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Newsmap. For the Armed Forces. 276th week of the war, 158th week of U.S. participation

Front: Text describes action on various war fronts: 600-mile water jump, Pacific war in the air, Nazis stage offensive, Budapest Under Siege, Eighth Takes Strongpoint. Maps: Mindoro -- Pacific war in the air -- Red Army -- Western action. Inset maps: Philippine Islands -- Budapest. Back: Map of South Burma and Thailand
Date: December 25, 1944
Creator: [United States.] Army Service Forces. Army Information Branch.
Object Type: Poster
System: The UNT Digital Library

Newsmap. For the Armed Forces. 244th week of the war, 126th week of U.S. participation

Front: Text describes action on various war fronts: Air war, Eastern front, China, Burma-India, Italy, Pacific. Maps: China-Burma; Sevastopol; Insets: Crimea. Includes 8 photographs. Back: Moscow to Berlin. Map.
Date: May 15, 1944
Creator: [United States.] Army Service Forces. Army Information Branch.
Object Type: Poster
System: The UNT Digital Library

Newsmap. For the Armed Forces. 245th week of the war, 127th week of U.S. participation

Front: Text describes action on various war fronts: Italy, Pacific, Southeast Asia, China, Western Europe, USSR. Maps show Allied attacks from India and China into Burma; Current battle line in central Italy. Includes photographs: Nazi 170mm and American 200mm. mobile guns at Aberdeen Proving Ground, Md.; Shells belonging to the Nazi and American guns; German paratroopers during street fighting in Cassino; Self-propelled German gun mounted on a Mark III chassis advances toward Allied positions in Cassino; Road sign posted near the Allied beachhead below Rome warns Allied forces against touching "butterfly bombs". Back: Your battleship and her requirements. Illustration of a battleship with text describing man hours required to design and build, materials to build, material to operate.
Date: May 22, 1944
Creator: [United States.] Army Service Forces. Army Information Branch.
Object Type: Poster
System: The UNT Digital Library

Newsmap. For the Armed Forces. 246th week of the war, 128th week of U.S. participation

Front: Text describes action on various war fronts: Italy, Pacific, USSR, China, Southeast Asia, Western Europe. Maps: Central Italy showing current offensive areas and the battle line as of 11 May, 1944; Extent of Allied ground force operations. Includes photographs: 20,000 ft. column of smoke rising from Ploesti, Romania; Supply column heads north through Castelforte, Italy; American soldier walks through piles of rubble in the aftermath of heavy shelling; Amphibious "ducks" outside Anzio, laden with supplies for Fifth Army troops; Tanks emerge from the Assam Hills in northern India; Army nurse Lt. Jane Easton of Atlantic City, NJ and nurse Doru Chu of China tend to Corp. George Sammy of Gary, Ind. in China, Lt. La Retta Matthews of Lakeland, FL and Lt. Carolyn Taylor, Douglaston, L.I., N.Y. converse with a fabric shop owner in a Chinese city. Back: New Guinea. Map (continuation of map issued in Newsmap v. 2, no. 37).
Date: May 29, 1944
Creator: [United States.] Army Service Forces. Army Information Branch.
Object Type: Poster
System: The UNT Digital Library

Newsmap. For the Armed Forces. 247th week of the war, 129th week of U.S. participation

Front: Text describes action on various war fronts: Italy, Western Europe, USSR, Pacific, Southeast Asia, China. Maps: Approach to Rome; northern New Guinea. Includes photographs: U.S. Navy plane on patrol duty; American jeep passes by a disabled German self-propelled 88mm. gun in the Spigno area; Ensign R. Black, Navy hellcat pilot of Brigham, Utah exits from his shattered plane. Back: Air commandos. Text and 8 photographs tell the story of air commandos in Asia.
Date: June 5, 1944
Creator: [United States.] Army Service Forces. Army Information Branch.
Object Type: Poster
System: The UNT Digital Library

Newsmap. For the Armed Forces. 248th week of the war, 130th week of U.S. participation

Front: Text describes action on various war fronts: France, Eastern front, Italy, Pacific, China, Southeast Asia. Maps: Schouten Islands; Channel Coast; Italy. Back: "The battle-line is where the Infantry is"... Large photograph of infantryman with text describing the importance of the infantry.
Date: June 12, 1944
Creator: [United States.] Army Service Forces. Army Information Branch.
Object Type: Poster
System: The UNT Digital Library

Newsmap. For the Armed Forces. 249th week of the war, 131st week of U.S. participation

Front: Text highlights action on various war fronts: France ; Italy ; Pacific ; Eastern Front ; Balkans. Inset maps: The advance beyond Rome ; Europe ; The Normandy coast ; China. Photographs: American assault troops move ashore in northern France ; Canadians with bicycles disembark from an infantry landing craft. Back: Map of Germany and adjacent areas shows railroads, superhighways, rivers, and mountains.
Date: June 19, 1944
Creator: [United States.] Army Service Forces. Army Information Branch.
Object Type: Poster
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Lyndon Johnson receiving pin in lapel]

Photo of Lyndon B. Johnson getting pin in lapel while others gather around and watch. Austin, Texas.
Date: August 7, 1944
Creator: Douglass, Neal
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[T. C. Hill in the kitchen at Texas State College for Women, 1944]

Photograph shows T. C. Hill wearing a cook's apron and cap, and using a whisk to stir the contents of a bowl.
Date: 1944
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Power plant tower at North Texas State Teachers College]

Tower on the power plant at North Texas State Teachers College. A section of bricks are missing from near the top of the tower, and one of the sides of the tower has ivy growing on it.
Date: 1944~
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[North Texas State Teachers College administration building]

The North Texas State Teachers College administration building is partially visible behind some trees. The word "Administration" and "1923" are inscribed above the entrance.
Date: 1944~
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Chromascope, Volume 44, 1944 (open access)

The Chromascope, Volume 44, 1944

1944 yearbook for Austin College, an annual publication of Austin College.
Date: 1944
Creator: Austin College
Object Type: Yearbook
System: The Portal to Texas History

[World War II ration coupons]

Several ration coupons from World War II. Most of the coupons are labeled, "Spare." The coupons belonged to the Harris family.
Date: 1944-09-07~
Creator: United States Office of Price Administration
Object Type: Physical Object
System: The Portal to Texas History

[World War II ration coupons]

Several ration coupons from World War II. Most of the coupons are labeled, "Spare." The coupons belonged to the Harris family.
Date: 1944-09-07~
Creator: United States Office of Price Administration
Object Type: Physical Object
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Harris Family, War Ration Books and tokens, Sept. 7, 1944] (open access)

[Harris Family, War Ration Books and tokens, Sept. 7, 1944]

Five war ration books within a ration book cover provided by Denton County National Bank. The ration book belonged to the Harris family of McAllen, Texas: Mary Jean Harris (14), Shirley Francis Harris (8), Helen F. Harris (41), Mrs. W. B. Francis (60+), and John Richard Harris III (12). According to the information in the booklet, they lived at 615 Dallas Ave. in McAllen, Texas. The ration books contain several pages of unused ration stamps and each page contains 48 stamps. On one of the last pages, in handwriting is the title of a film from 1938, "That Certain Age," and a play, "Popularity Plus, by Dorthy C. Allan, also published in 1938. The cover for the ration book was provided by the Denton County National Bank in Denton, Texas, and contained a calendar for the year 1944 on the inside back cover.
Date: 1944~
Creator: United States Office of Price Administration
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History

Bracelet: World War II Souvenir (Italy)

Aluminum bracelet formed as 1 large and six small oval plaques joined by flattened links. Large plaque with engraved images of eagles framing a view of the bay of Naples, inscribed "NAPLES". Other links with engraved views of various locations in Italy and one with a view of a camel and a palm tree labeled "AFRICA". One link with date 1944.
Date: 1944
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Physical Object
System: The UNT Digital Library
Potatoes in Popular Ways. (open access)

Potatoes in Popular Ways.

Describes the nutritional benefits of potatoes and provides recipes for a variety of ways to prepare them for different sorts of meals.
Date: February 1944
Creator: United States. Bureau of Human Nutrition and Home Economics.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Life history of the wireworm Melanotus longulus (Lec.) in southern California. (open access)

Life history of the wireworm Melanotus longulus (Lec.) in southern California.

Describes in detail the life cycle of the Melanotus Longulus wire worm, and in brief: the natural methods for its control, and the threat it poses to crops in southern California.
Date: January 1944
Creator: Stone, M. W., (Marshall Weddell) & Howland, A. F.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Nature and extent of mormon cricket damage to crop and range plants. (open access)

Nature and extent of mormon cricket damage to crop and range plants.

Describes the threat of the Mormon cricket and the extensive damage it can cause to plant life in the northwestern United States.
Date: 1944
Creator: Swain, Ralph B. (Ralph Brownlee), 1912-
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Judging condition and utilization of short-grass ranges on the central Great Plains. (open access)

Judging condition and utilization of short-grass ranges on the central Great Plains.

Provides advice for determining the quality of grasses on range land in an effort to improve grazing and the quality of livestock.
Date: March 1944
Creator: Costello, David Francis, 1904- & Turner, George T. (George Thomas), 1914-
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library

Group of Soldiers in France July 1944

Photograph of a group of soldiers at Bourg de Peage, France in July, 1944. Buddy Sinclair is seated at the right.
Date: July 1944
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

Soldiers at table- France Aug 1944

Photograph of several soldiers and unidentified women around a table in Bourg de Peage, France in August 1944. The soldiers are members of the 36th Infantry Division.
Date: August 1944
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

Soldier getting in jeep 1944

Photograph of Leroy Richter posing by a jeep and Nazi flag. Richter is wearing military clothing.
Date: 1944
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

Two soldiers by jeep 1944

Photograph of Leroy Richter and Leo Highsmith, two soldiers in Italy during World War II. The soldiers are standing by a jeep with the Nazi flag draped over it. Leo Highsmith was wounded at Salerno Beach but returned to the division after recuperation.
Date: January 1944
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History