Oral History Interview with Cecil Hollingshead, October 22, 1983 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Cecil Hollingshead, October 22, 1983

Interview with Cecil Hollingshead, U.S. Navy WWII Veteran, about his experiences at Kaneohe Naval Air Station with VP-11 during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Date: October 22, 1983
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Hollingshead, Cecil, 1920-
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Martin J. Rodgers, June 22, 1988 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Martin J. Rodgers, June 22, 1988

Interview with Martin J. Rodgers, a Army WWII veteran from Butler, New Jersey, who was at the Attack on Pearl Harbor. Rodgers discusses joining the Army and training, assignment to coastal artillery at Fort Shafter, operations there, work in communications, alerts, life in the peacetime Army, the morning of December 7th and reaction to the attack, handling communications at battalion HQ, the aftermath and following days, and his subsequent service in the Pacific War. In appendix is a letter by Rodgers to his mother of December 31, 1941, and a journal of his experiences typed during the war.
Date: June 22, 1988
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Rodgers, Martin J.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Letter from Elva Moorhouse to Bill Warner, May 22, 1989] (open access)

[Letter from Elva Moorhouse to Bill Warner, May 22, 1989]

Letter from Elva Moorhouse to Bill Warner discussing recent and future WASP reunions and homecomings.
Date: May 22, 1989
Creator: Moorhouse, Elva
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History

Dallas - Ft Worth Sectional Aeronautical Chart, 25th Edition

Aeronautical map of the Oklahoma and Texas regions surrounding the Dallas/Fort Worth area that shows cities, topographical features, flight training areas, and various aeronautical symbols for flight navigation. Scale 1:500,000.
Date: January 22, 1981
Creator: United States. Department of Commerce.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

[A Group of Veterans and Wives at Besançon, France]

Photograph of a group of veterans with their wives seated in wooden chairs around a table in an unidentified room. Behind them, a pair of double doors (right) has restroom signs above it and a n advertisement for "Tropico" is on the wall (left); empty tables are partially visible in front of the group. Handwritten text on the back of the photo says: "Besançon 4-22-85. Waiting for TGV to Paris."
Date: April 22, 1985
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History