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Newsmap. For the Armed Forces. V-E Day + 14 weeks, 191st week of U.S. participation in the war

Front: Summary of Potsdam conference. War News 7 August. Map shows European boundaries as of January 1938. Inset map details administration of eastern Germany and East Prussia. Back: Map of Formosa; inset map shows location of Formosa in Asia.
Date: August 13, 1945
Creator: [United States.] Army Service Forces. Army Information Branch.
Object Type: Poster
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Letter from Joe Davis to Catherine Davis - August 13, 1944] (open access)

[Letter from Joe Davis to Catherine Davis - August 13, 1944]

Letter from Joe to his wife Catherine discussing seeing a biographical film about Jack London and his guilt over missing church.
Date: August 13, 1944
Creator: Davis, Joseph Emmett
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Garth W. Slate, August 13, 1980 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Garth W. Slate, August 13, 1980

Interview with Garth Slate, an Army veteran (2nd Battalion, 131st Field Artillery, Texas National Guard) and a member of the "Lost Battalion," concerning his experiences as a prisoner-of-war of the Japanese during World War II. Slate discusses the fall of Java and his capture, Bicycle Camp in Batavia (1942), Changi Prison Camp in Singapore (1942), building the Burma-Thailand Death Railway (1942-1944), Kanchanaburi, Thailand (1944), Saigon and Da Lat, French Indo-China (1944-1945), American air raids, and his liberation.
Date: August 13, 1980
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Slate, Garth W., 1921-
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interview with William D. Whitson, August 13, 2006

Access: Use of this item is restricted to the UNT Community
Interview with William Whitman, a Army Air Force WWII veteran from Denton, Texas, who served with General Curtis LeMay. Whitman discusses flight training, becoming a heavy bomber pilot, service in the European theater, joining LeMay's staff, and stories about LeMay's work and personality.
Date: August 13, 2006
Creator: Hurley, Alfred & Whitson, William D.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library