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Oral History Interview with Sam Holt, March 9, 1977 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Sam Holt, March 9, 1977

Interview with Sam Holt, a church member from Holtsville, Tennessee. The interview includes Holt discussing church history, his background within it, his life from childhood, and race relations in the community he was raised in. The interview also includes Holt's recounting of the history of interracial children during and after slavery and his family's connection to it.
Date: March 9, 1977
Creator: Boyd, R. Vernon & Holt, Sam
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Client Card: Mr. Samuel A. Cashwan] (open access)

[Client Card: Mr. Samuel A. Cashwan]

Client card describing work completed at the Roman Bronze Works Foundry for Mr. Samuel A. Cashwan, including a job number, brief description, monetary amount, and dates associated with each entry. This work order includes numerous portrait reliefs, plaster models, a bronze busts of individuals. The second client card contains information for Samuel Cashwin.
Date: 1929-03/1963-01
Creator: Roman Bronze Works Foundry
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Al Stevens, March 27, 2006 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Al Stevens, March 27, 2006

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Al Stevens. He graduated from Michigan State University in 1943 as a metallurgical engineer. He enlisted in the Navy in 1944 in Detroit, Michigan. He attended the Navy Electronics School at Harvard University as well as a specialized radar training program organized by MIT at the Harbor Building in Boston, Massachusetts. He received further training in radar countermeasures at Ocracoke Island, North Carolina. He served on the USS Wasatch (ACG-9). When the ship was anchored, he was assigned to deliver orders and mail. He describes the Operation Olympic portion of the plan to invade Japan. He was part of the force that occupied Wakanoura and Nagoya, Japan. He shares an anecdote about obtaining a Japanese sword as a souvenir in Nagoya. In North China he participated in the repatriation of the Japanese, Chinese, and Koreans. He wrote a book, ?Up Close and Personal,? about his World War II experiences.
Date: March 27, 2006
Creator: Stevens, Al
System: The Portal to Texas History