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Civilian Conservation Corps History Oral History Project
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World War II Pacific Theater (Island Hopping) Oral History Project
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Oral History Interview with Richard A. Crane, October 17, 1993
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Interview with Richard A. Crane about his experiences while employed by the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression. He discusses his childhood in Mesquite, Texas; joining the CCC; assignment to Company 819 at Camp NP-2-A in Grand, Canyon, Arizona; description of camp; life in camp.
Date:
October 17, 1993
Creator:
Pinkney, Kathryn & Crane, Richard A.
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Oral History Interview with David A. Eargle, October 26, 1993
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Interview with David Eargle concerning his experiences while employed by the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression. Eargle worked at camps in Waynesville, North Carolina (Company 443); Greer, South Carolina (Company 443); Switzer, South Carolina; Laurens, South Carolina; and Roseburg, Oregon (Company 3450). Appendix includes photocopy of Mr. Eargle's CCC discharge papers [2 p.]
Date:
October 26, 1993
Creator:
Pierce, Jeffrey & Eargle, David
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Book
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Oral History Interview with E. B. Potter, October 8, 1994
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Interview with E. B. "Ned" Potter, Navy WWII veteran from Norfolk, Virginia, who served in the intelligence section of the 14th Naval District. Potter discusses his education, teaching, commissioning into the Navy and training in communications, assignment to Oahu, codes and ciphers, interception, President Roosevelt's visit, WAVES, and leaving active duty at the end of the war and becoming a history professor. In appendix is a letter from Potter to Marcello with revisions to the interview.
Date:
October 8, 1994
Creator:
Marcello, Ronald E. & Potter, E. B. (Ned)
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Book
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Oral History Interview with Carl Gorman, October 9, 1994
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Interview with Marine Corps veteran Carl Gorman. The interview includes Gorman's personal experiences as a Navajo code talker with the 2nd Marines on Guadacanal, Tarawa, and Saipan.
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October 9, 1994
Creator:
Christman, Calvin & Gorman, Carl
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Book
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The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Robert H. Flatley, October 27, 1999
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Interview with business executive and Army Air Forces veteran Robert H. Flatley. The interview includes Flatley's personal experiences about being a P-38 pilot in the Pacific Theater during the World War II, basic training, flight training, P-38 training, various assignments and missions, and the destruction of forty-seven locomotives. Flatley also talks about various missions to targets in the Philippines, activities between combat missions, postwar military activities in the Philippines, and postwar adjustments to civilian life.
Date:
October 27, 1999
Creator:
Marcello, Ronald E. & Flatley, Robert H.
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Book
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Oral History Interview with Lanson B. Ditto, October 11, 1996
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Interview with Lanson B. Ditto, clothier and Navy veteran regarding personal experiences about the Pacific, Atlantic, and Mediterranean Theaters during World War II. Ditto talks about his education, enlistment in the Navy V-7 Program, midshipman training, assignment to the USS Langley, pre-war duty in the Philippines, coming of war and combat around the Philippines and Netherlands East Indies, the sinking of the Langley and his transfer to the USS Pecos, the sinking of the Pecos and his rescue by the USS Whipple, various naval battles and assignments, antisubmarine patrols off the Solomons, various escort duties, and his promotion to captain of the O'Toole.
Date:
October 11, 1996
Creator:
Alexander, William J. & Ditto, Lanson B.
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Book
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The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with David Braden, October 8, 1994
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Interview with David Braden, an Army Air Force WWII veteran from Dallas, Texas. Braden served as a navigator/radar-bombardier on a B-29 Superfortress in the Pacific; he recounts being in ROTC at North Texas Agricultural College and signing up for the Air Corps Reserves, flight training, the B-29, his crewmates, assignment to Saipan, organization of a bombing mission, the jetstream, flak and fighters, being shot down, switching crews, targets, briefings, recreation, Japanese holdouts on Saipan, fighter escorts, returning stateside, and leaving the service. In appendix is a letter sent to Dr. Marcello by Braden containing some corrections for the interview.
Date:
October 8, 1994
Creator:
Marcello, Ronald E. & Braden, David, 1924-
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Book
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The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Jean Balch, October 12, 1996
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Interview with Navy veteran Jean Balch, including Balch's personal experiences about the Pacific theater, being a prisoner-of-war of the Japanese during World War II, boot camp, radio, radar, and gunnery school, operations during the Leyte invasion, missions over Luzon, and raids on Japanese installations on Formosa and Saigon, French Indo-China. Additionally, Balch talks about his plane being shot down on a raid to Hong Kong and his capture on January 16, 1945, interrogations and beatings by the Kempei-tai, imprisonment at Ofuna, Honshu, solitary confinement for six months and continued interrogation, beatings by Japanese prison guards, starvation diet, the end of the war and liberation, and his participation in the war crimes trials held by the International Military Tribunal.
Date:
October 12, 1996
Creator:
Alexander, William J. & Balch, Jean
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Book
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The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with William W. Creacy, October 9, 1993
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Interview with William Creacy concerning his experiences before, during and after his employment in the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression. Creacy worked at camps in Elephant Butte, Arizona (Company 855); Tucson, Arizona; Grand Lake, Colorado; and Yuma, Arizona.
Date:
October 9, 1993
Creator:
Henley, Shelly & Creacy, William W.
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Oral History Interview with Chester E. Hudson, October 12, 1993
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Interview with Chester Hudson concerning his experiences before, during, and after his employment in the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression. Hudson worked at camps in Calico Rock, Arkansas (Company 4747); Walcott, Arkansas (Company 3799); and Ozone, Arkansas (Company 1708). Includes an appendix.
Date:
October 12, 1993
Creator:
Polatti, Gaylon & Hudson, Chester E.
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Text
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Oral History Interview with Hollis J. Willett, October 18, 1993
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Interview with Hollis Willett concerning his experiences before, during, and after his employment in the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression. Willett worked at camps in Cottonwood, Arizona and Lake Arthur, New Mexico (Company 2842).
Date:
October 18, 1993
Creator:
Pinkney, Kathryn & Willett, Hollis J.
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Text
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Oral History Interview with N. Jesse James, October 8, 1993
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Interview with Major N. Jesse James concerning his experiences before, during, and after his employment in the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression. James worked at a camp in Pineville, Kentucky (Company 548).
Date:
October 8, 1993
Creator:
McLemore, Laura L. & James, N. Jesse
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Book
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The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Olen Bates, October 9, 1993
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Interview with Olen Bates concerning his experiences before, during, and after his employment in the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression. Bates worked at a camp in Carlsbad, New Mexico.
Date:
October 9, 1993
Creator:
Lipscomb, Carol & Bates, Olen H.
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Text
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The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Richard A. Crane, October 17, 1993
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Interview with Richard Crane concerning his experiences before and during his employment in the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression. Crane worked at a camp in Grand Canyon, Arizona (Company 819).
Date:
October 17, 1993
Creator:
Pinkney, Kathryn & Crane, Richard
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Text
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Oral History Interview with Charles D. Lewis, October 8, 1993
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Interview with Charles Lewis concerning his experiences before and during his employment in the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression. Lewis worked at camps in Chillicothe, Ohio (Company 502) and Xenia, Ohio (Company 3542). Includes an appendix.
Date:
October 8, 1993
Creator:
Polatti, Gaylon & Lewis, Charles D.
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Oral History Interview with S. L. Baker, October 20, 1993
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Interview with S.L. Baker concerning his experiences before, during, and after his employment in the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression. Baker worked at a camp in Cleburne, Texas.
Date:
October 20, 1993
Creator:
Lipscomb, Carol & Baker, S. L.
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Text
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Oral History Interview with John C. Scott, October 22, 1993
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Interview with John Scott concerning his experiences before and during his employment in the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression. Scott worked at a camp in Oakhurst, Texas.
Date:
October 22, 1993
Creator:
Lovell, Bonnie & Scott, John C.
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Text
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Oral History Interview with Walter L. Henry, October 8, 1993
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Transcript of an interview with Dr. Walter Henry concerning his experiences while employed by the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression. Henry worked at a camp in Pine Valley, California (Company 901).
Date:
October 8, 1993
Creator:
Hudson, Linda S. & Henry, Walter L., 1918-
Object Type:
Book
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The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with John Rich, October 12, 1996
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Transcript of an interview with John Rich, journalist and Marine Corps veteran (4th Marine Division), concerning his experiences as a Japanese language interpreter/interrogator in the Pacific Theater during World War II and his observations as a journalist while covering the proceedings of the International Military Tribunal for the Far East. Rich discusses his pre-war career in journalism; U.S. Navy Japanese Language School, University of Colorado, 1942-43; assignment to the 4th Marine Division, 1943; Roi-Namur and Kwajalein, Marshall Islands, 1944; interrogation of Japanese prisoners-of-war; Saipan and Tinian, Mariana Islands, 1944; Iwo Jima, 1945; coverage of the Tokyo war crimes trials for International News Service, 1946; reminiscences about covering Franklin D. Roosevelt's meeting with the press after the Atlantic Conference with Winston Churchill off Argentia, Newfoundland, August 10-15, 1941.
Date:
October 12, 1996
Creator:
Alexander, William J. & Rich, John, 1917-
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Book
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The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Pola Bekker, October 12, 1996
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Interview with Pola Bekker, a Holocaust survivor from Warsaw. Bekker discusses her family, the Jewish District in Warsaw, life in the city before the war, antisemitism in Warsaw, the invasion of Poland and bombing of the city, fleeing to Russia, life in Orsk, moving to Voroshilovgrad, returning to Poland at the end of the war, and moving to Israel.
Date:
October 12, 1996
Creator:
Anson, Jennifer & Bekker, Pola
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Book
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The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Martin L. Allday, October 8, 1994
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Interview with Martin L. Allday, an Army WWII veteran from Austin, Texas. Allday discusses his experiences at the Battle of Okinawa, including being drafted and basic training, transiting the Pacific, assignment to the 96th Infantry Division and arrival on Okinawa, events of the fighting on the Shuri Line at Zebra Hill, being wounded, evacuation and recovery, returning to Okinawa, clean-up operations, souvenirs, and adjustment to civilian life. An appendix includes a letter typed by Allday for a panel discussion of the battle, a map of the battle from "The Second World War: a Complete History" by Martin Gilbert, a veteran's questionnaire from the Admiral Nimitz Museum he filled out, and a one-page biography.
Date:
October 8, 1994
Creator:
Marcello, Ronald E. & Allday, Martin L.
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Book
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The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Commander Alex Vraciu, October 9, 1994
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Interview with Cmdr. Alex Vraciu, a Navy WWII veteran and Navy Cross recipient from East Chicago, Indiana. Vraciu discusses his family and educational background, naval flight training, Edward "Butch" O'Hare, the F6F Hellcat, various combat operations throughout the Pacific, his actions at the "Marianas Turkey Shoot," being awarded the Navy Cross and time stateside, and returning to combat. In appendix is an autobiographical sketch by Vraciu, including a picture of him and his Hellcat with visible victory markings on the fuselage.
Date:
October 9, 1994
Creator:
Marcello, Ronald E. & Vraciu, Alexander
Object Type:
Book
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The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Olen Bates, October 9, 1993
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Interview with Olen Bates about his experiences while employed by the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression. Bates discusses his childhood in Oklahoma, joining the CCC, assignment to a camp in Carlsbad, New Mexico, and describes his life in the camp.
Date:
October 9, 1993
Creator:
Lipscomb, Carol & Bates, Olen
Object Type:
Book
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The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with David W. Peake, Sr., October 9, 1994
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Interview with Acting Sergeant David W. Peake, Sr., a Marine Corps veteran, concerning his experiences in the Pacific Theater during World War II as a member of the 5th Marine Division. Peake discusses Iwo Jima and his occupation duty in postwar Japan. Appendix includes a photocopy of a "Veteran's Questionnaire" from the Admiral Nimitz Museum and Historical Center, filled-out by David W. Peake, Sr. [3 pages]
Date:
October 9, 1994
Creator:
Marcello, Ronald E. & Peake, David W., 1924-
Object Type:
Book
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The UNT Digital Library