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Oral History Interview with Jerell E. Crow, August 24, 2002 transcript

Oral History Interview with Jerell E. Crow, August 24, 2002

Interview with Jerell E. Crow. He entered the Coast Guard in 1940 and trained in Florida and New York City. He served aboard a Landing Ship, Tank (LST) when those ships were first introduced. He traveled to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania to the Neville Island Shipyard operated by the Dravo Corporation as part of a crew that brought an LST down the Mississippi River to New Orleans. From there, the crew practiced operations at Biloxi, Mississippi. Eventually, Crow travelled to San Diego aboard the LST through the Panama Canal. From there, he went to Guadalcanal and unloaded tanks. Eventually, his ship was hit at Saipan and he was wounded. He also served aboard an LST during the invasions of Iwo Jima and Okinawa. Afterwards, Crow's LST was present in Tokyo Bay for the surrender. He visited Hiroshima while on occupation duty after the atomic bomb was dropped. Eventually, his LST made its way back to San Francisco where he was discharged.
Date: August 24, 2002
Creator: Rabalais, Larry & Crow, Jerell E.
Object Type: Sound
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Broilers: For Week Ending August 22, 1987 (open access)

Texas Broilers: For Week Ending August 22, 1987

Weekly report of the Texas Agricultural Statistics Service on broiler chick numbers in Texas and compared with other states. It includes compiled statistics across six consecutive weeks, from the week ending July 18 to the week ending August 22, during 1986 and 1987 for broiler eggs set, chicks hatched, and chicks placed.
Date: August 26, 1987
Creator: Texas Agricultural Statistics Service
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Aeronautics Star, Volume 6, Number 4, August/September 2005 (open access)

Aeronautics Star, Volume 6, Number 4, August/September 2005

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