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[Letter from Chester W. Nimitz to William Nimitz, December 11, 1907] (open access)

[Letter from Chester W. Nimitz to William Nimitz, December 11, 1907]

Handwritten letter from Chester Nimitz to his father in Kerrville. Nimitz, writing from the USS Decatur (DD-5) in the Philippines, mentions recent target practice in Manila Bay. Nimitz also mentions anticipating war with Japan.
Date: December 11, 1907
Creator: Nimitz, Chester W. (Chester William), 1885-1966
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Transcript of Letter from Chester W. Nimitz to William Nimitz, December 11, 1907] (open access)

[Transcript of Letter from Chester W. Nimitz to William Nimitz, December 11, 1907]

Transcription of letter from Chester Nimitz to his father in Kerrville. Nimitz, writing from the USS Decatur (DD-5) in the Philippines, mentions recent target practice in Manila Bay. Nimitz also mentions anticipating war with Japan.
Date: December 11, 1907
Creator: Nimitz, Chester W. (Chester William), 1885-1966
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Chester W. Nimitz to William Nimitz, December 3, 1905] (open access)

[Letter from Chester W. Nimitz to William Nimitz, December 3, 1905]

Handwritten letter from Chester Nimitz to his father in Kerrville. Nimitz mentions training daily for upcoming target practice in Manila Bay. He also mentions a faulty torpedo. Nimitz mentions league baseball games and being invited to mess with the admiral of the fleet once.
Date: December 3, 1905
Creator: Nimitz, Chester W. (Chester William), 1885-1966
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Transcript of Letter from Chester W. Nimitz to William Nimitz, December 3, 1905] (open access)

[Transcript of Letter from Chester W. Nimitz to William Nimitz, December 3, 1905]

Transcription of letter from Chester Nimitz to his father in Kerrville. Nimitz mentions training daily for upcoming target practice in Manila Bay. He also mentions a faulty torpedo. Nimitz mentions league baseball games and being invited to mess with the admiral of the fleet once.
Date: December 3, 1905
Creator: Nimitz, Chester W. (Chester William), 1885-1966
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History

[U.S.S. Augusta in Manila Bay]

Photograph of the U.S.S. Augusta from a distance in the Manila Bay in the Philippines, the sun is setting behind the ship.
Date: December 1934
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Philip Brodsky, December 11, 1989 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Philip Brodsky, December 11, 1989

Interview with Philip Brodsky, a pharmacologist, a civil servant, an Army veteran, and a survivor of the Bataan Death March, concerning his experiences as a prisoner-of-war of the Japanese during World War II. Brodsky discusses the Japanese bombing of Nichols Field, the fall of Bataan and his capture, the Bataan Death March, Camp O'Donnell (1942), Palawan Island (1942-1944), the hell ship to Formosa (1944), and his liberation.
Date: 1989-12-11/1989-12-13
Creator: Burlage, George & Brodsky, Philip
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Hospital Decorated for Christmas 1945]

Photograph taken inside Fleet Hospital #114, in Samar, Philippines, showing a room decorated for Christmas. The room has high ceiling with streamers draped from it, there are two table on either side of the photo with four chairs on the left and three chairs on the right. In the center is a door, to the right of that door is written "Merry Christmas" and on the left is "Happy New Year."
Date: December 1945
Creator: Rose, Helen M.
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History
[News Script: Kitty Hawk] (open access)

[News Script: Kitty Hawk]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story of fire in main machinery room which broke out at Kitty Hawk.
Date: December 11, 1973, 10:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Bentsen Bill] (open access)

[News Script: Bentsen Bill]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story of oil industry to quadruple its payment to the treasury for future offshore oil and gas leases.
Date: December 14, 1973, 12:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Form letter from T. N. Carswell to Francis B. Sayer - December 5, 1941] (open access)

[Form letter from T. N. Carswell to Francis B. Sayer - December 5, 1941]

A letter addressed to Honorable Francis B. Sayer, U. S. High Commissioner, Manila, Philippine Islands, from T. N. Carswell, For the Committee, Committee on Americanism, American Legion, dated December 5, 1941. The letter discusses the promotion of a "What is Americanism?" campaign. The campaign is defined as "seeking more light in the form of a contribution", the contribution being the answer to the question, "What is Americanism?". The answer will then be used "to help stimulate an American Revival comparable in results to the periods of the Revolution, the Making of the Constitution, and the Civil War" stressing that the country's destiny depends on these answers.
Date: December 5, 1941
Creator: Carswell, T. N. (Thomas Norwood)
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from George Brundrett to Valree Brundrett, December 12, 1941] (open access)

[Letter from George Brundrett to Valree Brundrett, December 12, 1941]

Letter from George Cooke Brundrett to Valree Brundrett discussing his life in the Philipines during World War II. The letter was written on paper taken from the Manila Hotel.
Date: December 12, 1941
Creator: George Cooke Brundrett
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Search for uranium in the Philippines (open access)

Search for uranium in the Philippines

Discussing evidence of the potential of uranium in the Philippines
Date: December 1953
Creator: Puttuck, H. E. & Stafford, H. S.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interview with William E. Painter, December 21, 1998

Access: Use of this item is restricted to the UNT Community
Interview with William Painter, a UNT professor and Army WWII veteran from New Bloomfield, Missouri. Painter discusses growing up in the Depression, being a conscientious objector and feeling pressure to join the war, getting drafted into the infantry and training at Camp Hood and Fort Ord, deployment to the Pacific with the 32nd Infantry Division, operations on Luzon and the Villa Verde Trail, the end of the war, occupation duty in Japan, and returning home. In appendix is a letter to Marcello with a correction for the interview.
Date: December 21, 1998
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Painter, William E.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Eugene Nielsen, December 11, 1989 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Eugene Nielsen, December 11, 1989

Interview with Eugene Nielsen, a Army WWII veteran and POW from Logan, Utah. Nielsen discusses his prewar assignment to Corregidor Island, the Battles of Bataan and Corregidor, capture by the Japanese, experiences in internment at Bilibid Prison, Cabanatuan, and Palawan, surviving the Palawan Massacre, and his rescue by Filipinos and American forces. Included is Nielsen's obituary of February 6, 2011.
Date: December 11, 1989
Creator: Burlage, George & Nielsen, Eugene
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Paul Bunch, December 7, 1971 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Paul Bunch, December 7, 1971

Interview with Paul Bunch, a New Mexico National Guard WWII veteran and POW from Atlanta, Missouri. Bunch served in I Troop, 111th Horse Cavalry, which became F Battery, 200th Coast Artillery (Anti-Aircraft); he recounts going to the Philippines before the war in 1941, his action during the bombing of Clark Field on December 8th, the fight for Bataan, and his capture and internment at Camp O'Donnell, after which he was held at Cabanatuan #2, Bilibid Prison, and then Yodagawa Steel Mill, Osaka, Japan.
Date: December 7, 1971
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Bunch, William Paul
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Karl A. Bugbee, December 8, 1971 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Karl A. Bugbee, December 8, 1971

Interview with Karl Bugbee, a Marine WWII veteran and POW from New Orleans, Louisiana. Bugbee discusses his time in the Philippines at Cavite Naval Yard before the war, the Japanese invasion, the Battle of Bataan, the Battle of Corregidor, his capture, and his internment at Bilibid Prison, Cabanatuan, and the Ashio Copper Mine in Japan.
Date: December 8, 1971
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Bugbee, Karl A.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interviews with James D. Tyson, December 1970 - February 1971 (open access)

Oral History Interviews with James D. Tyson, December 1970 - February 1971

Interview with James D. Tyson regarding his experiences as a civilian in the Philippines in the 1930s and later a prisoner of war of the Japanese during World War II.
Date: December 5, 1970
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Tyson, James D.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Pope killer pleads innocent] (open access)

[News Script: Pope killer pleads innocent]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story.
Date: December 4, 1970, 10:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: More Christmas sexction] (open access)

[News Script: More Christmas sexction]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story.
Date: December 24, 1970, 12:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: International update] (open access)

[News Script: International update]

Photocopy of a script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story.
Date: December 31, 1969, 6:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: International news bulletins] (open access)

[News Script: International news bulletins]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story.
Date: December 29, 1969, 6:30 a.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Agnew in Manilla] (open access)

[News Script: Agnew in Manilla]

Photocopy of a script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story.
Date: December 29, 1969, 6:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Agnew] (open access)

[News Script: Agnew]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story.
Date: December 29, 1969, 10:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Agnew] (open access)

[News Script: Agnew]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story.
Date: December 30, 1969, 10:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library