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Oral History Interview with Adolph Krchnak, May 23, 2015 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Adolph Krchnak, May 23, 2015

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Adolph Krchnak. Krchnak joined the Army in December of 1944. He completed parachute school. In late 1944, early 1945 he was stationed in the Philippines with the 11th Airborne Division. They served in a traditional infantry role in the Philippines. His division participated in the Liberation of Manila in the spring of 1945. In August of 1945 they traveled into southern Japan as part of the occupation force. He was honorably discharged in 1946.
Date: May 23, 2015
Creator: Krchnak, Adolph
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Adolph Krchnak, May 23, 2015 transcript

Oral History Interview with Adolph Krchnak, May 23, 2015

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Adolph Krchnak. Krchnak joined the Army in December of 1944. He completed parachute school. In late 1944, early 1945 he was stationed in the Philippines with the 11th Airborne Division. They served in a traditional infantry role in the Philippines. His division participated in the Liberation of Manila in the spring of 1945. In August of 1945 they traveled into southern Japan as part of the occupation force. He was honorably discharged in 1946.
Date: May 23, 2015
Creator: Krchnak, Adolph
Object Type: Sound
System: The Portal to Texas History
California's Paid Family Leave Law: Lessons from the First Decade (open access)

California's Paid Family Leave Law: Lessons from the First Decade

This is a report covering California's paid family leave law during its first ten years.
Date: June 23, 2014
Creator: Bartel, Ann, Ph.D.; Baum, Charles, Ph.D.; Rossin-Slater, Maya, Ph.D.; Ruhm, Christopher, Ph.D. & Waldfogel, Jane, Ph.D.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
California's Paid Family Leave Law-Lessons from the First Decade (open access)

California's Paid Family Leave Law-Lessons from the First Decade

This report looks at the first ten years of California's paid family leave law.
Date: June 23, 2014
Creator: Bartel, Ann, Ph.D.; Baum, Charles, Ph.D.; Rossin-Slater, Maya, Ph.D.; Ruhm, Christopher, Ph.D. & Waldfogel, Jane, Ph.D.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Coalition Correspondence - Letter from BRAC 2005 - Ventura County Task Force to the Secretary regarding the integrity of the BRAC process as conducted by the Technical Joint Cross Service Group (open access)

Coalition Correspondence - Letter from BRAC 2005 - Ventura County Task Force to the Secretary regarding the integrity of the BRAC process as conducted by the Technical Joint Cross Service Group

Coalition Correspondence - Letter from BRAC 2005 - Ventura County Task Force to the Secretary regarding the integrity of the BRAC process as conducted by the Technical Joint Cross Service Group - specifically Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake and Naval Base Ventura City
Date: August 23, 2005
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Letter
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Email from Betty Jane Williams, August 23, 2005] (open access)

[Email from Betty Jane Williams, August 23, 2005]

Email from Betty Jane Williams to WASP members discussing the Women Military Aviators (WMA) conference. She mentions the connection between the WMA and the WASP and encourages the recipients to show their support of the WMA by attending the event in San Diego.
Date: August 23, 2005
Creator: Williams, Betty Jane
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Community Input – Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake (open access)

Community Input – Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake

Community Input – Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake Community Comments and Recommendations to BRAC Commission.
Date: July 23, 2005
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
State Input (CA) on NAWS China Lake for Regional Hearing (open access)

State Input (CA) on NAWS China Lake for Regional Hearing

State Input (CA) on NAWS China Lake for Regional Hearing - Comments and Recommendations from the Community
Date: July 23, 2005
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Legal Document
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Letter from Mike Woiwode to Anthony J. Principi - June 23, 2005] (open access)

[Letter from Mike Woiwode to Anthony J. Principi - June 23, 2005]

Letter from Mike Woiwode to Anthony Principi regarding the Marine Corps Recruit Depot in San Diego, California. Woiwode argues that the MCRD is vital and should remain at its present location.
Date: June 23, 2005
Creator: Woiwode, Michael (Mike)
Object Type: Letter
System: The UNT Digital Library
Summary of Cummulative Environmental Impacts - Anti-Submarine Warfare Center Point Loma (open access)

Summary of Cummulative Environmental Impacts - Anti-Submarine Warfare Center Point Loma

Disregard restriction header and footer - Summary of Environmental Impacts and Costs for Anti-Submarine Warfare Center Point Loma
Date: June 23, 2005
Creator: United States. Department of Defense.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Summary of Cummulative Environmental Impacts - Fleet Combat Training Center Pacific (open access)

Summary of Cummulative Environmental Impacts - Fleet Combat Training Center Pacific

Disregard restriction header and footer - Summary of Environmental Impacts and Costs for Fleet Combat Training Center Pacific
Date: June 23, 2005
Creator: United States. Department of Defense.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Summary of Cummulative Environmental Impacts - Marine Corps Air Station Miramar (open access)

Summary of Cummulative Environmental Impacts - Marine Corps Air Station Miramar

Disregard restriction header and footer - Summary of Environmental Impacts and Costs for MCAS Miramar
Date: June 23, 2005
Creator: United States. Department of Defense.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Summary of Cummulative Environmental Impacts -Naval Air Station Lemoore (open access)

Summary of Cummulative Environmental Impacts -Naval Air Station Lemoore

Disregard restriction header and footer - Summary of Environmental Impacts and Costs for Naval Air Station Lemoore
Date: June 23, 2005
Creator: United States. Department of Defense.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Summary of Cummulative Environmental Impacts - Naval Air Warfare Weapons Station China Lake (open access)

Summary of Cummulative Environmental Impacts - Naval Air Warfare Weapons Station China Lake

Disregard restriction header and footer - Summary of Environmental Impacts and Costs for Naval Air Warfare Weapons Station China Lake
Date: June 23, 2005
Creator: United States. Department of Defense.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Summary of Cummulative Environmental Impacts -Naval Station San Diego Broadway Complex (open access)

Summary of Cummulative Environmental Impacts -Naval Station San Diego Broadway Complex

Disregard restriction header and footer - Summary of Environmental Impacts and Costs for Naval Station San Diego Broadway Complex
Date: June 23, 2005
Creator: United States. Department of Defense.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Summary of Cummulative Environmental Impacts - Navy Station San Diego (open access)

Summary of Cummulative Environmental Impacts - Navy Station San Diego

Disregard restriction header and footer - Summary of Environmental Impacts and Costs for Naval Station San Diego
Date: June 23, 2005
Creator: United States. Department of Defense.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Summary of Cummulative Environmental Impacts -Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center Point Loma, CA (open access)

Summary of Cummulative Environmental Impacts -Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center Point Loma, CA

Disregard restriction header and footer - Summary of Environmental Impacts and Costs for Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center Point Loma, CA
Date: June 23, 2005
Creator: United States. Department of Defense.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Albert Day, February 23, 2004 transcript

Oral History Interview with Albert Day, February 23, 2004

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Albert Day. Day was born in Olney, Texas 23 September 1921 and graduated from high school in Vivian, Louisiana in 1942. Upon joining the Navy 4 June 1942, he was sent to The Great Lakes Naval Training Station for boot training. Afterwards, Day was assigned to the Amphibious Forces at Solomons, Maryland for training where he learned navigation and signal communications. Completing the course in October 1942 he went to Redwood City, California for further training. Assigned to LCT(5)-62, he describes the size, propulsion, crew compliment and purpose of the craft. Day tells of breaking the LCT into sections that were put aboard an AKA and sailing to New Caledonia arriving in December 1942. On a trip to Guadalcanal he witnessed a Japanese plane dropping a bomb on the USS De Haven (DD-469). He recalls a night trip to New Georgia when he saw St. Elmo’s fire on the railing of his ship. At Tulagi on 7 April 1943, Day personally shot down an attacking Japanese plane. He participated in the invasion of Iwo Jima and tells of being on the USS Estes (ACG-12) and describes an intense …
Date: February 23, 2004
Creator: Day, Albert
Object Type: Sound
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Albert Day, February 23, 2004 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Albert Day, February 23, 2004

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Albert Day. Day was born in Olney, Texas 23 September 1921 and graduated from high school in Vivian, Louisiana in 1942. Upon joining the Navy 4 June 1942, he was sent to The Great Lakes Naval Training Station for boot training. Afterwards, Day was assigned to the Amphibious Forces at Solomons, Maryland for training where he learned navigation and signal communications. Completing the course in October 1942 he went to Redwood City, California for further training. Assigned to LCT(5)-62, he describes the size, propulsion, crew compliment and purpose of the craft. Day tells of breaking the LCT into sections that were put aboard an AKA and sailing to New Caledonia arriving in December 1942. On a trip to Guadalcanal he witnessed a Japanese plane dropping a bomb on the USS De Haven (DD-469). He recalls a night trip to New Georgia when he saw St. Elmo’s fire on the railing of his ship. At Tulagi on 7 April 1943, Day personally shot down an attacking Japanese plane. He participated in the invasion of Iwo Jima and tells of being on the USS Estes (ACG-12) and describes an intense …
Date: February 23, 2004
Creator: Day, Albert
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Arthur Oviedo, April 16, 2001 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Arthur Oviedo, April 16, 2001

Interview with Arthur Oviedo, a seaman in the US Marine Corps during the Korean War. He describes his time in the military and his experiences overseas
Date: October 23, 2003
Creator: Flores, Jessica & Oviedo, Arthur
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with W. R. Barker, April 25, 2001 (open access)

Oral History Interview with W. R. Barker, April 25, 2001

Interview with W. R. Barker, a veteran who served as a combat engineer with the U.S. Army in the South Pacific during World War II. The transcript includes a conversation with Barker as he talks freely about his time in basic training at Camp Cook, when Bob Hope visited jungle training in Hawaii, and interactions between U.S. soldiers and the native islanders. He also discusses the Marines mission on Pelilu Island and meeting his brother in the Philippines.
Date: February 23, 2003
Creator: Amador, Yacel & Barker, W. R.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
[News Clip: Hewlett Packard Layoffs] captions transcript

[News Clip: Hewlett Packard Layoffs]

B-roll video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.
Date: July 23, 2001, 4:00 p.m.
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Letter from Betty Jane Williams to Maxine Flournoy, February 23, 2001] (open access)

[Letter from Betty Jane Williams to Maxine Flournoy, February 23, 2001]

Letter from Betty Jane Williams to WASP President Maxine Flournoy discussing the decision to pay Mildred Carter's expenses to attend the WASP's next national conference. During WWII, Carter had applied to join the WASP but was denied because the government excluded African-American women from serving in the program. Williams disagrees with the action taken at the October business meeting and urges the WASP to rescind their offer to pay Carter's expenses.
Date: February 23, 2001
Creator: Williams, Betty Jane
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[News Clip: Simpson] captions transcript

[News Clip: Simpson]

Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story. This story aired at 10 P.M.
Date: January 23, 1997
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library