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United States Earthquakes, 1937 (open access)

United States Earthquakes, 1937

Report discussing earthquake activity in the United States during 1937. The report is broken down by regions and has sections for specific earthquakes.
Date: 1937
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
United States Earthquakes, 1938 (open access)

United States Earthquakes, 1938

Report discussing earthquake activity in the United States during 1938. The report is broken down by regions and has sections for specific earthquakes.
Date: 1938
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
United States Earthquakes 1940 (open access)

United States Earthquakes 1940

Report discussing earthquake activity in the United States during 1940. The report is broken down by regions and has sections for specific earthquakes.
Date: 1940
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
United States Earthquakes 1941 (open access)

United States Earthquakes 1941

Report discussing earthquake activity in the United States during 1941. The report is broken down by regions and has sections for specific earthquakes.
Date: 1941
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
United States Earthquakes, 1943 (open access)

United States Earthquakes, 1943

Report discussing earthquake activity in the United States during 1943. The report is broken down by regions and has sections for specific earthquakes.
Date: 1943
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
United States Earthquakes, 1933 (open access)

United States Earthquakes, 1933

Report discussing earthquake activity in the United States during 1933. The report is broken down by regions and has sections for specific earthquakes.
Date: 1933
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
United States Earthquakes, 1934 (open access)

United States Earthquakes, 1934

Report discussing earthquake activity in the United States during 1934. The report is broken down by regions and has sections for specific earthquakes.
Date: 1934
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
United States Earthquakes, 1935 (open access)

United States Earthquakes, 1935

Report discussing earthquake activity in the United States during 1935. The report is broken down by regions and has sections for specific earthquakes.
Date: 1935
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
United States Earthquakes, 1936 (open access)

United States Earthquakes, 1936

Report discussing earthquake activity in the United States during 1936. The report is broken down by regions and has sections for specific earthquakes.
Date: 1936
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
United States Earthquakes, 1931 (open access)

United States Earthquakes, 1931

Report discussing earthquake activity in the United States during 1931. The report is broken down by regions and has sections for specific earthquakes.
Date: 1932
Creator: Neumann, Frank
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
United States Earthquakes, 1932 (open access)

United States Earthquakes, 1932

Report discussing earthquake activity in the United States during 1932. The report is broken down by regions and has sections for specific earthquakes.
Date: 1932
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
United States Earthquakes 1942 (open access)

United States Earthquakes 1942

Report discussing earthquake activity in the United States during 1942. The report is broken down by regions and has sections for specific earthquakes.
Date: 1942
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Robert D. Haines, May 15, 2002 transcript

Oral History Interview with Robert D. Haines, May 15, 2002

Interview with Robert D. Haines, an American prisoner of war during World War II. He discusses the attack on Clark Field in the Philippines on December 8, 1941, as well as his experiences on the Bataan Death March. He also tells of his time spent as a prisoner of war under the Japanese at Camp O'Donnell, Cabanatuan and Bilibid prison in Manila. He encountered his brother, who was a civilian internee, at Bilibid. From there, he rode on a hell ship for 39 days to a POW camp in Formosa (Taiwan). When the Americans began bombing Formosa, Haines was moved via another hell ship to Tokyo, Japan. Not long after, he was liberated and returned to San Francisco, then Denver.
Date: May 15, 2002
Creator: Graham, Eddie & Haines, Robert D.
Object Type: Sound
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Cleatus A. LeBow, May 2, 2006 transcript

Oral History Interview with Cleatus A. LeBow, May 2, 2006

Interview with Cleatus A. LeBow, a serviceman in the U. S. Navy during World War II. LeBow joined the navy in 1943 and went from Lubbock, Texas to San Diego for recruit training. He shipped out to Pearl Harbor aboard an LST from San Francisco. At Pearl Harbor, he was assigned to a work detail aboard the USS Oklahoma, which had just been righted. Shortly thereafter, he boarded the USS Indianapolis to serve as a range finder operator on one of the gun turrets. Upon leaving Hawaii, the Indianapolis went to Tarawa and then the Marshall Islands. LeBow witnessed Japanese civilian suicides on Saipan. He also witnessed the flag-raising on Iwo Jima from his range finder position aboard the ship. LeBow describes being hit by a kamikaze off Okinawa. He also discusses delivering atomic bomb components to Tinian and being torpedoed on the way to the Philippines. He describes abandoning the ship and spending five days in the water, including his faith in God, hallucinations, rescue, and his recovery.
Date: May 2, 2006
Creator: Misenhimer, Richard & Lebow, Cleatus A.
Object Type: Sound
System: The Portal to Texas History
Scouting, Volume 1, Number 5, June 15, 1913 (open access)

Scouting, Volume 1, Number 5, June 15, 1913

Semi-monthly publication of the Boy Scouts of America, written for Boy Scout leaders, officials, and others interested in the work of the Scouts. It includes articles about events and activities, updates from the national headquarters, topical columns and essays, and news from various chapters nationwide.
Date: June 1, 1913
Creator: Boy Scouts of America
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History

Oral History Interview with Bennie G. Snider, June 10, 2002

Access: Use of this item is restricted to the UNT Community
Interview with banker and Navy veteran Bennie G. Snider. The interview includes Snider's personal experiences about the Pacific Theater during World War II, youth and education in Denton, Texas, joining the Navy, and boot training and electrical engineering school. Snider talks about duties aboard the USS Hancock, his assignment to Task Group 58 and the invasion of the Philippines, as well as the invasions of Iwo Jima and Okinawa, kamikaze attacks and the Hancock being hit by a kamikaze, burials at sea, and his postwar duties aboard the Hancock as part of Operation MAGIC CARPET.
Date: June 10, 2002
Creator: Lane, Peter B. & Snider, Bennie, G.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interview with Robert H. Flatley, October 27, 1999

Access: Use of this item is restricted to the UNT Community
Interview with business executive and Army Air Forces veteran Robert H. Flatley. The interview includes Flatley's personal experiences about being a P-38 pilot in the Pacific Theater during the World War II, basic training, flight training, P-38 training, various assignments and missions, and the destruction of forty-seven locomotives. Flatley also talks about various missions to targets in the Philippines, activities between combat missions, postwar military activities in the Philippines, and postwar adjustments to civilian life.
Date: October 27, 1999
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Flatley, Robert H.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interview with Jean Balch, October 12, 1996

Access: 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
An Artist at War: The Journal of John Gaitha Browning (open access)

An Artist at War: The Journal of John Gaitha Browning

An edited version of artist John Gaitha Browning's personal journal from his time in the United States Army during World War II, specifically two years in the South Pacific. The book includes typewritten journal entries, reformatted journal entries, some of his illustrations, photographs, letters he wrote, and maps of where he was stationed. Includes an epilogue about Browning's life after the final entry. Index starts on page 325.
Date: 1994
Creator: Toliver, Oleta Stewart
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with W. R. Barker, April 25, 2001 transcript

Oral History Interview with W. R. Barker, April 25, 2001

Interview with W. R. Barker, a veteran who served as a combat engineer with the U.S. Army in the South Pacific during World War II. It includes a conversation with Barker as he talks freely about his time in basic training at Camp Cook, when Bob Hope visited jungle training in Hawaii, and interactions between U.S. soldiers and the native islanders. He also discusses the Marines mission on Pelilu Island and meeting his brother in the Philippines.
Date: April 25, 2001
Creator: Amador, Yacel & Barker, W. R.
Object Type: Sound
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with W. R. Barker, April 25, 2001 (open access)

Oral History Interview with W. R. Barker, April 25, 2001

Interview with W. R. Barker, a veteran who served as a combat engineer with the U.S. Army in the South Pacific during World War II. The transcript includes a conversation with Barker as he talks freely about his time in basic training at Camp Cook, when Bob Hope visited jungle training in Hawaii, and interactions between U.S. soldiers and the native islanders. He also discusses the Marines mission on Pelilu Island and meeting his brother in the Philippines.
Date: February 23, 2003
Creator: Amador, Yacel & Barker, W. R.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Wilburn Snyder, April 16, 2002 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Wilburn Snyder, April 16, 2002

Interview with Wilburn Snyder, a POW of the Japanese in the Philippines. He answers questions about his time in the military and as a POW in the Philippines.
Date: April 28, 2004
Creator: Stroble, Brandy & Snyder, Wilburn L.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Perry Simmons, April 23, 2003 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Perry Simmons, April 23, 2003

Interview with Perry Simmons, a seaman in the US Navy during WWII. He answers questions about his time in the military during the war.
Date: May 11, 2004
Creator: McElhaney, Michelle & Simmons, Perry
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Summary of an Interview with Oswall Harman] (open access)

[Summary of an Interview with Oswall Harman]

Summary describing an interview with Oswall Harman highlighting his service to the military as an electrician in the US Army during WWII, and his experiences of coming home. It also includes comments and observations by the author about the interview experience and Mr. Harman himself.
Date: 1995~
Creator: Lopez, Tisma & Harman, Oswall
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History