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Oral History Interview with J. Frank Rollins, July 20, 1996
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Interview with J. Frank Rollins, an oilman and a geophysicist, concerning his work experience with Petty Geophysical Engineering Company doing refraction seismic work; his employment with Geophysical Service, Inc.; doing reflection and refraction work in 1936; oil exploration in South America; work in oil field instrumentation equipment; work as a "computer" interpreting geological data; founding of Rayflex Exploration Company in 1948; technological developments for oil field exploration; geochemical surveying; the sale of Rayflex to Phillips-Eckhart in 1962; his work as a geophysical consultant; the application of oil field technology to national defense; German espionage activity in South America during World War II; and pro-German activity in South Louisiana during World War II.
Date:
July 20, 1996
Creator:
Daniels, John D. & Rollins, J. Frank
Object Type:
Book
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The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Eugene L. Brown, October 16, 1995
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Interview with Eugene Brown concerning his experiences before, during, and after his employment in the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression. Brown worked at camps in Cleburne, Texas (Company 3804) and San Antonio, Texas (Company 3822).
Date:
October 16, 1995
Creator:
Ball, Paula & Brown, Eugene L.
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Text
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The UNT Digital Library
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
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Text
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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
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Text
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The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Ray Hunt, March 19, 1995
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Interview with Ray Hunt. Hunt joined the Army Air Corps in early 1939. After training, Hunt became an aircraft mechanic and went to the Philippines in November, 1941. He was captured on Bataan and made a prisoner of war. Hunt describes his experiences on the Death March. Along the way, he escaped and was aided by Filipinos until he was healthy enough to join a guerrilla band in Tarlac. Hunt describes his activities and the command structure of his guerrilla organization. When the Allies invaded Luzon, Hunt’s band of guerrillas created havoc behind enemy lines. He received a battlefield commission retroactively sometime in 1945. He stayed in the Army, retiring in 1959.
Date:
March 19, 1995
Creator:
Marcello, Ronald E.; Byrd, Richard W. & Hunt, Ray
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Book
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The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with John Bumgarner, March 18, 1995
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Interview with John Bumgarner, a physician and an Army veteran, concerning his experiences as a prisoner-of-war of the Japanese following the fall of the Philippines during World War II. Bumgarner discusses the fall of Bataan and his capture, Bilibid Prison in Manila (1942), Cabanatuan (1942-1944), the hell ship to Japan (1944), Hakodate, Hokkaido (1944-1945), and his liberation.
Date:
March 18, 1995
Creator:
Marcello, Ronald E. & Bumgarner, John R.
Object Type:
Book
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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.
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March 19, 1995
Creator:
Byrd, Richard W. & Danner, Dorothy Still
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Text
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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
Object Type:
Text
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The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with John C. ("Jack") Fitch, March 19, 1995
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Fitch begins with a summary of the naval career of his father, Admiral Aubrey Fitch. Fitch joined the Navy in early 1942. He was assigned to the USS Wasp (CV-7) just before it sank, then to the USS Hornet (CV-8) just before it sank. He was finally assigned to CASU-3 and sent to Guadalcanal. He reflects on what it was like for him in the service while having a high-ranking father. In April, 1943, Fitch transferred aboard the USS Nicholas (DD-449). Fitch shares several anecdotes of his experiences aboard the Nicholas while engaged in the fight around the Solomon Islands and in the Slot. During the Battle of Kula Gulf, Fitch went aboard a whaleboat and rescued survivors from the USS Helena (CL-50). Fitch attended a gunnery school at Noumea before reporting aboard the USS La Vallette (DD-448) in October 1943. He describes being at the Marshall Islands invasion. In July 1944 Fitch returned to the US and put the USS Benner (DD-807) into commission. He recalls battling kamikazes while aboard the Benner on station off the coast of Japan toward the end of the war. Fitch returned to the US and was discharged in May 1946. Includes an appendix …
Date:
March 19, 1995
Creator:
Marcello, Ronald E. & Fitch, John C.
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
[News Clip: Drug Talks]
Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.
Date:
March 1992
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KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type:
Video
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The UNT Digital Library
[News Clip: Drug Talks]
Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.
Date:
March 1992
Creator:
KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type:
Video
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The UNT Digital Library
[News Clip: Drug Talks]
Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.
Date:
March 1992
Creator:
KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type:
Video
System:
The UNT Digital Library
[News Clip: Summit Preparations]
B-roll video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.
Date:
March 1992
Creator:
KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type:
Video
System:
The UNT Digital Library
[News Clip: Drug Talks]
B-roll video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.
Date:
March 1992
Creator:
KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type:
Video
System:
The UNT Digital Library
[News Clip: Cop Suspect]
Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.
Date:
April 25, 1991, 5:00 p.m.
Creator:
KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type:
Video
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The UNT Digital Library
[News Clip: San Antonio Drug Summit]
B-roll video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.
Date:
February 26, 1992, 6:30 a.m.
Creator:
KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type:
Video
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The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Baine P. Kerr, May 4, 1993
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Interview with Baine Kerr, an attorney and Marine Corps veteran, concerning his combat experiences with the 3rd Marine Division in the Pacific Theater during World War II. Kerr discusses Guadacanal, his machine gun wound at Guadacanal, Kwajalein, Saipan, and his assignment to a legal office at Camp Lejeune in North Carolina.
Date:
May 4, 1993
Creator:
Daniels, John & Kerr, Baine P.
Object Type:
Book
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The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with George Gowen, May 3, 1993
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Interview with George Gowen, a Navy veteran, concerning his experiences aboard the destroyer Chevalier during the Battle of Vella Lavella in January 1943 in the Pacific Theater during World War II, and his naval career after World War II.
Date:
May 3, 1993
Creator:
Byrd, Richard & Gowen, George
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Text
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The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Lyle Specht, May 3, 1993
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Interview with Lyle Specht, a Marine Corps veteran, concerning his combat experiences with the 6th Marines at Guadalcanal, Tarawa, and Okinawa in the Pacific Theater during World War II.
Date:
May 3, 1993
Creator:
Byrd, Richard & Specht, Lyle
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Text
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The UNT Digital Library
TELEMASP Bulletin, Volume 5, Number 2, May 1998
Monthly bulletin issued to address topics related to law enforcement. This issue discusses "Merging Community-Oriented and Crime-Specific Policing Part Three of Seven" including topics such as targeted enforcement and different programs' descriptions and their effects.
Date:
May 1998
Creator:
Carter, David
Object Type:
Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Mei Nakano, March 18, 1995
The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Mei Nakano. Nakano is a Japanese-American and was an internee at the Amache Internment Camp in Colorado. She was born in 1924 in Olathe, Colorado. She provides detail of her life growing up in Colorado and various prejudices she received from teachers and classmates. They moved to Los Angeles, California in 1935 where she graduated from high school. She provides detail of the discrimination she and her family received in California, particularly after 7 December 1941. As notices were going out to other Japanese-American families regarding evacuation, Nakano describes her family’s preparations for the inevitable. They were evacuated by the War Relocation Authority to the Santa Anita Racetrack and in 1942 transferred to the Amache Internment Camp in Colorado. She provides much detail of life in these camps. Nakano returned to California after the war.
Date:
March 18, 1995
Creator:
Nakano, Mei
Object Type:
Text
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Alan Tanaguchi, March 18, 1995
The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Alan Tanaguchi. Tanaguchi was a Japanese-American internee at the Gila River Camp in Arizona during World War II. At 19 years old, after the attack on Pearl Harbor, Tanaguchi became a part of the internment program of the War Relocation Authority. He provides detail of life growing up in Stockton, California before December 7, 1941 and after, and experiences of bigotry and racism among his peers. He provides detail of his father being in the Justice Department internment group. He served as the dean of the College of Architecture at the University of Texas at Austin, and at Rice University in Houston. He designed an addition to the Nimitz Museum.
Date:
March 18, 1995
Creator:
Tanaguchi, Alan
Object Type:
Text
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[News Clip: Texas Roundup]
Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.
Date:
July 22, 1993, 10:00 p.m.
Creator:
KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type:
Video
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The UNT Digital Library
[News Clip: Texas Roundup]
Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.
Date:
July 20, 1993, 10:00 p.m.
Creator:
KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type:
Video
System:
The UNT Digital Library