Newsmap. Monday, October 11, 1943 : week of September 30 to October 7, 213th week of the war, 95th week of U.S. participation

Front: Text describes action on various war fronts: Aegean Sea, Italy, Corsica, Russia, Norway, Southwest Pacific, Air offensive. Maps show Greece and Turkey, Eastern front, Central Italy. Includes photographs: Soldier killed by booby-trap, "Battleship X" is the USS South Dakota, Brenner Pass, Resting American soldiers following a battle in Munda. Back: Typical German infantry regiment. Illustration shows regiment. Text gives detailed description of Regimental Headquarters Company, Battalion Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment, Battalions, Infantry and Motorized Companies.
Date: October 11, 1943
Creator: [United States.] Army Orientation Course.
Object Type: Poster
System: The UNT Digital Library

Newsmap. Monday, October 25, 1943 : week of October 14 to October 21, 215th week of the war, 97th week of U.S. participation

Front: Text describes action on various war fronts: Russia, Italy, Schweinfurt, Southwest Pacific, Burma, North Pacific, U.S. subs. Inset maps: Bridgeheads across the Dnepr River, [Pacific Ocean off coast of New Guinea], [Areas in Southern Europe providing targets for bomber forces], Operations begin in Burma. Photographs: Nazis use Soviet equipment and men in battle for Italy, Soviet soldier and RAF officer, Lieut. Col. Chesley G. Peterson, Salt Lake City, Fuel pipe lines, Fifth Army engineers, In the Naga Hills of northern Burma. Back: Photographic view of the world with the center at Berlin, Germany. Includes instructions for using a detachable scale that, when centered on Berlin, measures distances along any line running through Berlin.
Date: October 25, 1943
Creator: [United States.] Army Orientation Course.
Object Type: Poster
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Scrapbook Page: Rüsselsheim - October 18, 1945]

Photographs of Dan Melli and Nathan Levine taken around Rüsselsheim, Germany. The top photograph features Dan Melli playing a bass drum while Nathan Levine sits to the right. Covered mess hall tables appear on either side of the picture. The second photo shows Melli and Levine walking together outside of a half-timbered building. The third photo shows Melli and Levine in a dark room. Melli holds a Coca-Cola bottle, and three other bottles stand on a shelf between the two men.
Date: October 18, 1945
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Scrapbook Page: Rüsselsheim October 26, 1945]

Photographs of Dan Melli outside of a U.S. Army dispensary. The top photo shows Melli leaning on a brick post. The building behind him has a sign noting the dispensary. The bottom photo has Melli kneeling beside a young German girl and hugging her.
Date: October 26, 1945
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Adolf Hitler and Couple]

Photograph of Adolf Hitler speaking to a man and a woman in folk costume.
Date: October 1934
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Luther Victory, April 10, 2001 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Luther Victory, April 10, 2001

Interview with Luther Victory, an aerial gunner and POW for the US Air Force during WWII. He describes life in the military and being captured by the Germans.
Date: October 22, 2003
Creator: Singh, Bobby & Victory, Luther
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History

Newsmap for the Armed Forces : the Berlin indictment

Front: Photographs of 24 German leaders set into the shape of a swastika include names, titles, and crimes they are accused of committing. Back: "The world we'll live in" -- illustration of a group of men inside a globe is accompanied by text highlighting the need for nations to work together for a better world ahead.
Date: October 29, 1945
Creator: [United States.] Army Information Branch.
Object Type: Poster
System: The UNT Digital Library

Newsmap. For the Armed Forces. 267th week of the war, 149th week of U.S. participation

Front: Text describes action on various war fronts: Pacific, Western front, Eastern front, Italy, China, the Philippines Maps: Germany, the Philippines, Italy. Back: Large map of the United States and adjoining portions of Canada and Mexico. Includes inset map of naval districts beyond the continental United States, population of the states, sixteenth census, 1940.
Date: October 23, 1944
Creator: [United States.] Army Service Forces. Army Information Branch.
Object Type: Poster
System: The UNT Digital Library

Newsmap. For the Armed Forces. 264th week of the war, 146th week of U.S. participation

Front: Text describes action on various war fronts: France, Eastern front, China, Pacific, Italy. Maps: Eastern Europe; France; China front; Gulf of Genoa. Back: "If each of us wastes a pound of war material..." Text and illustration show that it isn't just money, materials or manpower that are lost. But, waste can lose battles and cost lives.
Date: October 2, 1944
Creator: [United States.] Army Service Forces. Army Information Branch.
Object Type: Poster
System: The UNT Digital Library

Newsmap. For the Armed Forces. 266th week of the war, 148th week of U.S. participation

Front: Text describes action on various war fronts: Western front, Balkans, Baltic, China, Italy, Pacific. Maps: Greece, China Burma, France, Belgium, Netherlands. Insets: Western Front. Back: Text and photographs illustrate Air Technical Service Command.
Date: October 16, 1944
Creator: [United States.] Army Service Forces. Army Information Branch.
Object Type: Poster
System: The UNT Digital Library

Newsmap for the Armed Forces : Code for the Conquered

Front: Text describes principal points which disestablish the Reich and eliminate its war-making powers Photograph: A group of men in uniform and in street dress stand in the foreground appearing to read the code for the conquered. Back: Illustration of a serviceman in a hand-held test tube is accompanied by text giving points about identifying and preparing to pick a civilian job after discharge from the service.
Date: October 8, 1945
Creator: [United States.] Army Service Forces. Army Information Branch.
Object Type: Poster
System: The UNT Digital Library

Newsmap. Monday, October 26, 1942 : week of October 16 to October 23

Front: Text describes action on various war fronts: Solomons -- New Guinea -- Aleutians -- Russia -- Shipping -- Mediterranean -- Yugoslavia -- Western Europe. Large world map is keyed to text and illustrates time zones around the world. Inset maps show Southwest Pacific -- Stalingrad. Includes photographs: Airport on Guadalcanal Island -- Somewhere in India [field artillery pieces and Gen. Stillwell's troops wearing German-type coal scuttle helmet] -- Supplies for Russia [Arctic convoy attacked by enemy torpedo planes and U boats] -- Freight cars with wings. Back: Foxholes are Lifesavers. 9 photographs show details of foxhole construction. Text describes advantages and proper use of foxholes in combat.
Date: October 26, 1942
Creator: [United States.] Army Orientation Course.
Object Type: Poster
System: The UNT Digital Library

Newsmap. Monday, October 19, 1942 : week of October 9 to October 16

Front: Text describes action on various fronts: Solomons, New Hebrides, New Guinea, Aleutians, Far Eastern waters, Russia, Mediterranean, Western Europe. Large world map is keyed to text and illustrates time zones around the world. Inset maps show Guadalcanal Island, Tulagi; Russian front. Includes photographs: Alaska road in use by December (construction of the Alaska Defense Highway); Zero fighter; in the Solomons; German mobile gun; Insect protection. Back: Airborne Command. 12 photographs with descriptive text and explanation of the role of airborne troops.
Date: October 19, 1942
Creator: [United States.] Army Orientation Course.
Object Type: Poster
System: The UNT Digital Library

Newsmap. Monday, October 5, 1942 : week of September 25 to October 2

Front: Text describes action on various war fronts: Russia, New Guinea, Solomons, Aleutians, China, Madagascar, Shipping, Mediterranean. Large world map is keyed to text and illustrates time zones around the world. Inset maps show South Russia, New Guinea, Target in Europe with inset of Industrial areas bombed in the Ruhr Valley. Includes photographs: WAFS report for duty, Armored "super jeep", South of Bengazi, Tank landing, "Guiding plane back home to roost". Back: Training (Action! -- Solomons -- Landing operations -- Europe). 21 photographs accompanied by descriptive and explanatory text.
Date: October 5, 1942
Creator: [United States.] Army Orientation Course.
Object Type: Poster
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Photograph of Servicemen in Germany]

Photograph of several servicemen in Heilbronn, Germany. The men in the photograph are standing in front of a vine covered fence outside of a house. The men in the photograph are named Johnson, Sunday, Burks, Horan, Jahn, Bernal, and Spoetl.
Date: October 1945
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[44th Armored Regiment]

Photograph of the soldiers of Company G of the 44th Armored Regiment. Those in the front row are identified as Kleinhuizen, Parkin, Ottavianna, Morgan, N. Johnson, Singles, Schneider, Griffin, Hagen, Moss, Newcome, and Kisker. The soldiers in the second row are Shiebly, Kuser, Long, Tom Derby, Wenrick, and Schweitzer. Those in the back row are Pasillas, Henry Mullett, R. C. Campbell, Hoffman, Cherrington, Orleans, A. Johnson, Miller, Rose, Bartz, Donar, Weston, Scully, Drennan, Maday, Brooks, Turner, Driscoll, Fasbender, and Pierson.
Date: October 30, 1942
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Members of G Company]

Photograph of members of G company, 44th Armored Regiment, 12th Armored Division, sitting and standing outside the mail call supply room. Those in the front row are Kleinhuizen, Parkin, Ottavianna, Morgan, N. Johnson, Singles, Schneider, Griffin, Hagen, George Moss, Newcome, and Kisker. The soldiers in the second row are Shiebly, Kuser, Long, Derby, Wenrick, and Schweitzer. Those in the third row are Pasillas, Henry Mullett, R. C. Campbell, Hoffman, Cherrington, Orleans, A. Johnson, Miller, Rose, Bartz, Donar, Weston, Matt Scully, Drennan, Maday, Brooks, Turner, Driscoll, Fasbender, and Pierson.
Date: October 30, 1942
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

Oral History Interview with Arthur Hofstein, October 30, 2007

Access: Use of this item is restricted to the UNT Community
Interview with Arthur Hofstein, a Army WWII veteran from Cambridge, Massachusetts. Hofstein discusses the lead up to war, being drafted, training to be a radio operator, departure for the European Theater, landing in France and first action at Mars-la-Tour, the Battle of the Bulge, German prisoners and civilians, advancing into Germany, the liberation of Dachau, letters, and life after the war. In appendix are various materials and photographs related to Hofstein and his service.
Date: October 30, 2007
Creator: Decoster, Charlotte & Hofstein, Arthur I.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interview with Harry Bradford Urey, Jr., October 14, 1999

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Transcript of an interview with Harry Bradford Urey, Jr., a mechanical engineer and Army Air Forces veteran (454th Bomb Squadron, 323rd Bomb Group, 9th Air Force), concerning his experiences as a B-26 pilot in the European Theater during World War II.
Date: October 14, 1999
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Urey, Harry Bradford, Jr.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library