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Garber Billings News (Garber, Okla.), Vol. 117, No. 40, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 17, 2017 (open access)

Garber Billings News (Garber, Okla.), Vol. 117, No. 40, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 17, 2017

Weekly newspaper from Garber, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: August 17, 2017
Creator: Deeds, Lacey
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
The Colony Courier-Leader (The Colony, Tex.), Vol. 37, No. 45, Ed. 1 Sunday, December 17, 2017 (open access)

The Colony Courier-Leader (The Colony, Tex.), Vol. 37, No. 45, Ed. 1 Sunday, December 17, 2017

Weekly newspaper from The Colony, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: December 17, 2017
Creator: McGathey, Liz & Roark, Chris
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Colony Courier-Leader (The Colony, Tex.), Vol. 37, No. 33, Ed. 1 Sunday, September 17, 2017 (open access)

The Colony Courier-Leader (The Colony, Tex.), Vol. 37, No. 33, Ed. 1 Sunday, September 17, 2017

Weekly newspaper from The Colony, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: September 17, 2017
Creator: McGathey, Liz & Roark, Chris
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Altus Times (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 118, No. 204, Ed. 1 Tuesday, October 17, 2017 (open access)

The Altus Times (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 118, No. 204, Ed. 1 Tuesday, October 17, 2017

Daily newspaper from Altus, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: October 17, 2017
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
The Altus Times (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 118, No. 183, Ed. 1 Sunday, September 17, 2017 (open access)

The Altus Times (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 118, No. 183, Ed. 1 Sunday, September 17, 2017

Daily newspaper from Altus, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: September 17, 2017
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
The Altus Times (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 118, No. 157, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 17, 2017 (open access)

The Altus Times (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 118, No. 157, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 17, 2017

Daily newspaper from Altus, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: August 17, 2017
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
The Altus Times (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 118, No. 98, Ed. 1 Wednesday, May 17, 2017 (open access)

The Altus Times (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 118, No. 98, Ed. 1 Wednesday, May 17, 2017

Daily newspaper from Altus, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: May 17, 2017
Creator: Steinkopff, Eric
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
The Altus Times (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 118, No. 55, Ed. 1 Friday, March 17, 2017 (open access)

The Altus Times (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 118, No. 55, Ed. 1 Friday, March 17, 2017

Daily newspaper from Altus, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: March 17, 2017
Creator: Steinkopff, Eric
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
The Altus Times (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 118, No. 35, Ed. 1 Friday, February 17, 2017 (open access)

The Altus Times (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 118, No. 35, Ed. 1 Friday, February 17, 2017

Daily newspaper from Altus, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: February 17, 2017
Creator: Steinkopff, Eric
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
The Altus Times (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 118, No. 12, Ed. 1 Tuesday, January 17, 2017 (open access)

The Altus Times (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 118, No. 12, Ed. 1 Tuesday, January 17, 2017

Daily newspaper from Altus, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: January 17, 2017
Creator: Steinkopff, Eric
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Oral History Interview with John Scott, November 17, 2017 transcript

Oral History Interview with John Scott, November 17, 2017

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with John Scott. Scott joined the Marine Corps in October 1943 and trained at San Diego. In February 1944, he shipped to Hawaii and the 10th Marine Regiment, 2nd Marine Division at Camp Tarawa. He was on a 75mm pack howitzer at Saipan and recalls details about the invasion. Scott share several anecdotes from his experiences on Saipan. He was at Okinawa, but his unit remained in reserve without going ashore. He also recalls details about the occupation of Japan, where he remained until the end of the year. Scott returned to the US and was discharged in January 1946.
Date: November 17, 2017
Creator: Scott, John
Object Type: Sound
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Sara Ella Kurth, October 17, 2017 transcript

Oral History Interview with Sara Ella Kurth, October 17, 2017

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Sara-Ella Kurth. Kurth was born in October 1928 in Huntsville, Texas. She graduated high school in 1945. She describes hearing the news about the attack on Pearl Harbor, and how this affected her family. She had two first cousins aboard the USS New Orleans (CL/CA-32) who participated in the attack and describes their experiences. She describes how her family bought the savings stamps and bonds at school and participated in drives to raise money. Her family actively collected materials, rationed and had a Victory Garden to help with the efforts. She provides detail of the two German POW camps near Lufkin, Texas. Kurth served in the Central Intelligence Agency, and was shipped to an Air Force camp in Japan, from 1957 through 1960.
Date: October 17, 2017
Creator: Kurth, Sara Ella
Object Type: Sound
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Dale Mitchell, August 17, 2017 transcript

Oral History Interview with Dale Mitchell, August 17, 2017

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Dale Mitchell. Mitchell joined the Army in 1944. He went to Fort Knox, Kentucky. He learned how to drive a tank and had weapons training. He served as an instructor and assisted with training new recruits in Germany. He came home from Europe and was discharged in December 1945. He got married and made his life’s work on the 1200-acre family farm.
Date: August 17, 2017
Creator: Mitchell, Dale
Object Type: Sound
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Peter Schultheiss, July 17, 2017 transcript

Oral History Interview with Peter Schultheiss, July 17, 2017

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Peter Schultheiss. Schultheiss grew up in Germany and was a student when the war started. He recasll details about being in a national youth orgaization: Deutsches Jungvolk (the 10-14 year-old branch of the Hitler Youth). Before he finished school, he was recruited to serve within an antiaircraft battery in Halle in 1944. He served on an 88mm gun. In January, 1945, Shultheiss began serving as a horse messenger to German infantry units at the front an was wounded during and artillery barrage. He then wandered just behind German front lines until the war ended. When the war ended, he found work on a farm briefly caring for horses before moving east i nan attempt to get home. When he had to cross over to the Soviet side, he was robbed of everything he had. Schultheiss made his way back home to Erfurt and reunited with his mother and father. They soon fled to the American Zone in Berlin to escape the Russian communists. He studied engineering and in 1955 moved to the US.
Date: July 17, 2017
Creator: Schultheiss, Peter
Object Type: Sound
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Arthur Downard, May 17, 2017 transcript

Oral History Interview with Arthur Downard, May 17, 2017

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Arthur Downard. Downard was drafted in November 1942. He was sent to Camp Dodge in Des Moines, Iowa for basic training and then on to Fresno, California. From there he was sent to Denver, Colorado for Air Corps administrative school, where he became an instructor of officers until November 1944. In January 1945 he received orders to go to the Pacific and serve as administrator to the lab technicians and photo interpreters of aerial photography. He served with the 4th Photographic Procurement Detachment. He had thirty enlisted men and six officers he worked with. His group was sent to Fort McKinley in Manila, Philippines to make an aerial map of the southeastern third of China. Their job was to develop the film and make the map. He describes life in Manila. He was there until April 1946 to complete the map, and was discharged in Denver.
Date: May 17, 2017
Creator: Downard, Arthur
Object Type: Sound
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Justin Bible, March 17, 2017 transcript

Oral History Interview with Justin Bible, March 17, 2017

The National Museum of the pacific War presents an oral interview with Justin Bible. Bible joined the Army and went to radio school in California before being assigned to the 593rd Joint Assault Signal Company (JASCO). He landed in the Philippines (Leyte and Luzon) with the unit and shares a few anecdotes. He also went to Okinawa. Bible returned to the US in late 1945.
Date: March 17, 2017
Creator: Bible, Justin
Object Type: Sound
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Liz Irvine and Yvonne Charles, September 17, 2017 transcript

Oral History Interview with Liz Irvine and Yvonne Charles, September 17, 2017

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents a joint interview with Liz Irvine and Yvonne Charles. Both were teenagers when they were interned as civilians in Santo Tomas University by the Japanese in 1942. They discuss the various activities they participated in. They tell of some of the acts of kindness as well as brutality that occurred by their captors. They also tell of the violent demise of the Japanese camp commandant Abiko, following the surrender of the camp on 3 February 1945.
Date: September 17, 2017
Creator: Irvine, Liz & Charles, Evon
Object Type: Sound
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Jean Adams, September 17, 2017 transcript

Oral History Interview with Jean Adams, September 17, 2017

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Jean Adams. Adams was born in Washington, DC. Her father served in the military as well as her two brothers. She attended an all-girls school in Washington and graduated from a women’s college in Philadelphia. In 1940 she joined her brother in the Philippines but was evacuated in 1941. She joined the second class of the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (WACs) in 1942. She was assigned to the Office of Inspector General and tells of several investigations in which she was involved. She resigned from WACs soon after getting married in 1943.
Date: September 17, 2017
Creator: Adams, Jean
Object Type: Sound
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with John Scott, November 17, 2017 (open access)

Oral History Interview with John Scott, November 17, 2017

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with John Scott. Scott joined the Marine Corps in October 1943 and trained at San Diego. In February 1944, he shipped to Hawaii and the 10th Marine Regiment, 2nd Marine Division at Camp Tarawa. He was on a 75mm pack howitzer at Saipan and recalls details about the invasion. Scott share several anecdotes from his experiences on Saipan. He was at Okinawa, but his unit remained in reserve without going ashore. He also recalls details about the occupation of Japan, where he remained until the end of the year. Scott returned to the US and was discharged in January 1946.
Date: November 17, 2017
Creator: Scott, John
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Sara Ella Kurth, October 17, 2017 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Sara Ella Kurth, October 17, 2017

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Sara-Ella Kurth. Kurth was born in October 1928 in Huntsville, Texas. She graduated high school in 1945. She describes hearing the news about the attack on Pearl Harbor, and how this affected her family. She had two first cousins aboard the USS New Orleans (CL/CA-32) who participated in the attack and describes their experiences. She describes how her family bought the savings stamps and bonds at school and participated in drives to raise money. Her family actively collected materials, rationed and had a Victory Garden to help with the efforts. She provides detail of the two German POW camps near Lufkin, Texas. Kurth served in the Central Intelligence Agency, and was shipped to an Air Force camp in Japan, from 1957 through 1960.
Date: October 17, 2017
Creator: Kurth, Sara Ella
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Dale Mitchell, August 17, 2017 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Dale Mitchell, August 17, 2017

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Dale Mitchell. Mitchell joined the Army in 1944. He went to Fort Knox, Kentucky. He learned how to drive a tank and had weapons training. He served as an instructor and assisted with training new recruits in Germany. He came home from Europe and was discharged in December 1945. He got married and made his life’s work on the 1200-acre family farm.
Date: August 17, 2017
Creator: Mitchell, Dale
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Peter Schultheiss, July 17, 2017 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Peter Schultheiss, July 17, 2017

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Peter Schultheiss. Schultheiss grew up in Germany and was a student when the war started. He recasll details about being in a national youth orgaization: Deutsches Jungvolk (the 10-14 year-old branch of the Hitler Youth). Before he finished school, he was recruited to serve within an antiaircraft battery in Halle in 1944. He served on an 88mm gun. In January, 1945, Shultheiss began serving as a horse messenger to German infantry units at the front an was wounded during and artillery barrage. He then wandered just behind German front lines until the war ended. When the war ended, he found work on a farm briefly caring for horses before moving east i nan attempt to get home. When he had to cross over to the Soviet side, he was robbed of everything he had. Schultheiss made his way back home to Erfurt and reunited with his mother and father. They soon fled to the American Zone in Berlin to escape the Russian communists. He studied engineering and in 1955 moved to the US.
Date: July 17, 2017
Creator: Schultheiss, Peter
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Arthur Downard, May 17, 2017 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Arthur Downard, May 17, 2017

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Arthur Downard. Downard was drafted in November 1942. He was sent to Camp Dodge in Des Moines, Iowa for basic training and then on to Fresno, California. From there he was sent to Denver, Colorado for Air Corps administrative school, where he became an instructor of officers until November 1944. In January 1945 he received orders to go to the Pacific and serve as administrator to the lab technicians and photo interpreters of aerial photography. He served with the 4th Photographic Procurement Detachment. He had thirty enlisted men and six officers he worked with. His group was sent to Fort McKinley in Manila, Philippines to make an aerial map of the southeastern third of China. Their job was to develop the film and make the map. He describes life in Manila. He was there until April 1946 to complete the map, and was discharged in Denver.
Date: May 17, 2017
Creator: Downard, Arthur
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Justin Bible, March 17, 2017 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Justin Bible, March 17, 2017

The National Museum of the pacific War presents an oral interview with Justin Bible. Bible joined the Army and went to radio school in California before being assigned to the 593rd Joint Assault Signal Company (JASCO). He landed in the Philippines (Leyte and Luzon) with the unit and shares a few anecdotes. He also went to Okinawa. Bible returned to the US in late 1945.
Date: March 17, 2017
Creator: Bible, Justin
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History