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1941: Texas Goes to War
This book is a collection of essays discussing the role of Texans in World War II. It examines both the Texas soldiers fighting in the European and Pacific theaters as well as the Texans on the Homefront. The essays describe both the military and social aspects of the war. Index starts on page 241.
Date:
1991
Creator:
Lee, James Ward; Barnes, Carolyn N.; Bowman, Kent A. & Crow, Laura
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Mary Steele Leon, April 15, 1997
Interview with Mary Steele Leon, a secretary for the U. S. Navy during and after World War II. She joined the Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service (WAVES) and was trained as a secretary. Her first assignment was in the office of the Chief of Naval Operations (CNO) during World War II. The CNO at the time was Fleet Admiral Ernest J. King. After the war, she served as personal secretary for Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz while he was CNO. She was discharged in 1946.
Date:
April 15, 1997
Creator:
Alexander, Bill & Leon, Mary Steele
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with William Havel, April 22, 1994
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Use of this item is restricted to the UNT Community
Interview with William Havel, an army veteran from Staten Island, New York. This interview recounts his experiences as an adopted child in a farm family and then as a corpsman at Tripler General Hospital during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Date:
April 22, 1994
Creator:
Marcello, Ronald E. & Havel, William
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
[Recollections of Jack Vaughan]
Recollections written by Jack Vaughan concerning his service in the military in American Samoa during World War II.
Date:
January 3, 1998
Creator:
Vaughan, Jack Carter
Object Type:
Text
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Recollections of Honolulu, Hawaii]
Document written by Jack Vaughan recollecting his time spent in Honolulu, Hawaii during March and April of 1944.
Date:
January 3, 1998
Creator:
Vaughan, Jack Carter
Object Type:
Text
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Recollections of Klamath Falls]
Recollections by Jack Vaughan about his time spent in Klamath Falls, Oregon, recovering from a disease he had contracted in American Samoa.
Date:
January 3, 1998
Creator:
Vaughan, Jack Carter
Object Type:
Text
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Recollections of Yerba Buena Island]
Document of Jack Vaughan's recollections of his time spent at the detention barracks on Yerba Buena Island in San Francisco, California, from July 1945 to April 1946.
Date:
January 3, 1998
Creator:
Vaughan, Jack Carter
Object Type:
Text
System:
The Portal to Texas History
["From Joining to Shipping Out"]
Document relating Jack Vaughan's time in the Marines Corps during World War II, from joining to shipping out.
Date:
1996
Creator:
Vaughan, Jack Carter
Object Type:
Text
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Holding the 66th Armored Infantry Battalion Flag]
Photograph of Dick Brock, Tom Perrett, and Gordon Albertson, members of 1st Squad, 1st Platoon C Company 66th Armored Infantry holding the flag of the 66th Armored Infantry Battalion at a 1995 Association reunion.
Date:
1995
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Soldiers at 1996 Reunion]
Photograph of Robert Hoeweler, Thomas Perrett, Jerry Wood, Heine, Muscles, Carpenter, Kampling, Groat, O'Bryan, Toy, Tom Wood, Charles Fitts, Rich, and McLean posing together at a 1996 reunion.
Date:
August 29, 1996
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Stricoff With Bread Line Statues]
Photograph of Lester Stricoff standing behind a statue of a 1934 bread line at the FDR Memorial in Washington, D.C.
Date:
1997
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Mike Romano and Joe Mizer Standing by 12th Armored Division Memorial]
Photograph of Mike Romano and Joe Mizer standing on either side of a 12th Armored Division memorial. The two elderly men are wearing white jackets and yellow caps with the triangular symbol of the 12th Armored Division. A bald man with glasses stands behind Romano, and a man with a striped purple shirt stands beside Mizer. The monument itself is arrow-shaped and pointed skyward, and bears the image of a tank and a truck. A green wreath containing red flowers and a ring of white flowers sits in front of the monument.
Date:
1996~
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
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
Oral History Interview with Lanson B. Ditto, October 11, 1996
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Interview with Lanson B. Ditto, clothier and Navy veteran regarding personal experiences about the Pacific, Atlantic, and Mediterranean Theaters during World War II. Ditto talks about his education, enlistment in the Navy V-7 Program, midshipman training, assignment to the USS Langley, pre-war duty in the Philippines, coming of war and combat around the Philippines and Netherlands East Indies, the sinking of the Langley and his transfer to the USS Pecos, the sinking of the Pecos and his rescue by the USS Whipple, various naval battles and assignments, antisubmarine patrols off the Solomons, various escort duties, and his promotion to captain of the O'Toole.
Date:
October 11, 1996
Creator:
Alexander, William J. & Ditto, Lanson B.
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Richard Donley, February 22, 1997
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Use of this item is restricted to the UNT Community
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
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Jean Balch, October 12, 1996
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Use of this item is restricted to the UNT Community
Interview with Navy veteran Jean Balch, including Balch's personal experiences about the Pacific theater, being a prisoner-of-war of the Japanese during World War II, boot camp, radio, radar, and gunnery school, operations during the Leyte invasion, missions over Luzon, and raids on Japanese installations on Formosa and Saigon, French Indo-China. Additionally, Balch talks about his plane being shot down on a raid to Hong Kong and his capture on January 16, 1945, interrogations and beatings by the Kempei-tai, imprisonment at Ofuna, Honshu, solitary confinement for six months and continued interrogation, beatings by Japanese prison guards, starvation diet, the end of the war and liberation, and his participation in the war crimes trials held by the International Military Tribunal.
Date:
October 12, 1996
Creator:
Alexander, William J. & Balch, Jean
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
[Photograph of a Photograph of the U.S.A.T. Kota Baroe]
Photograph of a photograph of the ship U.S.A.T. Kota Baroe at sea. The picture is in a black frame and lies on a patch of yellow and green grass.
Date:
August 1994
Creator:
Mercie, Donald
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Homer Petross Speaking at Farmers Branch Church of Christ]
Photograph of Homer Petross speaking into a microphone in front of a congregation at the Farmers Branch Church of Christ. He is wearing a World War II era helmet and Army uniform.
Date:
July 4, 1994
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Group at Reunion]
Photograph of a group of men and women sitting and standing around a table at a reunion.
Date:
[1990..1999]
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Photograph of Cecil and Daisy Jones]
Copy photograph of Cecil and Daisy Jones, both wearing cowboy hats, standing by the side of a small waterfall on the Riverwalk in San Antonio, Texas. A bridge and Las Canarias Restaurant are visible in the background.
Date:
[1990..1999]
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Photograph of Jim Stone]
Photograph of Jim Stone standing in a room with people sitting at several wooden desks with bottles and glasses on them. Several pictures are mounted on the wall in the background.
Date:
[1990..1999]
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Two Men Holding Nazi Flag]
Photograph of George W. Hammer and Dr. Vernon L. Williams holding a folded Nazi flag and pennant. Hammer donated the flag to Williams for the 12th Armored Division Historical Project and Museum.
Date:
October 5, 1996
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Three Men in Yard]
Copy photograph of three older men, identified from left to right as Bill Buckskin, Cecil Jones, and Jay Lee Shore, standing in a green lawn across the street from a red brick house.
Date:
[1990..1999]
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[714th Tank Battalion Display]
Photograph of the 714th Tank Battalion display in the 12th Armored Division Museum. There are photos mounted on the wall, a helmet and other equipment on display in a case, and the flag of the "C" company hangs from the ceiling in the background.
Date:
[1990..1999]
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History