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Civilian Conservation Corps History Oral History Project
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UNT and TWU Library and Library School History Oral History Project
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World War II Pacific Theater Oral History Project
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World War II China-India-Burma Theater Oral History Project
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Texas Community History Oral History Project
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World War II European Theater Oral History Project
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World War II Mediterranean Theater Oral History Project
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World War II Pacific Theater (Submarine Service) Oral History Project
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World War II Pearl Harbor Survivors Oral History Project
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World War II Prisoners of War Oral History Project
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Oral History Interview with John B. Brush, February 3, 1998
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Interview with John Brush, a businessman and WWII POW from White Plains, New York. Brush discusses his family history, school, work for Procter & Gamble Company, marriage, moving to Manila in 1941, the lead up to war, the Japanese invasion of the Philippines, internment by the Japanese army at Santo Tomas Prison Camp, survival with his family, censorship and propaganda, shanties and villages, fake identities to help US servicemen survive, move to Los Baños camp, liberation, and return to the US.
Date:
February 3, 1998
Creator:
Alexander, William J. & Brush, John B.
Object Type:
Book
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The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Richard Donley, February 22, 1997
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Interview with Navy veteran Richard Donley. The interview includes Donley's personal experiences about the Mediterranean Theater during World War II, boot camp, Fleet Torpedo School, encounters with German "F-lighter" armed barges and E-boats, various assignments, and combat against enemy destroyers. Donley also talks about screening operations for the invasions of Sicily and Salerno, operations along the coasts of northern Italy and southern France and the interdiction of German barge traffic, torpedo problems, commando and intelligence operations, returning to the States, his reassignment to the Motor Torpedo Boats Training Center, and transferring to Samar, Philippines.
Date:
February 22, 1997
Creator:
Alexander, William J. & Donley, Richard
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Book
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The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Frederick J. Holland, Jr., February 16, 1999
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Transcript of an interview with Frederick J. Holland, Jr., an Army Air Forces veteran, concerning his experiences in the China-Burma-India Theater during World War II. Holland discusses his early employment with REA Express; basic training, Fort Miles Standish, Massachusetts, 1942; his transfer to the Air Force and assignment to Patterson Field, Dayton, Ohio, 1942; Officer Candidate School, Miami, Florida, 1943; assignment to India; assignment to Dum Dum Airport, Calcutta, 1943; his role in supervising and shipping cargo over "The Hump" (Himalaya Mountains) to China; assignment to Baruipur Airport, Calcutta; his role in the development and operation of the first mobile conveyor unit to load and unload cargo; awarding of the Bronze Star for his invention. Appendix includes one leaf that gives history of the mobile conveyor and one leaf that shows four images of the mobile conveyor.
Date:
February 16, 1999
Creator:
Alexander, William J. & Holland, Frederick J., Jr.
Object Type:
Book
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The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Richard L. Johnston, February 17, 1999
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Interview with William J. Alexander, a Army WWII veteran from Universal, Pennsylvania, who served as an officer of the 382nd Engineer Battalion (Separate), a unit of black enlisted troops. Alexander discusses growing up, joining the Civilian Conservation Corps, joining the Army and commissioning through OCS, training, deployment to India, building the Ledo Road, General Joseph Stilwell, constructing the 20th Bomber Command HQ, working in a steelmill, the atomic bomb, returning home, and postwar service.
Date:
February 17, 1999
Creator:
Alexander, William J. & Johnston, Richard L.
Object Type:
Book
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The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Frederick H. Kline, February 10, 1998
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Transcript of an interview with Frederick H. Kline, an Army Air Forces veteran, concerning his experiences as a photographic laboratory technician in the China-Burma-India Theater during World War II. Appendix includes photos of Frederick J. Kline at twenty-five years of age and of him and his wife after fifty-two years of marriage.
Date:
February 10, 1998
Creator:
Alexander, William J. & Kline, Frederick H., 1918-
Object Type:
Book
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The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with William J. Lesko, February 17, 1999
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Interview with William J. Lesko, a Army Air Corps WWII veteran from New Kensington, Pennsylvania, who served with the 14th Combat Cargo Group in the China-Burma-India Theater. Lesko discusses his family background, enlisting and training to be a radar and radio technician, deployment to India, flying supplies to British troops in Burma, the end of the war, returning to the United States, and life postwar.
Date:
February 17, 1999
Creator:
Alexander, William J. & Lesko, William J.
Object Type:
Book
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The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Roy D. Much, February 3, 1999
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Transcript of an interview with Roy D. Much, Army veteran (987th Field Artillery Battalion), concerning his experiences in the European Theater during World War II. Much discusses his pre-war education and employment; basic training in the artillery, Camp Bowie, Brownwood, Texas, 1942; and general comments about his experiences at Normandy, Saint-Lô, liberation of Paris, Huertgen Forest, Remagen Bridge, Battle of the Bulge, and the liberation of Czechoslovakia.
Date:
February 3, 1999
Creator:
Alexander, William J. & Much, Roy D.
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Tom Peays, February 6, 1999
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Transcript of an interview with Thomas "Tom" Peay, a rancher and Army Air Forces veteran (Air Transport Command), concerning his experiences in the China-Burma-India Theater during World War II. Peay discusses his enrollment in the Civilian Pilot Training Program, 1942; tenure as a primary flight training instructor of Aviation Air Cadets, Harmon Training Center, Ballinger, Texas, 1942-43; Air Ferry Command, 1943; induction into the Army Air Forces, 1943; assignment to the Air Transport Command, 1943; stationing at Tezgaon-Kurmitola, India, 1944; flying C-109s loaded with gasoline over "The Hump" into China; weather problems over the Himalaya Mountains; and his separation from the military, 1946.
Date:
February 6, 1999
Creator:
Alexander, William J. & Peays, Thomas
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Hugh M. Robinson, February 21, 1997
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Transcript of an interview with Hugh M. Robinson, a Navy veteran (Patrol-Torpedo Boat Squadron 3), concerning his experiences in the Pacific Theater during World War II. Robinson discusses the U. S. Naval Academy, 1934-38; assignment to the carrier USS Yorktown, 1938-39; assignment to the destroyer USS Bainbridge, 1939-41; assignment to Motor Boat Submarine Chaser Squadron 1, 1941; assignment to Patrol Torpedo Squadron 2, 1941; operations around the Panama Canal, 1942; reorganization of PT Squadron 2 and his transfer to Patrol Torpedo Boat Squadron 3 for duty in the Pacific; operations around the Solomon Islands, 1942-43; his promotion to commander of PT Squadron 3, 1942; engagements against the "Tokyo Express," 1942-43; his transfer to the staff of Patrol Torpedo Boat Flotilla 1, 1943; transfer to the States, 1943, to the Motor Torpedo Boats Squadron Training Center, Newport, Rhode Island; assignment as air defense officer aboard the battleship USS Wisconsin, 1944; his description of being caught with the 3rd Fleet in a massive typhoon in the Philippine Sea, December 18, 1944; offshore bombardment for the Iwo Jima and Okinawa Campaigns, 1945; offshore bombardment of Honshu and Hokkaido; and his postwar naval career.
Date:
February 21, 1997
Creator:
Alexander, William J. & Robinson, Hugh M.
Object Type:
Book
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The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Nick Sanchez, February 16, 1999
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Interview with Nick Sanchez, a Army Air Force WWII veteran from Laredo, Texas. Sanchez discusses working in radio when the war began, becoming a radio technician in the Army Air Force, deployment to India and operations there, going missing in China after surviving a plane crash, and the end of the war. In appendix are an autobiographical sketch of Sanchez's service, a copy of a diary recording his experience "bailing-out," and his official military statement of the event.
Date:
February 16, 1999
Creator:
Alexander, William J. & Sanchez, Nick
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Dave C. Sanford, February 25, 1999
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Interview with Dave C. Sanford, a Army WWII veteran from Carter, South Dakota, who served as a mortarman in the 37th Infantry Division. Sanford discusses growing up, his experiences in the Great Depression, being drafted and training, the New Georgia, Guadalcanal, Bougainville, and Philippine campaigns, being wounded and discharged, and life afterwards.
Date:
February 25, 1999
Creator:
Alexander, William J. & Sanford, Dave C.
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral history interview with Iliff D. Richardson, February 22, 1997
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Transcript of an interview with Iliff D. Richardson, a Navy veteran, concerning his experiences as a guerrilla fighter in the Philippine Islands during World War II. Richardson discusses his assignment to patrol-torpedo boats in the Philippines, 1941; orders from General Douglas A. MacArthur to establish a clandestine radio network to maintain communications with Commander Southwest Pacific after his evacuation from Corregidor; his role in plotting Japanese minefields in Leyte Gulf prior to MacArthur's return in 1944; pre-invasion weather reporting from Leyte to MacArthur's headquarters; dealings with Filipino guerrillas; transfer to stateside duty and his work with the Industrial Incentives Division of the Navy Department; and the sale of rights to the book about his adventures, "American Guerrilla in the Philippines."
Date:
February 22, 1997
Creator:
Alexander, William J.; Richardson, Rick & Richardson, Iliff, David, 1918-2001
Object Type:
Book
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The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Thomas P. Emery, February 21, 1995
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Interview with Thomas P. Emery, a US Army WWII veteran from Solana Beach, California, who served as a pathfinder in the 6th Army Special Special Recon Unit. Emery discusses joining the Army and airborne training, assignment to G-2, scout and pathfinder training, attending OCS, deployment to New Guinea, formation of the Alamo Scouts, learning to live and fight in the jungle, his first mission, raids and harassing Japanese troops, traveling aboard the USS Missouri, and fighting in the Philippines.
Date:
February 21, 1995
Creator:
Alexander, Wm. J. & Emery, Thomas P.
Object Type:
Book
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The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Dorothy Cooley, February 21, 1994
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Interview with Dorothy Cooley about her experiences as an employee of the Red River Army Depot in Texarkana, Arkansas during World War II and the postwar years. Cooley discusses employment procedures, job assignments, swing shift, wartime rationing, safety procedures, housing, social activities, race relations, relationships among male and female employees, and the economic effects on Texarkana.
Date:
February 21, 1994
Creator:
Brantley, Janet G. & Cooley, Dorothy
Object Type:
Text
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The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Charles Goff, February 1, 1994
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Interview with Charles Goff about his experiences as an employee of the Lone Star Army Ammunition Plant in Texarkana, Texas during World War II and the postwar years. Goff discusses his move from Akron, Ohio, the construction of the plant, safety procedures, bond drives, housing and transportation adjustments, and the social and economic effects on Texarkana. Appendix includes a photocopy of a drawing of a "rim to be shellacked" and a "rim" [1 leaf].
Date:
February 1, 1994
Creator:
Brantley, Janet G. & Goff, Charles
Object Type:
Book
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The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with John L. Ruddick, February 24,1993
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Interview with John Ruddick concerning his experiences while employed by the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) during the Great Depression. Ruddick worked at a camp in Brownwood, Texas (Company 849). Appendix includes a photocopy of Ruddick's CCC Enrollee's Record of Training and Experience. Interview includes information on Ruddick's parents as well as his life before joining the CCC and an appendix.
Date:
February 24, 1993
Creator:
Brantley, Janet G. & Ruddick, John L.
Object Type:
Book
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The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Burnette Sain, February 24, 1993
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Interview with Burnette Sain, a former member of the Civilian Conservation Corps from Bolivar, Tennessee. Sain discusses his family and farming background, life during the Great Depression, and work at a CCC camp in Bristol, Tennessee,
Date:
February 24, 1993
Creator:
Brantley, Janet G. & Sain, Burnette
Object Type:
Book
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The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with John W. Evans, February 25, 1998
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Transcript of an interview with John W. Evans, a Navy veteran, concerning his experiences while aboard the battleship USS Arizona during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Date:
February 25, 1998
Creator:
Chalkley, John & Evans, John W., 1922-
Object Type:
Book
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The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Charles P. Foote, February 21, 1993
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Interview with Charles P. Foote about his experiences while employed by the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression. He discusses his childhood during the Great Depression in in Hunt County, Texas; joining the CCC; assignment to a camp at Wolfe City, Texas (Company 2899); description of camp; life in camp.
Date:
February 21, 1993
Creator:
Cubberly, Monica & Foote, Charles P.
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Book
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The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Charles P. Foote, February 21, 1993
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Interview with Charles Foote concerning his experiences before and during his employment in the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression. Foote worked at a camp in Wolfe City, Texas (Company 2899).
Date:
February 21, 1993
Creator:
Cubberly, Monica & Foote, Charles P.
Object Type:
Book
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The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Bruce D. Gipson, February 13, 1991
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Interview with Bruce D. Gipson, a former farmer, athlete, and member of the Civilian Conservation Corps from Knox City, Texas, regarding his experiences and memories of participating in the CCC during the Great Depression.
Date:
February 13, 1991
Creator:
Daniels, John & Gipson, Bruce D.
Object Type:
Book
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The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with G. Marguerite Anderson, February 16, 1992
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Interview with G. Marguerite Anderson, a librarian, concerning her experiences as a student in the Library School at the Texas State College for Women in Denton, Texas and as a librarian. Anderson discusses her early exposure to books and libraries; her enrollment at the Texas State College for Women, 1940; comments about her college teachers and library science courses; her employment as a student at the college library; her college social life; her employment as librarian at Abilene Christian College; graduate school at University of Chicago, 1950-51; her entry into photographic sales business; her employment with Abilene Christian College, Dallas Center; and her activities in professional organizations.
Date:
February 16, 1992
Creator:
Dickey, Richard & Anderson, G. Marguerite
Object Type:
Book
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The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Sarah Law Kennerly, February 1, 1992
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Interview with Sarah Law Kennerly, a librarian who worked at the University of North Texas when it was known at North Texas State College and North Texas State University. Kennerly discusses her background and education, development of library services at UNT, library-related courses, and changes that occurred over time.
Date:
February 1, 1992
Creator:
Dickey, Richard & Kennerly, Sarah Law
Object Type:
Book
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The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Frances de Cordova, February 7, 1992
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Interview with Frances de Cordova, a college professor at Texas Woman's University, regarding her background, education, the development of the Library Science program at TWU, early perceptions of North Texas State College (now University of North Texas), accreditation by the American Library Association, and her colleagues.
Date:
February 7, 1992
Creator:
Dickey, Richard & de Cordova, Frances
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library