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Oral History Interview with Frank Tremaine, March 18, 1995
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Transcript of an interview with Frank Tremaine, a journalist and World War II news correspondent, concerning his experiences as a bureau manager in the Pacific Theater for the United Press during World War II. Tremaine discusses the Pearl Harbor attack, military censorship, CINCPAC and Admiral Chester Nimitz, Admiral William ("Bull") Halsey, General Douglas MacArthur, an account of the Japanese surrender and ceremonies aboard the USS Missouri on September 2, 1945.
Date:
March 18, 1995
Creator:
Byrd, R. W. (Richard W.) & Tremaine, Frank
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Roy Cudd, March 19, 1997
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Interview with Roy Cudd, a Navy WWII veteran of the USS Bougainville (CVE-100, an escort carrier) from Denton, Texas. Cudd discusses his family life, their reaction to the start of war, enlisting in the Navy and boot camp, assignment to the Bougainville, duties aboard ship and daily life, missions in the Pacific, the Okinawa Typhoon, combat, initiation as a "shellback," kamikazes, liberty, ranking up, and the end of the war.
Date:
March 19, 1997
Creator:
Byrd, Richard W. & Cudd, Roy
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Margaret Gillooly, March 18, 1995
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Interview with Margaret Gillooly, a civilian internee of the Japanese in WWII from San Francisco, California. Gillooly discusses her family's move to the Philippines in 1938, schooling, the start of war and the Japanese invasion, staying in Cebu City, her parents' escape from Manila and surviving a sinking in Manila Bay, Japanese occupation of Cebu, being moved to Manila, various experiences surviving internment at Santo Tomas Prison Camp, bombings, the American invasion and liberation, a Japanese counterattack and siege, emotional and mental impacts, and evacuation.
Date:
March 18, 1995
Creator:
Byrd, Richard W. & Gillooly, Margaret
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with R. Kenneth Towery, March 19, 1995
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Interview with Ken Towery, journalist, Army veteran (59th Coast Artillery Regiment), and survivor of the siege of Corregidor, concerning his experiences as a prisoner-of-war of the Japanese during World War II. Towery discusses the fall of Corregidor and his capture, Cabanatuan (1942), Mukden, Manchuria (1942-1945), and his liberation by Russian troops.
Date:
March 19, 1995
Creator:
Byrd, Richard W. & Towery, Roland Kenneth, 1923-2016
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Fritz Kornegay, March 2003
Interview with Fritz Kornegay, a signal engineer in the US Army during WWII. He describes his time in the military and coming home post-war.
Date:
March 2003
Creator:
Childress, D. & Kornegay, Fritz
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Raymond A. Christ to WASP Reunion Committee, March 3, 1986]
Letter from Raymond A. Christ to WASP Reunion Committee discussing enclosed draft registration information for the upcoming reunion in Sweetwater.
Date:
March 3, 1986
Creator:
Christ, Raymond A.
Object Type:
Letter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Jacqueline Cochran to Gayle Snell, March 8, 1944]
Letter from Jackie Cochran to Gayle Snell discussing her entrance into a WASP training class and the need to defer her to a later one. There are several doodles penciled on the paper.
Date:
March 8, 1944
Creator:
Cochran, Jacqueline
Object Type:
Letter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Kent and Deanie Comolli to the National WASP WWII Museum, March, 1, 2010]
Letter from Kent and Deanie Comolli to the National WASP WWII Museum discussing memories of WASP and Sweetwater during WWII and seeing the museum at a class of '57 high school reunion.
Date:
March 1, 2010
Creator:
Comolli, Kent & Comolli, Deanie
Object Type:
Letter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Consolidated Eagle, Volume 1, Number 44, Thursday, March 4, 1943
Weekly newsletter published for employees of the Consolidated Aircraft Corporation Fort Worth Division containing work-related information, updates about employees, and other news.
Date:
March 4, 1943
Creator:
Consolidated Aircraft (Firm)
Object Type:
Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Consolidated Eagle, Volume 1, Number 46, Thursday, March 18, 1943
Weekly newsletter published for employees of the Consolidated Aircraft Corporation Fort Worth Division containing work-related information, updates about employees, and other news.
Date:
March 14, 1943
Creator:
Consolidated Vultee Aircraft Corporation
Object Type:
Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Eagle, Volume 2, Number 47, Thursday, March 23, 1944
Weekly newsletter published for employees of the Consolidated Vultee Aircraft Corporation Fort Worth Division containing work-related information, updates about employees, and other news.
Date:
March 23, 1944
Creator:
Consolidated Vultee Aircraft Corporation
Object Type:
Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Copyright Registry, March 26, 1954 #1]
Copyright registry signed by the Copyright Office of the United States of America in Washington D.C. for "vol. 903, page(s) 271 on March 26, 1954."
Date:
March 26, 1954
Creator:
Copyright Office of the United States of America
Object Type:
Legal Document
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Copyright Registry, March 26, 1954 #2]
Copyright registry signed by the Copyright Office of the United States of America in Washington D.C. for "vol. 903, page(s) 271 on March 26, 1954."
Date:
March 26, 1954
Creator:
Copyright Office of the United States of America
Object Type:
Legal Document
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Arwin Bowden, March 9, 2000
Interview with Arwin Bowden, a marine during World War II. He begins by discussing his training in San Diego and New Zealand before the Battle of Tarawa. He describes being wounded in the battle, the casualties he saw, and being shipped back to Pearl Harbor for treatment before joining the battle of Saipan. He describes ancedotes about Japanese killing themselves rather than surrendering, eating food from a garden watered from rainwater running down from outhouses, the wages he made, and the time he had leave.
Date:
March 9, 2000
Creator:
Cox, Floyd & Bowden, Arwin J.
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Ethel Reisberg Schectman, March 24, 2001
Interview with Ethel Reisberg Schectman regarding her experiences during World War II. She begins by discussing her family background: her parents were Jews born in Poland and emigrated to the United States. Ethel's European aunts, uncles and grandparents all likely died in the Holocaust. As a first grade student, she taught her mother, a Polish immigrant, how to read and write English. She recalls, wartime rationing, Victory Gardens, scrap drives, and antisemitism among her school-aged classmates in Dallas, Texas, and the end of the war.
Date:
March 24, 2001
Creator:
Cox, Floyd & Schectman, Ethel Reisberg
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Ethel Reisberg Schectman, March 24, 2001
Interview with Ethel Reisburg Schectman of Fort Worth, Texas, who was born in New York City during the Great Depression to Jewish Polish immigrant parents. The interview includes Hill's personal experiences of World War II on the home front, including memories of D-Day, iron metal scrap drives, victory gardens, rationing, V-E and V-J Days, and what it was like being Jewish in Dallas during that time.
Date:
March 24, 2001
Creator:
Cox, Floyd & Schectman, Ethel Reisberg
Object Type:
Text
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Joseph B. Brown, March 23, 2001
Interview with Joseph B. Brown of Abilene, Texas, who is a World War Two veteran of the United States Marine Corps. In the interview, Mr. Brown recalls memories of growing up and his time in the Marines, particularly from training, being wounded, and working campaigns in the South Pacific.
Date:
March 23, 2001
Creator:
Cox, William G. & Brown, Joseph B.
Object Type:
Text
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Joseph B. Brown, March 24, 2001
Interview with Joseph Brown, who was in the Marine Corps during World War II. He discusses going to Guadalcanal, various guns and artillery he used, the battle of Tarawa and getting malaria just before it, then going to Hawaii for more training before returning to the South Pacific and fighting on Saipan and Tinian. He also discusses being wounded on Saipan, having a bayonet run through his forearm and keeping the bayonet as a souvenir after the war, and he talks about some of his experiences and travels after the war.
Date:
March 24, 2001
Creator:
Cox, William G. & Brown, Joseph B.
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Alfonso Nava, March 26, 2004
Interview with Alfonso Nava, a technical sergeant in the US Army during WWII. He answers questions about his decision to enlist and his experiences in the military.
Date:
March 26, 2004
Creator:
Coy, Marisa E. & Nava, Alfonso
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Catherine Davis to Joe Davis - March 3, 1945]
Letter from Catherine to her husband Joe discussing news from home, including Catherine's feeling ill, Mother breaking a few ribs, and Baker borrowing the car.
Date:
March 3, 1945
Creator:
Davis, Catherine Dawe
Object Type:
Letter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Catherine Davis to Joe Davis - March 5, 1945]
Letter from Catherine to her husband Joe discussing news from home, including going to Maxine's party on Saturday night, visiting Mother, who is suffering with her broken ribs, and Kelly being in the hospital in San Antonio.
Date:
March 5, 1945
Creator:
Davis, Catherine Dawe
Object Type:
Letter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Catherine Davis to Joe Davis - March 7, 1945]
Letter from Catherine to her husband Joe discussing news from home, including starting to sew a blouse, someone coming to do yardwork, and attending a dinner in honor of K. J. Kyle at College Station.
Date:
March 7, 1945
Creator:
Davis, Catherine Dawe
Object Type:
Letter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Catherine Davis to Joe Davis - March 8, 1945]
Letter from Catherine to her husband Joe discussing news from home, including plans for a trip to San Antonio with Martha, the weather, and some sewing she has done.
Date:
March 8, 1945
Creator:
Davis, Catherine Dawe
Object Type:
Letter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Catherine Davis to Joe Davis - March 9, 1945]
Letter from Catherine to her husband Joe discussing news from home, including Emma having poison ivy, an unpleasant chat with Baker and Nell, and the weather.
Date:
March 9, 1945
Creator:
Davis, Catherine Dawe
Object Type:
Letter
System:
The Portal to Texas History