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Oral History Interview with Robert D. Haines, May 15, 2002

Description: Interview with Robert D. Haines, an American prisoner of war during World War II. He discusses the attack on Clark Field in the Philippines on December 8, 1941, as well as his experiences on the Bataan Death March. He also tells of his time spent as a prisoner of war under the Japanese at Camp O'Donnell, Cabanatuan and Bilibid prison in Manila. He encountered his brother, who was a civilian internee, at Bilibid. From there, he rode on a hell ship for 39 days to a POW camp in Formosa (Taiwan). W… more
Date: May 15, 2002
Duration: 1 hour 7 minutes 21 seconds
Creator: Graham, Eddie & Haines, Robert D.
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Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
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Oral History Interview with Elliott Ross, May 1, 2001

Description: Interview with Elliott Ross who joined the U.S. Navy during World War II. He discusses being a landing craft coxswain carrying troops and supplies from ships to the shore in seven invasions: Guam, Leyte, Luzon, Santacristo, Iwo Jima, Okinawa and as an occupation force in Japan after the surrender. He talks mostly about Guam, Leyte, Luzon, Iwo Jima, Okinawa and Japan, but also mentions burials at sea and on the beachs, seeing his brother's ship get hit by torpedoes, and the emotional toll of th… more
Date: May 1, 2000
Duration: 1 hour 8 minutes 07 seconds
Creator: Cox, Floyd; Misenhimer, Richard & Ross, Elliott
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 Cleatus A. LeBow, May 2, 2006

Description: Interview with Cleatus A. LeBow, a serviceman in the U. S. Navy during World War II. LeBow joined the navy in 1943 and went from Lubbock, Texas to San Diego for recruit training. He shipped out to Pearl Harbor aboard an LST from San Francisco. At Pearl Harbor, he was assigned to a work detail aboard the USS Oklahoma, which had just been righted. Shortly thereafter, he boarded the USS Indianapolis to serve as a range finder operator on one of the gun turrets. Upon leaving Hawaii, the Indianapoli… more
Date: May 2, 2006
Duration: 1 hour 40 minutes 39 seconds
Creator: Misenhimer, Richard & Lebow, Cleatus A.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Sound
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation

[Outline of an Interview with Roy Long, May 30, 1986]

Description: Outline of an interview with Roy Long, a longtime resident of Baytown after moving in 1929 from Houston, Texas. This outline states what topics Long covered at certain times on the tape, from side 1 to side 2; Long covers his employment at the Humble Refinery, being a Goose Creek Policeman, law offices, etc.
Date: May 30, 1986
Item Type: Refine your search to only Text
Partner: Lee College

[Outline for an Interview with James E. Roche, May 1976]

Description: Questions for an interview with James E. Roche, a carpenter from Baytown, Texas after moving from New Britain, Connecticut the previous year. This outline only contains the list of questions created for the interview; most questions concern the job market and migratory labor in Texas.
Date: May 1976
Creator: Roche, Christopher J. & Roche, James E.
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Partner: Lee College

Oral History Interview with Clay H. Musick, May 14, 1976

Description: Interview with Clay Musick, a Navy WWII veteran from Weslaco, Texas. Musick discusses his experiences aboard the USS Arizona during the attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7th, 1941, including joining the Navy in 1940, training, life and work aboard the Arizona, the bombing and sinking of the ship, his wounding and recovery, and work after discharge.
Date: May 14, 1976
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Musick, Clay H.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Book
Partner: UNT Oral History Program

Oral History Interview with Robert Bluntzer, May 30, 1969

Description: Interview with Robert Bluntzer, a resident of Corpus Christi, Texas. Bluntzer discusses growing up near Round Lake and Robstown, homeseekers and subdivision of ranches in the area in the 1900-10s, social life and recreation in the area, politics, law enforcement, his family history and Bluntzer, Texas, local preservation efforts, sports, and Third Awakening revivalists. Before the interview is a fragment of a conversation between Bluntzer, Stephens, and an unnamed attorney about local history a… more
Date: May 30, 1969
Creator: Stephens, A. Ray & Bluntzer, Robert
Item Type: Refine your search to only Book
Partner: UNT Oral History Program

Oral History Interview with O. R. Sparkman, May 6, 1971

Description: Interview with O.R. Sparkman, a Marine WWII veteran and POW from Dallas, Texas. Stationed in China before the war, Sparkman was captured in December 1941 by the Japanese in Beijing and interned at various camps in occupied China and Korea before finishing the war at Hakodate, Japan.
Date: May 6, 1971
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Sparkman, O. R.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Book
Partner: UNT Oral History Program

Oral History Interview with William G. Adair, May 27, 1971

Description: Interview with Major William G. Adair, an Army WWII veteran and POW from Birmingham, Alabama. Stationed in the Philippines when the Japanese invaded in December 1941, Adair was captured, survived the Bataan Death March, and interned at Cabanatuan before going to Osaka and Zentsuji, Japan for the remainder of the war.
Date: May 27, 1971
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Adair, William G.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Book
Partner: UNT Oral History Program

Oral History Interview with Henry B. Stowers, May 25, 1973

Description: Interview with Henry B. Stowers, a Marine WWII veteran and POW from Searight, Alabama. Stowers discusses his deployments to China in the late-1930s; duties of the Marines in China before the war; the surrender of the North China Marines in December, 1941; his experiences in internment at Woosung; internment at Kiangwang and working on the "Mount Fuji" project; and internment as coal mining labor at Hakodate.
Date: May 25, 1973
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Stowers, Henry B.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Book
Partner: UNT Oral History Program

Oral History Interview with James L. Kent, May 11, 1972

Description: Interview with James L. Kent, a Marine WWII veteran and POW from Duncanville, Texas. Kent discusses joining the Marine Corps, being AWOL, his judicial punishment, his deployment to the Philippines at Cavite Navy Yard, the Japanese attack, his experiences in the Battles of Bataan and Corregidor, his capture, and his internment at Bilibid Prison, Cabanatuan #1 & 2, and Mitsushima.
Date: May 11, 1972
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Kent, James L.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Book
Partner: UNT Oral History Program

Oral History Interview with Sterling Edwards, May 9, 1974

Description: Interview with Army Air Corps veteran Sterling Edwards. The interview includes Edwards' personal experiences at Hickam Field with the 407th Signal Aviation Company during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. The interview includes an appendix with a narrative and letters.
Date: May 9, 1974
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Edwards, Sterling
Item Type: Refine your search to only Book
Partner: UNT Oral History Program
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