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Newsmap. Monday, April 26, 1943 : week of April 16 to April 23 : 189th week of the war, 71st week of U.S. participation
Text describes action on various war fronts: Tunisia, Raid on Japan, Southwest Pacific, Italy, Air offensive, Russia, Aleutians. Large world map is keyed to text. Shows United Nations countries, Axis and Axis occupied areas, countries with Axis relations broken, and neutral countries. Inset maps show Italy, Sardinia, and northern Tunisia; Axis held areas in Tunisia; Nazi held areas around the Sea of Azov. Back: Fox Holes: Dig!..Or Die! Photographs and illustrations describing proper fox hole preparation and use.
Date:
April 26, 1943
Creator:
[United States.] Army Orientation Course.
Object Type:
Poster
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Newsmap. For the Armed Forces. 240th week of the war, 122nd week of U.S. participation
Front: Text describes action on various war fronts: USSR; Air war; Southeast Asia; Central Pacific; Southwest Pacific. Maps: Burma; Dutch New Guinea/ North-East New Guinea/ Papua./ Relief shown by shading. Includes 6 photographs. Back: Are the folks at home backing us up? . . . . Text describes war bond purchasing on the homefront. Includes illustrations.
Date:
April 17, 1944
Creator:
[United States.] Army Service Forces. Army Information Branch.
Object Type:
Poster
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Newsmap. For the Armed Forces. 292nd week of the war, 174th week of U.S. participation
Front: Text describes action on various war fronts: Allies squeeze Reich; Okinawa resistance stiffens. Maps: [Western Europe]; Allies squeeze Reich, U.S. forces make new landings on Tawitawi and Masbate - Japanese battleship sunk, Okinawa resistance stiffens. Back: Illustration of a young woman looking at a 10 dollar war savings bond. Caption: "It will look even bigger-- after the war!"
Date:
April 16, 1945
Creator:
[United States.] Army Service Forces. Army Information Branch.
Object Type:
Poster
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Charles Pase, April 12, 2001
Interview with Charles Pase, a marine during World War II. He discusses joining the Marines and training on New Zealand and other Pacific islands. He describes landing on Tarawa, the battle of Tarawa itself, and locating and burying the dead bodies after the battle. He also talks about going to Hawaii for more training before going to Saipan, various guns and artillery he used, encountering natives on Saipan and being in Nagasaki after the bomb was dropped. He relates ancedotes about having tonsillitis during the Tarawa attack, fights that some Marines got into with local Hawaiians while training there and prejudices against Japanese-Americans, mistaking a land crab that pinched the back of his neck for a bayonet, getting Dengue Fever, and faking a landing on April Fools' Day.
Date:
April 12, 2001
Creator:
Cox, Floyd & Pase, Charles
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Sam H. Snoddy, April 29, 2004
Interview with Sam H. Snoddy, a U. S. Marine during World War II. He served in the 3rd Battalion, 8th Marine Regiment, 2nd Marine Division. After training, he participated in the initial landing at Saipan where he was wounded in the knees and shoulder on the beach by shell fragments. He was loaded onto a hospital ship with several other casualties before going to Hawaii to recuperate. He participated in the Okinawa campaign and spent time at Nagasaki on occupation duty. After being discharged, he went to college on the G. I. Bill, and eventually settled in Texas, where he worked in the oil industry.
Date:
April 29, 2004
Creator:
Smith, Ned & Snoddy, Sam H.
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Paul Jackson, April 10, 2008
Interview with Paul Jackson, a U. S. Marine during World War II. He discusses his time in boot camp at Camp Pendleton and his combat experiences in the Battle of Iwo Jima.
Date:
April 10, 2008
Creator:
Roberts, Virginia & Jackson, Paul
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Effects of Radiation from Fukushima Dai-ichi on the U.S. Marine Environment
The massive Tohoku earthquake and tsunami of March 11, 2011, caused extensive damage in northeastern Japan, including damage to the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power installation, which resulted in the release of radiation. Concerns arose about the potential effects of this released radiation on the U.S. marine environment and resources.
Date:
April 2, 2012
Creator:
Buck, Eugene H. & Upton, Harold F.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Effects of Radiation from Fukushima Daiichi on the U.S. Marine Environment
The massive Tohoku earthquake and tsunami of March 11, 2011, caused extensive damage in northeastern Japan, including damage to the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power installation, which resulted in the release of radiation. This report discusses concerns which have arisen about the potential effects of this released radiation on the U.S. marine environment and resources.
Date:
April 15, 2011
Creator:
Buck, Eugene H. & Upton, Harold F.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Effects of Radiation from Fukushima Daiichi on the U.S. Marine Environment
The massive Tohoku earthquake and tsunami of March 11, 2011, caused extensive damage in northeastern Japan, including damage to the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power installation, which resulted in the release of radiation. This report discusses concerns about the potential effects of this released radiation on the U.S. marine environment and resources.
Date:
April 5, 2011
Creator:
Buck, Eugene H.; Upton, Harold F. & Folger, Peter
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with George Koury, Jr., April 27, 1972
Interview with George Koury, Jr., Marine Corps veteran and survivor of the Bataan Death March. The interview includes Koury's personal experiences as a prisoner-of-war of the Japanese during World War II. Koury talks about the Fall of Bataan and his capture, the Bataan Death March, Camp O'Donnell, Nichols Field, hell ship to Formosa and to Japan, Prison Camp No. 7, and liberation.
Date:
April 27, 1972
Creator:
Marcello, Ronald E. & Koury, George, Jr.
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Jess Stanbrough, April 15, 1985
Interview with Jess Stanbrough, a Texas National Guard WWII veteran from Wichita Falls, Texas, who served and was captured with the 2nd Battalion, 131st Field Artillery (the "Lost Battalion.") Stanbrough discusses his time in the Guard before the war, deployment to the Pacific, the fall of Java and being captured, experiences in internment at Tanjong Priok and Bicycle Camp in Batavia, operating a clandestine radio, transfer to Japan, being an iron smelter at Kamaishi, Honshu, American air and naval bombardment, and liberation.
Date:
April 15, 1985
Creator:
Marcello, Ronald E. & Stanbrough, Jess
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Stephen E. Van Nostrand, April 20, 1987
Interview with Stephen E. Van Nostrand, former executive at Caltex Petroleum Corporation. The interview includes Van Nostrand's personal experiences about service during World War II, employment with Caltex in China, the formation of Ryuku Oil Corporation, and holding various positions within Caltex. Van Nostrand talks about joint ventures with Nippon Oil Company and Koa Oil Company, increasing the refining capacity from 60,000 bbls. to 900,000 bbls. per day, crude oil contracts, the Nippon Petroleum Refining Company, refinery rehabilitation and construction, his role in Caltex operations in Japan, the Nippon Oil Staging Terminal Company, relations between Caltex (Japan) and New York headquarters, OPEC and its effects upon Caltex, character sketches of Neal Lilley, Alec Singleton, and James Voss, and various Japanese oil executives. The interview includes a personal history of S. Nomura.
Date:
April 20, 1987
Creator:
Marcello, Ronald E. & Van Nostrand, Stephen E.
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Ballistic Missile Defense in the Asia-Pacific Region: Cooperation and Opposition
This report presents background information and discusses potential issues for Congress relating to U.S. ballistic missile defense (BMD) efforts in the Asia-Pacific region. These efforts pose several potential policy, funding, and oversight issues for Congress. Decisions that Congress makes on these issues could affect U.S. defense funding requirements and military capabilities, and U.S. relations with countries in the Asia Pacific region, including China, Japan, South Korea, North Korea, and Australia.
Date:
April 3, 2015
Creator:
Rinehart, Ian E.; Hildreth, Steven A. & Lawrence, Susan V.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
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 Gene Moody, April 1, 2001
Interview with Gene Moody, a staff sergeant in charge of medical dispensary during the Korean War. He answers questions about his military service and his experiences abroad.
Date:
April 1, 2001
Creator:
Reitmeier, Sara & Moody, Gene
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Pete Craig, July 10, 2002
Interview with Pete Craig, a veteran of the U.S. Army who served in the Pacific Theatre during World War II from Houston, Texas. Craig describes his time as a Private 1st Class in the Infantry, as well as his experiences in basic training and the places he visited throughout the United States. Included at the end of the transcript is a written summarization by the interviewer, Colby Burmaster, which was provided with the two audiotapes of the interview.
Date:
April 26, 2003
Creator:
Burmaster, Colby & Craig, Pete
Object Type:
Text
System:
The Portal to Texas History
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 Gene Moody, April 1, 2001
Interview with Gene Moody, a staff sergeant in charge of medical dispensary during the Korean War. He answers questions about his military service and his experiences abroad.
Date:
April 15, 2003
Creator:
Reitmeier, Sara & Moody, Gene
Object Type:
Text
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Antonio Amador, April 25, 2001
Interview with Antonio Amador, a veteran who was wounded in action as a sniper with the U.S. Marine Corps during the Vietnam War. It includes a list of questions, which include a focus on Amador being shot and his experiences while serving and back at home.
Date:
April 25, 2001
Creator:
Amador, Y. & Amador, Antonio
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Charley Cole, April 14, 2001
Interview with Charley Cole, a veteran of the U.S. Army who served in the Korean War and was wounded in action. Cole describes his time with the 34th Regiment in Korea at length, with many details about various combat missions and the weapons utilized. He also speaks on his injuries, including being shot in the shoulder.
Date:
April 14, 2001
Creator:
Cole, Charley
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Phillip Patton, April 11, 2002
Interview with Phillip Patton, an aircraft mechanic in the US Marine Corps during WWII. He answers questions about life before the war, his experiences overseas, and returning home post-war.
Date:
April 11, 2002
Creator:
Elterman, Dora & Patton, Phillip
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Brinton Cate, April 11, 2001
Interview with Brinton Cate, a veteran of the U.S. Marine Corps who served in World War II from Jackson, Michigan. Cate describes his time as a corporal with the military police and how he was on Iwo Jima when the atomic bomb was dropped, as well as seeing the aftermath at Nagasaki.
Date:
April 11, 2001
Creator:
Campbell, Justin L. & Cate, Brinton
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with E. G. Warren, April 10, 2001
Interview with Warren, E.G., an electrician in the US Navy during WWII. He describes volunteering to join the military and life during his service.
Date:
April 10, 2001
Creator:
York, Ann Marie & Warren, E. G.
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Jesse F. Stovall, Jr., April 29, 2002
Interview with Jesse F. Stovall, Jr., a soldier in the US Marine Corps during WWII. He answers questions about his time in the Marines and his experiences overseas.
Date:
April 29, 2002
Creator:
Contreras, Francisco & Stovall, Jesse F., Jr.
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The Portal to Texas History