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Oral History Interview with James Carnes, March 28, 2022
The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with James Carnes. Carnes joined the Navy in 1944 before he finished high school. In the Navy, he became a signalman and was assigned to USS Norton Sound (AVM-1). Carnes was aboard when the ship went to Okinawa, where he describes being attacked by kamikaze aircraft. When the war ended, Carnes went to Japan briefly before returning to the US and receiving his discharge.
Date:
March 28, 2022
Creator:
Carnes, James
Object Type:
Text
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The North Texan, Volume 56, Number 2, Summer 2006
The North Texan magazine includes articles and notes about UNT students, faculty, and alumni activities.
Date:
Summer 2006
Creator:
University of North Texas
Object Type:
Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Melvin R. Baird, 1998
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Use of this item is restricted to the UNT Community
Interview with Navy veteran Melvin R. "Pancho" Baird. It includes a combination of interviewing and reading from Baird's personal correspondence about his pre-World War II experiences with the U.S. Asiatic Fleet and his later experiences in the Pacific Theater during World War II. Baird talks about his stationing aboard the destroyer USS Alden as a radioman, the grounding of the SS President Hoover off of Hoishito Island, the Sino-Japanese War, liberty ashore various Asian port cities, events on the South China Patrol, civilian activities after his discharge, activities as a radio technician on Blue Beach during the Okinawan Campaign, kamikaze actions on Okinawa, and typical shipboard routine.
Date:
August 18, 1998
Creator:
Baird, James & Baird, Melvin R.
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Jean Balch, October 12, 1996
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Use of this item is restricted to the UNT Community
Interview with Navy veteran Jean Balch, including Balch's personal experiences about the Pacific theater, being a prisoner-of-war of the Japanese during World War II, boot camp, radio, radar, and gunnery school, operations during the Leyte invasion, missions over Luzon, and raids on Japanese installations on Formosa and Saigon, French Indo-China. Additionally, Balch talks about his plane being shot down on a raid to Hong Kong and his capture on January 16, 1945, interrogations and beatings by the Kempei-tai, imprisonment at Ofuna, Honshu, solitary confinement for six months and continued interrogation, beatings by Japanese prison guards, starvation diet, the end of the war and liberation, and his participation in the war crimes trials held by the International Military Tribunal.
Date:
October 12, 1996
Creator:
Alexander, William J. & Balch, Jean
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
APEC and Free Trade in the Asia Pacific
This report discusses the summit held by President Bill Clinton and other leaders of the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) on November 19, 1995. The report discusses the primary reason for the summit, an Action Agenda intended to lead to free and open trade and investment among its members. The report also discusses how APEC countries were divided on certain issues going into this summit.
Date:
November 14, 1995
Creator:
Nanto, Dick K.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
APEC - Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation: Free Trade and Other Issues
As a result of an initiative by Australia in 1989, the United States joined with eleven other Asia/Pacific nations in creating APEC, the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation organization. This report discusses the annual Ministerial Meeting of APEC in Seattle, held from November 17 - 19, 1993.
Date:
November 10, 1993
Creator:
Nanto, Dick K.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
[Letter from Elaine Harmon to Rigdon and Mary Emma Edwards, July 5, 1993]
Letter from Elaine Harmon to Rigdon and Mary Emma Edwards discussing their appearance on the newspapers, her son's recent marriage, her son's life, a visit to the Dyes Air Force Base, and wanting to review a book.
Date:
July 5, 1993
Creator:
Harmon, Elaine Danforth
Object Type:
Letter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Skirt
Skirt of black velvet. A-line with pleats stitched down until opening up 9” below waistband. Secured at left side with hidden zipper and button at waistband. Designer's label at center back waistband: “Albert Nipon” Retailer's label: “Neiman Marcus” Care label “82% Rayon / 18% Silk / Made in Hong Kong / Size 12 / Dry Clean”
Date:
1980/1989
Creator:
Nipon, Albert
Object Type:
Physical Object
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Trench Coat
Trench coat of brown vinyl. Pointed collar. Knee-length or slightly longer. Long sleeves with translucent, brown plastic button on cuff. Single breasted with closure of nine matching buttons. Two patch pockets at front hips. Diamond motif of stitching and small vinyl diamonds at yoke and pockets. Back yoke of coat lined in dark yellow fabric; balance of coat unlined, showing orange cotton knit backing of vinyl. Designer label on inside right of opening: "Ginessa / Made in / British Crown Colony of Hong Kong" Care label to right of designer label. Size label at left inside seam: "12" Content label center back neckline: "75% Vinyl / 25% Cotton / Made in British Crown / Colony of Hong Kong" With matching sash belt of same material.
Date:
1979/1980
Creator:
Ginessa
Object Type:
Physical Object
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Day dress
Dress of black wool crepe. Full length; long sleeves with zippered cuffs. Inserted, elasticized waist gives blouse effect. Skirt is constructed with black lace inserts at hips under bodice panel. Rounded neckline. Center back zipper. Designer's label: "Norma Walters / New York / Made in Hong Kong" Retailer's label: "Neiman-Marcus" Size and content/care tags at base of designer label. B) Detachable collar of black silk with silver lace-like pattern; bordered in black and silver bugle beads. Button closure at center front. C) Detachable ascot style necktie of black velvet. Strap closes with hook & eye at center back.
Date:
1975/1985
Creator:
Walters, Norma
Object Type:
Physical Object
System:
The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Galveston pier]
Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about fire officials at Galveston who say that one un- attended smoldering cotton bale may have caused the 5 to 10 million dollar fire at a two square block pier at the Galveston Wharves overnight.
Date:
June 18, 1974, 6:00 p.m.
Creator:
WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type:
Script
System:
The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Houston]
Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about firemen in Galveston who continue to keep a close watch on a smoldering warehouse complex.
Date:
June 18, 1974, 10:00 p.m.
Creator:
WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type:
Script
System:
The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Pan America]
Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about the Pan America World airways and the Small Business Administration who list a Dallas couple among 106 victims of its jetliner crash in Bali.
Date:
April 23, 1974, 6:00 p.m.
Creator:
WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type:
Script
System:
The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Pan Am Jet]
Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about an Indonesian policemen who reports no survivors among the 106 persons aboard a Pan America airways jetliner that crashed in flames in Bali.
Date:
April 22, 1974, 10:00 p.m.
Creator:
WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type:
Script
System:
The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: London]
Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about the dollar slumped on international money markets amid uncertainty brought on by a congressional move to impeach president Nixon.
Date:
August 1, 1973, 6:30 a.m.
Creator:
WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type:
Script
System:
The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Sweden]
Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about the Uppsala, Sweden seismological institute which says that the soviet union apparently has set off one of the largest underground blasts in its history.
Date:
July 23, 1973, 6:30 a.m.
Creator:
WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type:
Script
System:
The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Hong Kong]
Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story NBC's report on the latest fad among the affluent in Hong Kong.
Date:
July 5, 1973, 12:00 p.m.
Creator:
WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type:
Script
System:
The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: International briefs]
Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering international news stories in Tokyo, Hong Kong, Manila, and the United States.
Date:
October 3, 1972
Creator:
WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type:
Script
System:
The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: International briefs]
Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering international news stories in Tokyo, Hong Kong, Manila, and the United States.
Date:
October 3, 1972
Creator:
WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type:
Script
System:
The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Chinese prisoners to United States]
Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story.
Date:
December 14, 1971, 6:30 a.m.
Creator:
WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type:
Script
System:
The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: International political updates]
Photocopy of a script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story.
Date:
October 26, 1971, 6:30 a.m.
Creator:
WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type:
Script
System:
The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Typhoon Rose/ Nixon]
Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story.
Date:
August 17, 1971, 6:30 a.m.
Creator:
WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type:
Script
System:
The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: China and Tennessee]
A photocopy of a script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about about Chinese medicinal practices and violence in Chattanooga, Tennessee.
Date:
1971-05-24T24:00:00
Creator:
WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type:
Script
System:
The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: News summary]
Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about a stoning in Hong Kong, Senator Sam Ervin, prisoners on death row, James Hoffa, and the Sioux Native Americans in South Dakota.
Date:
May 12, 1971, 6:30 a.m.
Creator:
WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type:
Script
System:
The UNT Digital Library