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Oral History Interview with Bunichi Ohtsuka, March 18, 1995

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Interview with Bunichi Ohtsuka, a veteran of the Imperial Japanese Air Force, concerning his experiences while training to become a kamikaze pilot in 1945.
Date: March 18, 1995
Creator: Byrd, Richard W. & Ohtsuka, Bunichi
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interview with Hugh Martin, October 8, 1995

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Interview with Hugh Martin, a Navy veteran, concerning his experiences aboard the battleship USS California during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Date: October 8, 1995
Creator: White, Jack & Martin, Hugh
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interview with Ken Towery, March 19, 1995

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Interview with Ken Towery. Towery joined the Army in early 1941 and was sent to Corregidor to join a coast artillery unit. He recalls several details about life under siege at Corregidor before he was captured by the Japanese and taken to Cabanatuan. He left the Philippines later that year and was taken to China. Towery shares his opinions about being a POW as well as several anecdotes. He also comments on being liberated by Russians and how the Russians and Chinese communists cooperated right after the war. When he was liberated, Towery was put aboard a hospital ship at Port Arthur.
Date: March 19, 1995
Creator: Byrd, Richard W. & Towery, R. Ken
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interview with Dorothy Still Danner, March 19, 1995

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interview with Dorothy Still Danner. Danner graduated from nursing school in Los Angeles in 1935. In 1939, she applied and was accepted as a nurse in the Navy. After a while, she received orders for the Philippines and arrived in early 1940 on a two-year assignment. Danner recalls the idyllic setting prior to the war before describing activities just after the Japanese invasion. She was stationed at a hospital at Sangley Point near Cavite in Luzon, Philippines. She was captured by the Japanese and interned at Santo Tomas starting in March 1942. Sometime in 1943, she was sent to Los Banos.
Date: March 19, 1995
Creator: Byrd, Richard W. & Danner, Dorothy Still
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interview with Ernest Gordon, March 19, 1995

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Interview with Ernest Gordon. Gordon was born in Scotland and joined the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders in 1939 at Stirling Castle. He was sent to Singapore in January 1940 before the Japanese invaded. Gordon recalls defending the Malay Peninsula starting in January 1942. Gordon was the last to go over the causeway into Singapore before it was destroyed. As Singapore fell, Gordon escaped to Sumatra. When Sumatra fell, Gordon escaped on a sailboat but was captured asea and sent back to Singapore where he entered Changi. He was sent north to build the Death Railway. He describes the conditions along the railway and the work environment.
Date: March 19, 1995
Creator: Byrd, Richard W. & Gordon, Ernest
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interview with Mei T. Nakano, March 18, 1995

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Interview with Mei Nakano, a college professor, concerning her experiences as a Japanese-American internee at the Amache, Colorado, internment camp during World War II. Nakano discusses her childhood experiences with bigotry in rural Colorado, the evacuation from Los Angeles to Amache in September of 1942, camp life, her marriage in the camp, resettlement in Chicago, and the lasting impressions of the internment experience.
Date: March 18, 1995
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Nakano, Mei Takaya
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interview with Annie Mae Arnold, October 20, 1994

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Interview with Annie Mae Arnold about her recollections of the African American community in Texarkana, Texas from 1931 to 1994. Arnold discusses marriage customs, farm work, diet, birthing and child delivery, courting practices, education, cooking, and child rearing.
Date: October 20, 1994
Creator: Rowe, Beverly & Arnold, Annie Mae Williams
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interview with Marcia Taylor, May 31, 1995

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Interview with Marcia Taylor, a homemaker, concerning her recollections of the history of the Nocona Boot Company and its founder, Ms. Enid Justin.
Date: May 31, 1995
Creator: Lipscomb, Carol & Taylor, Marcia
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interview with Paul Dillon, November 3, 1993

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Interview with Paul Dillon concerning his experiences before and during his employment in the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression. Dillon worked at a camp in Huntingdon, Pennsylvania (Company 1381). Includes an appendix with Dillon's CCC discharge papers and a photograph of his camp.
Date: November 3, 1993
Creator: Lovell, Bonnie & Dillon, Paul
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interview with Wilbur Smith, September 30, 1994

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Interview with Wilbur Smith about his recollections of the Progressive Era of Texarkana, Texas. Smith discusses memories of his grandparents and parents, ethnic groups, his education and teachers, boarding houses and hotels, downtown businesses, his mother's business activities, and church activities.
Date: September 30, 1994
Creator: Rowe, Beverly & Smith, Wilbur
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interview with Hal Lamar, October 9, 1994

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Interview with Commander Hal Lamar, a Navy veteran, concerning his experiences while serving as flag lieutenant and aide to Admiral Chester W. Nimitz during World War II. Lamar discusses Nimitz's personal and professional routines; comments about Admirals William ("Bull") Halsey and Raymond Spruance; the Roosevelt-Nimitz-MacArthur conference at Pearl Harbor from July to August of 1944; and the transfer of CINCPAC from Pearl Harbor to Guam.
Date: October 9, 1994
Creator: Christman, Calvin & Lamar, Hal
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interview with T. W. McKee, November 6, 1993

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Interview with Thomas McKee concerning his experiences during his employment in the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression. McKee worked at a camp in Waxahachie, Texas (Company 878). Includes an appendix.
Date: November 6, 1993
Creator: Calame, Michelle & McKee, Thomas W.
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interview with Odie Mitchell, October 18,1993

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Interview with Odie Mitchell concerning his experiences before, during, and after his employment in the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression. Mitchell worked at camps in Flagstaff, Arizona and Kingman, Arizona.
Date: October 18, 1993
Creator: Early, Brice & Mitchell, Odie
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interview with C. M. ("Hank") Hudspeth, May 3, 1993

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Interview with Hank Hudspeth, a Navy veteran, concerning his experiences as a cryptographer in the Pacific Theater during World War II. Hudspeth discusses his assignment to COMSOPAC at Noumea in New Caledonia, the intricacies of sending and receiving various classifications of coded messages, and the ambush of Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto's plane in 1943.
Date: May 3, 1993
Creator: Daniels, John & Hudspeth, C. M.
System: The UNT Digital Library
A comparison of Ghɔky and Akha (open access)

A comparison of Ghɔky and Akha

Pre-print of a conference paper comparing Ghɔky and Akha including word lists comparing modern forms and syllables.
Date: 1991/2004~
Creator: Hansson, Inga-Lill
System: The UNT Digital Library
A preliminary comparison of Hani and Akha funeral texts: Report on work in progress (open access)

A preliminary comparison of Hani and Akha funeral texts: Report on work in progress

Pre-print of a manuscript comparing Hani and Akha funeral texts, including excerpts.
Date: 1993/1997~
Creator: Hansson, Inga-Lill
System: The UNT Digital Library
A comparison of Gåhky and Akha (open access)

A comparison of Gåhky and Akha

Pre-print of a conference paper comparing Gåhky and Akha with corrections on earlier work. Includes handwritten notes, examples, and word lists comparing modern forms with related languages.
Date: 1991~
Creator: Hansson, Inga-Lill
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Interplay Between the Verb Particle 'ə' and the Sentence Particles in Akha (open access)

The Interplay Between the Verb Particle 'ə' and the Sentence Particles in Akha

Pre-print of a manuscript on Akha particles including paradigms and conversational examples.
Date: 1996~
Creator: Hansson, Inga-Lill
System: The UNT Digital Library
Orally transmitted texts of the minorities in East and Southeast Asia: Suggestions for research across borders (open access)

Orally transmitted texts of the minorities in East and Southeast Asia: Suggestions for research across borders

Pre-print manuscript about the value of orally transmitted texts, including excerpts of Akha texts translated into English.
Date: 1997/2004~
Creator: Hansson, Inga-Lill
System: The UNT Digital Library
Object-Verb in Akha: The ABB Structure (open access)

Object-Verb in Akha: The ABB Structure

Pre-print manuscript about how object-verb constructions are formed in Akha, including examples.
Date: 1991~/2004~
Creator: Hansson, Inga-Lill
System: The UNT Digital Library
Reduplication in Akha (open access)

Reduplication in Akha

Partial conference handout presenting examples of reduplication in Akha.
Date: 1997/2004~
Creator: Hansson, Inga-Lill
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interview with W. J. Brooks, September 30, 1990

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Interview with W. J. Brooks concerning his experiences before, during, and after his employment in the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression. Brooks worked in camps in Jackson, Kentucky (Company 547) and Panaca, Nevada (Company 2513).
Date: September 30, 1990
Creator: Dreyer, Janice & Brooks, W. J.
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interview with James A. Blocklinger, April 22, 1994

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Interview with James Blocklinger, a Navy veteran, concerning his experiences aboard the heavy minelayer USS Oglala during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Date: April 22, 1994
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Blocklinger, James A.
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interview with Strimple C. Coyle, Aprill 22, 1994

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Interview with Sergeant Major Strimple C. ("Jim") Coyle, a Marine Corps veteran, concerning his experiences Ewa Field with VMF-211 (Marine Fighter Squadron 211) during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Date: April 22, 1994
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Coyle, Strimple C.
System: The UNT Digital Library