Media Briefing Book - NMC19 (open access)

Media Briefing Book - NMC19

Contains the Media Briefing Book for NAS Pensacola, FL
Date: November 29, 2005
Creator: United States. Defense Base Closure and Realignment Commission.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
General - Community Input (open access)

General - Community Input

Contains Community Input for the Pensacola Bay Area regarding NAS Pensacola, FL and the surrounding bases
Date: November 30, 2005
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
BRAC Analysis - Notes and Research (open access)

BRAC Analysis - Notes and Research

Contains notes and research, including a map, for Navy Team Analyst Hal Tickle regarding NAS Jacksonville, FL
Date: November 28, 2005
Creator: United States. Defense Base Closure and Realignment Commission.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
BRAC Analysis-Notes and Research (open access)

BRAC Analysis-Notes and Research

Contains Notes and Research of various States (Pensacola DFAS) by Marilyn Wasleski of the Interagency Team.
Date: November 28, 2005
Creator: United States. Defense Base Closure and Realignment Commission.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
NMC19 - Base Input - NAS Pensacola (open access)

NMC19 - Base Input - NAS Pensacola

NMC19 - Base Input - Officer Training Command, Defense Finance and Accounting Service, Pensacola, Saufley Field - FL
Date: November 21, 2005
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Local & State Section of Orlando Sentinal, November 8, 2002] (open access)

[Local & State Section of Orlando Sentinal, November 8, 2002]

The "Local & State" section of the November 2002 issue of the Orlando Sentinel. Articles about local news, recent crimes, obituaries, and more are included. Linda Florea's article about the sixtieth reunion of the Women Airforce Service Pilots ("WASPs added sting to nation's air power") and a color photograph of seven WASP can be found on the section's first page.
Date: November 8, 2002
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Clipping
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Clipping: Broward salutes those who served] (open access)

[Clipping: Broward salutes those who served]

Newspaper clipping of photographs from events across South Florida, honoring U.S. veterans, including WASP member Helen Wyatt Snapp. On the back of the clipping is an article about a Latin American activist and obituary listings.
Date: November 12, 2008
Creator: Gyllenhaal, Anders
Object Type: Clipping
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Clipping: "Missileer, 45th Space Wing"] (open access)

[Clipping: "Missileer, 45th Space Wing"]

Copy of the 44th issue of the 44th volume of Missileer. Included are articles about celebrating Veteran's Day, World War One, spacecraft launching programs, action being taken on Air Force Space Command's credit card abuse, identity theft, the Red Cross sending care packages to soldiers, and the WASP and a recent visit to fly on the HC-130 orientation flight.
Date: November 8, 2002
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Clipping
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Department of the Air Force to Helen Snapp, November 12, 2002] (open access)

[Letter from Department of the Air Force to Helen Snapp, November 12, 2002]

Letter from Lieutenant Colonel Kenneth Warren from the Department of the Air Force to Helen Snapp discussing Snapp's recent visit for an HC-130 orientation flight with the 920th Rescue Group at Patrick Air Force Base.
Date: November 12, 2002
Creator: Warren, Kenneth E.
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[News Clip: Florida Protests] captions transcript

[News Clip: Florida Protests]

Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.
Date: November 9, 2000
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interview with Rick Dale, November 26, 2007

Access: Use of this item is restricted to the UNT Community
Interview with U.S. Marine Corps Pilot Richard Dale as part of the Tarrant County War Veterans Oral History Project. The interview includes Dale's personal experiences of childhood, education at Baylor University and Texas A&M, attending training at Camp Pendleton, California, Quantico, Virginia, and officer candidate school. Additionally, Dale talks about his decision to enter the Marines aviation program, his assignments to various naval air stations, the particulars of "tailhook" aviation, and his civilian career with Northwest Airlines. The interview also includes an appendix with a photograph and an active duty summary.
Date: November 26, 2007
Creator: Bristow, Lauren & Dale, Richard C.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interview with William J. Alexander, November 11, 2002

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Interview with advertising executive and Navy veteran William J. Alexander. The interview includes Alexander's personal experiences about being a teenager during World War II, being a sailor during the last months of World War II, early youth in Casper, Wyoming, moving back to Denver to be reunited with his parent and employment at the Brown Palace Hotel, wartime rationing, joining the Navy, and boot camp. Additionally, Alexander talks about his close relationship with his older brother, life in Casper during the Great Depression while living with his aunt and uncle, local reactions to the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor, vignettes about John Barrymore, Sammy Kaye, Harry James, and Betty Grable, his brother's enlistment in the Navy, his employment at Station KOA in Denver, making broadcast announcements about D-Day, the sinking of his brother's destroyer, the USS Spence, during a typhoon, the effects of his brother's death on him and his parents, V-J Day celebrations in Chicago, his role as director of the base chapel choir at Opa Locka Naval Air Station, and his postwar career.
Date: November 11, 2002
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Alexander, William J.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Richard Bennett, November 15, 2001 transcript

Oral History Interview with Richard Bennett, November 15, 2001

Interview with Richard (Dick) Bennett, a pilot during World War II. He discusses his enlistment in the Army Air Corps, basic training and flight school. He then went to a base in South Carolina to learn to fly B-25s. At Fort Myers, Florida he flew B-26 bombers and trained to fly them off of aircraft carriers so they could drop torpedos on the Japanese fleet during naval battles. He traveled across the Pacific to Brisbane only to be told that they didn't have B-26s for the crews; the colonel there knew nothing about the plan to launch B-26s from aircraft carriers, so they were sent to New Guinea to fly B-17s and supplement the crews for those bombers. From there they made bombing runs or "Washing Machine Charlie"-type runs to keep people awake at night on various Japanese targets in the islands, particularly the base at Rabaul. In fall of 1943, the Army grounded the B-17s due to the damage they had incurred and replaced them with B-24s. The men received manuals and were given only a few days to familiarize themselves with the new planes. They were then sent on bombing runs. He finished his tour of duty at …
Date: November 15, 2001
Creator: Cox, Floyd & Bennett, Richard
Object Type: Sound
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Alan Hildebrandt, November 12, 2009 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Alan Hildebrandt, November 12, 2009

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Alan Hildebrandt. Hildebrandt enlisted in the Army Air Forces in July of 1942. He describes the planes he flew during training, including the PT-19, the BT-13 and the UC-78. Hildebrandt was commissioned and received his pilot rating in November of 1943. Upon graduation he trained on the B-26 at Laughlin Field. Hildebrandt served as a pilot in the 95th Bomb Squadron, 17th Bomb Group, 12th Air Force. They first traveled to Morocco, North Africa, then to northern Italy and Southern France. Their job was to bomb Marshaling yards, bridges and troop replacements. Hildebrandt describes some of his missions. He flew a total of 64 missions and was discharged in July of 1945.
Date: November 12, 2009
Creator: Hildebrandt, Alan
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Alan Hildebrandt, November 12, 2009 transcript

Oral History Interview with Alan Hildebrandt, November 12, 2009

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Alan Hildebrandt. Hildebrandt enlisted in the Army Air Forces in July of 1942. He describes the planes he flew during training, including the PT-19, the BT-13 and the UC-78. Hildebrandt was commissioned and received his pilot rating in November of 1943. Upon graduation he trained on the B-26 at Laughlin Field. Hildebrandt served as a pilot in the 95th Bomb Squadron, 17th Bomb Group, 12th Air Force. They first traveled to Morocco, North Africa, then to northern Italy and Southern France. Their job was to bomb Marshaling yards, bridges and troop replacements. Hildebrandt describes some of his missions. He flew a total of 64 missions and was discharged in July of 1945.
Date: November 12, 2009
Creator: Hildebrandt, Alan
Object Type: Sound
System: The Portal to Texas History
Aeronautics Star, Volume 3, Number 10, November/December 2002 (open access)

Aeronautics Star, Volume 3, Number 10, November/December 2002

Monthly newsletter published for employees of Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Co. containing work-related information, updates about employees, and other news.
Date: November 2002
Creator: Lockheed Martin Astronautics Corporation
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Aeronautics Star, Volume 5, Number 5, November/December 2004 (open access)

Aeronautics Star, Volume 5, Number 5, November/December 2004

Bimonthly newsletter published for employees of Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Co. containing work-related information, updates about employees, and other news.
Date: November 2004
Creator: Lockheed Martin Astronautics Corporation
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Aeronautics Star, Volume 6, Number 5, November/December 2005 (open access)

Aeronautics Star, Volume 6, Number 5, November/December 2005

Bimonthly newsletter published for employees of Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Co. containing work-related information, updates about employees, and other news.
Date: November 2005
Creator: Lockheed Martin Astronautics Corporation
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History