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Oral History Interview with C. M. ("Hank") Hudspeth, May 3, 1993
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Interview with Hank Hudspeth, a Navy veteran, concerning his experiences as a cryptographer in the Pacific Theater during World War II. Hudspeth discusses his assignment to COMSOPAC at Noumea in New Caledonia, the intricacies of sending and receiving various classifications of coded messages, and the ambush of Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto's plane in 1943.
Date:
May 3, 1993
Creator:
Daniels, John & Hudspeth, C. M.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Charles H. Tucker, April 18, 2017
The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Charles H. Tucker from Orange, California. He discusses volunteering for the U.S. Army Air Corps in 1943 and going to basic training in Miami Beach, Florida, then going to Aircraft Armament School in Buckley Field, Colorado, and finally air gunnery school in Fort Myers, Florida. In air gunnery school, Mr. Tucker learned to shoot in B-17 by shooting into the Gulf of Mexico. After gunnery school he was sent to the B-25 crew training at Columbia, South Carolina for 5 months. After Mr. Tucker completed his training, he was transferred to Dacca to a B-25 base and joined the 10th Air Force, the 12th Bomb Group. When he arrived his crew pilots were reassigned, and Mr. Tucker was not able to fly much until he was assigned to a regular crew again. Mr. Tucker was put in the 729th bomb squadron tasked with supporting the British 14th Army against the Japanese forces in Burma. The campaign he was involved in ended in May 1945 with the capture of Rangoon, the main city of Burma and Mr. tucker was in one of the squadron planes that flew over the …
Date:
April 18, 2017
Creator:
Tucker, Charles H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Voris C. Riley, November 1, 2005
The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Voris C. Riley of Kingland, Texas. He discusses enlisting in the military while living in Abilene, Texas and getting sent to civil service for the Army before being offered to join the Navy. In the Navy he went through basic training in San Diego, California, then to St. Louis Electrical School and finally through firefighting training in Rhode Island. After he completed his training Mr. Riley was assigned to the U.S.S. Lake Champain, CB 39 and went on a shakedown cruise where 16 crewmen were lost for various reasons. In the Navy he was an electrician aboard the ship and dealt with setting up electricity onshore. He also dealt with Prisoners of War, being put in charge of a group of them to build a swimming pool. He was in New York City on temporary leave when the news of the wars end was released by President Truman. Mr. Voris also talks about serving in the Civilian Conservation Corps in New Mexico.
Date:
November 1, 2005
Creator:
Riley, Voris C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Alan Pilot, August 10, 2010
The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Alan Pilot. Pilot joined the Army in January 1943 and received basic training at Camp Howze. He received further training in Louisiana for the European Theater and then in California for the Pacific Theater. In January he left for Camp Old Gold at La Havre, where he served as a combat medic, supporting Companies E, G, and H of the 343rd Infantry, 86th Division. His unit relieved the 8th Division and fought in Cologne, where he was stationed at the top of the cathedral while it was being shelled. In the Ruhr Pocket a defective shell landed 10 feet away from him. He recalls seeing 100,000 Germans surrender there. He describes the Bavarian people as friendly as he passed through Austria on VE Day. He was then sent to the Pacific as part of Operation Coronet. VJ Day came while he was still crossing the Pacific. He spent the last five months of his service in the Philippines at a quiet outpost while the rest of his unit prepared the Philippines for independence. Pilot returned home and was discharged in January 1946.
Date:
August 10, 2010
Creator:
Pilot, Alan
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Afton Keeton, August 30, 2007
The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Afton Keeton. Keeton joined the Navy in July of 1942. He completed Hospital Corps School and became a Pharmacist Mate. He first served aboard the USS Sea Dragon (SS-194). They patrolled the Aleutian Islands. He was then stationed at the Submarine Base in Pearl Harbor, working in a sick bay. He then served aboard the USS Apollo (AS-25) with a relief crew. He provides some detail of working aboard a submarine, serving as the Doc, living conditions and undergoing his own appendectomy aboard the Apollo. In early 1945 he was assigned for 1 year to serve at a submarine base in St. Thomas. He then served as hospital corpsman on the USS Clamagore (SS-343). Keeton also worked on sonar watch, radar watch and as a cook during his time in the Navy. He spent a total of 30 years in the Navy, retiring in February of 1972.
Date:
August 30, 2007
Creator:
Keeton, Afton
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Albert Day, February 23, 2004
The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Albert Day. Day was born in Olney, Texas 23 September 1921 and graduated from high school in Vivian, Louisiana in 1942. Upon joining the Navy 4 June 1942, he was sent to The Great Lakes Naval Training Station for boot training. Afterwards, Day was assigned to the Amphibious Forces at Solomons, Maryland for training where he learned navigation and signal communications. Completing the course in October 1942 he went to Redwood City, California for further training. Assigned to LCT(5)-62, he describes the size, propulsion, crew compliment and purpose of the craft. Day tells of breaking the LCT into sections that were put aboard an AKA and sailing to New Caledonia arriving in December 1942. On a trip to Guadalcanal he witnessed a Japanese plane dropping a bomb on the USS De Haven (DD-469). He recalls a night trip to New Georgia when he saw St. Elmo’s fire on the railing of his ship. At Tulagi on 7 April 1943, Day personally shot down an attacking Japanese plane. He participated in the invasion of Iwo Jima and tells of being on the USS Estes (ACG-12) and describes an intense …
Date:
February 23, 2004
Creator:
Day, Albert
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Afton Keeton, April 5, 2003
The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Afton Keeton. Keeton joined the Navy in early 1942. He completed Hospital Corps School, and served as a Pharmacist’s Mate. He volunteered for Submarine School. From 1944 through the end of the war, Keeton worked in the sick bays aboard USS Seadragon (SS-194) and USS Tilefish (SS-307). He shares numerous anecdotes of his work aboard the submarines, though does not go into detail of where they traveled through the Pacific. Keeton continued his service after World War II, and retired in February of 1972.
Date:
April 5, 2003
Creator:
Keeton, Afton
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Aaron C. Kulow
The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Aaron C. Kulow. Kulow grew up in Michigan and enlisted in the Navy in 1942. After training, he joined the ship USS Pollux AKS-4 at Norfolk, Virginia. Initially the ship runs trips down to the Carribbean and Brazil but in 1943 is fitted with radar and sent to the Pacific Theater. In the Pacific, the general stores issue ship visited Australia, New Guinea, the Admiralty Islands, and the New Hebrides Islands. He then returned to San Francisco in 1944 where his wife met him to get married. He left for the Pacific again and in 1945 traveled to the Philippines. In 1945 Kulow met survivors of the Bataan Death March that had been liberated. He remembers going to a friend's burial in the Philippines. On V-J Day Kulow was at Manila Harbor. He left for America in October 1945 and was discharged in New York December 12, 1945.
Date:
unknown
Creator:
Kulow, Aaron C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Anne Sloan, September 11, 2000
The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Anne Sloan. Sloan grew up in Oregon and joined the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps in 1944. She spent time at Fort Des Moines, Iowa; Plattsburgh, New York; Camp Davis, North Carolina; Lexington, Virginia; and San Antonio, Texas before she left the service in 1946. She was at Times Square, New York City on V-E Day. After the service, she used the GI Bill to attend the University of Texas at Austin, where she met her husband. She later became a teacher.
Date:
September 11, 2000
Creator:
Sloan, Anne
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
["Women of Color" Exhibit Price List - 1987]
Price list for artworks shown at the "Women of Color" exhibit at the Security National Bank in Shreveport, Louisiana. The showing was held from January 30 through February 28, 1987.
Date:
January 1987
Creator:
Theatre of the Performing Arts
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Statement from B'nai B'rith Bowling Tournament, June 4, 1962]
Statement from Texas-Louisiana B'nai B'rith Bowling Tournament sent to H. Kempner for charges related to a program book advertisement.
Date:
June 4, 1962
Creator:
B'nai B'rith Bowling Tournament
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Nell Joyce Goodwin Lenard, March 12, 2012
Transcript of an interview with Nell Lenard, secretary, administrative assistant, homemaker, and community organizer, who helped bring senior citizen's center, the Dietert Center to the city of Kerrville, Texas. Born and raised in Shreveport, Louisiana, she and her husband John Houston Lenard lived in Tomball, near Houston, before moving to Kerrville with their family. Nell raised four boys and a girl and was heavily involved in her their lives and activities.
Date:
March 12, 2012
Creator:
Collins, Francelle Robison; Stephens, Louis & Lenard, Nell Joyce Goodwin
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Work Order and Invoice for Otis Elevator Company, 1955]
Service order detailing a request for an elevator to be removed from a residence in Louisiana and re-installed in the Kempner residence in Galveston, along with the notes and estimated cost of $2,954.00, which is marked paid with a Kempner stamp dated October 10, 1955.
Date:
October 1955
Creator:
Otis Elevator Company
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Cost of Elevator Installation]
Ledger itemizing the cost of installing an elevator at the residence of Mr. D. W. Kempner, totaling $969,087.
Date:
November 30, 1955
Creator:
unknown
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Invoice for Transport Fee, June 1952]
Invoice for D. W. Kempner by French Line, including transport for Mr. & Mrs. D. W. Kempner and Miss. Gladys Kempner to and from New York to Le Havre worth $2793.
Date:
June 27, 1952
Creator:
French Line
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Invoice for Charges for Shipment, December 1952]
Invoice for items sold to W. R. Zanes & Company and D. V. Kempner by American Express Company, including charges covering the shipment of 1 wooden case frame with prints worth $33.9.
Date:
December 16, 1952
Creator:
American Express Company
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Business Card for Jack B. Manning of the Texas Automatic Sprinkler Co.]
Business card for Jack B. Manning of the Texas Automatic Sprinkler Co.. It lists the cities the company is present in and has a logo featuring the word "Viking" on the top left corner of the card.
Date:
1950
Creator:
Texas Automatic Sprinkler Co.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Business Card for Jack B. Manning of Texas Automatic Sprinkler Co.]
Business card for Jack B. Manning from Texas Automatic Sprinkler Co. in multiple cities.
Date:
1949~
Creator:
Texas Automatic Sprinkler Co.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Business Card for Texas Automatic Sprinkler Co.]
Business card from Texas Automatic Sprinkler Co, which does business in multiple cities.
Date:
1952~
Creator:
Texas Automatic Sprinkler Co.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[UT Students' Army Training Corps Memo Number 33]
Memorandum outlining the Depot Zone plan to facilitate the distribution of quartermaster supplies in Oklahoma, Arkansas, Louisiana, and Texas.
Date:
November 19, 1918
Creator:
Boyle, John B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Invoice for Charges from Reuter Seed Co., Inc., March 31, 1957]
Invoice for charges made to Mrs. L. A. Adoue by Reuter Seed Co., Inc. The final balance due was $6.25; the invoice was marked on the 8th of April, 1957.
Date:
March 31, 1957
Creator:
Reuter Seed Company, Incorporated
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Invoice for Cooking Materials, May 18, 1894]
Invoice for items sold to C. C. Cox by H. Henke and Company, including salt, vinegar, flour, meat, and related foodstuffs.
Date:
May 18, 1894
Creator:
H. Henke and Company
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Invoice for Cooking Materials, April 18, 1894]
Invoice for items sold to C. C. Cox by H. Henke and Company, including salt, flour, vinegar, oil, and related items.
Date:
April 18, 1894
Creator:
H. Henke and Company
System:
The Portal to Texas History