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Newsmap. Monday, August 31, 1942 : week of August 21 to August 28

Text describes action on various war fronts: New phase, Solomon Islands, Gilbert Islands, East Indies, China, Burma, Russia, Iraq and Iran, Mediterranean, Western Europe, Brazil. Large world map is keyed to text and illustrates time zones around the world. Inset maps show Battle for the Hangchow-Nanchang Railway; Southern Russia. Includes photographs: A Maori's best friend; Dive bomber tail brake; Vought-Sikorsky helicopter; Back from Dieppe; The run to Malta; Airborne command lands.
Date: August 31, 1942
Creator: [United States]. Army Orientation Course.
Object Type: Poster
System: The UNT Digital Library

Newsmap. Monday, January 31, 1944 : week of January 20 to January 27, 229th week of the war, 111th week of U.S. participation

Front: Text describes action on various war fronts: Italy, USSR, Pacific, Europe. Inset maps: [Central Italy] -- [USSR]. Photographs: Nazi multi-barrel rocket weapon, Mine and booby trap training, Twenty-fifth division men in a Southwest Pacific combat area, Winter flying conditions in Sicily, Propeller trip vapor trails, Revetments and flak guns, "Zebra" dazzle camouflaged PT boat, Two members of a German submarine boat, Jeri-cans. Back: Map of France. Scale: [ca 1:1,267,200] 1 map : col. ; 105 x 82 cm.
Date: January 31, 1944
Creator: [United States.] Army Service Forces. Morale Services Division. Army Information Branch.
Object Type: Poster
System: The UNT Digital Library

Newsmap. Monday, May 31, 1943 : week of May 20 to May 27, 194th week of the war, 76th week of U.S. participation

Front: Text describes action on various war fronts: Aleutians, Western Europe, Mediterranean, Russia, Southwest Pacific. Map: Shows military activity in western Europe during the week of May 10 to May 27, 1943. Inset maps: Aleutians, Present fighting area in Attu. Photographs: Images of a Grumman "Wildcat" fighter plane taken from the escort carrier, U.S.S. Altamaha. Illustration: Advance on Attu. Back: You can crack that tank! Text and illustrations show how an infantryman can defend against an enemy tank.
Date: May 31, 1943
Creator: [United States.] Army Orientation Course.
Object Type: Poster
System: The UNT Digital Library

Newsmap. For the Armed Forces. 255th week of the war, 137th week of U.S. participation

Front: Text describes action on various war fronts : Eastern front, France, Italy, Marianas, Southwest Pacific. Maps: northern Italy; Pacific Ocean; Guam, Rota, Tinian, Saipan. Photographs: flight deck of aircraft carrier, unloading of LST, German submarine pen, weapons left during Lt. Gen. Stilwell's retreat. Back: Map of Europe as viewed from the Soviet Union. Scale [ca. 1:7,000,000] 1 map : col. ; 77 x 116 cm.
Date: July 31, 1944
Creator: [United States.] Army Service Forces. Army Information Branch.
Object Type: Poster
System: The UNT Digital Library

Newsmap for the Armed Forces : 1945: Year of Victory

Front: Text describes photographs. Photographs: German PWs arriving in States on V-E-Day; January: Yanks on Luzon; February: "Big three" at Yalta; March: across the Rhine at Remagen; April: Franklin Delano Roosevelt dies; May: V-E-Day; June: United Nations; July: Potsdam Conference; August: atomic age begins; September: V-J-Day ends World War II; October: Goering and 23 other high Nazis indicted for war crimes; November: new chief of staff; December: Moscow meeting. Back: If you plan to return to school or college. Text describes how to apply for college credit for Army training. 2 photographs.
Date: December 31, 1945
Creator: [United States.] Army Information Branch.
Object Type: Poster
System: The UNT Digital Library
The band. (open access)

The band.

Provides guidance on the organization and duties of the military band.
Date: March 31, 1941
Creator: United States. War Department.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Umpire manual. (open access)

Umpire manual.

Describes procedures to be used by umpires in military exercises used in the training of ground forces.
Date: March 31, 1944
Creator: United States. War Department.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Small boats and harbor craft. (open access)

Small boats and harbor craft.

A manual for U.S. Army sailors assigned to the Harbor Boat Service. Describes company organization, duties of personnel, equipment used, and basic seamanship.
Date: January 31, 1944
Creator: United States. War Department.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with John Wilson, January 31, 2002 transcript

Oral History Interview with John Wilson, January 31, 2002

Interview with John Wilson, an officer in the U. S. Army during World War II. Wilson was born in Illinois but attended high school in the Philippines after his father accepted an engineering position there. He graduated from high school in 1939 and then enrolled in the University of Wisconsin, where he participated in the Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) program. He graduated and took his commission in the Army in 1943. After Officer Candidate School (OCS), he was assigned to an engineering unit slated to participate in the invasion of the Philippines. He eventually landed on Luzon. On Luzon he was assigned temporary duty with a small Philippine Civil Affairs unit that was made up of officers and men who had relatives interned by the Japanese in the Philippines. His small unit made their way to Santo Tomas where he liberated many friends and old school mates. A few weeks later, Wilson liberated his father, a civilian internee at Los Banos. Wilson remained with his unit constructing hospitals in the Philippines in anticipation of the casualties expected from the invasion of the Japanese home islands.
Date: January 31, 2002
Creator: Pratt, Rick & Wilson, John
Object Type: Sound
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Individual Clothing and Equipment Slip] (open access)

[Individual Clothing and Equipment Slip]

Slip issuing individual clothing and equipment to enlisted men. It reads: "Issued the articles listed below to Justin L. Bible, ASN 18216582 593rd JASCO APO 70. 1 ea. carbine, Ser. Nu. 2140735, 1 ea. knife, trench M3, w/scabbard, M8."
Date: August 31, 1945
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Tent on New Year's Eve]

Photograph of a tent in snow, taken on New Year's Eve 1944.
Date: December 31, 1944
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Soldiers In Overcoats]

Photograph of Jack Stephenson, Cassidy, and Weber wearing large overcoats at Camp Campbell.
Date: December 31, 1944
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Members of Snake Eyes Gun Crew]

Photograph of five members of the Snake Eyes gun crew standing in front of a tent in the snow on New Year's Eve 1944. They are identified as Leslie Cassady, Albert Campana, George Connelly, Nick Garcia, and Joe Birong.
Date: December 31, 1944
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Scrapbook Page: Rüsselsheim - August 31, 1945]

Photographs of Dan Melli and John and Joe Hurt in Rüsselsheim, Germany. The top four photographs show the men consorting with two very young girls identified as Hannala and Greshia. The picture on the top left has the two blonde children standing alone by a picket fence. The image to the top right has Melli kneeling between them and embracing them. The second image on the left has Joe Hurt embracing the girls. The second photo on the right shows both Hurt and Melli sitting with the girls on the hood of an army jeep. The next photo shows Melli and Hurt leaning against the jeep with two young German children leaning against a fence to the left. The final photo features John and Joe Hurt sitting on the jeep's hood.
Date: August 31, 1945
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from John Todd Willis, Jr. to Mrs. T. M. Willis, July 31, 1943] (open access)

[Letter from John Todd Willis, Jr. to Mrs. T. M. Willis, July 31, 1943]

Letter from John Todd Willis, Jr. to Mrs. Thomas Middlebrook Willis, on July 31, 1943. He assures her that his mother has been sending her letters to him, and asks after a friend who recently got married and a few relatives.
Date: July 31, 1943
Creator: Willis, John Todd, Jr.
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from John Todd Willis, Jr. to his Parents, December 31, 1943] (open access)

[Letter from John Todd Willis, Jr. to his Parents, December 31, 1943]

Letter from John Todd Willis, Jr. to his parents Clara and John T. Willis, Sr. on December 31, 1943. He says it rains a lot, but his outfit has moved in to a building recently. Although it is crowded, they keep dry. He's been getting mail much more often in Italy than in North Africa.
Date: December 31, 1943
Creator: Willis, John Todd, Jr.
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from John Todd Willis, Jr. to Clara Evans Willis, May 31, 1944] (open access)

[Letter from John Todd Willis, Jr. to Clara Evans Willis, May 31, 1944]

Letter from John Todd Willis, Jr. to Clara Evans Willis, on May 31, 1944. He entreats her to get well and be careful while recovering from her operation, and thanks her for some boxes of food she sent to him. He tells her his company has moved into tents, with six men to a tent, which he finds to be a relief from living in a room with thirty other men.
Date: May 31, 1944
Creator: Willis, John Todd, Jr.
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from John Todd Willis, Jr. to his Parents, August 31, 1944] (open access)

[Letter from John Todd Willis, Jr. to his Parents, August 31, 1944]

Letter from John Todd Willis, Jr. to his parents Clara and John T. Willis, Sr. on August 31, 1944, detailing a visit he's had from Robert [Evans] Jr. He details the things they talked about, and going to look at Robert's plane. He also mentions eating at the fields mess hall off of real American ware.
Date: August 31, 1944
Creator: Willis, John Todd, Jr.
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from John Todd Willis, Jr. to his Parents, July 31, 1943] (open access)

[Letter from John Todd Willis, Jr. to his Parents, July 31, 1943]

Letter from John Todd Willis, Jr. to his parents Clara and John T. Willis, Sr. on July 31, 1943. He discusses the food in town and that the army serves him, and mentions getting his teeth filled.
Date: July 31, 1943
Creator: Willis, John Todd, Jr.
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Photograph of 8th Annual 12th Armored Division Reunion]

Photograph of a group of men and women sitting around a dinner table at the 8th Annual 12th Armored Division Reunion banquet held at the Warwick Hotel in Philadelphia, PA on July 31, 1954.
Date: July 31, 1954
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Lt. Col. O. W. Hartwell to Captain Charles R. Griggs, March 31, 1945] (open access)

[Letter from Lt. Col. O. W. Hartwell to Captain Charles R. Griggs, March 31, 1945]

Letter from Lieutenant Colonel O. W. Hartwell to Captain Charles R. Griggs discussing different battalions and regiments; Hartwell has had his battalion for a while and had recently been pulled out of the line. Hartwell also says he has seen only "one of the old gang" in Chris Daley; there is also indecision on who will go to Rucker and "who would go on the list."
Date: March 31, 1945
Creator: Hartwell, Lt. Col. O. W.
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from T. P. Johnson to Prince and Plosser Air School, August 31, 1942] (open access)

[Letter from T. P. Johnson to Prince and Plosser Air School, August 31, 1942]

Letter from T. P. Johnson to Prince and Plosser Air School discussing the installation of electrical service to gasoline pumps being installed. It includes a material list that must be approved by Prince and Plosser.
Date: August 31, 1942
Creator: Johnson, T. P.
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Pay Stub for Eleanor M. McLernon #3] (open access)

[Pay Stub for Eleanor M. McLernon #3]

Women Airforce Service Pilots pay stub for Eleanor McLernon from the Department of Training.
Date: December 31, 1944
Creator: War Department (U.S.)
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Aircraft Delivery Orders #8] (open access)

[Aircraft Delivery Orders #8]

Orders for several Air Force pilots and WASP to ferry various aircraft from Wichita, Kansas to Fort Dix, New Jersey.
Date: January 31, 1944
Creator: 555th Army Air Forces Base Unit - 5th Ferrying Group
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History