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[Letter from Sidney J. Jackson to I. H. Kempner, October 22, 1949] (open access)

[Letter from Sidney J. Jackson to I. H. Kempner, October 22, 1949]

Letter from Sidney J. Jackson to I. H. Kempner recounting the information that came back to them after reading a previous letter sent by Kempner. Jackson also discloses that he will be leaving for a trip soon, and extends his well wishes towards Kempner and his family.
Date: October 22, 1949
Creator: Jackson, Sidney J.
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Tom Blaylock, March 22, 1971 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Tom Blaylock, March 22, 1971

Interview with Tom Blaylock, an Army Air Corps WWII veteran and POW from Dallas, Texas. Blaylock was stationed in the Philippines during the Japanese invasion of December 1941, was captured, forced to partake in the Bataan Death March, and was interned at several major POW camps in the Philippines before transferring to a coal mine camp at Omine-machi, Yamaguchi, Japan.
Date: March 22, 1971
Creator: Marcello, Ronald & Blaylock, Thomas
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Photograph 2012.201.B1098.0408]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "FORMER GOVERNOR of Arkansas Winthrop Rockefeller, who died of canecer Thursday in Palm springs, Calif., is pictured here with his former wife during his 1970 campaign for a thied term."
Date: February 22, 1973
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Oral History Interview with Orland J. ""Bud"" Harris, August 22, 2000 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Orland J. ""Bud"" Harris, August 22, 2000

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Orland Harris. Harris went to Santa Anna, California for Aviation Cadet training in the Army Air Corps in 1942. He went to primary flying school in Visalia, California and then went to LaeMoore, California for more training. From there he went to replacement training units, flying the P-38, P-322 and P-39. Harris had take civilian pilot training for one year at college before he went into the service. He received his wings at Williams Field in Arizona 3 Nov 1943 and became an officer that day. He went to the South Pacific in a C-54, along wih about 30 other pilots, ending up in Nadzab, New Guinea with the 8th Fighter Group (part of the 5th Air Force). His P-38 missions included targets of opportunity around New Guinea, a cave on Corregidor and straffed ships on the way to Borneo, and the Philippines. Normally they flew cover missions for B-17s and B-24s but on occasion covered B-25s and A-20s. Harris was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross (DFC) when he was flying out of Mindoro in the Philippines on a night mission (26 Dec 1944) attacking a Japanese task …
Date: August 22, 2000
Creator: Harris, Orland J.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History