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Flight Diary of Donald Fleming, 781st Bomb Sqadron, 465th Bomb Group, 15th Air Force

Access: Use of this item is restricted to the UNT Community
Scan of the flight diary kept by Donald Fleming, a B-24 navigator in WWII from Kansas, documenting the missions he flew in the European Theater from February to August, 1944.
Date: August 18, 2003
Creator: Fleming, Donald
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Boyd H. Mitchell, Spring 2002 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Boyd H. Mitchell, Spring 2002

Interview with Boyd H. Mitchell, a veteran of World War II serving in the 36th Infantry Division. Mitchell answers questions about his time in the Army, such as his training, living conditions, supplies, etc. Mitchell also shares about his experience during the invasion of Italy through Salerno and the Army's advance up through France, Germany, and Austria; the end of the interview includes questions about life once he got home.
Date: Spring 2002
Creator: Gace, Michael & Mitchell, Boyd H.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from I. H. to Cecile Kempner, June 3, 1945] (open access)

[Letter from I. H. to Cecile Kempner, June 3, 1945]

Letter to Cecile from her father about work and remaining issues in Syria, Lebanon, Persia, Egypt, Austria, Poland, Czechoslovakia, and Yugoslavia.
Date: June 3, 1945
Creator: Kempner, Isaac H. (Isaac Herbert), 1873-1967
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from I. H. to Cecile Kempner, May 6, 1945] (open access)

[Letter from I. H. to Cecile Kempner, May 6, 1945]

Letter to Cecile from her father about his dental health and the war.
Date: May 6, 1945
Creator: Kempner, Isaac H. (Isaac Herbert), 1873-1967
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History

Oral History Interview with Robert Seidel, September 7, 1999

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Interview with Robert Seidel, a Army Air Force WWII veteran from Elkhart, Indiana, who served in the 763rd Bomb Squadron in the European Theater. Accompanied by his wife Helen, Seidel discusses his family, the start of the war and joining the Air Corps, training as a flight engineer, assignment to the B-24 and deployment to Spinazzola, Italy, flying combat missions, life at the base, ditching his aircraft near Salzburg and getting captured, being interrogated, internment at Stalag Luft IV, liberation, and returning to the US. In appendix are three photos of Seidel, his B-24 crew, and their aircraft, Seidel's papers from when he was a German prisoner, his POW log book, the official narrative report of the mission he was lost on, and a letter from his family while he was in Italy.
Date: September 7, 1999
Creator: Lane, Peter B. & Seidel, Robert
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Eugene R. Cronin, February 1, 1972 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Eugene R. Cronin, February 1, 1972

Interview with Eugene Cronin, a US Army Air Corps WWII veteran and POW from Kansas City, Missouri. Cronin discusses his time as a B-24 crewmember stationed at Cerignola, Italy, the kinds of missions flown, his being shot down over Hungary and captured by the German Army, and his experiences in captivity at Vienna, Frankfurt, and Stalag Luft #1 near Barth in Western Pommerania.
Date: February 1, 1972
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Cronin, Eugene R.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
[World War II Memories: Joe Nation] (open access)

[World War II Memories: Joe Nation]

Autobiographical text describing Joe Nations' early memories of the 1920s and 1930s, and his time in the military during World War II.
Date: 199X
Creator: Nation, Joseph Beverly
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Mike Jacobs, November 26, 1989 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Mike Jacobs, November 26, 1989

Interview with Mike Jacobs, a Holocaust survivor from Konin, Poland. Jacobs discusses his family background and growing up in Konin's Jewish community, the growth of antisemitism, attending an integrated school, the German invasion and occupation, moving to the ghetto and life inside, collaborators and Jewish police, hostages, moving to a smaller ghetto, losing his family to Treblinka, working with Polish partisans, escaping the ghetto and working from Ostrowiec concentration camp, engaging in sabotage, life in the camp, transfer to Birkenau, the gas chambers, the attempted Auschwitz-Birkenau uprising, survival there, being evacuated to Vienna, labor in an aircraft factory, liberation, and life afterwards.
Date: November 26, 1989
Creator: Rosen, Keith & Jacobs, Mike
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library

Newsmap. For the Armed Forces. 241st week of the war, 123rd week of U.S. participation

Front: Text describes action on various war fronts: Eastern front; Italy; air war; Southeast Asia; Pacific. Maps: Communications centers hit in the Balkans; Crimea. Includes 7 photographs. Back: Smoke. Description of 4 ways to produce smoke for combat purposes. 1 illustration. 9 photographs.
Date: April 24, 1944
Creator: [United States.] Army Service Forces. Army Information Branch.
Object Type: Poster
System: The UNT Digital Library

Newsmap. For the Armed Forces. 290th week of the war, 172nd week of U.S. participation

Front: Text describes action on various war fronts: U.S. Fleet Active; Alies Race Through Reich - Soviets Strike Toward Austria Maps: Allies race through Reich--Soviets strike toward Austria [Germany], Pacific fleet action, Budapest to Vienna. Inset map: The Ruhr. Back: Color photograph of a flame-throwing tank is accompanied by text highlighting research and development to produce new weapons.
Date: April 2, 1945
Creator: [United States.] Army Service Forces. Army Information Branch.
Object Type: Poster
System: The UNT Digital Library

Newsmap for the Armed Forces : Demobilization Program.

Front: Maps: Silhouette maps of Japan and Korea, U.S., and Germany and Austria help illustrate the distribution of men in the Army as of 1 July 1946. Back: Text and color illustrations show various shoulder insignia of United States Army combat divisions with a partial list of their combat locations (World War II).
Date: September 24, 1945
Creator: [United States.] Army Service Forces. Army Information Branch.
Object Type: Poster
System: The UNT Digital Library

Blasting Resistance, Austria

Photograph of a smoke covered town in Austria. White smoke covers most of the buildings and winds up under the treeline of a nearby hill. Two tanks and three trucks can be seen on a road that winds to the right.
Date: 1945
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Dewey Isom in Austria]

Photograph of Dewey Isom standing in front of buildings in Austria.
Date: 1945
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Man by Sign]

Photograph of Lt. Albert Gaynes standing on the wooden posts of a half made sign in Brenner, Austria. It reads: "You are now entering Austria thru the courtesy of the". A house, a car, and a mountain are visible in the background.
Date: July 28, 1945
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[A Mountainside Road Tunnel in Austria]

Photograph of a road tunnel running through a mountainside. This is somewhere in Austria.
Date: 1945
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Photograph of Achen Lake in Austria]

Photograph of mountains across Achen Lake in Austria, with a small city at the base of the mountains. A handwritten note on the back of the photo says "Alpine Tour 45, Achensee."
Date: 1945
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Photograph of Austrian Alps]

Photograph of snowy alps in Austria, taken from a field below.
Date: May 1945
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Photograph of Austrian Homes and Alps]

Photograph of homes in a neighborhood in Austria, with snowy alps in the distance in the background.
Date: May 1945
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Photograph of Austrian Mountain]

Photograph of a mountain seen from below, with a building and cable tower in the foreground. A handwritten note on the back of the photo says "Taken from the car when we were nearly at the bottom."
Date: 1945
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Photograph of Austrian Mountains and Road]

Photograph of a road running through a valley toward distant mountains in Austria. A handwritten note on the back of the photo says "Picture of valley and road through it, surrounded by white capped mtns."
Date: 1945
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Photograph of Austrian Town and Mountains]

Photograph of a town in Austria with a church visible above the other buildings and mountains in the distance. A handwritten note on the back of the photo says "Taken from cable car as we are about 2/3 of the way down."
Date: 1945
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Photograph of Blue Danube]

Photograph of the Blue Danube, taken from a bridge over the river.
Date: [1944..1945]
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Photograph of Cable Car in Austria]

Photograph of a cable car suspended above a mountain covered with trees. A handwritten note on the back of the photo says "Taken from inside cable car as we were going up. Note the rainbow painted on the car that is coming down. Note size of trees below."
Date: 1945
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Photograph of Cable Car in Tyrolean Alps]

Photograph of a cable car suspended above trees. A handwritten note on the back of the photo says "Alpine tour, cable car in Tyrolean Alps, Innsbruck 45."
Date: 1945
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History