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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
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Prison] (open access)

[News Script: Prison]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about a disturbance at Windsor state prison in Vermont which ended with the release of two guards who held hostage by inmates.
Date: July 9, 1973, 6:30 a.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library