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Business History Oral History Project
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The Postpartum Depression and Maternal Mental Health Oral History Project
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Flying Voices Oral History Project
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Texas Community History Oral History Project
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World War II European Theater Oral History Project
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World War II Pearl Harbor Survivors Oral History Project
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World War II Prisoners of War Oral History Project
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Civilian Conservation Corps History Oral History Project
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World War II (Weapons Development) Oral History Project
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Oral History Interview with Jack Browder, January 15, 1998
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Interview with Jack Browder, a Army WWII veteran from Duncan, Oklahoma. Browder was a staff officer with the 741st Tank Battalion in Europe; he recounts his education and entry to active duty in 1941, transfer to the new 741st, armor training and exercises, duties as a supply officer, preparations for the Normandy invasion, DD tanks, D-Day, attachment to the 2nd Infantry Division and advances through northern France, the M4 Sherman, his thoughts on General George S. Patton, the Battle of Saint Lô, souvenirs and trading, the Battle of the Bulge, crossing Germany into Czechoslovakia, returning to the States, and postwar service.
Date:
January 15, 1998
Creator:
Marcello, Ronald E. & Browder, Jack
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Book
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The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Ralph O. Robinson, January 17, 1997
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Transcript of an interview with Ralph Robinson, a scientist, engineer, and physicist, concerning his role in the development of the proximity fuse in World War II. Robinson discusses his education and technical training, employment with the Office of Scientific Research and Development in 1942, technical aspects of developing proximity fuse, the practical applications of the proximity fuse in the Atlantic, Pacific, and Mediterranean Theaters, and offers comments about the roles of Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry Hopkins, and Vannevar Bush. Appendix includes photograph of Ralph Robinson.
Date:
January 17, 1997
Creator:
Alexander, William J. & Robinson, Ralph O.
Object Type:
Book
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The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with John H. Byrd, January 24, 1996
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Interview with John Byrd, an Army Air Corps veteran (457th Bomb Squadron, 8th Air Force), concerning his experiences as a radio operator in the 8th Air Force in England during World War II.
Date:
January 24, 1996
Creator:
Marcello, Ronald E.; Byrd, Richard W. & Byrd, John Howard
Object Type:
Book
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The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Lyndle Lynch, January 10, 1995
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Interview with Lyndle Lynch, a Navy WWII veteran from El Paso, Texas, who was aboard the USS Utah during the attack on Pearl Harbor. Lynch discusses going into the Navy, work aboard the Utah, liberty in Honolulu, the morning of the attack, the sinking of the Utah and abandoning ship, assisting the wounded, duties after the attack, morale and reactions, and service aboard the USS Detroit.
Date:
January 10, 1995
Creator:
Marcello, Ronald E. & Lynch, Lyndle
Object Type:
Book
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The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Robert Hutchins Roser, January 7, 1995
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Interview with 1st Lieutenant Robert Roser, an Army veteran, concerning his experiences with the 29th Division during the invasion of Normandy in World War II.
Date:
January 6, 1995
Creator:
Alexander, William J. & Roser, Robert Hutchins
Object Type:
Book
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The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Elbert Davis, January 23, 1994
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Interview with Elbert Davis concerning his recollections of the Crater of Diamonds and diamond mining in Southwest Arkansas from 1924 to about 1940.
Date:
January 23, 1994
Creator:
Henderson, John C. & Davis, Elbert
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Text
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Oral History Interview with C. C. Carlton, January 19, 1994
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Interview with C. Corky Carlton concerning his experiences as the public relations and advertising person for the Crater of Diamonds in Murfreesboro, Arkansas from 1958 to 1965.
Date:
January 19, 1994
Creator:
Henderson, John C. & Carlton, C. Corky
Object Type:
Text
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The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Geralene Young, January 18, 1994
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Interview with Geralene Young about her experiences as an employee of the Red River Army Depot in Texarkana, Arkansas during World War II and the postwar years. Young discusses hiring and promotion practices, relations between male and female workers, social activities, and the social and economic effects of the depot on Texarkana.
Date:
January 18, 1994
Creator:
Brantley, Janet G. & Young, Geralene Mahone
Object Type:
Book
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The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Jay R. Thompson, January 12, 1994
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Interview with Jay Thompson, a Marine Corps veteran, concerning his experiences aboard the cruiser USS San Francisco during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Date:
January 12, 1994
Creator:
Marcello, Ronald E. & Thompson, Jay R.
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Text
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The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with John I. Bateman, January 11, 1994
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Interview with John Bateman concerning his recollections of the Crater of Diamonds and diamond mining near Murfreesboro, Arkansas from 1930 to 1950. Appendix includes 2 maps: a "Geologic Map of the Prairie Creek Area of Peridotite in T. 8 S., R. 25 W., 2 1/2 Miles South-Southeast of Murfreesboro, Pike County, Ark." and a map showing the locations of various landmarks in the Crater of Diamonds State Park area.
Date:
January 11, 1994
Creator:
Henderson, John C. & Bateman, John I.
Object Type:
Text
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Willa Mae Bateman, January 11, 1994
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Interview with Willa Mae Bateman concerning her recollections of the Crater of Diamonds and diamond mining growing up in Murfreesboro, Arkansas.
Date:
January 11, 1994
Creator:
Henderson, John C. & Bateman, Willa Mae
Object Type:
Text
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The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with A. Tennyson Miller, January 11, 1992
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Interview with schoolteacher A. Tennyson Miller from Denton, Texas. In the interview, Miller reflects on his experiences as a teacher and coach at the Fredrick Douglass School during the late 1930's and early 1940's, which was before the school was integrated. He comments on Principal Fred Moore and segregated education in Denton. Tennyson also discusses his admission to the doctoral program at North Texas State College, which broke racial barriers in 1954.
Date:
January 11, 1992
Creator:
Glaze, Michele & Miller, A. Tennyson
Object Type:
Book
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The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Elinor W. King, January 9, 1992
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Interview with schoolteacher Elinor W. King from Denton, Texas. In the interview, King describes her life as a student at the Frederick Douglass Colored School in Denton, and includes comments about fellow classmates, teachers, activities, sports, discipline, classes, and summer jobs. King also discusses the desegregation of Denton and the closing of Fred Moore School.
Date:
January 9, 1992
Creator:
Glaze, Michele & King, Elinor W.
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Verle Oringderff, January 10, 1991
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Interview with Verle Oringderff concerning his experiences while employed by the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression. Oringderff worked at a camp in Littlefield, Texas (Company 3802). Interview includes information about Oringderff's schooling and childhood as well as the effects of the Great Depression on his household.
Date:
January 10, 1991
Creator:
Marcello, Ronald E. & Oringderff, Verle
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interviews with Eiland Collins, 1991
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Interview with Eiland Collins, a Army veteran and civic leader of Hamilton Park from Greenville, Texas. Collins discusses his family background and growing up, service in the Army, work afterwards, his involvement in Hamilton Park United Methodist Church, his work for the Civic League and becoming its president, anti-drug projects, contemporary issues in the neighborhood, the "buy out," and some general reflections on his work for the community.
Date:
1991-01/1991-03
Creator:
Wilson, William H. & Collins, Eiland
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Inga Pennock, January 27, 1990
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Interview with Inga Pennock, a Holocaust survivor from Berlin. Pennock discusses her family background, experiencing antisemitism and the start of Nazi rule, trying to leave Germany and hiding, increasing violence, Kristallnacht, losing family, fleeing to Shanghai, Japanese occupation and the ghetto, working as a nurse for the Japanese, living conditions, liberation, and life afterwards.
Date:
January 27, 1990
Creator:
Rosen, Keith G. & Pennock, Inga
Object Type:
Book
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The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Alfred Czerner, January 16, 1990
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Interview with Alfred Czerner, a Army WWII veteran and German-Jewish expatriate from Frankfurt-am-Main. Czerner discusses growing up in the crises of the Weimar Republic, politics at the time, his parents' background, the Jewish community in Frankfurt and Jewish identity, his father's unemployment after the rise of the Nazis, fleeing Germany and moving to Brooklyn in 1938, news of concentration camps, work in New York, attending school and perfecting his English, becoming an Army intelligence officer, service at Camp Ritchie with Henry Kissinger and meeting Eleanor Roosevelt, transfer to Europe and service with the 78th Infantry Division, witnessing Buchwenwald, service in Berlin postwar and operations carried out there, meeting and marrying his wife, and reflections on the Holocaust.
Date:
January 16, 1990
Creator:
Rosen, Keith & Czerner, Alfred
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with William P. Schiff, January 12, 1990
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Interview with William Schiff, a Holocaust survivor from Kraków, Poland. Schiff discusses his family, antisemitism before the war, the invasion of Poland, being put into forced labor by the Germans and Poles, the ghetto and survival there, getting married, experiences in internment at Kraków-Płaszów, Auschwitz, Gross-Rosen, and Buchenwald concentration camps, liberation, returning to Kraków and finding his wife, and life afterwards.
Date:
January 12, 1990
Creator:
Rosen, Keith & Schiff, William P.
Object Type:
Book
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The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Inga Czerner, January 4, 1990
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Interview with Inga Czerner (née Israelski), a German-Jewish expatriate from Frankfurt-am-Main. Czerner discusses Hitler's rise to power and the initial effect of Nazi power on Jews, her father's departure for Russia, growing up in Frankfurt, growing antisemitism, the Gestapo, her schooling, the Kristallnacht, hiding, fleeing Germany to England without her mother, loss of her family members to the Holocaust, learning her father survived the war, moving to the US and marrying her husband Albert, and reflections on the Holocaust and Jewishness.
Date:
January 4, 1990
Creator:
Rosen, Keith & Czerner, Ingaborg Rosa
Object Type:
Book
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The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Paul E. Papish, January 30, 1989
Interview with Paul E. Papish, a Navy WWII veteran and POW from Denver, Colorado, who survived the sinking of the USS Houston (CA-30). Papish discusses joining the Navy in 1939 and training, assignment to the Houston and operations in the Pacific, the start of war and initial engagements, the Battle of the Java Sea, getting sunk at Sundra Strait, surviving on a raft and reaching shore on Java, capture, initial internment, transfer to and experiences in Bicycle Camp in Batavia, transfer to Changi Camp in Singapore, and liberation.
Date:
January 30, 1989
Creator:
Marcello, Ronald E. & Papish, Paul E.
Object Type:
Book
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The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Frank W. Ficklin, January 16, 1987
Transcript of an interview with Frank Ficklin, a businessman, an Army veteran (2nd Battalion, 131st Field Artillery, Texas National Guard) and a member of the "Lost Battalion." Ficklin discusses his experiences as a prisoner-of-war of the Japanese during World War II. Ficklin discusses the fall of Java and his capture, Bicycle Camp in Batavia (1942), Changi Prison Camp in Singapore (1942), building the Burma-Thailand Death Railway (1942-1944), Kanchanaburi, Thailand (1944), Changi Jail (1944), and his liberation.
Date:
January 16, 1987
Creator:
Marcello, Ronald E. & Ficklin, Frank W., 1922-
Object Type:
Book
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The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with H. William Taylor, January 20, 1986
Interview with William Taylor, an executive at Caltex Petroleum Corporation from New York, about his experiences working for the company in the Philippines and Thailand, the joint venture refinery in Thailand, expansion of the company, and the move of headquarters from New York to Dallas.
Date:
January 20, 1986
Creator:
Marcello, Ronald E. & Taylor, H. William
Object Type:
Book
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The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Robert J. Kirchhofer, January 17, 1986
Interview with Robert Kirchhofer, an executive at Caltex Petroleum Corporation, concerning his experiences and reminiscences of his long-time career with the Caltex Corporation.
Date:
January 17, 1986
Creator:
Marcello, Ronald E. & Kirchhofer, Robert J., 1911-
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interviews with James Voss, 1986
Interview with James Voss, a lawyer and employee of the Caltex Petroleum Company from San Antonio, Texas. Voss discusses his earlier life and joining Caltex, work on company claims involving postwar China and other assets affected by World War II, the crude oil market, effects of the Chinese Communist Revolution on the company and markets, company operations in Japan and reconstruction, the company in Korea and Vietnam, mergers, purchases, divestments, expansion in the Mid East, South Africa, re-entry into China, and reflections on the energy business and his career.
Date:
1986-01-09/1986-06-20
Creator:
Marcello, Ronald E.
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library