[Room Reservation Form for Bond Court Hotel] (open access)

[Room Reservation Form for Bond Court Hotel]

Pre-addressed form for reserving a room at the Bond Court Hotel in Cleveland, Ohio.
Date: unknown
Creator: Bond Court Hotel
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History

Cleveland (U-8) Sectional Aeronautical Chart

Aeronautical map of Cleveland, Ohio and its surrounding region, showing cities, topographical features, radio frequency ranges and various aeronautical symbols for flight training and navigation. Scale 1:500,000.
Date: November 11, 1943
Creator: U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History
Impact of the War on the Cleveland, Ohio Area (open access)

Impact of the War on the Cleveland, Ohio Area

Report describing the industrial area of Cleveland, Ohio including compiled statistics and information about the effects of World War Two on the labor force and industrial expansion of the area.
Date: July 1944
Creator: Fisko, Both H.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Boyd Lamb, February 28, 2001 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Boyd Lamb, February 28, 2001

Interview with Boyd Lamb. He answers questions about his life before enlisting, life on the USS Tennessee, and his life post-war.
Date: June 18, 2003
Creator: Chamblin, Marie & Lamb, Boyd
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Women Airforce Service Pilots, WWII: 1982 Bi-ennial Convention (open access)

Women Airforce Service Pilots, WWII: 1982 Bi-ennial Convention

Schedule of events for the 1982 biennial Women Airforce Service Pilots convention that includes agenda items such as committee reports, change of officers, and a requiem honoring deceased WASP members.
Date: 1982
Creator: Women Airforce Service Pilots (U.S.)
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The Portal to Texas History

Oral History Interview with Inga Czerner, January 4, 1990

Access: Use of this item is restricted to the UNT Community
Interview with Inga Czerner (née Israelski), a German-Jewish expatriate from Frankfurt-am-Main. Czerner discusses Hitler's rise to power and the initial effect of Nazi power on Jews, her father's departure for Russia, growing up in Frankfurt, growing antisemitism, the Gestapo, her schooling, the Kristallnacht, hiding, fleeing Germany to England without her mother, loss of her family members to the Holocaust, learning her father survived the war, moving to the US and marrying her husband Albert, and reflections on the Holocaust and Jewishness.
Date: January 4, 1990
Creator: Rosen, Keith & Czerner, Ingaborg Rosa
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Postcard of Cleveland Public Square]

Postcard of a public square in Cleveland, Ohio, facing southeast, with buildings, a monument, and many cars in and around the square. A handwritten note addressed to Miss Helen H. Aten says "Lt. W. W. Aten, Camp Perry Ohio, Cleveland, Sun Morn, Sept 6, 42. This is a cut of Cleveland and it does seem like quite a nice place. We went to a show last night and saw Ted Lewis- orchestra on the stage and a real big picture. I guess I slept thru part of it. Cleveland is 82 miles from camp. We will soon be sight seeing and I hope its good. Your Bro, Woodrow."
Date: September 6, 1942
Creator: Aten, Woodrow W.
Object Type: Postcard
System: The Portal to Texas History
Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen Insurance Department (open access)

Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen Insurance Department

A special circular discussing the various ways that the organization has assisted in the World War II efforts for the past several years and asking that they continue to adjust their work until the war is over.
Date: January 8, 1945
Creator: Grand Lodge Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The UNT Digital Library
Facts & Faces, January 1945 (open access)

Facts & Faces, January 1945

Newsletter for the employees of The Yoder Company in Cleveland, Ohio, including news, events, and other updates of interest to workers. This issue includes a feature about a visit from soldiers sent by General Eisenhower to tour ammunition manufacturers. This copy was sent to Pfc. H. T. Gaby, who was part of the tour, in an envelope that has the company logo on the front and and illustration of soldiers jumping out of a truck on the back.
Date: January 1945
Creator: Yoder Company
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Soldier Signing Photograph]

Photograph of several men looking at an extremely large, framed, photographic print on a table during a visit at the Yoder Manufacturing Plant. Two uniformed soldiers are in the center of the photo including Louis Cocozza seated at left, who appears to be writing on the photo and Leo Crivello at center, who has his arm around Crivello. A man wearing a dark-colored suit is standing at right, looking down at the image and other men are partially visible in the background, as well as large, metallic machinery or equipment.
Date: December 22, 1944
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Soldiers Eating at Yoder Company]

Photograph of a group of roughly thirteen men seated around a long table eating a meal during a visit at the Yoder Company plant. The visiting soldiers are wearing military uniforms and the men at the foreground end of the table are wearing dark-colored suits, including a man seated at the head of the table, facing the opposite direction. Various dishes, cutlery, and pitchers are visible on the table, which is covered with light-colored cloth or paper. A map and several posters are visible on the wall in the background and other men appear to be at a table out of view on the right. An unidentified man wearing a lab coat is standing between the tables, facing the back of the room.
Date: December 22, 1944
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Leo Crivello and Worker Looking at Shells]

Photograph of Pfc. Leo Crivello standing next to an unidentified female worker at the Yoder Company plant; both of them are looking down at a series of large metal shells on a table and the worker is holding hose suspended from the ceiling in her right hand. A man wearing work gloves is standing directly behind Crivello, laughing and looking toward the left side of the image; another worker is visible on the right side of the image, looking at mechanical equipment, which is visible in the background.
Date: December 22, 1944
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Gordon Sympson Holding a Microphone]

Photograph of Captain Gordon Sympson, viewed from his left side, standing in front of a piece of equipment during a visit to the Yoder Company plant, holding up a microphone. Alexis is wearing a military uniform and several other uniformed men are seated on the left side of the image, in front of several workers who appear to be watching the speech. Part of the factory structure and catwalks are visible in the background.
Date: December 22, 1944
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Boyd Lamb, February 28, 2001 transcript

Oral History Interview with Boyd Lamb, February 28, 2001

Interview with Boyd Lamb. He answers questions about his life before enlisting, life on the USS Tennessee, and his life post-war.
Date: February 28, 2001
Creator: Chamblin, Marie & Lamb, Boyd
Object Type: Sound
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Soldiers and Businessmen at Restaurant]

Photograph of nine uniformed soldiers and four men wearing dark-colored business suits posing together around a restaurant table. Six men are seated along the far side of the table, tentatively identified as: unidentified soldier, T/5th Lars Larson, S/Sgt. Clarence Alexis, Pfc. Harry Gaby. Pfc. Leo Crivello, and an unidentified civilian. Two solders are posing behind the seated men, at left, tentatively identified as Sgt. Jack Allen (left) and Pfc. Louis Cocozza (right). The other five men are standing at one end of the table, at the back right of the image, including three civilians at right, and (tentatively), Capt. Gordon Sympson, who has his arms around the men on either side of him, and Cpl. Myles Gates (left). The wall behind them has a series of decorative murals and the photo is in a folder identifying the location as "Herman Pirchner's Alpine Village, Playhouse Square. Cleveland's Only Theatre Restaurant."
Date: December 22, 1944
Creator: Nite-Club Photo Co.
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Louis Cocozza Holding a Microphone]

Photograph of S/Sgt. Louis Cocozza, viewed from his left side, standing in front of a piece of equipment during a visit to the Yoder Company plant, holding up a microphone. Cocozza is wearing a military uniform and another uniformed man is partially visible on the right side of the image; a number of workers are visible in the background, watching the speech.
Date: December 22, 1944
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Clarence Alexis Holding a Microphone]

Photograph of S/Sgt. Clarence Alexis, viewed from his left side, standing in front of a piece of equipment during a visit to the Yoder Company plant, holding up a microphone. Alexis is wearing a military uniform and several other uniformed men are visible on the left side of the image, in front of several workers who appear to be watching the speech. A woman's face is partially visible on the right edge of the image.
Date: December 22, 1944
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Group of Visiting Soldiers at Yoder Plant]

Group portrait of uniformed soldiers during a visit to the Yoder Company plant, posing together in several lines. They are tentative identified as: Capt. Gordon Sympson (left), Pfc. Harry Gaby (back left), Pfc. Leo Crivello (back center), and left-to-right, S/Sgt. Clarence Alexis, Sgt. Jack Allen, Cpl. Myles Gates, Pfc. Louis Cocozza, and T/5th Lars Larson. A man wearing a suit is partially visible at the far right of the image.
Date: December 22, 1944
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Gordon Sympson Shaking Hands with Yoder Administrator]

Photograph of a group of uniformed soldiers standing in two lines during a visit to the Yoder Company plant. In the center of the image, Capt. Gordon Sympson (left) is standing in front of the group with his left arm around Sgt. Jack Allen while he shakes hands with an unidentified man wearing a dark-colored suit (right). The other soldiers are tentatively identified (left to right) as: back row, S/Sgt. Clarence Alexis, Pfc. Leo Crivello, T/5th Lars Larson; front row, Pfc. Harry Gaby, Cpl. Myles Gates, and Pfc. Louis Cocozza.
Date: December 22, 1944
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Factory Workers Watching Speech]

Photograph of factory workers and visiting soldiers at the Yoder Company plant during a speech by a uniformed soldier, visible from the neck down at the right side of the image, holding a microphone. Four uniformed soldiers are grouped nearby, tentatively identified as Leo Crivello (seated, at left, looking at his hands), Harry Gaby (center) and Louis Cocozza (right) who are standing, and a fourth man who is seated in front of them, facing away. Factory workers are standing behind them, looking toward the camera or watching the man who is speaking, including several who are wearing suits and others wearing work aprons.
Date: December 22, 1944
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Sergeant Allen Speaking with Men]

Photograph of three men standing close together and conversing, in front of large, metallic equipment in the Yoder Company plant. One man (right) is wearing light-colored business clothes and is speaking with his right hand raised; a man in the center is wearing a dark-colored military uniform that appears to have a Marine logo on the cap; at left is a man in an Army uniform, tentatively identified as Sgt. Jack Allen. A worker is partially visible at the far right of the image.
Date: December 22, 1944
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Gordon Sympson and Unidentified Men]

Photograph of a man wearing a dark-colored military uniform, tentatively identified as Capt. Gordon Sympson standing with his hands in his pockets between two unidentified men wearing dark-colored suits. They are standing near equipment, visible at left, and are all looking toward the left side of the image. Another man in a military uniform is partially visible behind Sympson, looking toward the flor.
Date: December 22, 1944
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History