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DART accelerates opening date for DFW Airport Station (open access)

DART accelerates opening date for DFW Airport Station

News release about the opening of DART's light rail extension to DFW airport, ahead of schedule and under budget.
Date: March 25, 2014
Creator: Lyons, Morgan & Ball, Mark
System: The Portal to Texas History
Information Security: VA Needs to Address Long-Standing Challenges (open access)

Information Security: VA Needs to Address Long-Standing Challenges

Testimony issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) continues to face long-standing challenges in effectively implementing its information security program. Specifically, from fiscal year 2007 through 2013, VA has consistently had weaknesses in key information security control areas (see table)."
Date: March 25, 2014
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Cecil Groves, March 25, 2014 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Cecil Groves, March 25, 2014

The National Museum of The Pacific War presents an oral interview with Cecil Groves. Groves was born in a small hamlet in Arkansas in 1920. He quit school in seventh grade to help his father make a living for a family of ten. Drafted in 1941, he underwent basic training at Miami Beach. He was sent to Fresno, California where he was assigned to the Signal Corps and attended telephone linesman school. Completing school, he was sent to New Guinea where he was assigned to the communication section in the 54th Troop Carrier Wing. He tells of being assigned to various bases including the Port Moresby Airfield Complex, Clark Field in the Philippines, and Tachikawa, Japan. He was discharged in 1945.
Date: March 25, 2014
Creator: Groves, Cecil
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Gilbert Esensee, March 25, 2014 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Gilbert Esensee, March 25, 2014

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Gilbert Esensee. Esensee was born in Fredericksburg, Texas, on 6 August 1925, into a family of eight children. In 1944, he joined the Army and took basic training at Camp Roberts, California. He was then sent to La Havre, France, where he joined the 29th Infantry Division, 175th Infantry Regiment. Esensee was involved in combat action along the Roer River, where he was wounded. He also tells of German soldiers swimming the Elbe River, to avoid capture by Russian troops.
Date: March 25, 2014
Creator: Esensee, Gilbert
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Wilbur Vantine, March 25, 2014 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Wilbur Vantine, March 25, 2014

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Wilbur Vantine. In June, 1943, Vantine joined the Merchant Marine. He delivered aviation fuel to Milne Bay in New Guinea on his first voyage and bombs to New Caledonia before returning to the Merchant Marine Academy in New York and earning a commission in the Navy Reserve in April, 1945. Once he graduated, Vantine was assigned to a liberty ship and went to Liverpool. He was in New York on VJ Day. In 1957, he became a Panama Canal pilot and retired in 1997.
Date: March 25, 2014
Creator: Vantine, Wilbur
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Ethics Commission Campaign Finance Guide for Candidates and Officeholders Who File with the Texas Ethics Commission (open access)

Texas Ethics Commission Campaign Finance Guide for Candidates and Officeholders Who File with the Texas Ethics Commission

Campaign finance guide for those who file with the Texas Ethics Commission with instructions and guidelines for those running for office.
Date: March 25, 2014
Creator: Texas Ethics Commission
System: The Portal to Texas History