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Oral History Interview with Charles H. Tucker, April 18, 2017 transcript

Oral History Interview with Charles H. Tucker, April 18, 2017

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Charles H. Tucker from Orange, California. He discusses volunteering for the U.S. Army Air Corps in 1943 and going to basic training in Miami Beach, Florida, then going to Aircraft Armament School in Buckley Field, Colorado, and finally air gunnery school in Fort Myers, Florida. In air gunnery school, Mr. Tucker learned to shoot in B-17 by shooting into the Gulf of Mexico. After gunnery school he was sent to the B-25 crew training at Columbia, South Carolina for 5 months. After Mr. Tucker completed his training, he was transferred to Dacca to a B-25 base and joined the 10th Air Force, the 12th Bomb Group. When he arrived his crew pilots were reassigned, and Mr. Tucker was not able to fly much until he was assigned to a regular crew again. Mr. Tucker was put in the 729th bomb squadron tasked with supporting the British 14th Army against the Japanese forces in Burma. The campaign he was involved in ended in May 1945 with the capture of Rangoon, the main city of Burma and Mr. tucker was in one of the squadron planes that flew over the …
Date: April 18, 2017
Creator: Tucker, Charles H.
Object Type: Sound
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Charles H. Tucker, April 18, 2017 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Charles H. Tucker, April 18, 2017

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Charles H. Tucker from Orange, California. He discusses volunteering for the U.S. Army Air Corps in 1943 and going to basic training in Miami Beach, Florida, then going to Aircraft Armament School in Buckley Field, Colorado, and finally air gunnery school in Fort Myers, Florida. In air gunnery school, Mr. Tucker learned to shoot in B-17 by shooting into the Gulf of Mexico. After gunnery school he was sent to the B-25 crew training at Columbia, South Carolina for 5 months. After Mr. Tucker completed his training, he was transferred to Dacca to a B-25 base and joined the 10th Air Force, the 12th Bomb Group. When he arrived his crew pilots were reassigned, and Mr. Tucker was not able to fly much until he was assigned to a regular crew again. Mr. Tucker was put in the 729th bomb squadron tasked with supporting the British 14th Army against the Japanese forces in Burma. The campaign he was involved in ended in May 1945 with the capture of Rangoon, the main city of Burma and Mr. tucker was in one of the squadron planes that flew over the …
Date: April 18, 2017
Creator: Tucker, Charles H.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Francis P. Gaines to Isaac H. Kempner, April 18, 1963] (open access)

[Letter from Francis P. Gaines to Isaac H. Kempner, April 18, 1963]

Letter from Francis P. Gaines to Isaac H. Kempner discussing travel plans.
Date: April 18, 1963
Creator: Gaines, Francis P.
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Caswell P. Ellis, Jr. to Henrietta Leonora Blum, September 18, 1957] (open access)

[Letter from Caswell P. Ellis, Jr. to Henrietta Leonora Blum, September 18, 1957]

Letter from Caswell P. Ellis, Jr. to Henrietta Leonora Blum discussing their visit to Galveston, and wishes them good health.
Date: September 18, 1957
Creator: Ellis, Caswell P., Jr.
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from I. H. Kempner to LeBourgeois Brokerage Company, Inc., December 18, 1956] (open access)

[Letter from I. H. Kempner to LeBourgeois Brokerage Company, Inc., December 18, 1956]

Letter from I. H. Kempner to LeBourgeois Brokerage Company thanking them for the calendar and wishing them a prosperous year ahead.
Date: December 18, 1956
Creator: Kempner, Isaac H. (Isaac Herbert), 1873-1967
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from I. H. Kempner to LeBourgeois Brokerage Company, December 18, 1954] (open access)

[Letter from I. H. Kempner to LeBourgeois Brokerage Company, December 18, 1954]

Letter from I. H. Kempner to the LeBourgeois Brokerage Company thanking them for the calendar gifted to him.
Date: December 18, 1954
Creator: Kempner, Isaac H. (Isaac Herbert), 1873-1967
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[News Script: Supreme court] (open access)

[News Script: Supreme court]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about the U. S supreme court which has instructed a lower federal court to rehear a case in which it rejected a federal power commission plan to set natural gas rates for the Texas Gulf coast producing area.
Date: June 18, 1974, 8:25 a.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Airport] (open access)

[News Script: Airport]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about the legal maneuvers between the cities of Dallas and Fort worth and southwest airlines which moves into New Orleans before the 5th U. S circuit court of appeals.
Date: March 18, 1974, 8:25 a.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Air suit] (open access)

[News Script: Air suit]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about Dallas and Fort Worth and southwest airlines which will meet in the U. S 5th circuit court of appeals at New Orleans.
Date: March 18, 1974, 6:30 a.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Plane] (open access)

[News Script: Plane]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about the issue over whether or not Dallas and Fort Worth can block Southwest airlines from staying at love field went before the 5th circuit court of appeals in New Orleans.
Date: March 18, 1974, 10:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Letter from Isaac Herbert Kempner to Maison Creole Inc., Jnauary 18, 1951] (open access)

[Letter from Isaac Herbert Kempner to Maison Creole Inc., Jnauary 18, 1951]

Letter from Isaac Herbert Kempner to Maison Creole Inc. requesting them to ship him two cans each of their crawfish bisque and thick turtle soup. He requests for the total price and price per case.
Date: January 18, 1951
Creator: Kempner, Isaac H. (Isaac Herbert), 1873-1967
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from David F. Glines to Alex Bradford - October 18, 1943] (open access)

[Letter from David F. Glines to Alex Bradford - October 18, 1943]

Letter from David F. Glines to Alex Bradford discussing three (3) key points. The first point describes the last A.P.O. that he has on Captain Glenn G. Griswold, however he is unsure exactly where he is now. In the second point, he asks that Mr. Bradford send him the A.P.O. of Lieutenant Ed. Noland and Geo Kennedy. In the final point, Mr. Glines asks Mr. Bradford to share his experiences and observation on the conditions in the fields.
Date: October 18, 1943
Creator: Glines, David F.
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Harris Leon Kempner to Mary Jean Kempner, February 18, 1960] (open access)

[Letter from Harris Leon Kempner to Mary Jean Kempner, February 18, 1960]

Letter from Harris Leon Kempner to Mary Jean Kempner discussing about the bid from Currie for shares in the market and informing about sharing latter's interest to sell shares to Currie and about no public sale of McFadden stocks.
Date: February 18, 1960
Creator: Kempner, Harris Leon
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History

Two UNIDENFIED Men Maintaining A Split Ditch With A Ditch Burner

Photograph of two UNIDENTIFED men using a ditch burner maintaining split ditch located alongside a farm road. The back of the photograph proclaims, "Ditch burner maintaining split ditch located alongside a farm road."
Date: February 18, 1948
Creator: Reid, Louis E.
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[Letter from I. H. Kempner to Caswell P. Ellis, Jr., June 18, 1945] (open access)

[Letter from I. H. Kempner to Caswell P. Ellis, Jr., June 18, 1945]

Letter from I. H. Kempner to Caswell P. Ellis, Jr. discussing Kempner not being able to attend a dinner hosted by the New York Cotton Exchange because of inconvenient travel and a prior engagement for Sam Hubbard. Kempner also shows his interest in Ellis's opinions regarding the cotton industry after previous remarks on the subject.
Date: June 18, 1945
Creator: Kempner, Isaac H. (Isaac Herbert), 1873-1967
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from I. H. Kempner to Charles L'Hoste, August 18, 1944] (open access)

[Letter from I. H. Kempner to Charles L'Hoste, August 18, 1944]

Letter from I. H. Kempner to Charles L'Hoste discussing shirts that were accidentally sent to L'Hoste and asking to be advised on the enclosed post card whether or when L'Hoste forwards the shirts to Mrs. A. Smith at the Beacon Laundry & Shirt Hospital.
Date: August 18, 1944
Creator: Kempner, Isaac H. (Isaac Herbert), 1873-1967
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History

Hurricane Laura Twitter Dataset

This dataset contains Twitter JSON data for Tweets related to Hurricane Laura that formed August 20, 2020 and dissipated August 29, 2020. This dataset was created using the twarc (https://github.com/edsu/twarc) package that makes use of Twitter's search API. A total of 1,168,178 Tweets make up the combined dataset.
Date: 2020-08-18/2020-09-02
Creator: Phillips, Mark Edward
Object Type: Dataset
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Watergate] (open access)

[News Script: Watergate]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story of president Nixon who is spending the weekend at Key Biscayne working on a major speech aimed at countering the effects of the Watergate Sandal.
Date: August 18, 1973, 10:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Nixon and Watergate] (open access)

[News Script: Nixon and Watergate]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story of president who is spending the weekend at Key Biscayne working on a speech which he will deliver in New Orleans on the Watergate affair.
Date: August 18, 1973, 6:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Telegram from Eli W. Tullis to Harris Kempner, February 18, 1966] (open access)

[Telegram from Eli W. Tullis to Harris Kempner, February 18, 1966]

Telegram sent by Eli W. Tullis to Harris Kempner notifying that his father passed away on his yacht off the Florida coast.
Date: February 18, 1966
Creator: Tullis, Eli W.
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Harris L. Kempner to Eli W. Tullis, December 18, 1965] (open access)

[Letter from Harris L. Kempner to Eli W. Tullis, December 18, 1965]

Letter from Harris L. Kempner to Eli W. Tullis discussing a check payment for a margin in sugar purchases.
Date: December 18, 1965
Creator: Kempner, Harris Leon
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Harris Leon Kempner to Garner H. Tullis, June 18, 1953] (open access)

[Letter from Harris Leon Kempner to Garner H. Tullis, June 18, 1953]

Letter from Harris Leon Kempner to Garner H. Tullis thanking him for 2 Windjammer II lighters which he sent for ruth and Kempner and mentions that they're glad to have them
Date: June 18, 1953
Creator: Kempner, Harris Leon
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Harris L. Kempner to Mr. Sherman Pardue, December 18, 1956] (open access)

[Letter from Harris L. Kempner to Mr. Sherman Pardue, December 18, 1956]

Letter from Harris L. Kempner to Sherman Pardue thanking him for packages from the Fruit-of-the-Month Club and wishing him a merry Christmas and happy new years.
Date: December 18, 1956
Creator: Kempner, Harris Leon
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Harris L. Kempner to Braniff Airways, October 18, 1946] (open access)

[Letter from Harris L. Kempner to Braniff Airways, October 18, 1946]

Letter from Harris L. Kempner to Braniff Airways discussing the reason for a refund of tickets and asking why the full amount for tickets was not refunded.
Date: October 18, 1946
Creator: Kempner, Harris Leon
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History