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Oral History Interview with Robert W. Pratt, August 17, 2016 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Robert W. Pratt, August 17, 2016

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Robert W. Pratt. He discusses his family and his childhood growing up during the great depression. He describes his time in midshipmen's school and his experiences fighting in the Pacific Theatre of World War Two.
Date: August 17, 2016
Creator: Pratt, Robert W. & Misenhimer, Richard
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Robert Pratt, August 17, 2016 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Robert Pratt, August 17, 2016

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Robert Pratt. Pratt joined the Navy while in college and was finally called to active duty in July 1943. Then he went to midshipman school at Northwestern University, finishing in May 1944 with a commission. His first assignment was to USS LST-781, being assembled in Pittsburgh. Pratt tells several stories about being aboard USS LST-781 and going down the Mississippi River, through the Panama Canal and through several islands in the Pacific. Pratt was discharged in August, 1946.
Date: August 17, 2016
Creator: Pratt, Robert
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Ralph Crocker, August 12, 2016 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Ralph Crocker, August 12, 2016

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Ralph Crocker. Crocker joined the Naval Reserve in 1942 at Texas A&M, and was called to active duty in the spring of 1943. He studied civil engineering at Rice University for eight semesters. He then completed Officer Candidate School at Camp Endicott, Davisville, Rhode Island. He served with the Civil Engineer Corps as a Seabee, and worked as an operations officer on Espiritu Santos, New Hebrides. He and the enlisted men he was supervising worked as stevedores, loading and unloading ships. They were assigned to the 4th Marine Division. In 1945, Crocker and his Seabees were located at Luzon when the atomic bomb was dropped. Crocker then served in Sasebo, Japan during the occupation. He returned to the US and received his discharge in mid-1946.
Date: August 12, 2016
Creator: Crocker, Ralph
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Robert Lowe, August 3, 2016 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Robert Lowe, August 3, 2016

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Robert Lowe. Lowe joined the Army Air Forces in October 1944. He completed basic training in Wichita Falls, Texas, gunnery school in Fort Myers, Florida and Clovis, New Mexico. His training consisted of simulation bombing flights over Syracuse, New York and Havana, Cuba. Lowe completed reconnaissance training in Salina, Kansas. He was later transferred to Lincoln, Nebraska where he was assigned to a bomb crew to serve as a B-29 tail gunner. For Lowe, the war ended before he could be deployed overseas or complete any combat missions. He was assigned to Fort Sheridan, Illinois, where he received his discharge in August of 1946.
Date: August 3, 2016
Creator: Lowe, Robert
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Carl Stevens, August 29, 2016 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Carl Stevens, August 29, 2016

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Carl Stevens. Stevens joined the U.S. Army Air Forces Aviation Cadet College Reserve April 1943. He was in the Air Training Command. He served as an Aviation Cadet. He went to Kessler Field in Mississippi for training, then on to Memphis State College for college training. Then he moved on to Scott Field, Illinois to learn radio operator mechanics. He moved on and while in the middle of B-29 flight engineer school the war in the Pacific ended. Overall he was either in training or served as an instructor. The day after the war ended he applied for resignation and resigned November of 1945. He joined the Tennessee Air Guard, serving as their Special Service Officer and later as an aide-de-camp to the commanding general. He was transferred in April of 1951 to Texas. He served with the Guard in Texas as a first lieutenant and aid to the commanding general. He utilized his G.I. Bill at Vanderbilt University.
Date: August 29, 2016
Creator: Stevens, Carl
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Jeremiah Tuttle, August 26, 2016 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Jeremiah Tuttle, August 26, 2016

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Jeremiah Tuttle. Tuttle joined the Navy in January 1943 and trained at Great Lakes in gunnery and fire control. When complete, he reported aboard the USS Bache (DD-470) and they headed for the Aleutian Islands. He was also aboard the ship when it was attached to the 7th Fleet and operated around New Guinea. He shares several anecdotes of his time aboard and R&R in Australia. He was aboard when the invasion of the Philippines commenced. He returned to the US and attended another gunnery school and was aboard another ship headed for the Pacific when he received his discharge in March, 1946. He was recalled for the Korean War and served aboard the USS Alfred A. Cunningham (DD-752).
Date: August 26, 2016
Creator: Tuttle, Jeremiah
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Arthur Wages, August 18, 2016 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Arthur Wages, August 18, 2016

The National Museum of the pacific War presents an interview with Arthur Wages. Wages joined the Navy in February 1943 and trained at Great Lakes and then attended quartermaster school in Rhode Island. When he got overseas to New Caledonia, he was assigned to the USS Washington (BB-56) in late 1943. He was aboard when the Washington was involved in a collision at sea. After a brief home leave and repairs, Wages returned to the ship and participated in the action at the Mariana Islands, the Palaus, the Philippines and others. He was aboard when the war ended and was discharged in February, 1946.
Date: August 18, 2016
Creator: Wages, Arthur
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with William Katavolos, August 20, 2016 (open access)

Oral History Interview with William Katavolos, August 20, 2016

The National Museum of The Pacific War presents an interview with William Katavolos. Katavolos was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1924. He tells of being friends, as a youngster, with a German family who was arrested as being German spies and the circumstances that contributed to the charge. He was drafted into the Army Air Forces in 1942 and was sent to Fort Benjamin Harrison for training as an X-Ray Technician. Later, he was assigned to Wendover Air Force Base, Utah. Katavolos tells of his experiences there, including a fateful meeting with Colonel Paul Tibbetts resulting in his transfer to Davis-Monthan Army Air Field, Arizona. Katavolos was later assigned to the 311th Station Hospital in Manila, Philippines. He expresses his opinion of the worthiness of General Eichelberger. Katavolos was discharged in mid-1946.
Date: August 20, 2016
Creator: Katavolos, William
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Hubert Kosub, August 18, 2016 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Hubert Kosub, August 18, 2016

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Hubert Kosub. Kosub continues his original conversation which was recorded in 2014 (Oral History # 04158). He relates his experience aboard USS Lyra (AK-101) as it escorted a group of floating dry docks when they sailed from the US to the Admiralty Islands. He tells of the construction and purpose of docks. Kosub was discharged in late 1945.
Date: August 18, 2016
Creator: Kosub, Hubert
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Juventino Mata, August 16, 2016 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Juventino Mata, August 16, 2016

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Juventino Mata. Mata was born of Mexican-American parents on a ranch in Imperial County, California. He recalls being forced to flee Mexico as a youngster due to the Cristero War conducted by the Mexican dictator Elias Calles. In the US, Mata attended a segregated school to the 8th grade at which time he quit to contribute to the family income. He tells of the family working as itinerate farm workers, picking various crops throughout California. In 1942, he was drafted into the US Army Air Forces. Upon completion of basic training, he joined the 29th Fighter Group, 55th Fighter Squadron and went to England aboard HMS Queen Elizabeth. There he became a cook for the unit. He tells of the missions of the 55th Fighter Squadron and the various types of fighter planes they flew. Mata was discharged in late 1945.
Date: August 16, 2016
Creator: Mata, Juventino
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Dick Bulington, August 11, 2016 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Dick Bulington, August 11, 2016

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Dick Bulington. Bulington joined the Army in January 1946. He completed his training at Fort McClellan, Alabama. He had weapons training. After basic training he was sent to Germany in April 1946. They landed in Le Havre, France and went by train to Germany. He served in the 508th Military Police Battalion in Munich. He was then transferred to the 1st Infantry Division. He served partially as an MP with the division and as a guard during the Nuremberg War Crime Trials in Germany. He was discharged April 1949. He provides some description of civilian life in Germany. He continued helping on his family’s farm when he returned home.
Date: August 11, 2016
Creator: Bulington, Dick
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Charles Baldwin, August 9, 2016 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Charles Baldwin, August 9, 2016

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Charles Baldwin. Baldwin was learning to fly through the Civilian Pilot Training program when he was called to active duty in January, 1943. After basic training, he went to flight training. He graduated and was commissioned in March, 1944. Baldwin was sent to France in November, 1944 and attached to the 36th Fighter Group, 23rd Fighter Squadron and began flying combat missions in a P-47. He flew 51 combat missions before the war ended and shares several anecdotes about his experiences. Baldwin was discharged in December 1945, but stayed in the Reserves until 1982.
Date: August 9, 2016
Creator: Baldwin, Charles
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with William Lawrence, August 3, 2016 (open access)

Oral History Interview with William Lawrence, August 3, 2016

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with William Lawrence. Lawrence graduated high school in 1938 or 1939. He then joined the Navy and completed boot camp in California. He served aboard the USS Portland (CA-33) as a radar operator. He did not go to school to learn the radar, he learned what he needed to know aboard the ship. His ship was torpedoed during the Naval Battle at Guadalcanal in 1942. After the ship was repaired they stayed in the Pacific. He served for three years and three months. Once he was discharged he worked for a local delivery dairy in Santa Rosa.
Date: August 3, 2016
Creator: Lawrence, William
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Tina - Against All Odds video production notes] (open access)

[Tina - Against All Odds video production notes]

Notes written by the Latte Media Group containing changes made to the video production for the musical, "Tina - Against All Odds," produced by the Black Academy of Arts and Letters as part of their 2016 Summer Youth Arts Institute.
Date: August 2016
Creator: Latte Media Group
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Tina - Against All Odds staff list] (open access)

[Tina - Against All Odds staff list]

List compiled by the Latte Media Group containing names associated with the musical, "Tina - Against All Odds," produced by the Black Academy of Arts and Letters as part of their 2016 Summer Youth Arts Institute.
Date: August 2016
Creator: Latte Media Group
System: The UNT Digital Library
DART Vehicles Help Victimized Youth Get to a 'Safe Place' (open access)

DART Vehicles Help Victimized Youth Get to a 'Safe Place'

News release about DART's partnership with the Safe Place program, in which DART vehicle operators have been trained to get at risk youth to a Safe Place facility.
Date: August 10, 2016
Creator: Lyons, Morgan & Ball, Mark
System: The Portal to Texas History
New DART Service Starts August 29 for Oak Cliff, Downtown Dallas and Design District (open access)

New DART Service Starts August 29 for Oak Cliff, Downtown Dallas and Design District

News release about the opening of a Dallas Streetcar extension and accompanying adjustments in bus service.
Date: August 15, 2016
Creator: Lyons, Morgan & Ball, Mark
System: The Portal to Texas History
New Dallas Streetcar schedule starting Monday Bishop Arts extension opens August 29 (open access)

New Dallas Streetcar schedule starting Monday Bishop Arts extension opens August 29

News release about a new streetcar service schedule, which includes more frequent departures, and the upcoming opening of a streetcar extension.
Date: August 9, 2016
Creator: Lyons, Morgan & Ball, Mark
System: The Portal to Texas History
DART's Labor Day Weekend Schedule (open access)

DART's Labor Day Weekend Schedule

News release about DART's adjusted service schedule in observance of the Labor Day holiday.
Date: August 25, 2016
Creator: Lyons, Morgan & Ball, Mark
System: The Portal to Texas History
Garland Names Kelly to DART Board (open access)

Garland Names Kelly to DART Board

News release about the appointment of Jonathan R. Kelly to the board of directors, representing the city of Garland.
Date: August 10, 2016
Creator: Lyons, Morgan & Ball, Mark
System: The Portal to Texas History
[TXSSAR Arlington, Meeting Certificate and Medal Presentations schedule] (open access)

[TXSSAR Arlington, Meeting Certificate and Medal Presentations schedule]

A document that lists the schedule of presenting chapter specific certificates and medals. There are columns for the date, the item being presented, the presenter, and the recipient.
Date: August 22, 2016
Creator: Texas Society Sons of the American Revolution, Arlington Chapter 7
System: The UNT Digital Library
Meeting Minutes for TXSSAR Arlington Chapter #7, August 13, 2016 (open access)

Meeting Minutes for TXSSAR Arlington Chapter #7, August 13, 2016

A document that records the meeting minutes from the August 13 meeting of the Arlington Chapter of TXSSAR. Sections are given to each formal portion of the meeting's proceedings and smaller notes are included beneath the larger headers.
Date: August 13, 2016
Creator: Texas Society Sons of the American Revolution, Arlington Chapter 7
System: The UNT Digital Library
[NSSAR Sample for Genealogy Proof] (open access)

[NSSAR Sample for Genealogy Proof]

A document with a sample proof argument that outlines multiple points of evidence and provides a conclusion.
Date: 2016-08-31~
Creator: Texas Society Sons of the American Revolution, Arlington Chapter 7
System: The UNT Digital Library
Texas Attorney General Opinion: KP-0105 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: KP-0105

Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, Ken Paxton, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Application ofthe conflict of interest rules in chapter 171 of the Local Government Code to members of a planning and zoning commission or historic landmark commission who reside or own property within the historic district (RQ-0094-KP).
Date: August 8, 2016
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
System: The Portal to Texas History