The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Abelino Alviar. Alviar joined the Army in May of 1944. In early 1945, he joined the 778th Anti-aircraft Artillery Automatic Weapons Battalion. They deployed to Le Havre, France, and traveled to Munich, Germany, arriving after the Battle of the Ardennes. Alviar provided guard duty, and served as a gunner on the half-track supporting the 1st Infantry Division as they fought into Germany. He also worked as a translator and helped transport supplies to the front line. He returned home and was discharged in May of 1946.

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Abelino Alviar. Alviar joined the Army in May of 1944. In early 1945, he joined the 778th Anti-aircraft Artillery Automatic Weapons Battalion. They deployed to Le Havre, France, and traveled to Munich, Germany, arriving after the Battle of the Ardennes. Alviar provided guard duty, and served as a gunner on the half-track supporting the 1st Infantry Division as they fought into Germany. He also worked as a translator and helped transport supplies to the front line. He returned home and was discharged in May of 1946.

Interview with George Hargens, a former Caltex executive from San Francisco, California, to discuss his experiences working for Standard Oil during the Great Depression, his transfer to Caltex and establishment of the German market, work as a director of several oil companies, and leaving Caltex.

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about Arnold Palmer who has definitely moved into the spotlight by tying for the lead with only a few golfers still left in the 2nd round of the U. S open at New York.

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about the German author who said that the Soviet writer who will not remain in West Germany.

Letter from Harris Leon Kempner to Mr. and Mrs. I. H. Kempner catching up on various personal matters such as Frances Louise and her pain level, Harris' experience sailing with the Thompsons, a game of bridge with Lyda and Mary Matthews, and Shrub's little league baseball team. He also mentions that life at the office has been quiet.

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story of west German air safety officials who say that the pilot of an Ethiopian jetliner, flyer Emperor Haile Selassie home to Ethiopia, accidentally pushed the wrong button and set off a false hijacking scare over Italy.

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story of an Ethiopian airliner which signaled Italian Control Towers that it had been taken over by a hijacker. More than 127-thousand members of the United Auto Workers who are ready to go on strike if their negotiators fail to reach a new contract agreement with Chrysler.

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story saying that those who have ever read a newspaper is aware of those 1..2.. or 3 line tid-bits of information called fillers and it is used to pad out a newspaper column that runs short.

Transcript of an interview with Harry Bradford Urey, Jr., a mechanical engineer and Army Air Forces veteran (454th Bomb Squadron, 323rd Bomb Group, 9th Air Force), concerning his experiences as a B-26 pilot in the European Theater during World War II.

Interview with Jefferson D. Roberts, a businessman and an Army Air Corps veteran (339th Bomb Squadron, 96th Bombardment Group, 8th Air Force), concerning his experiences as a prisoner-of-war of the Germans after being shot down over Nazi Germany during World War II. Roberts discusses the shooting down of his bomber (1944), his capture and interogation near Frankfurt, Heidekruge, East Prussia (1944), a prison camp near Berlin (1944), the forced march from Nürnberg to Moosberg (1945), prison camps at Nürnberg and Barth, and his liberation.

Letter from Dietrich Schlüter to Mr. Kempner stating that Schlüter during Kempner's visit in September and providing an update on his family's health.

Letter from Daniel W. Kempner to Kurt Brenner discussing solidifying hotel reservations made at the Brenners Park Hotel.

Invoice for items sold by Brenners Park Hotel, including lunch.

Invoice for items sold by Brenners Park Hotel.

Invoice for items sold by Brenners park Hotel, including lunch.

Letter from Bruce Webster to Daniel W. Kempner discussing a recommendation to see a specialist in Baden-Baden to cure Daniel W. Kempner's back condition.

Letter from D. W. Kempner to Kurt Brenner at the Brenner's Park Hotel indicating that Kempner intends to extend his hotel reservation to about three weeks to comply with "the Doctor's orders" and still hopes that the reservation will be made for a large apartment at the hotel.

Letter from D. W. Kempner to Mario Santochia discussing about the letter received and asking to share the charges for the car, for being chauffeur during the trip.

Interview with Lisa Jane Lachance-Skier, a Air Force veteran from Phoenix, Arizona. Lachance-Skier discusses growing up, participating in Junior ROTC, enlisting in the Air Force in 1976, experiences as a woman in a newly integrated Air Force, sexual harassment and assault in the military, service in England, attending ROTC and becoming an officer, her marriage, service in Germany, her work during the Gulf War, being forced out as part of a personnel drawdown, transitioning to the civilian world and her post-Air Force career, her involvement in the Grace After Fire program for assisting female veterans, problems facing female veterans and lack of support, the 2014 lifting of the combat ban on women in the US armed forces, the WASPs, and advice for servicewomen. In appendix is a summary of Lachance-Skier's USAF career, three photos of her Meritorious Service Medal certificates, and a Grace After Fire booklet.

Interview with Harold Salfen, a Army Air Force WWII veteran from O'Fallon, Missouri. Salfen discusses his hometown and family background, his childhood and education, working in St. Louis, attending the University of Missouri, joining the Army Air Force and training, operating a ground radar in the European Theater, liberating Buchenwald Concentration Camp, the end of the war, and returning home. In appendix is a biography/resumé of Salfen's.

History of the Balzen family in Texas including narratives and family charts for the various branches of the family, and anecdotes about family members, with reproductions of the family brand, maps, and other supplementary materials. The text includes a number of handwritten corrections and additions.

Photocopy of a script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story.

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story.