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[News Script: Medals]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story.
Date: October 10, 1969, 6:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Script
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Sculpture and display case with ship]

Description: Photograph of sculpture with pedestal plaque reading "Lucian Adams: Honored his city, state, and country by winning the medal of honor during WWII. Advancing through a barrage of automatic gunfire and grenade explosions, Mexican American Sgt. Adams singly destroyed three machine gun emplacements and routed the German enemy who had blocked a vital supply line. The City of Port Arthur, Texas is proud of her native son. 1966" Beside it is a model ship in a display case with a rifle hanging on … more
Date: unknown
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Museum of the Gulf Coast
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[News Clip: Medal of Honor]

Description: B-roll video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story. This story aired at 6pm.
Date: April 11, 1988, 6:00 p.m.
Duration: 56 seconds
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Video
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Hero]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story.
Date: October 8, 1969, 6:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Script
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Major]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story.
Date: October 8, 1969, 6:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Script
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

L.U.L.A.C pays homage to Sugar Land war hero

Description: Clipping from The Houston Post about a LULAC meeting held to honor Staff Sgt. Macario Garcia. Garcia received the Congressional Medal of Honor on August 23, 1945, from President Harry Truman. Post photograph features Robert E. Smith ; Sergeant Macario Garcia ; and John J. Herrera.
Date: September 7, 1945
Creator: Gregory, Martha
Item Type: Refine your search to only Clipping
Partner: Hoston History Research Center at Houston Public Library
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Oral History Interview with John W. Finn, December 5, 2001

Description: Transcript of an oral interview with John W. Finn. Finn grew up in California and joined the Navy in 1926. He went through training. By 1941, he has been made Chief Petty Officer and is in the BP-14 squadron. This squadron arrived in Kaneohe Bay on the USS Enterprise in May 1941. Finn has become the Chief Ordnance and Bombsight man. He describes the Japanese bombing Kaneohe Bay just before Pearl Harbor. He took a gun outside and is exposed to Japanese strafing while he fires at the airplanes. H… more
Date: December 5, 2001
Duration: 1 hour 31 minutes 48 seconds
Creator: Finn, John W.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Sound
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
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Oral History Interview with James E. T. Hopkins, September 20, 2003

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Dr. James E.T. Hopkins. Hopkins was born in Howard County, Maryland on 19 January 1915. Following high school, he attended The Johns Hopkins University graduating from the Medical School in 1941. He volunteered to go overseas with the Johns Hopkins Hospital Unit and was transported to Fiji aboard the SS President Coolidge (1931). On Fiji, they built the barracks out of reeds and bamboo and the hospital was a prefabricated bu… more
Date: September 20, 2003
Duration: 1 hour 58 minutes 56 seconds
Creator: Hopkins, James E. T.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Sound
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
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Oral History Interview with Jack Lucas, February 21, 2005

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Jack H. Lucas. Lucas was born in Plymouth, North Carolina on 14 February 1928. On 8 August 1942 he quit attending Edwards Military Institute, Salemburg, NC and joined the Marine Corps when he was 14 years old. He forged his mother’s signature on the enlistment documents thus allowing him to join the military even though he was underage. Lucas went to Parris Island, South Carolina for boot camp and received additional trainin… more
Date: February 21, 2005
Duration: 56 minutes 35 seconds
Creator: Lucas, Jack
Item Type: Refine your search to only Sound
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
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Oral History Interview with Richard Sorenson, September 22, 2001

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Richard Sorensen. Born in Anoka, Minnesota 28 March 1924, Sorensen joined the Marine Corps 13 December 1942. Upon completion of boot camp at San Diego, he was sent to Camp Pendleton and assigned to a machine gun squad in the 3rd Battalion, 24th Marines. He describes the equipment used in the machine gun squad, job assignments and special training they received. Sorenson went aboard the USS Wayne (APA-54) on 13 January 1944, … more
Date: September 22, 2001
Duration: 1 hour 31 minutes 42 seconds
Creator: Sorenson, Richard
Item Type: Refine your search to only Sound
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
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Oral History Interview with Robert Galer, March 14, 1998

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Robert E. Galer. Galer was born in Seattle 23 October 1913. In 1935, he graduated from the University of Washington, having earned a commission through ROTC. During flight training at Pensacola, he accepted a regular commission in the Marine Corps. His classmate at Washington was Gregory “Pappy” Boyington, who also trained with him at Quantico. During the ensuing years, Galer became carrier qualified and flew sea planes in t… more
Date: March 14, 1998
Duration: 1 hour 4 minutes 11 seconds
Creator: Galer, Robert
Item Type: Refine your search to only Sound
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation

[News Script: News updates]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas relating a news story about the Dallas police arresting eleven individuals as they enforce new anti-loitering laws. [2] Arlington school district analyzing property values for budget records. [3] The medal of honor being presented posthumously to a Fort Worth soldier, Robert D. Law.
Date: August 6, 1970
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Script
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Oral History Interview with Robert Galer, March 14, 1998

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Robert E. Galer. Galer was born in Seattle 23 October 1913. In 1935, he graduated from the University of Washington, having earned a commission through ROTC. During flight training at Pensacola, he accepted a regular commission in the Marine Corps. His classmate at Washington was Gregory “Pappy” Boyington, who also trained with him at Quantico. During the ensuing years, Galer became carrier qualified and flew sea planes in t… more
Date: March 14, 1998
Creator: Galer, Robert
Item Type: Refine your search to only Text
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation

Oral History Interview with Richard Sorenson, September 22, 2001

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Richard Sorensen. Born in Anoka, Minnesota 28 March 1924, Sorensen joined the Marine Corps 13 December 1942. Upon completion of boot camp at San Diego, he was sent to Camp Pendleton and assigned to a machine gun squad in the 3rd Battalion, 24th Marines. He describes the equipment used in the machine gun squad, job assignments and special training they received. Sorenson went aboard the USS Wayne (APA-54) on 13 January 1944, … more
Date: September 22, 2001
Creator: Sorenson, Richard
Item Type: Refine your search to only Text
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation

Oral History Interview with John W. Finn, December 5, 2001

Description: Transcript of an oral interview with John W. Finn. Finn grew up in California and joined the Navy in 1926. He went through training. By 1941, he has been made Chief Petty Officer and is in the BP-14 squadron. This squadron arrived in Kaneohe Bay on the USS Enterprise in May 1941. Finn has become the Chief Ordnance and Bombsight man. He describes the Japanese bombing Kaneohe Bay just before Pearl Harbor. He took a gun outside and is exposed to Japanese strafing while he fires at the airplanes. H… more
Date: December 5, 2001
Creator: Finn, John W.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Text
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation

Oral History Interview with James E. T. Hopkins, September 20, 2003

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Dr. James E.T. Hopkins. Hopkins was born in Howard County, Maryland on 19 January 1915. Following high school, he attended The Johns Hopkins University graduating from the Medical School in 1941. He volunteered to go overseas with the Johns Hopkins Hospital Unit and was transported to Fiji aboard the SS President Coolidge (1931). On Fiji, they built the barracks out of reeds and bamboo and the hospital was a prefabricated bu… more
Date: September 20, 2003
Creator: Hopkins, James E. T.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Text
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation

Oral History Interview with Jack Lucas, February 21, 2005

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Jack H. Lucas. Lucas was born in Plymouth, North Carolina on 14 February 1928. On 8 August 1942 he quit attending Edwards Military Institute, Salemburg, NC and joined the Marine Corps when he was 14 years old. He forged his mother’s signature on the enlistment documents thus allowing him to join the military even though he was underage. Lucas went to Parris Island, South Carolina for boot camp and received additional trainin… more
Date: February 21, 2005
Creator: Lucas, Jack
Item Type: Refine your search to only Text
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
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[News Clip: Widow to receive Medal of Honor]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about Mary Hubbard being presented the Congressional Medal of Honor awarded to her late husband.
Date: November 30, 1954
Duration: 55 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Video
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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