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Oral History Interview with John H. Butterfield, February 10, 2012 (open access)

Oral History Interview with John H. Butterfield, February 10, 2012

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with John H. Butterfield. Butterfield was drafted in November, 1942 into the Army and trained as an antiaircraft gunner. In March, 1943 he was shipped to Hawaii. Soon, he was assigned to a gun battery at Pearl City. He also learned to operate the radar and describes its activity. Butterfield describes being transported across the Pacific in an LST and participating in the assault on Makin Island. Butterfield and crew set up their antiaircraft guns there after the atoll was secure. Eventually, his outfit was transported back to Pearl Harbor in July, 1944. In April, 1945, Butterfield's antiaircraft unit was attached to the Tenth Army and went to Ie Shima. Butterfield also speaks about witnessing the Japanese surrender delegation arriving on Ie Shima. After the war, he was discharged and returned home, married and resumed farming.
Date: February 10, 2012
Creator: Butterfield, John H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Biofuels from Bacteria, Electricity, and CO2 (open access)

Biofuels from Bacteria, Electricity, and CO2

Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy project sheet summarizing general information about the Electrofuels program including critical needs, innovation and advantages, impacts, and contact information. This sheet discusses combining ammonia and bacteria to produce liquid fuel as part of the "Biofuels from CO2 Using Ammonia or Iron-Oxidizing Bacteria in Reverse Microbial Fuel Cells" project.
Date: May 10, 2012
Creator: Columbia University
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Anthony F. Cooper, January 10, 2012 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Anthony F. Cooper, January 10, 2012

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Anthony F. Cooper. In January, 1941, Cooper was drafted into the Army. Cooper trained as an ammunition specialist. As such, he was trained to set up ammunition supply points in combat zones. After training, Cooper was assigned to the 54th Ordnance Ammunition Company. When the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, Cooper was stationed at Fort Bragg, North Carolina. From there, Cooper's unit went overseas t oEngland to prepare for the invasion of North Africa. Cooper describes being involved in the Battle of Kasserine Pass in Tunisia and having to retreat. At one point while Cooper was in Italy, he was captured by the Germans. He was liberated a few days later. Cooper also speaks about destroying ammunition after the war. After the war in Europe ended, Cooper returned to the US and was discharged. He re-enlisted in 1948 and saw service in the war in Korea. He also tested parachutes at Fort Bragg, Norh Carolina with the 101st Airborne Division. Also, Cooper met Elvis Presley while the Third Armored Division was stationed in Germany. While testing parachutes, Cooper also met General William Westmoreland.
Date: January 10, 2012
Creator: Cooper, Anthony F.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Biofuels from E. coli (open access)

Biofuels from E. coli

Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy project sheet summarizing general information about the Electrofuels program including critical needs, innovation and advantages, impacts, and contact information. This sheet discusses the modification of E. coli to consume carbon dioxide and produce liquid fuel as part of the "Engineering E. coli as an Electrofuels Chassis for Isooctane Production" project.
Date: May 10, 2012
Creator: Ginkgo Bioworks
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Leland Gwin, May 10, 2012 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Leland Gwin, May 10, 2012

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Leland Gwin. After Gwin's brother was captured on Corregidor, Gwin vowed to rescue him. In late 1944, when he turned 17, Gwin joined the Navy. Upon completion of amphibious training, he was assigned as an engineer to an LCVP attached to the USS Rockingham (APA-229). While landing troops at Okinawa, he rescued a crew whose landing gear failed and evacuated 150 wounded off a hospital ship that was attacked. Gwin was later assigned to pick up American POWs from Leyte, where he met someone who had been imprisoned with his brother. Gwin learned that although his brother survived the Bataan Death March, he had been worked to death in a coalmine. Gwin spent the next six months transporting soldiers home, making four round trips before by June 1946. He then received orders to Bikini Atoll but was granted leave to see his dying mother and was subsequently discharged. Several of the men who went in his place died soon after from exposure to radiation.
Date: May 10, 2012
Creator: Gwin, Leland
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Paul Harless, July 10, 2012 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Paul Harless, July 10, 2012

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Paul Harless. Harless dropped out of high school to join the Navy in 1939 and received basic training in Norfolk. Upon completion, he was assigned to the presidential yacht, the USS Potomac (AG-25) which brought the Roosevelts to visit Churchill, Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands, and Princess Martha of Norway. In November 1942 Harless transferred to the USS John Rodgers (DD-574) and oversaw 59 sailors who had never been aboard a ship. Providing shore bombardment throughout the Pacific Theater, they did not lose a single man in their 12 battles. At Okinawa, Harless was credited with shooting down a kamikaze as captain of a twin 40mm gun. After the ship ran into a typhoon and nearly capsized, Harless attended the signing of the surrender in Tokyo Bay and returned home immediately thereafter, with special instructions from Admiral Halsey to prioritize the exemplary crew's discharge.
Date: July 10, 2012
Creator: Harless, Paul
System: The Portal to Texas History
Fuel from Bacteria, CO2, Water, and Solar Energy (open access)

Fuel from Bacteria, CO2, Water, and Solar Energy

Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy project sheet summarizing general information about a new program to generate liquid fuels from bacteria, carbon dioxide, water, and sunlight (project title "Engineering a Bacterial Reverse Fuel Cell") including critical needs, innovation and advantages, impacts, and contact information. This sheet is the first open solicitation, announcing funding opportunities for involvement in the project.
Date: May 10, 2012
Creator: Harvard Medical School. Wyss Institute
System: The UNT Digital Library
Riders recommending DART (open access)

Riders recommending DART

News release about a customer survey that shows high satisfaction with DART. The agency plans to increase security measures on DART vehicles.
Date: January 10, 2012
Creator: Lyons, Morgan & Ball, Mark
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Katie Sherrod, November 10, 2012 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Katie Sherrod, November 10, 2012

Interview with Katie Sherrod, a journalist in Dallas and Forth Worth, Texas. The interview includes biographical information about her life growing up, her educational background, her involvement in various women's rights movements during the 1970s, and her career as a newspaperwoman and a broadcast journalist.
Date: November 10, 2012
Creator: Mehdi, Sahar; Nolasea, Diana & Sherrod, Katie
System: The UNT Digital Library
Engineering Bacteria for Efficient Fuel Production (open access)

Engineering Bacteria for Efficient Fuel Production

Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy project sheet summarizing general information about the Electrofuels program including critical needs, innovation and advantages, impacts, and contact information. This sheet discusses engineering a microorganism to create a liquid fuel from hydrogen and carbon dioxide as part of the "Novel Biological Conversion of Hydrogen and Carbon Dioxide Directly into Free Fatty Acids" project.
Date: May 10, 2012
Creator: OPX Biotechnologies
System: The UNT Digital Library
Fuel from Bacteria (open access)

Fuel from Bacteria

Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy project sheet summarizing general information about a new program to genetically modify bacteria to generate Butanol from carbon dioxide (project title "Bioconversion of Carbon Dioxide to Biofuels by Facultatively Autotrophic Hydrogen Bacteria") including critical needs, innovation and advantages, impacts, and contact information. This sheet is the first open solicitation, announcing funding opportunities for involvement in the project.
Date: May 10, 2012
Creator: Ohio State University
System: The UNT Digital Library
Genetically Modified Bacteria for Fuel Production (open access)

Genetically Modified Bacteria for Fuel Production

Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy project sheet summarizing general information about the Electrofuels program including critical needs, innovation and advantages, impacts, and contact information. This sheet discusses a new program to develop a bacteria that uses electricity to convert carbon dioxide into liquid fuels as part of the "Development of Rhodobacter as a Versatile Platform for Fuels Production" project.
Date: May 10, 2012
Creator: Pennsylvania State University
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Michael Pohorilla, October 10, 2012 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Michael Pohorilla, October 10, 2012

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Michael Pohorilla. Pohorilla enlisted in the aviation cadet program for the Army Air Force in December of 1942. He provides great detail of his training. In the fall of 1943 to the spring of 1944 he trained in aerial gunnery and shares his experiences in school. In June of 1944 he landed in Liverpool, England. He was assigned to the 385th Bomb Group, 550th Bomb Squadron in the 8th Air Force. He served as a navigator aboard a B-17 and describes each of his crew members. He details a number of his missions, which were all in the industrial centers of Germany. He provides some information on their targets, which included Germany’s manufacturing and transportation complexes. They flew 35 missions overall. He talks some on life in England, where they were still subjected to the V-1 and V-2 bombs overhead. He returned to the States in April of 1945, where he taught special courses at Brooks Field. He was discharged in October of 1945.
Date: October 10, 2012
Creator: Pohorilla, Michael
System: The Portal to Texas History
High Energy Density Capacitors (open access)

High Energy Density Capacitors

Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy project sheet summarizing general information about the Batteries for Electrical Energy Storage in Transportation (BEEST) program including critical needs, innovation and advantages, impacts, and contact information. This sheet discusses a new capacitor design for electric vehicles as part of the "High Energy Density Capacitors" project.
Date: May 10, 2012
Creator: Recapping, Inc.
System: The UNT Digital Library
[TXSSAR McKinney Chapter #63 meeting minutes: November 10, 2012] (open access)

[TXSSAR McKinney Chapter #63 meeting minutes: November 10, 2012]

Minutes for the November 10, 2012 TXSSAR meeting, held by the McKinney chapter.
Date: November 10, 2012
Creator: Texas Society Sons of the American Revolution, McKinney Chapter 63
System: The UNT Digital Library
Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0980 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0980

Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, Greg Abbott, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Whether a "project duration ordinance" adopted by the City of Austin contravenes section 245.005 of the Local Government Code (RQ-1070-GA).
Date: December 10, 2012
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0981 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0981

Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, Greg Abbott, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Authority of a county to form a transportation reinvestment zone, collect an ad valorem tax increment, and pledge and assign all or part of the increment to secure bonds to pay the cost of a transportation project (RQ-1 071-GA).
Date: December 10, 2012
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Agenda: The Dallas Way, July 10, 2012] (open access)

[Agenda: The Dallas Way, July 10, 2012]

Agenda for the July 10th meeting of the Dallas Way listing the order of topics to discuss at the meeting.
Date: July 10, 2012
Creator: The Dallas Way
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Minutes: The Dallas Way, July 10, 2012] (open access)

[Minutes: The Dallas Way, July 10, 2012]

Minutes for the July 10th meeting of the Dallas Way including a list of current project reports due at the meeting.
Date: July 10, 2012
Creator: The Dallas Way
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with James Trubach, February 10, 2012 (open access)

Oral History Interview with James Trubach, February 10, 2012

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with James Trubach. Trubach was drafted into the Army in December of 1944. In March of 1945 he traveled to Luzon, Philippines. His job was to go out on reconnaissance missions into the hills of Luzon to locate any remaining Japanese soldiers in the caves. Trubach provides some detail of these missions and of jungle life. He then traveled to Fukaya, Japan to help clean up an ammunition storage area and destroy Japanese weapons. He was then transferred over to a medical detachment with the Army Air Forces. They traveled around Japan administering vaccinations and then he was placed into a communication detachment until early 1946. He then served as telephone operator, corresponding with other bases around Japan. Trubach was discharged in November of 1946.
Date: February 10, 2012
Creator: Trubach, James
System: The Portal to Texas History
Electric Vehicle Batteries (open access)

Electric Vehicle Batteries

Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy project sheet summarizing general information about the 10 projects that are a part of the Batteries for Electrical Energy Storage in Transportation (BEEST) program including project goals, innovation needs, and potential impacts.
Date: May 10, 2012
Creator: United States. Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Versatile Transportation Energy Solutions (open access)

Versatile Transportation Energy Solutions

Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy project sheet summarizing general information about the 13 projects that are a part of the Electrofuels program including project goals, innovation needs, and potential impacts.
Date: May 10, 2012
Creator: United States. Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Compact of Free Association: Proposed U.S. Assistance to Palau through Fiscal Year 2024 (open access)

Compact of Free Association: Proposed U.S. Assistance to Palau through Fiscal Year 2024

Testimony issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "The Agreement would provide decreasing assistance, totaling approximately $215 million through fiscal year 2024 and includes the following:"
Date: September 10, 2012
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Defense Logistics: Space-Available Travel Challenges May Be Exacerbated If Eligibility Expands (open access)

Defense Logistics: Space-Available Travel Challenges May Be Exacerbated If Eligibility Expands

Correspondence issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "According to DOD data, over 500,000 passengers used the space-available travel program from fiscal years 2009 through 2011. DOD data show that the five most-used air terminals have limited seats available. Specifically, seats for the three most-traveled destinations from each terminal were near capacity in Fiscal Year 2011. While there were some unused seats for space-available travel, these may be seats on routes with less-desirable destinations or during less-popular travel months. Additionally, DOD officials indicated that existing challenges with usage of the space-available travel program, adherence to DOD's original intent for the program, and air terminal logistics and maintenance would be exacerbated if the number of eligible passengers were to increase."
Date: September 10, 2012
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
System: The UNT Digital Library