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Oral History Interview with Richard L. Johnston, February 17, 1999
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Interview with William J. Alexander, a Army WWII veteran from Universal, Pennsylvania, who served as an officer of the 382nd Engineer Battalion (Separate), a unit of black enlisted troops. Alexander discusses growing up, joining the Civilian Conservation Corps, joining the Army and commissioning through OCS, training, deployment to India, building the Ledo Road, General Joseph Stilwell, constructing the 20th Bomber Command HQ, working in a steelmill, the atomic bomb, returning home, and postwar service.
Date:
February 17, 1999
Creator:
Alexander, William J. & Johnston, Richard L.
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The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Thomas Jenny, April 3, 2013
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Interview with Thomas Jenny, a Marine Corps and Air America pilot from Miami, Florida, who served in Southeast Asia during the Vietnam War. Jenny discusses his interest in aviation, entering the Naval Flight Training Program, flight training, joining the Marine Corps, assignment to Korea, working for Pan-Am, joining Air America, and flying a variety of aircraft and missions from Thailand and Laos.
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April 3, 2013
Creator:
Ferguson, J. Michael & Jenny, Thomas
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The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with William Smeltzer, August 3, 1996
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Interview with William Smeltzer, a Army WWII veteran and Navy contractor from Wrightsville, Pennsylvania. Smeltzer discusses quitting high school and moving to California in 1940, experiences working at Mare and Pearl Harbor Navy Yards as a civilian contractor before and after the start of the war, the raising of the sunken USS Oklahoma (BB-37), being drafted into the Army and infantry training, assignment to the 45th Infantry Division and participating in the drive into Germany, the end of the war and demobilization, and his career afterwards. In appendix are a photo of the insignia for the Pearl Harbor Navy Yard and two photos of the capsized Oklahoma.
Date:
August 3, 1996
Creator:
Marcello, Ronald E. & Smeltzer, William
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The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Arthur Dodge Jr., January 8, 1971
Interview with Arthur B. Dodge, Jr., a US Army WWII veteran from Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Dodge recounts his service in M Company, 350th Infantry Regiment, 88th Infantry Division, which landed in Morocco and moved through Algeria in late-1943, before landing in Italy, where his unit took up position on the Cassino-Rapido-Garigliano front in March, 1944. Dodge describes prolonged skirmishing with German forces near Tremesuoli, Lazio, the breakout from Cassino, advancing into northern Italy, and finishing the war in the Po Valley.
Date:
January 8, 1971
Creator:
Marcello, Ronald E. & Dodge Jr., Arthur B.
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The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Sam Zangari, January 5, 1971
Interview with Sam Zangari, an Army WWII veteran from Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Zangari was present at Pearl Harbor during the Japanese attack on December 7th, 1941.
Date:
February 12, 1971
Creator:
Marcello, Ronald & Zangari, Sam
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The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Brenda Fields, April 3, 2014
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Interview with Brenda Fields, former president of the Dallas chapter of the NAACP from Dallas, Texas. Fields discusses her childhood, school and church, becoming aware of race, segregation and discrimination, joining the NAACP youth organization, NAACP National Conventions, picketing the State Fair and other notable places in north Texas, the movement's impact, the role of black churches, voting, the Civil Rights Acts and changes after its passing, the influence of Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcom X, the Black Panthers, King's assassination, work in Dallas ISD, and continued work with the NAACP, including tenure as president of the Dallas chapter. In appendix is Fields' "colored" ticket to the Texas State Fair from 1954.
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April 3, 2014
Creator:
Smith, Tiffany & Fields, Brenda Alyce
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The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with William L. Archer, June 10, 1986
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Interview with William L. Archer, an employee of Caltex Petroleum Corporation from Prosperity, Pennsylvania. Archer discusses his education and hiring by Texaco, assignment to the Philippines in 1938, work as a lube engineer, mining operations in the Philippines, distribution, relations between the Philippine and New York offices, marketing strategies, company policies, World War Two and hiding on Negros Island, liberation and the reestablishment of company operations, the post-war market, reorganization, production, security issues, trade with Arabia, and various other businessmen in the industry.
Date:
June 10, 1986
Creator:
Marcello, Ronald E. & Archer, William L.
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The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Glenn C. Blouse, August 3, 1998
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Interview with Glenn C. Blouse, a Army WWII veteran from Long Level, Pennsylvania. Blouse discusses his family life, being drafted, basic training, deployment to the European Theater via North Africa, assignment to the 135th Infantry, 34th Infantry Division in Italy, duties as a machine gunner, first combat experiences, fighting on the Monte Cassino front, foxhole life, shelling, tactics, taking prisoners, Italian civilians, the Anzio landing, assaulting a hill, liberating Rome, the Apennines Campaign, nightwatch and a firefight which earned him the Bronze Star, breaking into the Po Valley, Mussolini's corpse, the end of the war. In appendix is Blouse's Bronze Star citation.
Date:
August 3, 1998
Creator:
Marcello, Ronald E. & Blouse, Glenn C.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The Goat Songs
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The poems in James Najarian’s debut collection are by turns tragic and mischievous, always with an exuberant attention to form. Najarian turns his caprine eye to the landscapes and history of Berks Country, Pennsylvania, and to the middle east of his extended Armenian family. These poems examine our bonds to the earth, to animals, to art and to desire.
Date:
April 2018
Creator:
Najarian, James
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The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Mervin Garver, August 6, 1999
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Interview with Mervin Garver. The interview includes Garver's personal experiences about education and childhood during the Great Depression, being a defense worker at Riverside Foundry, blackouts and air raid wardens, and President Franklin D. Roosevelt's visits to Wrightsville by train. Garver also talks about his draft classification as 4-F due to psychoneurosis, his personal feelings about being classified as 4-F, local reactions to his 4-F status, the production of hand grenade and radar cores at Riverside Foundry, the financial and patriotic incentives to increase war production, the purchase of war bonds and stamps, employment of women and wartime shortages, rationing of food and gasoline, the "Victory Bus," effects of WW II on his personal finances and on the postwar lives of Wrightsville's citizens, the transition from wartime to peacetime production at Riverside Foundry, and his memories of post-World War II Memorial Day celebrations.
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August 6, 1999
Creator:
Marcello, Ronald E. & Garver, Mervin
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The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Eugene L. Crumling, May 18, 1999
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Interview with Eugene L. Crumling, bartender and former professional ballplayer. The interview includes Crumling's personal experiences about being a professional baseball player in the U.S. during World War II. Crumling talks about his semi-pro baseball career in the late 1930s and early 1940s, the origin of his nickname, signing his first professional contract, life in the minor leagues during wartime, his draft classification as 4-F, his employment in defense-related work during the off-seasons, contrasts between life in the minors and life in the majors, individual Cardinals players, his first game and his first, and only, hit in the majors, the remainder of his minor league career, and his personal thoughts about the reserve clause, player strikes, modern-day salaries, and expansion.
Date:
May 28, 1999
Creator:
Marcello, Ronald E. & Crumling, Eugene L.
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The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Robert W. Wilson, June 6, 2001
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Interview with airline pilot and Army Air Forces veteran Robert W. Wilson. The interview includes Wilson's personal experiences about being B-25 pilot in the Pacific Theater during World War II, basic training, college preparatory courses, flight training, and various missions. Wilson talks about his pre-war job experiences, flying conditions over the Owen Stanley Mountains, Operation OBOE, leave time in Sydney, Australia, the move to Palawan, Philippines, missions to French Indo-China, attitudes and feelings towards the deaths of comrades, and postwar adjustments. The interview includes an appendix with supplementary documents.
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June 6, 2001
Creator:
Marcello, Ronald E. & Wilson, Robert W.
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The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with James F. Brede, 2011
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Interview with James F. Brede, dentist and U.S. Army Air Forces veteran. The interview includes his personal experiences in World War II as a B-17 co-pilot with the 8th Air Force in the European Theater, his childhood in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, enlistment in the U.S. Army Air Forces in 1943, preliminary training in Tennessee, Alabama, Missouri, Arkansas, and Texas, his active service with the 379th Bomb Group in Kimbolton, England, combat experience in 35 missions, return to the U.S. and continued military service as a flight instructor in Lakeland, Florida and Wichita Falls, Texas, as well as the return to civilian life, marriage, dental school under the G.I. Bill, reenlistment in the Air Force as a dentist, his deployment to Korea, his discharge from the Air Force, and the establishment of his dental practice and experiences since retirement. The interview includes an appendix with a copy of his book.
Date:
March 30, 2011
Creator:
Fox, Lisa A. & Brede, James F.
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The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Mary Jane Dellinger, May 26, 2000
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Interview with Mary Jane Dellinger. The interview includes Dellinger's personal experiences about working as a riveter at Armstrong Cork and Rubber Company during World War II, and assembling time fuses for bombs at the Hamilton Watch Company. Dellinger also talks about pre-war work experience in silk mills, effects of the Great Depression on her family, her marriage to Clair Dellinger, personal motivations for seeking defense work, her decision to change jobs and work for Armstrong Cork and Rubber Company, her work on the F4U Corsair fuselage assembly line, sexual harassment, production incentives and awards, war bond drives, shift work, transportation arrangements, and her decision to quit.
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May 26, 2000
Creator:
Marcello, Ronald E. & Dellinger, Mary Jane
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The UNT Digital Library
Minutes and Proceedings of the Twenty-Fourth National Assembly of The Links, Inc., July 1984
This conference is a biennial meeting of chapters of The Links, Inc. located in the United States. Conference proceedings include a program of events, reports, financial statements, committee membership lists, and other information relevant to the national meeting of The Links, Inc. The theme for this year's conference is "Making History -- Providing Hope."
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July 1984
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Links, Inc. National Assembly.
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The Portal to Texas History
Official Reports to the Twenty-Fourth National Assembly of The Links, Incorporated, July 1984
This book contains reports from the national officers and program directors of The Links, Inc., about the activities of the national level of the organization from 1982-1984. It was presented to the 24th National Assembly. This conference is a biennial meeting of chapters of The Links, Inc. located in the United States.
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July 1984
Creator:
Links, Inc. National Assembly.
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The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Larry Canfield, February 22, 1992
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Interview with Larry Canfield, a veteran army nurse from Pennsylvania. This interview contains his experiences as an army nurse in Vietnam. It includes his assignment to the 93rd Evacuation Hospital, 935th Medical Detachment, Long Binh. Living conditions, morale problems, recreation, medical treatment of enemy POWs, and racial problems are discussed.
Date:
February 22, 1992
Creator:
Houser, Cindy & Canfield, Larry
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The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Thomas A. Chipman, May 21, 1999
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Interview with Thomas A. Chipman, who is a World War II veteran and restaurant business owner from Hill City, Kansas. In the interview, Chipman discusses his experiences as a medic and driver in the European Theatre during the war. He describes what basic training and his induction into the Army was like, and also talks a little bit about when he was sent to the Pennsylvania Military College to earn a degree in engineering. Chipman recollects when his battalion was transported to England and France in order to fight in several battles that included the Battle of the Bulge. He describes what it was like to stay in Europe, and includes details such as the attitudes toward battlefield carnage, the evacuation and transport of the dead and wounded, the capture of German prisoners-of-war, and civilian refugees. Chipman reminisces of the German surrender and his return to the United States, where he started a restaurant business career.
Date:
May 21, 1999
Creator:
Marcello, Ronald E. & Chipman, Thomas A.
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The UNT Digital Library
Base Visit Book
Contains Base Visit Book (NMC9)Navy/MC- Naval Station Joint Reserve Base, Willow Grove, Pennsylvania.
Date:
December 14, 2005
Creator:
United States. Defense Base Closure and Realignment Commission.
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The UNT Digital Library
NMC9 Base Visit Book NAS Willow Grove, PA
NMC9 Base Visit Book NAS Willow Grove, PA
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November 2, 2005
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United States. Defense Base Closure and Realignment Commission.
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The UNT Digital Library
Memorandum: Validation of Data for Base Realignment and Closure 2005, Tobyhanna Army Depot (Project Code A-2003-IMT-0440.063), Audit Report: A-2004-0509-IMT - DTD 14 September 2004
DISREGARD RESTRICTION HEADER AND FOOTER - Memorandum: Validation of Data for Base Realignment and Closure 2005, Tobyhanna Army Depot (Project Code A-2003-IMT-0440.063), Audit Report: A-2004-0509-IMT - DTD 14 September 2004
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September 14, 2005
Creator:
United States. Department of Defense.
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The UNT Digital Library
Base Visit Trip Report – Kelly Support Center/Pitt U.S. Army Reserve Center, Coraopolis, PA
Base Visit Trip Report – Kelly Support Center/Pitt U.S. Army Reserve Center, Coraopolis, PA
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August 11, 2005
Creator:
United States. Defense Base Closure and Realignment Commission.
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The UNT Digital Library
Base Visit Trip Report - Navy Crane Center Lester - PA
Summary of Base Visit to Naval Facilities Engineering Field Activity Navy Crane Center, 11 July 2005
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August 9, 2005
Creator:
United States. Defense Base Closure and Realignment Commission.
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The UNT Digital Library
Base Visit Trip Report - Naval Support Activity Philadelphia PA
Base Visit Trip Report - Naval Support Activity Philadelphia PA
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August 9, 2005
Creator:
United States. Defense Base Closure and Realignment Commission.
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The UNT Digital Library