Newsmap. For the Armed Forces. 267th week of the war, 149th week of U.S. participation

Front: Text describes action on various war fronts: Pacific, Western front, Eastern front, Italy, China, the Philippines Maps: Germany, the Philippines, Italy. Back: Large map of the United States and adjoining portions of Canada and Mexico. Includes inset map of naval districts beyond the continental United States, population of the states, sixteenth census, 1940.
Date: October 23, 1944
Creator: [United States.] Army Service Forces. Army Information Branch.
Object Type: Poster
System: The UNT Digital Library

Newsmap. For the Armed Forces. 293rd week of the war, 175th week of U.S. participation

Front: Maps: Okinawa Battle rages; Vienna taken; Europe; Germany; Italian offensive; Insets: Okinawa. Back: WAC: 3rd anniversary. Includes 8 photographs along with text descriptions and one cartoon by Sgt. Herblock.
Date: April 23, 1945
Creator: [United States.] Army Service Forces. Army Information Branch.
Object Type: Poster
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interview with H. Paul Hudgins, November 23, 2014

Access: Use of this item is restricted to the UNT Community
Transcript of an interview with Paul Hudgins, U.S. Army World War II Veteran, illustrator, and author. Hudgins discusses his childhood in Texas; family history; enlistment in U.S. Army as a medic; staged in France on V-E Day; stationed on hospital train running between Germany and France; post-war college; artistic career; writing career; Honor Flight trip. Appendix includes illustrations and short stories by Hudgins as well as photographs.
Date: November 23, 2014
Creator: Stallings, Chelsea & Hudgins, Paul
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Two Soldiers By Wall]

Photograph of John Messina and Aldo Rigo posing together against a wall. There is a staircase behind them, and ads above them.
Date: June 23, 1945
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Photograph of Dominick Caridi]

Photograph of PFC Dominick Caridi, a radio man for the 17th Armored Infantry Battalion, leaning against a wall. A set of stairs are visible behind him.
Date: June 23, 1945
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Photograph of Aldo Rigo]

Photograph of SSgt. Aldo Rigo leaning against a wall. There is a staircase visible in the background.
Date: June 23, 1945
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Photograph of Fulda Mansion]

Photograph of a mansion in Fulda, Germany, taken from behind the fence. Handwritten note on the back of the photo reads, "The Prince of Greater Hessen owns this mansion. It's a little way out of Fulda, Here, I have never see it myself yet -- Fulda - Ger. -- May 23, 1946."
Date: May 23, 1946
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Photograph of Train Wreck]

Photograph of train cars tipped over on a hill due to a train wreck in Fulda, Germany. Handwritten note on the back of the photo reads, "Railroad yards in Fulda here."
Date: May 23, 1946
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Photograph of German Castle]

Photograph of a castle in Fulda, Germany. A courtyard and garden can be seen in the foreground. Handwritten note on the back of the photo includes this note: "Prince Aldos."
Date: May 23, 1946
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Photograph of German Church Alter]

Photograph of pews and statues around the alter of a cathedral in Fulda, Germany. Handwritten note on the back of the photo reads, "Church alter here in Fulda -- May 23, 1946."
Date: May 23, 1946
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Photograph of Train Yards]

Photograph of the train tracks at the railroad yards in Fulda, Germany. A note on the front of the photo describes this photo as a "train wreck."
Date: May 23, 1946
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Photograph of Fulda Mess Hall]

Photograph of the mess hall in the military encampment at Fulda, Germany. Handwritten note on the back of the photo reads, "This is our mess hall here in this garage in Fulda. -- May 23, 1946 -- McGee, Gerorge, Kaouteck, Burnett."
Date: May 23, 1946
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Carlton J. Killgo, March 23, 1972 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Carlton J. Killgo, March 23, 1972

Interview with Carlton J. Killgo, a Army Air Corps WWII veteran and POW from Slocum, Texas, who was shot down and captured by German forces. Killgo discusses enlisting in the Air Corps before the war, training and becoming a B-17 crewmember, deployment to England, his missions, getting shot down, capture by German civilians, transfer to Stalag Luft #4, experiences in internment there, liberation by the Soviet Army, and return to the United States.
Date: March 23, 1972
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Killgo, Carlton J.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library