Oral History Interview with James N. Hall, November 10, 1999

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Interview with James N. Hall, a Army Air Force WWII veteran from Burkburnett, Texas. Hall discusses joining the Air Force from college, basic training, classification, flight training, the P-47, fighter tactics, deplyoment to Le Culot Airfield in Belgium, his first mission, briefings and intelligence, Air Support Parties, close air support, flak, bomber escort, air-to-air encounters, casualties, logistics, German civilians, crash landings, V-E Day, and return to civilian life.
Date: November 10, 1999
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Hall, James N.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Letter from Michael R. Winn to Charlyne Creger, November 22, 1999] (open access)

[Letter from Michael R. Winn to Charlyne Creger, November 22, 1999]

Letter from Micharl R. Winn to Charlyne Creger thanking her for participating in the Veterans Day Program during the week of November 7-13, 1999.
Date: November 22, 1999
Creator: Winn, Michael R.
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Clipping: The Empty Desk] (open access)

[Clipping: The Empty Desk]

Photocopied newspaper clipping about a teacher who keeps an empty desk the classroom in remembrance of fallen soldiers. A signature can be seen in the top left corner.
Date: November 1999
Creator: MacElwain, R. Wade
Object Type: Clipping
System: The Portal to Texas History

Oral History Interview with E. Benjamin Dunn, November 16, 1999

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Interview with E. Benjamin Dunn, a Army WWII veteran and POW from Gorham, Illinois, who was captured by the Japanese on Java with the 2nd Battalion, 131st Field Artillery (the "Lost Battalion.") Dunn discusses training in the Army, transfer to 2-131 and deployment to the Pacific, the fall of Java and being captured, experiences in internment in Batavia and later Changi Prison Camp in Singapore, building the Burma-Thailand Death Railway, and liberation.
Date: November 16, 1999
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Dunn, E. Benjamin
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library