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Altus Times (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 103, No. 301, Ed. 1 Sunday, February 17, 2002
Daily newspaper from Altus, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date:
February 17, 2002
Creator:
Bush, Michael
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Altus Times (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 103, No. 275, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 17, 2002
Daily newspaper from Altus, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date:
January 17, 2002
Creator:
Bush, Michael
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Altus Times (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 104, No. 79, Ed. 1 Monday, June 17, 2002
Daily newspaper from Altus, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date:
June 17, 2002
Creator:
Bush, Michael
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Altus Times (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 104, No. 53, Ed. 1 Friday, May 17, 2002
Daily newspaper from Altus, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date:
May 17, 2002
Creator:
Bush, Michael
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Altus Times (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 104, No. 28, Ed. 1 Wednesday, April 17, 2002
Daily newspaper from Altus, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date:
April 17, 2002
Creator:
Bush, Michael
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Altus Times (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 104, No. 2, Ed. 1 Sunday, March 17, 2002
Daily newspaper from Altus, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date:
March 17, 2002
Creator:
Bush, Michael
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Altus Times (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 104, No. 157, Ed. 1 Tuesday, September 17, 2002
Daily newspaper from Altus, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date:
September 17, 2002
Creator:
Bush, Michael
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Altus Times (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 104, No. 105, Ed. 1 Wednesday, July 17, 2002
Daily newspaper from Altus, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date:
July 17, 2002
Creator:
Bush, Michael
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Altus Times (Altus, Okla.), Vol. [104], No. [232], Ed. 1 Tuesday, December 17, 2002
Daily newspaper from Altus, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date:
December 17, 2002
Creator:
Bush, Michael
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Altus Times (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 104, No. 207, Ed. 1 Sunday, November 17, 2002
Daily newspaper from Altus, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date:
November 17, 2002
Creator:
Bush, Michael
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Altus Times (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 104, No. 181, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 17, 2002
Daily newspaper from Altus, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date:
October 17, 2002
Creator:
Bush, Michael
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Oral History Interview with V. P. Johansen, February 17, 2002
The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with V.P. Johansen. Johansen joined the Navy soon after the attack on Pearl Harbor. He became a Seabee and spent 18 months working on new construction at the submarine base at Pearl Harbor. His unit was then shifted to heavy equipment for airstrip work. Johansen landed on Iwo Jima on the fourth day of the battle. His battalion began repairing Airfield #1. Johansen details the damaged planes landing on the field and the ongoing maintenance the airfield required. He was sent back to the States that summer where he served until his discharge in December of 1945.
Date:
February 17, 2002
Creator:
Johansen, V. P.
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Allen Faust, December 17, 2002
The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Allen Faust. Faust graduated from the Naval Academy in 1936. He was stationed at Pearl Harbor, along with his wife who worked at the Office of Naval Intelligence. He then completed Submarine School at the Naval Submarine Base in New London. After the attack on Pearl Harbor, Faust took command of USS R-7 (SS-84), an R-class coastal and harbor defense submarine, conducting anti-submarine patrols in the shipping lanes between Bermuda and the northeastern coat. In 1945, Faust deployed to the Pacific and took command of USS Trepang (SS-412). He traveled to Guam, the coast of Japan, Kwajalein and Pearl Harbor. After the war ended, he continued his service until the early 1960s.
Date:
December 17, 2002
Creator:
Faust, Allen
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Preston Holcomb, October 17, 2002
The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Preston Holcomb. Holcomb joined the Navy in May of 1938. In 1939, Holcomb volunteered for the Asiatic Fleet and was assigned aboard USS Tulsa (PG-22), conducting patrols along the South China Sea. In 1941, after the attack on Pearl Harbor, they traveled to Manila, Philippines, completing mine patrol. In early 1942 their crew was asked to reinforce the Dutch Army in defending Java from the Japanese. Their ship provided escort and rescue missions in the Pacific. Holcomb traveled to Fremantle, Australia, where the ship was refitted and served as a convoy escort. In mid-1942, they joined the defense of New Guinea. In early 1944, Holcomb transferred to USS Tinsman (DE-589). They escorted a convoy to Leyte in late 1944 through early 1945. He returned to the US, though continued his service for 20 years.
Date:
October 17, 2002
Creator:
Holcomb, Preston
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Baselio Zorzanello, May 17, 2002
The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Baselio Zorzanello. Zorzanello joined the Navy in 1935. He served as an Electrician’s Mate aboard USS Marblehead (CL-12). They were stationed in China, in a town under Japanese domination, and he describes his interactions with the natives. They traveled to Manila Bay in the Philippines for additional training. During the Battle of Corregidor, Zorzanello was captured by the Japanese. He was taken to Bilibid Prison in Manila, and later to the Cabanatuan prison camp. He remained imprisoned until their liberation in September of 1945. He returned to the US and continued his service, retiring from the Navy in 1957.
Date:
May 17, 2002
Creator:
Zorzanello, Baselio
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Lowell Foss, June 17, 2002
The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Lowell Foss. Foss was born in Reno County, Kansas in 1922 and was raised and worked on the family farm. Drafted into the United States Marine Corps in 1941, he trained at Paris Island, South Carolina and Camp Lejeune, North Carolina. Trained as a lineman he was assigned to the 3rd Battalion, 4th Marines, 6th Marine Division. He tells of landing on Okinawa and of the high casualties taken during the battle for Sugar Loaf Hill. He relates the experience of an encounter with a Japanese soldier in which the gun of the Japanese soldier misfired allowing Foss to kill the enemy. Eventually, Foss was wounded and evacuated to a hospital on Guam. He was there when Japan surrendered. Foss recalls the horrendous condition of the former prisoners of the Japanese as they entered the hospital following the surrender of Japan.
Date:
June 17, 2002
Creator:
Foss, Lowell
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Richard Roper, March 17, 2002
The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Richard Roper. Roper was born in Atchison, Kansas in 1922. He left college in 1941 and joined the United States Marine Corps. Upon completing boot camp he was sent to Parris Island and assigned to heavy artillery of the 5th Defense Battalion. He landed on Funafuti in the Ellice Islands on 2 October 1941. The only contact with the outside world was with a Navy boat that would come from Samoa weekly. He remembers there were two pontoon airplanes based on the island used for reconnaissance. During one evening patrol the pilot spotted a raft containing Eddie Rickenbacker and two others. The plane picked up the three men and taxied 40 miles before they were put aboard a small yard patrol boat. Others who had been with Rickenbacker when their plane went down were recovered from another atoll. Roper also tells of his life after leaving the Marine Corps, which included writing a book about 37 chaplains who were prisoners of the Japanese.
Date:
March 17, 2002
Creator:
Roper, Richard
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Margaret Zarzanello, May 17, 2002
The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Margaret Zarzanello. Zarzanello graduated from St. Mayfield Nursing School in 1944, and joined the Navy. She was stationed in New York, Connecticut and Rhode Island where she worked in hospitals discharging patients. She was recalled again during the Korean War. Zarzanello shares her experiences during training, enlisting, her family and working as a nurse.
Date:
May 17, 2002
Creator:
Zarzanello, Margaret
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Jack Butler, January 17, 2002
The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Jack Butler. Butler joined the Army in March of 1943. He volunteered to join the paratroopers and completed jump school in Fort Benning, Georgia. In June of 1944 he traveled to Sicily. In August he was assigned to Head Quarters Company 509th, Parachute Infantry Regiment. They traveled to Naples where he served in a machine gun squad. They moved on to southern France, then on to Belgium where their job was to hold a cross road in Manhay. Butler shares his experiences through combat with the Germans, working under the commanding officer General James Gavin and fighting in extreme cold weather conditions. Their battalion defended a 7 mile stretch of terrain between Soy and Hutton, beating off repeated attacks by the German 2nd SS Panzer Division. He returned to England in March of 1945 and was discharged in August.
Date:
January 17, 2002
Creator:
Butler, Jack
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Charles Grojean, October 17, 2002
The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Charles Gojean. Grojean was born in Charleston, Missouri in 1923. From an early age he wanted to attend the United States Naval Academy. He was accepted after attending the Virginia Military Institute for a year. He discusses the differences between the teaching methods at VMI and the Naval Academy. He recalls the summer cruises aboard the USS Arkansas (BB-33) in 1943 and the USS New York (BB-34) in 1944. After graduation, he was on his way to San Francisco when the atomic bombs were dropped on Japan. From Pearl Harbor, he was ordered to Uilithi. The ship to which he had been assigned had already departed for New York. In December 1945, Grojean was ordered aboard the USS Stevenson (DD-645), scheduled for decommissioning in South Carolina. He then reported aboard the USS Wiltsie (DD-716), which sailed for San Diego via the Panama Canal. He then attended a six month electronic school and upon graduating he flew to Japan. In 1947 he attended sonar school for four weeks and rejoined the ship at Bremerton. In early 1948 he had an accident, which put him in the Great Lakes Naval …
Date:
October 17, 2002
Creator:
Grojean, Charles D.
Object Type:
Text
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with V. P. Johansen, February 17, 2002
The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with V.P. Johansen. Johansen joined the Navy soon after the attack on Pearl Harbor. He became a Seabee and spent 18 months working on new construction at the submarine base at Pearl Harbor. His unit was then shifted to heavy equipment for airstrip work. Johansen landed on Iwo Jima on the fourth day of the battle. His battalion began repairing Airfield #1. Johansen details the damaged planes landing on the field and the ongoing maintenance the airfield required. He was sent back to the States that summer where he served until his discharge in December of 1945.
Date:
February 17, 2002
Creator:
Johansen, V. P.
Object Type:
Text
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Allen Faust, December 17, 2002
The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Allen Faust. Faust graduated from the Naval Academy in 1936. He was stationed at Pearl Harbor, along with his wife who worked at the Office of Naval Intelligence. He then completed Submarine School at the Naval Submarine Base in New London. After the attack on Pearl Harbor, Faust took command of USS R-7 (SS-84), an R-class coastal and harbor defense submarine, conducting anti-submarine patrols in the shipping lanes between Bermuda and the northeastern coat. In 1945, Faust deployed to the Pacific and took command of USS Trepang (SS-412). He traveled to Guam, the coast of Japan, Kwajalein and Pearl Harbor. After the war ended, he continued his service until the early 1960s.
Date:
December 17, 2002
Creator:
Faust, Allen
Object Type:
Text
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Preston Holcomb, October 17, 2002
The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Preston Holcomb. Holcomb joined the Navy in May of 1938. In 1939, Holcomb volunteered for the Asiatic Fleet and was assigned aboard USS Tulsa (PG-22), conducting patrols along the South China Sea. In 1941, after the attack on Pearl Harbor, they traveled to Manila, Philippines, completing mine patrol. In early 1942 their crew was asked to reinforce the Dutch Army in defending Java from the Japanese. Their ship provided escort and rescue missions in the Pacific. Holcomb traveled to Fremantle, Australia, where the ship was refitted and served as a convoy escort. In mid-1942, they joined the defense of New Guinea. In early 1944, Holcomb transferred to USS Tinsman (DE-589). They escorted a convoy to Leyte in late 1944 through early 1945. He returned to the US, though continued his service for 20 years.
Date:
October 17, 2002
Creator:
Holcomb, Preston
Object Type:
Text
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Baselio Zorzanello, May 17, 2002
The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Baselio Zorzanello. Zorzanello joined the Navy in 1935. He served as an Electrician’s Mate aboard USS Marblehead (CL-12). They were stationed in China, in a town under Japanese domination, and he describes his interactions with the natives. They traveled to Manila Bay in the Philippines for additional training. During the Battle of Corregidor, Zorzanello was captured by the Japanese. He was taken to Bilibid Prison in Manila, and later to the Cabanatuan prison camp. He remained imprisoned until their liberation in September of 1945. He returned to the US and continued his service, retiring from the Navy in 1957.
Date:
May 17, 2002
Creator:
Zorzanello, Baselio
Object Type:
Text
System:
The Portal to Texas History