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[News Clip: Vermont plane]

B-roll video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC 5 television station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story.

Date: October 18, 2001, 5:00 p.m.

Duration: 1 minute 09 seconds

Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)

Item Type: Video

Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

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Oral History Interview with Leon Shook, November 18, 2008

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Leon Shook. Shook joined the Navy in July of 1942. That fall he began his service aboard the USS Colorado (BB-45) as a machinist, a loader on 1.1-inch guns and worked with the ammunition supply. In November of 1943 they participated in the Battle of Tarawa. In July of 1944 they participated in the Battle of Tinian, where they were hit by twenty-two 7.7-inch shells, killing 42 men and wounding 365. In the fall of 1944 they partici… more

Date: November 18, 2008

Duration: 1 hour 11 minutes 38 seconds

Creator: Shook, Leon

Item Type: Sound

Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation

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Oral History Interview with Jack Clayton, September 18, 2005

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Jack Clayton. Clayton was drafted into the United States Navy. After training, he joined the Amphibious Forces and was assigned to USS Alpine (APA-92). His crew made assaults on Guam and the Philippines. He was a yeoman for 2 years. He was aboard the Alpine when it was commissioned and decommissioned. After the war, the Alpine pulled troops out of battle zones in Japan and China. He was discharged in New Orleans.

Date: September 18, 2005

Duration: 13 minutes 25 seconds

Creator: Clayton, Jack

Item Type: Sound

Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation

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Oral History Interview with Leonard Dearing, February 18, 2005

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Leonard Dearing. Dearing joined the Navy at seventeen in 1942. He completed basic training in San Diego and then went to Oklahoma for aviation ordnance school where he also trained as a radar operator. He went on to California where he trained as an aerial gunner. While there he also trained with a Norden bombsight on a PBM as a bombardier. At Kaneohe, their planes received jet assisted take off. He flew patrols for air-sea … more

Date: February 18, 2005

Duration: 57 minutes 54 seconds

Creator: Dearing, Leonard

Item Type: Sound

Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation

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Oral History Interview with I. S. Fellner, September 18, 2004

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with I.S. Fellner. Fellner joined the Navy in January of 1942. He was trained as a dive bomber pilot and went to Henderson Field on Guadalcanal in 1943. Fellner describes an emergency landing after being hit by flak over Bougainville. He then returned to the US and joined VB-13, attached to the USS Franklin (CV-13). Fellner describes another close call after a collision during a training mission. He discusses flying a photo recon… more

Date: September 18, 2004

Duration: 1 hour 19 minutes 44 seconds

Creator: Fellner, I. S.

Item Type: Sound

Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation

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Oral History Interview with Aubrey Felder, September 18, 2004

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Aubrey Felder. Felder joined the Navy in February of 1943. He completed training and served as an Aviation Machinist’s Mate aboard the USS Wolverine (IX-64), a training ship at Naval Station Great Lakes. Beginning January of 1944 Felder worked aboard the USS Kadashan Bay (CVE-76). They participated in the battles of Peleliu, Leyte Gulf, Luzon and the Battle off Samar in the Philippine Sea. Their ship was hit by a kamikaze. Felder… more

Date: September 18, 2004

Duration: 53 minutes 13 seconds

Creator: Felder, Aubrey

Item Type: Sound

Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation

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Oral History Interview with Howard Jones, May 18, 2007

The National Museum of the pacific War presents an oral interview with Howard Jones. Jones was born in 1925 in Missouri. He joined the Navy in December 1942 and trained at Great Lakes, Illinois. After boot training and gunnery school, Jones was assigned to the USS Bunker Hill (CV-17) as a 40mm gun crewmember. Jones was aboard the Bunker Hill from 1943 to the end of the war. He recalls being off Tarawa, Iwo Jima and Okinawa. He describes the kamikaze attack on the Bunker Hill off Okinawa.

Date: May 18, 2007

Duration: 46 minutes 45 seconds

Creator: Jones, Howard

Item Type: Sound

Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation