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Oral History Interview with Robert B. Toulouse, October 3, 1995
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Interview with college administrator Robert B. Toulouse from Wellsville, Missouri. In the interview, Toulouse discusses his experiences during the desegregation of the North Texas State College and comments on President J. C. Matthews.
Date:
October 3, 1995
Creator:
Price, Tammi & Toulouse, Robert B.
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Book
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Oral History Interview with H. W. Kamp, October 10, 1995
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Interview with former college professor at the North Texas State College H. W. Kamp from Denton, Texas. In the interview, Kamp describes his experiences concerning the desegregation of the college.
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October 10, 1995
Creator:
Price, Tammi & Kamp, H. W.
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Oral History Interview with Joe Lindsay Keffer, October 12, 1996
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Interview with former student and staff member at the University of North Texas Joe Lindsay Keffer, from Denton, Texas. Keffer describes his experiences as a student at the former North Texas State College during the desegregation of the school in the late 1950's. He also comments on President J. C. Matthews, as well as his personal observations about racial matters on the college campus and the community of Denton, Texas.
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October 12, 1996
Creator:
Ketay, Christine & Keffer, Joe Lindsay
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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.
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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 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 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 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 Albert Boggs, October 11, 1993
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Interview with Albert Boggs, a former member of the Civilian Conservation Corps from Mixon, Oklahoma. Boggs discusses his family life, farming, struggles during the Depression, joining the CCC, his first assignment to a camp at Jacksonville, TX, education, camp life and organization, work, fights in camp, transfer to a camp in Waxahachie, being an assistant leader, building bridges, the kinds of people who worked the camp, and some general reflections. In appendix are Boggs' discharge papers and a newsletter commemorating CCC veterans.
Date:
October 11, 1993
Creator:
Hudson, Linda & Boggs, Albert
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Book
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The UNT Digital Library
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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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
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Book
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The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Glen McDole, October 10, 1996
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Interview with Glen McDole, a Marine Corps WWII veteran and POW from Des Moines, Iowa. McDole discusses joining the Marines in 1940, assignment to the 1st Separate Marine Battalion and deployment to Cavite Navy Yard in the Philippines, the Japanese attack on December 8th, 1941, withdrawal to Corregidor, Douglas MacArthur, the surrender, experiences in internment at Cabanatuan, transfer to Palawan, American bombing raids, surviving the Palawan massacre, rescue by Philippines civilians, the American liberation, and testifying about his former captors after the war.
Date:
October 10, 1996
Creator:
Alexander, William J. & McDole, Glen
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Book
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The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Nathan Gann, October 9, 1996
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Interview with Nathan Gann, a member of the Civilian Conservation Corps from Rogers, Texas. Gann discusses his family background, school and farm life during the Depression, joining the CCC and assignment to Bartlett, Texas, accommodations in camp, construction and surveying work, the layout of camp, having appendicitis, money, recreation and time off, the daily routine, food, educational services, initiation rituals and pranks, Army Air Force service in WWII, and joining the Soil Conservation Service.
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October 9, 1996
Creator:
Jackson, Sarah & Gann, Nathan
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Book
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The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with B. B. Gunn, October 5, 1995
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Interview with B. B. Gunn, a former member of the Civilian Conservation Corps from Mart, Texas. Gunn discusses growing up in a family of tenant farmers, joining the CCC, assignment to a camp at the South Rim of the Grand Canyon, its organization, building a telephone line, daily routine, recreation, religious services, desertion, and dam construction. In appendix are two newspaper clippings mentioning CCC history and a letter to Mr. Gunn.
Date:
October 5, 1995
Creator:
Camp, Kathi & Gunn, B. B.
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Book
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The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Davis Porter Newton, October 12, 1996
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Interview with Davis Porter Newton, Army WWII veteran of the Pacific Theater from Birmingham, Alabama. Newton discusses his family background, working during the Depression and his education, commissioning into the Army, assignment to the 346th Harbor Craft Company and deployment to Finschhafen, New Guinea, acting as defense counsel in a court martial, sea-transport operations around New Guinea and the Philippines, working with POWs, and investigating war crimes.
Date:
October 12, 1996
Creator:
Alexander, William J. & Newton, Davis Porter
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Book
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The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Lloyd B. Shipman, October 23, 1993
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Interview with Lloyd Shipman, a member of the Civilian Conservation Corps from Dallas, Texas. Shipman discusses his family and education, the impact of the Great Depression, joining the CCC and assignment to Bartlett, Texas, work as a typist, discipline and regimentation in the camp, daily routine, education services, recreation, and his thoughts on the impact of the CCC. In appendix are a chapter from an autobiography by Shipman, and two poems that he wrote.
Date:
October 23, 1993
Creator:
Henley, Shelly & Shipman, Lloyd B.
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Book
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The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Garfield Thompson, October 11, 1993
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Interview with Garfield Thompson, a member of the Civilian Conservation Corps from Fort Worth, Texas. Thompson discusses his family background and education, the effects of the Great Depression, Republicans, the New Deal, joining the CCC and assignment to Company 812 in Cache, Oklahoma, the layout of the camp, projects worked, routine, recreation and leave, discharge, and reflections on the program.
Date:
October 11, 1993
Creator:
Calame, Michelle & Thompson, Garfield
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Book
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The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with George Duncan, October 9, 1994
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Interview with Captain George Duncan, a Navy veteran, concerning his experiences in the Pacific Theater during World War II. Duncan discusses his pilot training at Pensacola Naval Air Station in 1941, his assignment to Air Group 9 on the carrier Essex, the Hellcat fighter, the sinking of Fubuki-class destroyer in June of 1944 off of Pagan Island, the Marianas Campaign in 1944, the "Great Marianas Turkey Shoot," the Philippines Campaign and the attack on the Japanese battleship Musashi, and his postwar naval career.
Date:
October 9, 1994
Creator:
Christman, Calvin L. & Duncan, George, 1917-
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
Oral History Interview with Luther G. Strange, October 16, 1996
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Interview with Luther Strange, an Army Air Corps veteran, concerning his experiences at Hickam Field with the Headquarters Squadron during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Date:
October 16, 1996
Creator:
Blanchette, Scott & Strange, Luther G., 1913-
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Book
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The UNT Digital Library
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 A. McVean, October 25, 1995
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Transcript of an interview with John McVean, a Marine Corps veteran, concerning his experiences aboard the battleship USS West Virginia during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Date:
October 25, 1995
Creator:
Maynard, Stephen Ronald & McVean, John A., 1919-
Object Type:
Book
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The UNT Digital Library