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[Special Orders Number 81, Extract 21] (open access)

[Special Orders Number 81, Extract 21]

Special orders reassigning several Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASPs) from Romulus Air Force Base to AAF Tactical Center in Orlando, Florida.
Date: June 29, 1944
Creator: 553d AAF Base Unit
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Aircraft Delivery Memorandum #2] (open access)

[Aircraft Delivery Memorandum #2]

Orders for WASP Gayle D. Ewing to ferry an AT-6 aircraft from Dallas, Texas to Spence Field Air Force base in Moultrie, Georgia.
Date: May 29, 1944
Creator: 555th Army Air Forces Base Unit - 5th Ferrying Group
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Invoice for Bill Rendered by A-B-C Racket Store, February 1948] (open access)

[Invoice for Bill Rendered by A-B-C Racket Store, February 1948]

Invoice for bill rendered to Mrs. D. W. Kempner by A-B-C Racket Store, including amount of $8.1. Written paid on March 10th, 1948.
Date: February 29, 1948
Creator: A-B-C Racket Store
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Invoice for Bale Peat Moss Compost, January 29, 1953] (open access)

[Invoice for Bale Peat Moss Compost, January 29, 1953]

Invoice for items sold to D. W. Kempner by A. Levy Wholesale and Retail Dealer, including 10 bale peat moss compost of total worth $30.50.
Date: January 29, 1953
Creator: A. Levy Wholesale and Retail Dealer
System: The Portal to Texas History
[A. Stanley & No Company Order: March 29, 1962] (open access)

[A. Stanley & No Company Order: March 29, 1962]

Order form for A. Stanley & No Company listing purchases and total charges for the materials. The order consists of items from A. Stanley & No Company.
Date: March 29, 1962
Creator: A. Stanley & No Company
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Meeting minutes and draft corporate mission] (open access)

[Meeting minutes and draft corporate mission]

Meeting minutes for an AIDS ARMS Network, Inc. ad hoc committee and a draft of a corporate mission statement.
Date: March 29, 1989
Creator: AIDS ARMS Network, Inc.
System: The UNT Digital Library
"The Women's Caucus and the Political Structure" 1972-01-29 (open access)

"The Women's Caucus and the Political Structure" 1972-01-29

"The Women's Caucus and the Political Structure" 1972-01-29.
Date: January 29, 1972
Creator: Alexander, Karen B.
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Invoice for Foreign Car Insurance to D. W. Kempner] (open access)

[Invoice for Foreign Car Insurance to D. W. Kempner]

Invoice for charges to Daniel W. Kempner by American Automobile Association, Inc., for international car insurance.
Date: May 29, 1956
Creator: American Automobile Association, Inc.
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Invoice for Iris Wedgewood] (open access)

[Invoice for Iris Wedgewood]

Invoice for items sold to Mr. D. W. Kempner by American Bulb Company, including 100 Iris Wedgewood.
Date: August 29, 1950
Creator: American Bulb Company
System: The Portal to Texas History
[American National Insurance Compan Dividend Stub, June 28, 1959] (open access)

[American National Insurance Compan Dividend Stub, June 28, 1959]

Dividend stub from American National Insurance Company Statement of Account listing the amount of dividend, date, and voucher number.
Date: June 29, 1959
Creator: American National Insurance Company
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Statement of Account from the American National Insurance Company to Cecile Kempner, June 29, 1960] (open access)

[Statement of Account from the American National Insurance Company to Cecile Kempner, June 29, 1960]

Statement of Account from the American National Insurance Company to Cecile Kempner, for a dividend payment of $26.40.
Date: June 29, 1960
Creator: American National Insurance Company
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Meeting Minutes: American Women's Voluntary Services, Inc., Board of Directors, February 29, 1944] (open access)

[Meeting Minutes: American Women's Voluntary Services, Inc., Board of Directors, February 29, 1944]

Minutes of the American Women's Voluntary Services, Inc. Board of Directors special meeting "called to act upon proposed amendments to the By-Laws" held on Tuesday, February 29, 1944.
Date: February 29, 1944
Creator: American Women's Voluntary Services
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Ernest Andrus, March 29, 2019 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Ernest Andrus, March 29, 2019

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Ernest Andrus. Andrus joined the Navy in June of 1942. Beginning in November, he served as a medical corpsman in the sick bay aboard USS Rochambeau (AP-63), transporting troops throughout the Pacific islands. Around January of 1944, he transferred to the sick bay aboard USS LST-124 in New Caledonia. Andrus shares his experiences through the Battle of Tinian in July. They traveled to Guadalcanal for ferry duty, and provided transportation for supplies and men throughout the islands. Andrus left USS LST-124 in mid-1945 and went ashore in New Caledonia. He transferred back to the US around August, and recalls the celebration in the streets of downtown Los Angeles when the war ended. He received his discharge in December.
Date: March 29, 2019
Creator: Andrus, Ernest
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Invoice for Balance Due to Appliance Service Company, October 1952] (open access)

[Invoice for Balance Due to Appliance Service Company, October 1952]

Invoice for balance due to Appliance Service Company by D. W. Kempner, including charges worth $15.25 paid by check.
Date: October 29, 1952
Creator: Appliance Service Company
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Irma Ashenbrenner, June 29, 2015 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Irma Ashenbrenner, June 29, 2015

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Irma L. Ashenbrenner. Ashenbrenner was born 26 September 1923 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She joined the WAVES in 1943. She attended boot camp at the U.S. Naval Training Center (WR) at Hunter College in the Bronx, New York. While at boot camp she attended radio classes. Following that she was sent for six months for more advanced instruction at the Navy Radio Training School at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. There she learned to copy Morse code. Now a Radioman 3rd Class, she was assigned to the Navy's wireless radio receiving station at Chatham, Massachusetts. There she copied intercepted coded messages from German submarines in the Atlantic. These were then transmitted to Washington, DC to be analyzed. When the war ended, Ashenbrenner was sent first to Seattle and then to San Diego to handle the paperwork involved in discharging Navy personnel. On Christmas Eve 1945 she boarded a train from San Diego to New York. She was discharged from the Navy 27 December 1945.
Date: June 29, 2015
Creator: Ashenbrenner, Irma
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Roger Ashenbrenner, October 29, 2014 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Roger Ashenbrenner, October 29, 2014

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Roger A. Ashenbrenner. Ashenbrenner was born 7 June 1922 in Washington D.C. He enlisted in the Navy 15 August 1942. He went to boot camp in Newport, Rhode Island. After brief periods as an armed guard at the Naval War College, amphibious training at Little Creek, Virginia, and a trip to Brooklyn, New York to man a new destroyer, he was finally sent to the merchant ship Mormac Swan as a member of the Navy Armed Guard. Their duty was to man the 3" gun mounted on the bow of the ship. After one trip across the Atlantic, Ashenbrenner was assigned to the Henry A. Wiley (DM-29). In November 1944, the Wiley escorted the battleships Missouri (BB-63), Texas (BB-35), and Arkansas (BB-33), and two escort carriers from the Atlantic to the Pacific. Arriving at Pearl Harbor, she then escorted the New York (BB-34) to join the covering force for the invasion of Iwo Jima. While there, Ashenbrenner witnessed both the original flag raising on Mt. Suribachi and the second raising immortalized by Joe Rosenthal. Once Iwo Jima was secured, the Wiley went to Okinawa to sweep mines. Subsequently …
Date: October 29, 2014
Creator: Ashenbrenner, Roger A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Lewis Asher, September 29, 2009 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Lewis Asher, September 29, 2009

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Lewis Asher. Asher was born 24 December 1919, in Maywood, Illinois. He graduated from high school in 1937 and was drafted into the Army on 10 December 1941. After basic, he was assigned to the 125th Infantry Regiment, 32nd Infantry Division as company clerk in the Headquarters company. The regiment was stationed in California and responsible for the defense of the coastline. Asher took the tests for warrant officer and was promoted and assigned to the 67th Signal Repair Company. The company was responsible for repairing all the wire and radio equipment carried by the infantry into battle. In March 1945 his company was transferred to Aix, France where after several weeks they received word of the German surrender. He recalls that the company was then embarked on a ship which transited the Panama Canal en route to Japan as part of the first wave of the planned invasion in November, when word was received in August 1945 that the Japanese had surrendered. He says that his company landed in Japan on September 7, 1945 and travelled to Kobe where they were quartered under the stadium built for …
Date: September 29, 2009
Creator: Asher, Lewis
System: The Portal to Texas History
[DPS Fingerprint Record of Jack Ruby] (open access)

[DPS Fingerprint Record of Jack Ruby]

Fingerprint record from the Department of Public Safety in Austin, Texas for Jack Leon Ruby.
Date: November 29, 1963
Creator: Austin (Tex.). Department of Public Safety.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Arlos L. Awalt, May 29, 2007 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Arlos L. Awalt, May 29, 2007

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Arlos L. Awalt. He was born in Brady, Texas, drafted into the Army, and inducted at Ft. Sam Houston, in San Antonio. After basic training at Camp Wolters in Mineral Wells, Texas, he took a troop train to New York Harbor and boarded the Louis S. Pasteur to Southhampton, England where he was assigned to the 106th Infantry Division, 424 Regiment, in the 81mm mortars in H Company, a heavy weapons company. They went right into the Battle of the Bulge where he suffered frost bite and pneumonia. Later assignments included the following: the occupation army in charge of prisoner of war camps interviewing POWs and displaced persons, serving at General Eisenhower's headquarters building in a little red schoolhouse in Rheims, France (where peace was later signed), in the Grand Hotel in Bad Nauheim, Germany where General Patton was officed, and in Renea Lanay, France. He served 22 months in the Army, 19 overseas - returning as a corporal. He received the Bronze Star, the Combat Infantryman's Badge, and two medals from the Belgian government.
Date: May 29, 2007
Creator: Awalt, Arlos L. (Curly)
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Receipt for 16 dollars, 25 cents paid to Joseff Bader, April 29, 1844] (open access)

[Receipt for 16 dollars, 25 cents paid to Joseff Bader, April 29, 1844]

Receipt for 16 dollars, 25 cents paid to Joseff Bader for carriage fees and supplies, to be repaid as soon as funds arrive from France. Signed Joseff Bader on April 29, 1844 in San Antonio. "Received from Mister Louis Huth, on behalf of Mr. H[enr]i Castro in Paris."
Date: April 29, 1844
Creator: Bader, Joseff
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Receipt for 45 francs, 75 cents paid to Joseff Bader, April 29, 1844] (open access)

[Receipt for 45 francs, 75 cents paid to Joseff Bader, April 29, 1844]

Receipt for 45 francs, 75 cents paid to Joseff Bader as the balance of his surety. Signed Joseff Bader on April 29, 1844 in San Antonio. "Received from Mister Louis Huth, on behalf of Mr. H[enr]i Castro in Paris."
Date: April 29, 1844
Creator: Bader, Joseff
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Memo: Dallas Fire Department Recruit Class 87-222] (open access)

[Memo: Dallas Fire Department Recruit Class 87-222]

Memorandum listing the roster of recruits for the Dallas Fire Department in training from May 6, 1987 to October 1, 1987.
Date: April 29, 1987
Creator: Bailey, W. N.
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Memo: Dallas Fire Department Recruit Class 211] (open access)

[Memo: Dallas Fire Department Recruit Class 211]

Memorandum listing the roster of recruits for the Dallas Fire Department in training from February 11, 1985 to July 9, 1985.
Date: January 29, 1985
Creator: Bailey, W. N.
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Invoice for Food from Balinese Room, Check 191344] (open access)

[Invoice for Food from Balinese Room, Check 191344]

Invoice for food from Balinese Room, including fillets, moo goo, chicken chow mein, shrimps, won ton, egg rolls, ribs, cake, and coffee for $156.42.
Date: June 29, 1966
Creator: Balinese Room
System: The Portal to Texas History