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Arlington World War II Memories
Compilation of biographical and autobiographical information about persons from Arlington, Texas who served during World War II. It includes narratives, copies of letters, forms, newspaper clippings, photographs, and other items detailing their lives and service.
Date:
unknown
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Text
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[News Script: News Briefs - Gooks]
Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a group of international visitors stopping in Fort Worth as part of their tour of America and several other countries to look at their electric power industries.
Date:
September 2, 1956
Creator:
WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type:
Script
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Seth Bailey, December 12, 2007
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Use of this item is restricted to the UNT Community
Interview with Seth Bailey, veteran of Operation Iraqi Freedom, as part of the Tarrant County War Veterans Oral History Project. The interview includes Bailey's personal experiences of childhood and education in Athens, Texas, enlisting in the U.S. Army, basic training at Ft. Benning, Georgia, including experiences in Ranger Indoctrination Program and injuries sustained in "jump school," as well as his combat experiences in Karbala, Ramadi, and Al Asad. Bailey also talks about his family's tradition of military service, his assignment to a unit in Darmstadt, Germany, his deployment to Iraq and performance of long-range surveillance missions, continuing struggles with injury from basic training, with the Army health care system, and with substance abuse. Additionally, Bailey discusses his treatment at the Walter Reed Army Hospital, being discharged from the Army, returning to Arlington, Texas, and gives his opinions regarding the benefits of military service and regarding women in the military.
Date:
December 12, 2007
Creator:
Russell, Amy & Bailey, Seth
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Phone wedding]
Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a Fort Worth wedding between a German woman and a Fort Hood soldier, conducted via trans-oceanic telephone call.
Date:
January 5, 1951
Creator:
WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type:
Script
System:
The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: German baron]
Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a royal visitor to Fort Worth, Baron Hanno Von Collenberg from Germany.
Date:
June 13, 1951
Creator:
WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type:
Script
System:
The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: German]
Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a visit to Arlington by Henri Reichert, a man from Konigshafen, Germany, a town adopted by the people of Arlington in a charity effort.
Date:
April 13, 1955
Creator:
WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type:
Script
System:
The UNT Digital Library
[Letter from June Yates to Cal Yates]
Letter from June Yates to Cal describing his travels across Germany after the war was over. June notes the destruction that the bombs inflicted on some of the large cities and testifies for the accuracy of the horror stories told from the concentration camps; they are still very busy as they are the only hospital for miles.
Date:
1945-05-21~
Creator:
Yates, June
Object Type:
Letter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from June Yates to his Mother]
Letter from June Yates to his mother describing his actions and activities in Germany; he says, though, that he will not be home early as he had originally planned. He also goes into detail about the weather in Germany and talks of the letters he has received from other individuals.
Date:
1945-06-22~
Creator:
Yates, June
Object Type:
Letter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Robert Lee Mosty, March 9, 1998
Interview with Robert Lee Mosty, World War II veteran and owner/operator of a plant nursery in Center Point, Texas. Mr. Mosty tells stories from his service in WWII, including how his unit was one of the first to meet liberated prisoners of war, as well as how he was wounded and taken prisoner. He also discusses studying at A&M, his work for the National Park Service, and running a plant nursery in the 1920s.
Date:
March 9, 1998
Creator:
Witt, Gerald & Mosty, Robert Lee
Object Type:
Text
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Jack and Frances Real Stevens, January 31, 2001
Interview with Jack and Frances Real Stevens, a ranching and former Navy couple from Kerrville, Texas. The couple describes their individual childhoods, growing up in town and on a ranch, as well as their travels around the world. Mr. and Mrs. Stevens also discuss their involvement with the Kerrville community. The interview includes a history of the Kerrville German Dance Club, on pages 2-4.
Date:
January 31, 2001
Creator:
Bethel, Ann; Snodgrass, Clarabelle; Stevens, Jack & Stevens, Frances Real
Object Type:
Text
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Robert Edward Sieker, August 3, 2000
Interview with Robert Edward Sieker, a pilot from Kerrville, Texas. Mr. Sieker discusses his grandfather's immigration from Germany. In addition to his stories from his extensive flying career, he also talks about his service in the military during World War II, his various occupations throughout the years, and his work against the screwworm infestation.
Date:
August 3, 2000
Creator:
Bethel, Ann; Snodgrass, Clarabelle & Sieker, Robert Edward
Object Type:
Text
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[News Script: Mayor Justin]
Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the return of Fort Worth Mayor Justin, who traveled with 22 other US mayors to West Berlin, and spent time in East Berlin.
Date:
October 5, 1961
Creator:
WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type:
Script
System:
The UNT Digital Library
[Clipping: The Long Walk to Recognition]
Copy of the June 1995 copy of The Washington Post. Articles about Deputy Chief of Staff Harold Ickes, the Women in Military Service for America (WIMSA) Memorial Foundation, and more are included.
Date:
June 22, 1995
Creator:
Griest, Stephanie
Object Type:
Clipping
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[News Script: NFL Playoffs]
Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story.
Date:
December 26, 1970, 10:00 p.m.
Creator:
WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type:
Script
System:
The UNT Digital Library
[News Clip: Mayor Justin]
Video footage from the WBAP-TV television station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story.
Date:
October 5, 1961
Creator:
WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type:
Video
System:
The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Headlines]
Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, with two headlines: one about the demolition of the Worth Hotel and one about airline hijackings.
Date:
October 29, 1972
Creator:
WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type:
Script
System:
The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: 6PM sports]
Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story going over the daily sports highlights.
Date:
September 1, 1972, 6:00 p.m.
Creator:
WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type:
Script
System:
The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: 10PM sports]
Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story going over the daily sports highlights.
Date:
September 3, 1972, 10:00 p.m.
Creator:
WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type:
Script
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
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interviews with Max Pila, 1993-1994
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Interview with Max Pila, a Holocaust survivor from Zlav, Poland. Pila discusses his family and Jewish background, antisemitism, the German invasion, life in the ghetto, executions, labor, transfer to Auschwitz-Birkenau, daily experience in internment, mining at Janina, the forced march to Bergen-Belsen, liberation, and life afterwards.
Date:
{1993-10-15,1994-04-01}
Creator:
Marcello, Ronald E. & Pila, Max
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Anna Robinson, November 27, 2007
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Use of this item is restricted to the UNT Community
Interview with Anna Robinson, a Women's Army Corps veteran from Fort Worth, Texas. Robinson discusses her family and childhood, joining the WAC, transfer to Germany as a supply clerk in 1946, life and work in that assignment, being in a car wreck, her sexuality and gays in the service, the Iraq War and George W. Bush, leaving the Army and work for the city of Forth Worth as an artist, her church involvement, and returning to Germany,
Date:
November 27, 2007
Creator:
Quick, Janice L. & Robinson, Anna
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: German treaty]
Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about east Germany which has ratified its basic treaty of normalized relations with west Germany.
Date:
June 13, 1973, 12:00 p.m.
Creator:
WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type:
Script
System:
The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Court Martial]
Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story of an American GI who is found guilty of negligent homicide in the shooting death of an Azle soldier in Germany.
Date:
December 24, 1973, 6:00 p.m.
Creator:
WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type:
Script
System:
The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Vandiver]
Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story of shooting death of an Azle, Texas, GI which has resulted in military conviction of another Army man.
Date:
December 24, 1973, 10:00 p.m.
Creator:
WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type:
Script
System:
The UNT Digital Library