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Oral History Interview with Gail Halvorsen, March 21, 2016

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Interview with Col. Gail Halvorsen, a Air Force veteran from Salt Lake City, Utah, who took part in the Berlin Airlift. Halvorsen discusses his family background, growing up, learning to fly, joining the Air Corps and flying various missions around the Atlantic during WWII, experiences in the Berlin Airlift, and relationships with Germans he affected. In appendix are various photos of and by Halvorsen from throughout his career, and letters he received from German children.
Date: March 21, 2016
Creator: Moody, Kimberly & Halvorsen, Gail Seymour
System: The UNT Digital Library
Dallas Area Rapid Transit Reference Book, Version 7.0 (open access)

Dallas Area Rapid Transit Reference Book, Version 7.0

Annual compilation of information about the DART system. Provides key data, maps, and contacts.
Date: March 2016
Creator: Dallas Area Rapid Transit
System: The Portal to Texas History

Raza Rising: Chicanos in North Texas

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Book about Chicano and Latino experiences in North Texas, based on the author's personal history, newspaper articles, community input, and other sources. Chapters address education, culture, politics, heritage, and related topics.
Date: March 2016
Creator: Gonzales, Richard J.
System: The UNT Digital Library

WASP of the Ferry Command: Women Pilots, Uncommon Deeds

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WASP of the Ferry Command is the story of the women ferry pilots who flew more than nine million miles in 72 different aircraft—115,000 pilot hours—for the Ferrying Division, Air Transport Command, during World War II. In the spring of 1942, Col. William H. Tunner lacked sufficient male pilots to move vital trainer aircraft from the factory to the training fields. Nancy Love found 28 experienced women pilots who could do the job. They, along with graduates of the Army’s flight training school for women—established by Jacqueline Cochran—performed this duty until fall 1943, when manufacture of trainers ceased. In December 1943 the women ferry pilots went back to school to learn to fly high-performance WWII fighters, known as pursuits. By January 1944 they began delivering high performance P-51s, 47s, and 39s. Prior to D-Day and beyond, P-51s were crucial to the air war over Germany. They had the range to escort B-17s and B-24s from England to Berlin and back on bombing raids that ultimately brought down the German Reich. Getting those pursuits to the docks in New Jersey for shipment abroad became these women’s primary job. Ultimately, more than one hundred WASP pursuit pilots were engaged in this vital …
Date: March 2016
Creator: Rickman, Sarah Byrn
System: The UNT Digital Library