a women’s college in Philadelphia. In 1940 she joined her brother in the Philippines but was evacuated in 1941. She joined the second class of the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (WACs) in 1942. She was assigned to the Office of Inspector General and tells of several investigations in which she was involved. She resigned from WACs soon after getting married in 1943.
Date: September 17, 2017
Creator: Adams, Jean
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Liz Irvine and Yvonne Charles, September 17, 2017 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Liz Irvine and Yvonne Charles, September 17, 2017

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents a joint interview with Liz Irvine and Yvonne Charles. Both were teenagers when they were interned as civilians in Santo Tomas University by the Japanese in 1942. They discuss the various activities they participated in. They tell of some of the acts of kindness as well as brutality that occurred by their captors. They also tell of the violent demise of the Japanese camp commandant Abiko, following the surrender of the camp on 3 February 1945.
Date: September 17, 2017
Creator: Irvine, Liz & Charles, Evon
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Dale Mitchell, August 17, 2017 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Dale Mitchell, August 17, 2017

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Dale Mitchell. Mitchell joined the Army in 1944. He went to Fort Knox, Kentucky. He learned how to drive a tank and had weapons training. He served as an instructor and assisted with training new recruits in Germany. He came home from Europe and was discharged in December 1945. He got married and made his life’s work on the 1200-acre family farm.
Date: August 17, 2017
Creator: Mitchell, Dale
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Peter Schultheiss, July 17, 2017 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Peter Schultheiss, July 17, 2017

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Peter Schultheiss. Schultheiss grew up in Germany and was a student when the war started. He recasll details about being in a national youth orgaization: Deutsches Jungvolk (the 10-14 year-old branch of the Hitler Youth). Before he finished school, he was recruited to serve within an antiaircraft battery in Halle in 1944. He served on an 88mm gun. In January, 1945, Shultheiss began serving as a horse messenger to German infantry units at the front an was wounded during and artillery barrage. He then wandered just behind German front lines until the war ended. When the war ended, he found work on a farm briefly caring for horses before moving east i nan attempt to get home. When he had to cross over to the Soviet side, he was robbed of everything he had. Schultheiss made his way back home to Erfurt and reunited with his mother and father. They soon fled to the American Zone in Berlin to escape the Russian communists. He studied engineering and in 1955 moved to the US.
Date: July 17, 2017
Creator: Schultheiss, Peter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[SAR Youth Awards Brochure, 2017] (open access)

[SAR Youth Awards Brochure, 2017]

A document about upcoming contests available to local students and members of CAR in Arlington, Texas. There are six separate contests, four of which are open to any children and two that are reserved for members of JROTC/ROTC or the Eagle Scouts.
Date: July 17, 2017
Creator: Texas Society Sons of the American Revolution, Arlington Chapter 7
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Arthur Downard, May 17, 2017 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Arthur Downard, May 17, 2017

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Arthur Downard. Downard was drafted in November 1942. He was sent to Camp Dodge in Des Moines, Iowa for basic training and then on to Fresno, California. From there he was sent to Denver, Colorado for Air Corps administrative school, where he became an instructor of officers until November 1944. In January 1945 he received orders to go to the Pacific and serve as administrator to the lab technicians and photo interpreters of aerial photography. He served with the 4th Photographic Procurement Detachment. He had thirty enlisted men and six officers he worked with. His group was sent to Fort McKinley in Manila, Philippines to make an aerial map of the southeastern third of China. Their job was to develop the film and make the map. He describes life in Manila. He was there until April 1946 to complete the map, and was discharged in Denver.
Date: May 17, 2017
Creator: Downard, Arthur
System: The Portal to Texas History

Oral History Interview with Billie Mohair, April 7, 2017

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Audio log for a recording of an interview with Billie Mohair, librarian and community activist, for the Denton Women’s Interracial Fellowship Oral History Project. In the interview Mohair talks about her experiences concerning the activities of the Denton Women's Interracial Fellowship, her experiences of racism and segregation, the Civil Rights Movement, Quakertown, continued community involvement, and contemporary civil rights issues.
Date: April 17, 2017
Creator: Lacy, David & Mohair, Billie
System: The UNT Digital Library