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Oral History Interview with Melvin R. Baird, 1998

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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
[News Script: Thailand update] (open access)

[News Script: Thailand update]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story.
Date: November 18, 1971, 6:30 a.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Griff L. Douglas, April 18, 1978 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Griff L. Douglas, April 18, 1978

Interview with Griff Douglas, U.S. Navy WWII veteran and survivor of the sinking of the USS Houston, about his experiences as a prisoner-of-war of the Japanese during World War II. He discusses the sinking of the Houston (1942), his capture and imprisonment at Serang, Java, Bicycle Camp in Batavia (1942), Changi Prison Camp in Singapore (1942), building the Burma-Thailand Death Railway (1942-1944), Kanchanaburi and Tamarkan, Thailand (1944), Prachin Buri, Thailand (1944-1945), and his liberation.
Date: April 18, 1978
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Douglas, Griff
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Staying comfortable, drinking liquor (open access)

Staying comfortable, drinking liquor

Transcription of the song/chant 'shàziqziq e' indicating tone and a metrical analysis of syllables per line. Includes partial translations.
Date: November 18, 1985
Creator: Hansson, Inga-Lill
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Photograph 2012.201.B1306.0204]

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "These Thai children have hemorrhagic fever."
Date: November 18, 1969
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Tape 86 Side A

Akha songs and narratives. mɔ̀djìqdjìq ə (tshɔ́ sjhí ə khɔ̀-sjhə)
Date: November 18, 1978
Creator: Hansson, Inga-Lill
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library

Tape 86 Side B

Akha songs and narratives. 0-20 mɔ̀djìqdjìq ə (tshɔ́ sjhí ə khɔ̀-sjhə); 20-33 dɛ̀q máŋ nja ɣoqdoqə́; 33-50 njö̀ tsɔq xhɛ́ ə
Date: November 18, 1978
Creator: Hansson, Inga-Lill
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library

Tape 50 Side A

Akha songs and narratives. 0-20 Àbɔ́qɔ: djö djö ə̀ qà-kɔq. 18/4-78. 20-52 Àbɔ́qɔ: àphö̀ lɔ́ ə 21/4-78
Date: 1978-04-18/1978-04-21
Creator: Hansson, Inga-Lill
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library

Tape 31 Side A

Akha narratives. conversation, Maeby 18/9-77.
Date: September 18, 1977
Creator: Hansson, Inga-Lill
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library

Tape 13 Side A

Akha songs and narratives. 0-5 mɔ́-tsche: On opium; 5-10 í-sha: plays jew's harp; 10-18 í-sha: plays iron jew's harp; 18-end í-sha: song
Date: April 18, 1977
Creator: Hansson, Inga-Lill
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library

Tape 31 Side B

Akha songs and narratives. nɛ̀q khə̀ khə̀ ə I. 18/9-77.
Date: September 18, 1977
Creator: Hansson, Inga-Lill
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library

Tape 32 Side A

Akha songs and narratives. nɛ̀q khə̀ khə̀ ə II. 18/9-77. Continued from Tape 31.
Date: September 18, 1977
Creator: Hansson, Inga-Lill
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library

Tape 50 Side B

Akha songs and narratives. 0-30 nɛ̀q khə̀ khə̀ ə. 19/4-78. 30-51 Ábɔ́: Rec. Getting old 21/4-78
Date: 1978-04-18/1978-04-21
Creator: Hansson, Inga-Lill
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library