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Oral History Interview with J. L. Ashmore, March 8, 1989
Interview with J. L. Ashmore, a United States Navy veteran from Peoria, Illinois, regarding his experiences and memories of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor of December 7, 1941 while aboard the battleship USS West Virginia.
Oral History Interview with Jack Guin, February 8, 1989
Interview with Jack Guin, a United States Navy veteran from Guin, Alabama, regarding his experiences and memories of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor of December 7, 1941 while aboard the hydrographic vessel USS Sumner, originally called the Bushnell.
Oral History Interview with Martin Chambers, April 8, 1982
Interview with Martin Chambers, a United States Army veteran from Milam, Texas. Chambers discusses his experiences as a prisoner-of-war of the Japanese during World War II and as a member of the 26th Brigade and eventually the 2nd Battalion, 131st Field Artillery, also known as the "Lost Battalion."
Oral History Interview with Louis Roffman, December 8, 1980
Interview with Louis Roffman, a United States Army Air Corps veteran from New York City, New York. Roffman offers his recollections and experiences as a member of the 31st Bombardment Squadron at Hickam Field during the Japanese attack there and on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Oral History Interview with Jose Amancio Perez, July 8, 1978
Interview with Jose Amancio Perez, a veteran of the United States Army from San Diego, Texas, regarding his experiences while stationed at Camp Malakole during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. Perez discusses the places he visited in Hawaii, his time in the antiaircraft unit he belonged to, and the rumors that preceded the attack.
Oral History Interview with Gerald Glaubitz, December 8, 1978
Interview with Gerald Glaubitz, a United States Navy veteran from Murdock, Nebraska. He recollects his experiences aboard the cruiser the USS San Francisco during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Oral History Interview with George Slavens, December 8, 1978
Interview with George Slavens, a United States Navy veteran from Puxico, Missouri. Slavens recollects his experiences aboard the USS Medusa during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Oral History Interview with Howard Featherling, July 8, 1978
Interview with Howard Featherling, a United States Navy veteran from Sinton. He relates his experiences as a member of Motor Torpedo Boat Squadron One stationed at Pearl Harbor during the Japanese attack on December 7, 1941.
Oral History Interview with Herbert R. Morris, May 8, 1989
Transcript of an interview with Herbert Morris, an Army veteran (2nd Battalion, 131st Field Artillery, Texas National Guard) and a member of the "Lost Battalion," concerning his experiences as a prisoner-of-war of the Japanese during World War II. Morris discusses the fall of Java and his capture, Bicycle Camp in Batavia (1942), Changi Prison Camp in Singapore (1942), building the Burma-Thailand Death Railway (1942-1944), Changi Jail (1944-1945), and his liberation.
Oral History Interview with Jim Earthman, December 8th, 1972
Interview with Representative Jim Earthman, a Texas State legislator from Houston, Texas. Earthman discusses his experiences in the second, third, and fourth special sessions of the 62nd Legislature, specifically his feelings on state funding of primaries, the "Dirty Thirty," the selection of candidates for House Speaker, opposition to the election of Rayford Price, the legislature's budgeting hearings, his opinion of Bill Heatly, his opinion of Preston Smith, insurance rate making, insurance companies, and his thoughts about his own career on leaving office.
Oral History Interview with Arthur Dodge Jr., January 8, 1971
Interview with Arthur B. Dodge, Jr., a US Army WWII veteran from Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Dodge recounts his service in M Company, 350th Infantry Regiment, 88th Infantry Division, which landed in Morocco and moved through Algeria in late-1943, before landing in Italy, where his unit took up position on the Cassino-Rapido-Garigliano front in March, 1944. Dodge describes prolonged skirmishing with German forces near Tremesuoli, Lazio, the breakout from Cassino, advancing into northern Italy, and finishing the war in the Po Valley.
Oral History Interview with Charles Timlin, July 8, 1978
Interview with Charles Timlin, a Navy WWII veteran from Fort Worth, Texas. Timlin discusses his experiences aboard the USS Vestal during the attack on Pearl Harbor, including is entry into the service, assignment to the Vestal, training and life on the ship, the night before the attack, events during the morning of the attack, and some details about service in the war afterwards.
Oral History Interview with Eddie L. Hornsby, November 8, 1979
Interview with Eddie Hornsby, a Navy WWII veteran from Coleman County, Texas. Hornsby discusses his experiences aboard the USS San Francisco during the attack on Pearl Harbor, including jobs worked in the 1930s, joining the Navy, boot camp, assignment to the San Francisco, operations aboard the ship and exercises, the morning of the attack, and events of the following night.
Oral History Interview with George Christian, August 8, 1968
Interview with George Christian, White House Press Secretary of the Lyndon Johnson administration from Austin, Texas. Christian discusses the organization of the president's staff and their duties, Johnson's decision-making process and habits as president, his own role as press secretary and the challenges of it, the logistics of communication at the White House, differences between state and federal politics, public perception of presidents and their credibility, the coming end of Johnson's term, party politics, and the 1968 election.
Oral History Interview with Karl A. Bugbee, December 8, 1971
Interview with Karl Bugbee, a Marine WWII veteran and POW from New Orleans, Louisiana. Bugbee discusses his time in the Philippines at Cavite Naval Yard before the war, the Japanese invasion, the Battle of Bataan, the Battle of Corregidor, his capture, and his internment at Bilibid Prison, Cabanatuan, and the Ashio Copper Mine in Japan.
Oral History Interview with Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Scantlin, November 8, 1985
Interview with Clarence and Nona Scantlin, business-owners from Forth Worth, Texas. The Scantlins discuss their respective family histories and upbringing, their marriage, Clarence's work with Sandegaard's and Adam's grocery store and A&P Tea Company, starting his own grocery business, how the grocery and meat market were run, finances, quitting the grocery business, opening a business in furniture refinishing, how it was ran, and retirement.
Oral History Interview with Edna Gardner Whyte, February 8, 1979
Interview with Edna Gardner Whyte, a competitive pilot and flight instructor from Garden City, Minnesota. Whyte discusses her family history, her childhood and education, moving to Oregon, her initial interests in flying, her training in nursing, taking up flying, winning her first race, teaching others to fly, becoming a flight instructor full-time, Prohibition bootlegging, races, a crash, Amelia Earhart, the growth of women in aviation, service as a Army Air Corps nurse during World War Two, being a flying salesman, flying helicopters, and building the Aero Valley Flying School.
Oral History Interview with Mrs. R. W. Matthews, August 17, 1976
Interview with R. W. Matthews, a resident of Baytown, Texas since approximately 1920. Topics include the Priscilla Club
Oral History Interview with Mrs. William H. Wade, December 8, 1976
Interview with Mrs. William H. Wade, a resident of Baytown, Texas since approximately 1920. Topics include Hurricane Carla.
Oral History Interview with C. R. Gross, April 8, 1974
Interview with C. R. Gross, civil servant and Army Air Corps veteran. The interview includes Gross' personal experiences at Hickam Field with the Finance Detachment during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Oral History Interview with Joseph H. Strittmatter, June 8, 1974
Interview with Navy veteran Joseph H. Strittmatter. The interview includes Strittmatter's personal experiences with VP-24 at Ford Island Naval Air Station during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Oral History Interview with James E. Beauchamp, October 8, 1980
Interview with Navy veteran James E. Beauchamp. The interview includes Beauchamp's personal experiences while aboard the battleship USS Tennessee during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Oral History Interview with Nancy Lieberman, November 8, 2012
Interview with Nancy Lieberman, a sports broadcast journalist. The interview includes biographical information about her life growing up in New York, her time on the first women's Olympic basketball team, and her career as a coach, author, and journalist on ESPN.
Oral History Interview with Jill Labbe, November 8, 2012
Interview with Jill "J.R." Labbe, a journalist in Fort Worth, Texas. The interview includes biographical information about her life growing up, her educational background, and her career as an editorial director for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram.
Oral History Interview with James F. Sansom, October 8, 2004
Interview with James F. Sansom, an officer in the U. S. Army during World War II. Sansom joined the Army in 1940 and began training on anti-aircraft guns in Florida. He was selected for Officer Candidate School (OCS) and was commissioned a second lieutenant in 1942. He was assigned to the 843rd Anti-Aircraft Artillery Air Warning Battalion, which made its way to India via the Panama Canal and Australia. Shortly after reaching Calcutta, the unit moved to Myitkyina, Burma. After the war, Sansom was assigned to Sagumo Prison outside Tokyo where Japanese war criminals were being held while on trial for war crimes. He describes some of the routines and residents in the prison. Sansom taught Hideki Tojo how to play card games like gin rummy. Sansom also describes the process of executing convicted prisoners as he carried out some sentences. In all, he executed nine convicted war criminals.
Oral History Interview with Alan W. Saunders, October 8, 2004
Interview with Alan W. "Buck" Saunders, a pilot during World War II. He discusses joining the Army Air Corps, becoming an airplane mechanic, and going to flight school for pilot training. He was stationed in India and flew supplies into China over the Himalayas (known by pilots as "the Hump"). In China, he traded items such as jewelry or opium for information on Japanese troop placements in Burma. He also discusses his meetings with native Burmese and talks about later experiences he had after the war and during the Vietnam War.
Oral History Interview with Alan W. Saunders, October 8, 2004
Interview with Alan W. "Buck" Saunders of New Braunfels, Texas, a veteran of the Army Air Force during World War Two. The interview includes Saunders' personal experiences while in the Air Force, including the China-Burma-India Theater and memories of flying cargo to China over the Himalayas. Mr. Saunders also talks about life before and after his service.
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