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[Memorandum of Meeting: Fort Smith Air National Guard Station, Arkansas, July 5, 2005]
Memorandum of meeting with congressional and community representatives regarding BRAC's Military Value Assessment of Fort Smith, AR.
Date:
July 5, 2005
Creator:
United States. Defense Base Closure and Realignment Commission.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
[Memorandum of Meeting: Little Rock Air Force Base, Arkansas, July 5, 2005]
Memorandum of meeting with congressional and community representatives regarding support for the BRAC Gainer Recommendation with respect to Little Rock AFB, AR.
Date:
July 5, 2005
Creator:
United States. Defense Base Closure and Realignment Commission.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Memories of Martha Elizabeth Gibson Anglin
A transcript of a 1963 oral history with Martha Elizabeth Anglin (née Gibson), recalling her childhood in Alabama, her family's move to Texas in 1895, and her marriage and life on a farm in Commerce, Texas. Footnotes are provided to add context to the narrative.
Date:
1887/1963
Creator:
Anglin, Michael W.; Anglin, Reba; Barnett, Robert & Barnett, Patricia
System:
The UNT Digital Library
MVPA Bankhead Highway 2015 convoy itinerary
Itinerary for a convoy along Bankhead Highway led by the Military Vehicle Preservation Association (MVPA) from September 16-October 18, 2015.
Date:
2015
Creator:
Mallory, Randy
System:
The UNT Digital Library
[News release: HRCF abandons movement, Clinton endorsement]
A news release from Queer Rights Campaign Fund condemning Arkansas Governor, Bill Clinton, for his lack of action and support for the LGBT community and his poor response to the AIDS epidemic.
Date:
June 3, 1992
Creator:
Queer Rights Campaign Fund
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Al Hiegel, September 18, 2005
Transcript of an oral interview with Al Heigel. When Heigel finished high school in June, 1944, he joined the Navy at Little Rock, Arkansas and went for boot training at San Diego. He was assigned as a radar operator and reported aboard the USS Independence (CVL-22) at Pearl Harbor. Heigel describes the light carrier and its construction and features. He also speaks of the time the Independence was hit by a torpedo off Tarawa in 1943. Heigel then describes events off Okinawa: watching the USS Franklin (CV-13) being bombed off Okinawa; locating and shooting down kamikazes; describing battle stations; aircraft water landings; being in a typhoon, etc. After the war ended, the Independence served as a troop transport taking GIs back home to the US. He describes bunks in the hangar deck and arriving in Portland, Oregon. As the Independence was being prepared for the Bikini Atoll atomic tests, Heigel got off becuase he had the requisite amount of points allowing him to be discharged. He then entered the lumber business, married and raised family.
Date:
September 18, 2005
Creator:
Heigel, Al
System:
The Portal to Texas History
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
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Carlene B. Feild, March 17, 1993
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Interview with Carlene Feild concerning her recollections of the Crater of Diamonds and diamond mining around Murfreesboro, Arkansas.
Date:
March 17, 1993
Creator:
Henderson, John C. & Feild, Carlene B.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Charles Scheffel, May 10, 2000
The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Charles Scheffel. Scheffel grew up in Oklahoma and enlisted in the Army ROTC in 1940. He was called up in 1941 after Pearl Harbor. He was allowed to finish out his senior year of college and was married in March 1942. He embarked on the Queen Elizabeth from New Jersey in September 1942. As leader of 200 men, he landed in Scotland and drove with them to Whittington Barracks where they joined with the British 51st Highlanders. He lists the three main survival lessons he learned from the seasoned English soldiers: having a batman to back you up, digging a two-man foxhole, and waiting for the ""crack and thump."" Scheffel how the ""crack and thump"" lesson would later save his life when he was seriously wounded when attacking the Siegfried Line. From England he went to Algeria with the British troops on the Scythia. The ship is torpedoed off the coast limps into Algiers. Scheffel made the decision to leave the British Highlanders and join up with American 9th Division in February 1943. The division went into Tunisia. Then he was sent to spend another month with the …
Date:
May 10, 2000
Creator:
Scheffel, Charles
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Chester E. Hudson, October 12, 1993
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Interview with Chester Hudson concerning his experiences before, during, and after his employment in the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression. Hudson worked at camps in Calico Rock, Arkansas (Company 4747); Walcott, Arkansas (Company 3799); and Ozone, Arkansas (Company 1708). Includes an appendix.
Date:
October 12, 1993
Creator:
Polatti, Gaylon & Hudson, Chester E.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Clarabelle Barton Snodgrass, August 25, 1999
Interview with Clarabelle Barton Snodgrass, vice-chair of the Kerr County Historical Commission from Kerrville, Texas. Mrs. Snodgrass talks about growing up on a primitive ranch, struggling to survive during the Depression, meeting and marrying her husband, their family, their involvement with music, and her efforts to preserve the history of Kerr County. She also briefly discusses the honors and awards her volunteer work has earned her. Pages 2-13 include a written statement by Miles Abernathy Lowrence, Clarabelle's maternal great-uncle.
Date:
September 25, 1999
Creator:
Bethel, Ann & Snodgrass, Clarabelle
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Dorothy Cooley, February 21, 1994
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Interview with Dorothy Cooley about her experiences as an employee of the Red River Army Depot in Texarkana, Arkansas during World War II and the postwar years. Cooley discusses employment procedures, job assignments, swing shift, wartime rationing, safety procedures, housing, social activities, race relations, relationships among male and female employees, and the economic effects on Texarkana.
Date:
February 21, 1994
Creator:
Brantley, Janet G. & Cooley, Dorothy
System:
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
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Janice Tomlin, November 24, 2013
Interview with Janice Tomlin, a network television documentary producer. The interview includes discussion of her youth, education, and career as a television producer in New York City, including an expose on Romanian orphanages for 20/20.
Date:
November 24, 2013
Creator:
Sigman, Ashlea & Tomlin, Janice
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with John Andrews, March 26, 2004
Interview with John Andrews, a veteran of the U.S. Army Air Corps from Kentwood, Louisiana. The transcript includes a list of questions regarding Andrews's training and service in World War II as a B-29 command pilot and flight instructor throughout the United States.
Date:
May 17, 2005
Creator:
Coy, Larisa L. & Andrews, John
System:
The Portal to Texas History
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.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with John. S. Winston, March 20, 1973
Interview with John S. Winston, a preacher from Arkansas. The interview includes Winston's experience growing up in and around the church, his education, family history, surrounding church history, and his time as a preacher. The interview also includes his comments on and interactions with other prominent figures in the church.
Date:
March 30, 1973
Creator:
Boyd, R. Vernon & Winston, John S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Larry Aldrich, December 2, 2003
Interview with Larry Aldrich, a U.S. Air Force veteran who served in England during the Iraqi war. Aldrich describes his experiences when he enlisted including his training and work as a guard at a nuclear weapons storage facility and later, overseas at RAF Lakenheath.
Date:
January 15, 2005
Creator:
Thibodaux, Dana & Aldrich, Larry
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Norman F. Williams, March 16, 1993
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Interview with Norman Williams, a geologist, concerning his recollections of the Crater of Diamonds and diamond mining around Murfreesboro, Arkansas, as well as the activities of De Beers.
Date:
March 16, 1993
Creator:
Henderson, John C. & Williams, Norman F.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Orland J. ""Bud"" Harris, August 22, 2000
The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Orland Harris. Harris went to Santa Anna, California for Aviation Cadet training in the Army Air Corps in 1942. He went to primary flying school in Visalia, California and then went to LaeMoore, California for more training. From there he went to replacement training units, flying the P-38, P-322 and P-39. Harris had take civilian pilot training for one year at college before he went into the service. He received his wings at Williams Field in Arizona 3 Nov 1943 and became an officer that day. He went to the South Pacific in a C-54, along wih about 30 other pilots, ending up in Nadzab, New Guinea with the 8th Fighter Group (part of the 5th Air Force). His P-38 missions included targets of opportunity around New Guinea, a cave on Corregidor and straffed ships on the way to Borneo, and the Philippines. Normally they flew cover missions for B-17s and B-24s but on occasion covered B-25s and A-20s. Harris was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross (DFC) when he was flying out of Mindoro in the Philippines on a night mission (26 Dec 1944) attacking a Japanese task …
Date:
August 22, 2000
Creator:
Harris, Orland J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Robert Bean, November 15, 2004
Interview with Robert Bean, a veteran who was wounded in action during World War II from Kirbyville, Texas. The transcript includes a list of questions, which focus on Bean's service with the 12th Armored Infantry Division of the U.S. Army in France and Germany, including his injuries and experience liberating two concentration camps.
Date:
June 20, 2005
Creator:
Gammon, Robert & Bean, Robert
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Robert Warren, March 28, 2022
The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Robert Warren. Warren was born in Frisco, Texas in February 1921. After graduating from high school, he attended Texas A&M participating in the ROTC program for two years. Upon graduation in 1942 he applied for a commission in the United States Army Air Forces and was accepted. After participating in various stages of flight training, he was assigned as a C-47 pilot. Flying the Northern Route over Greenland, he joined the 439th Troop Carrier Wing, 94th Squadron, 9th Air Force in England. He tells of being involved in Operation Market Garden and of crossing the Rhine, where he pulled Waco CG-4 gliders, and of the Battle of the Bulge where he hauled fuel for General Patton’s tanks.
Date:
March 28, 2022
Creator:
Warren, Robert
System:
The Portal to Texas History
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
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Zelle Holman Moore and Marguerite Holman Magee, March 10, 1994
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Interview with Marguerite Magee and Zelle Moore, sisters, about their recollections of life in Texarkana, Texas. Magee and Moore discuss their parents, Junior Service League, family entertainment, women's suffrage and political activities, church activities, the Current Topic Club, the Wednesday Music Club, and women's household chores.
Date:
March 10, 1994
Creator:
Rowe, Beverly; Moore, Zelle Holman & Magee, Marguerite Holman
System:
The UNT Digital Library