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[Portrait of Bobbi Jo Ann Deavei]

Description: Portrait of Bobbie Jo Ann Deavei wearing a light-colored dress with matching shoes and headband. She is posing seated on a padded bench in front of a studio backdrop. There are handwritten notes on the back of the photo.
Date: [1945~,1946~]
Creator: The Shaw Studio
Partner: UNT Oral History Program

[Photograph of Students at a Denton Trade School]

Description: Photograph of a group of young men posing in a classroom. According to accompanying information, the students were in a trade school for persons returning from service. This class likley came about because of the GI Bill that was signed into law by FDR on June 22, 1944. It provided job counseling and employment services for WWII veterans, as well as training and education at approved institutions. They are identified as: Row 1 (front) -- Foy Woods, James Alexander, Wallace Hunter, James Holli… more
Date: [1946..1949]
Partner: UNT Oral History Program

Oral History Interviews with Brigitte Friedmann Altman, December, 1989

Description: Interview with Brigitte Friedmann Altman, a holocaust survivor from Memel (Klaipeda), Lithuania. Altman discusses growing up in the Jewish community of Memel, education, events in Germany before the war, the Soviet invasion, fleeing to Kaunas, the German invasion and relocation to the ghetto and life there, the separation of the able-bodied and the weak by the SS, evacuations of the ghetto, escaping to live with a non-Jewish family, working their farm, returning to Kaunas after the return of th… more
Date: {1989-12-19,1989-12-20}
Creator: Rosen, Keith & Friedmann Altman, Brigitte
Partner: UNT Oral History Program

Oral History Interview with Henry Stanley, March 12, 1973

Description: Interview with Henry Stanley, a Army Air Corps WWII veteran and POW who survived the Bataan Death March. Stanley discusses joining the Air Corps and prewar service, the Japanese invasion, Bataan and Corregidor, capture by Japanese forces, the march, internment at Clark Field, transit to Japan and internment there, and the war's end. In appendix are letters Stanley wrote during the war, telegrams and letters to his family from the War Department regarding his status, and a statement recording hi… more
Date: March 12, 1973
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E.
Partner: UNT Oral History Program

Oral History Interview with M. T. Harrelson, May 9, 1985

Description: Interview with M. T. Harrelson, a Texas National Guard WWII veteran and POW from Wichita Falls, Texas, who was a member of the 2nd Battalion, 131st Field Artillery (the "Lost Battalion"). Harrelson discusses National Guard training and operations before the war, deployment to the Pacific and diversion to Java, the Japanese invasion, surrender and initial confinement, internment at Tanjong Priok and Bicycle Camp in Batavia, transfer to Changi Camp in Singapore, and the end of the war.
Date: May 9, 1985
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Harrelson, M. T., 1919-
Partner: UNT Oral History Program
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