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Oral History Interview with Rogers Aston, May 4, 1993

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Interview with Rogers Aston, a Navy veteran, concerning his experiences aboard LST-446 during the Solomon Islands Campaign (1942-1943), his participation in the landings on Guadalcanal, New Georgia, Vella Lavella, and Bougainville, and his participation in the Marianas Campaign and landings at Saipan and Guam in 1944. The Appendix to the volume includes a photocopy of an application for the Military Order of the World Wars for Reginald Rogers Aston dated July 19, 1984 [4 leaves] and a photocopy of a memo titled, "Navy Department, Sixteen Ships of LST Flotilla Five Awarded Navy Unit Commendation" (undated) [1 leaf].
Date: May 4, 1993
Creator: Byrd, Richard & Aston, Rogers
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Mid day wall street] (open access)

[News Script: Mid day wall street]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about the New York stock market which is lower again amid some investor uneasiness over a series of political uncertainties throughout the world.
Date: March 4, 1974, 12:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Marines at Red Cross Tent]

Photograph of Marines on Bougainville gathering around the Red Cross center there to read the latest news. The Red Cross center is a tent pitched with wooden stakes with Marines lined up underneath it and it's surrounded by trees. There is also a small wooden sign with "Red Cross" written across it to mark the tent.
Date: April 4, 1944
Creator: Batts, J. J.
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Charles Stasny to his Parents, October 4, 1944] (open access)

[Letter from Charles Stasny to his Parents, October 4, 1944]

Letter from Charles Stasny to his parents discussing life during the war. He mentions receiving letters from his parents and Dottie, the possibility of being home for Christmas, locating someone from back home, losing his watch, the ship's heat and reading his magazines.
Date: October 4, 1943
Creator: Stasny, Charles, 1921-2014
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History