Psychological Warfare (open access)

Psychological Warfare

Paper written on methods and uses of psychological warfare that includes an examination at the end with true/false questions on the reading.
Date: April 1962
Creator: United States. Air Force.
Object Type: Paper
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Instrument Flight Test Certificate] (open access)

[Instrument Flight Test Certificate]

Certificate showing that flight officer Paul A. Hill passed the instrument flight test at Long Beach Army Air Field.
Date: April 16, 1944
Creator: United States Army
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Current Study 13, Chapter 1. Education and Training (open access)

Current Study 13, Chapter 1. Education and Training

This booklet is the first chapter of a training course developed for Air Force Reserve personnel about the challenges faced by low-income countries. This chapter discusses the role education and training plays in a country's economic, political, and social development. It includes background information, analysis, review questions, and a list of readings for further study.
Date: April 1965
Creator: Air University (U.S.)
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The Portal to Texas History
Command Study 15, Chapter 4. Ground Control and Support Operations (open access)

Command Study 15, Chapter 4. Ground Control and Support Operations

This booklet is the fourth chapter of a training course developed for Air Reserve personnel about the United States' space program. This chapter discusses "major ground command functions associated with manned space missions" (p. 2). It includes background information, analysis, review questions, and a list of readings for further study.
Date: April 1966
Creator: Air University (U.S.)
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The Portal to Texas History
Current Study 11, Chapter 6. The New Spain (open access)

Current Study 11, Chapter 6. The New Spain

This booklet is the first chapter of a training course developed for Air Force Reserve personnel about the Cold War's impact on world affairs. This chapter "reviews the new Spain with respect to recent developments in the regime of General Franco, Spain's part in the cold war, present trends in Spanish government, and Spain's stature as a respected nation in the world community" (p. 2). This booklet includes background information, analysis, review questions, and a list of readings for further study.
Date: April 1964
Creator: Air University (U.S.)
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The Portal to Texas History
Command Study 15, Chapter 3. U.S. Manned Space Projects (open access)

Command Study 15, Chapter 3. U.S. Manned Space Projects

This booklet is the third chapter of a training course developed for Air Reserve personnel about the United States' space program. This chapter "outlines the three steps in the manned space program in broad terms and surveys future trends in the light of programs underway or proposed for funding" (p. 2). It includes background information, analysis, review questions, and a list of readings for further study.
Date: April 1966
Creator: Air University (U.S.)
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The Portal to Texas History
Current Study 11, Chapter 5. Communist Activities in Latin America (open access)

Current Study 11, Chapter 5. Communist Activities in Latin America

This booklet is the fifth chapter of a training course developed for Air Force Reserve personnel about the Cold War's impact on world affairs. This chapter "is intended to show how the Communists have attempted to subvert the Latin American nations as a step toward the avowed Communist goal of world domination, and to show how the United States and other American Republics are meeting the perilous Communist threat" (p. 1). This booklet includes background information, analysis, review questions, and a list of readings for further study.
Date: April 1964
Creator: Air University (U.S.)
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The Portal to Texas History
Current Study 13, Chapter 3. Agriculture (open access)

Current Study 13, Chapter 3. Agriculture

This booklet is the third chapter of a training course developed for Air Force Reserve personnel about the challenges faced by low-income countries. This chapter discusses "how improvements in agriculture are related to general progress toward industrialization and self-sustained growth" (p. 2). It includes background information, analysis, review questions, and a list of readings for further study.
Date: April 1965
Creator: Air University (U.S.)
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The Portal to Texas History
Command Study 15, Chapter 2. Unmanned U.S. Satellites and Space Probes (open access)

Command Study 15, Chapter 2. Unmanned U.S. Satellites and Space Probes

This booklet is the second chapter of a training course developed for Air Reserve personnel about the United States' space program. This chapter discusses research satellites, application satellites, and space probes. It includes background information, analysis, review questions, and a list of readings for further study.
Date: April 1966
Creator: Air University (U.S.)
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Lubbock County Water Analysis] (open access)

[Lubbock County Water Analysis]

Water survey report from Lubbock County in 1945 listing records of all "wells and springs, drillers' logs, water analyses, and map showing locations of wells and springs".
Date: April 1945
Creator: Clark, C. S.
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
Command Study 14, Chapter 2. The National Preparedness System (open access)

Command Study 14, Chapter 2. The National Preparedness System

This booklet is the second chapter of a training course developed for Air Reserve personnel about nonmilitary defense preparations. This chapter discusses "the nonmilitary defense aspects of national preparedness as complements to national military power and as contributing factors to the total defense posture of the United States" (p. 3). It includes background information, analysis, review questions, and a list of readings for further study.
Date: April 1965
Creator: Air University (U.S.)
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The Portal to Texas History
Air Reserve Element Training Newsletter, HemisFair Edition, April 29, 1968 (open access)

Air Reserve Element Training Newsletter, HemisFair Edition, April 29, 1968

Monthly newsletter for Air Force Reserve personnel containing news and events as well as information about training courses offered by the Continental Air Command.
Date: April 29, 1968
Creator: United States. Department of the Air Force.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Course 2, Volume 1A. American Foreign Policy in Growth and Action (open access)

Course 2, Volume 1A. American Foreign Policy in Growth and Action

This booklet is the first volume of an extension training course developed for Air Force personnel. This book discusses the military history of the United States of America from the country's inception through the post-World War 1950's.
Date: April 1959
Creator: Air University (U.S.). Extension Course Institute.
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
Current Study 9, Chapter 1. Air Force Logistics Command (open access)

Current Study 9, Chapter 1. Air Force Logistics Command

This booklet is the first chapter of a training course developed for Air Reserve personnel about commands within the United States Air Force. This chapter discusses the "mission, history, organizational doctrine, organization, and concept of operations" of the Air Force Logistics Command. It includes background information, analysis, review questions, and a list of readings for further study.
Date: April 1963
Creator: Air University (U.S.)
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The Portal to Texas History