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Soil Survey of the Vernon Area, Texas

Description: Text describes the location and boundaries, history of settlement and agricultural development, climate, physiography and geology, soils, agricultural methods, and agricultural conditions of the Vernon area in the Texas panhandle.
Date: 1902
Creator: Lapham, J. E. (Jesse Erwin)
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Oral History Interview with Keith Naylor, April 2, 1971

Description: Interview with Keith Naylor, a Texas National Guard WWII veteran and POW from Vernon, Texas, who was captured with 2nd Battalion, 131st Field Artillery (the "Lost Battalion") on Java by the Japanese. Naylor discusses joining the Guard, deployment to the Pacific and the war's start, operations at Malang on Java, the American surrender, experiences in internment at Tanjung Priok and Bicycle Camp in Batavia, transfer to Changi Camp in Singapore, work on the Burma Railway, internment at Chungkai an… more
Date: April 2, 1971
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E.
Partner: UNT Oral History Program
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