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Oral History Interview with Evelyn Brown, October 30, 2007

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Interview with Evelyn Brown, Vietnam War-era veteran of the US Navy, as part of the Tarrant County War Veterans Oral History Project. The interview includes Brown's personal experiences of childhood and education in Pennsylvania, attending nursing school, enlisting in the Navy Nurse Corps, and being involved with veterans organizations. Additionally, Brown discusses her coming out experience, her assignment to facilities in Florida, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, Camp Lejeune, N.C., and Quantico, Virginia, her decision to leave service upon assignment to USS Sanctuary, a hospital ship stationed off the coast of Vietnam, and her opinions regarding the "don't ask, don't tell" policy.
Date: October 30, 2007
Creator: Mims, Dennis Michael & Brown, Evelyn
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with R. Bruce Porter, September 30, 2000 (open access)

Oral History Interview with R. Bruce Porter, September 30, 2000

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with R. Bruce Porter. After a few years of college at the University of Southern California, Porter joined the Marines as an aviation cadet. After training on the F4F, Porter was assigned to Squadron 111 and shipped out on the USS Garfield to American Samoa. Porter mentions training with and talking with Joe Foss when his squadron passed through Apia. Porter then went to Turtle Bay, New Caledonia. He next flew F4F's in Guadalcanal in 1943. Their squadron then switched to the Corsair plane. Porter then started moving ""up the slot"" toward Japan gradually moving north with his squadron. Later, Porter returned to the states to train on F6F's and joined a night fighter squadron. He was assigned as a squadron commander in Okinawa. He discusses blowing up a plane with a ""baka"" bomb on it. Porter's record is an ace, with five official kills and one probable. Porter witnessed the surrender party preparing for the official surrender. He stayed in Japan for four months after the occupation.
Date: September 30, 2000
Creator: Porter, R. Bruce
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Broilers: For Week Ending December 26, 1987 (open access)

Texas Broilers: For Week Ending December 26, 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 November 21 to the week ending December 26, during 1986 and 1987 for broiler eggs set, chicks hatched, and chicks placed.
Date: December 30, 1987
Creator: Texas Agricultural Statistics Service
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Broilers: For Week Ending September 26, 1987 (open access)

Texas Broilers: For Week Ending September 26, 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 August 22 to the week ending September 26, during 1986 and 1987 for broiler eggs set, chicks hatched, and chicks placed.
Date: September 30, 1987
Creator: Texas Agricultural Statistics Service
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Aquatic Ecological Classification and Evaluation of Streams and Stream Reaches in the Upper Roanoke River Basin, Virginia (open access)

Aquatic Ecological Classification and Evaluation of Streams and Stream Reaches in the Upper Roanoke River Basin, Virginia

The purpose of this study is to "establish a data base and methodology for classifying...the streams of the Roanoke Basin into a hierarchy of ecological systems" and to "establish evaluative criteria and methodology for classifying and ranking streams within the ecological systems relative to their state of environmental quality" (p. R1).
Date: March 30, 1979
Creator: North Texas State University. Institute of Applied Sciences.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Letter from W. P. Ikenberry to T. N. Carswell - September 30, 1970] (open access)

[Letter from W. P. Ikenberry to T. N. Carswell - September 30, 1970]

A letter written to Mr. T. N. Carswell, Abilene, Texas from W. P. Ikenberry, Executive Vice-President, Whiting Oil Company, Clifton Forge, Virginia, dated September 30, 1970. Ikenberry expresses his pleasure of past aquaintance with Mrs. Carswell and Peggy and the feeling that he knew Carswell because of the number of times Mrs. Whiting spoke of him. He advises that he enclosed a certified copy of a resolution in respect to the memory of their late president, Mrs. Milton B. Whiting.
Date: September 30, 1970
Creator: Ikenberry, W. P.
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[News Clip: Widow to receive Medal of Honor] captions transcript

[News Clip: Widow to receive Medal of Honor]

Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about Mary Hubbard being presented the Congressional Medal of Honor awarded to her late husband.
Date: November 30, 1954
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Widow to receive Medal of Honor] (open access)

[News Script: Widow to receive Medal of Honor]

Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Mary Hubbard being presented the Congressional Medal of Honor awarded to her late husband.
Date: November 30, 1954
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Letter from Milton Whiting to T. N. Carswell - December 30, 1948] (open access)

[Letter from Milton Whiting to T. N. Carswell - December 30, 1948]

A letter written to Mr. T. N. Carswell, Abilene, Texas from Milton Whiting, Clifton Forge, Virginia, dated December 30, 1948. Whiting expresses his appreciation to Carswell for the tie given to him for Christmas. He advises that he is returning the cancelled check and restates that Carswell owes nothing on the car.
Date: December 30, 1948
Creator: Whiting, Milton
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History