Oral History Interview with Rudy Kiehne, March 3, 1999

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Interview with Rudy Kiehne, a Navy veteran, concerning his experiences while aboard the battleship USS Maryland during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Date: March 3, 1999
Creator: Alexander, William J. & Kiehne, Rudy, 1919-
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Recollections of Yerba Buena Island] (open access)

[Recollections of Yerba Buena Island]

Document of Jack Vaughan's recollections of his time spent at the detention barracks on Yerba Buena Island in San Francisco, California, from July 1945 to April 1946.
Date: January 3, 1998
Creator: Vaughan, Jack Carter
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History

Oral History Interview with William Smeltzer, August 3, 1996

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Interview with William Smeltzer, a Army WWII veteran and Navy contractor from Wrightsville, Pennsylvania. Smeltzer discusses quitting high school and moving to California in 1940, experiences working at Mare and Pearl Harbor Navy Yards as a civilian contractor before and after the start of the war, the raising of the sunken USS Oklahoma (BB-37), being drafted into the Army and infantry training, assignment to the 45th Infantry Division and participating in the drive into Germany, the end of the war and demobilization, and his career afterwards. In appendix are a photo of the insignia for the Pearl Harbor Navy Yard and two photos of the capsized Oklahoma.
Date: August 3, 1996
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Smeltzer, William
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interview with Marion E. Carl, May 3, 1993

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Interview with Maj. Gen. Marion E. Carl, a Marine Corps WWII fighter ace and test pilot from Hubbard, Oregon. Carl discusses his education, joining the Marines, flight training, deployment aboard the USS Saratoga at the start of the war, first air-to-air combat, service at Midway and Guadalcanal, return to the States as a squadron commander, flying a promotional circuit and getting married, return to the South Pacific, Rabaul, end of combat flying and work as a test pilot at Patuxent River NAS, jets vs. props, flight injuries, return to fighter units, and service in Taiwan and Vietnam.
Date: May 3, 1993
Creator: Daniels, John & Carl, Marion E.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Letter from Cornelia Yerkes, November 3, 1943] (open access)

[Letter from Cornelia Yerkes, November 3, 1943]

Letter from WASP Cornelia Yerkes discussing the weather, getting a haircut, and flying into Shreveport, with a postscript mention of returning to Dallas the following day. Written on Hutson Hotels stationary.
Date: November 3, 1943, 7:30 a.m.
Creator: Kafka, Cornelia V. Yerkes
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History