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[News Script: B-52]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about ships going to save ejected crewman from a B-52.
Date: July 8, 1972, 10:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Script
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Note from Harris Leon Kempner to Fred H. Rayner, November 7, 1956]

Description: Handwritten letter from I. H. Kempner to Fred H. Rayner discussing a contract and pricing differences between different qualities of cotton. He mentions a difference of 250 points between California (Calif) 6 1/8 and Strict Middling 1/16th (S M 1/16). The note also refers to attempts to settle at 220 points after trading and suggests that if the recipient has actually bought to cover and has the 6 1/8th long, they might be able to sell it at 250 points over the base.
Date: November 7, 1956
Creator: Kempner, Harris L. (Harris Leon), 1903-1987
Item Type: Refine your search to only Letter
Partner: Rosenberg Library

Oral History Interview with Al Flocke, October 22, 2000

Description: Transcript of an oral interview with Al Flocke. He discusses his flight training and being the radio operator on a B-24 bomber which did raids on Guam, Turk, Iwo Jima and other islands. He also ancedotes about food, rations and living conditions on the islands.
Date: October 22, 2000
Creator: Flocke, Al
Item Type: Refine your search to only Text
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation

[FRUPAC War Map: June 6, 1945]

Description: Map overlay documenting the activities of the US Naval operations, Japanese ships, and cargo ships on June 6, 1945. The overlay contains annotations regarding United States 5th Bombardment Squadron, task groups 38.4, 30.8, and 38.1, CDR Division 103, Commander in Chief of the Pacific, Commander of the 3rd Air Force, Commander of the 5th Air Force, Commander of the 7th Fleet, Japanese cargo ships Chogei, Hatsukari, Enoshima, Inagi, and Jinsen, cruisers Ashigawa and CL Kashima, coastal defense ve… more
Date: June 6, 1945
Creator: Fleet Radio Unit Pacific
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Location: See Bounding Coordinates
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation

[FRUPAC War Map: July 1, 1945]

Description: Map overlay documenting the activities of the US Naval operations, Japanese ships, and cargo ships on July 1, 1945. The overlay contains annotations regarding United States 21st Bombardment Squadron (BomCom 21), Bombardment Wing 309 (BomWing309), submarines USS Capitaine (SS-336), USS Sea Devil (SS-400), USS Gabilan (SS-252), USS Sea Robin (SS-407), USS Piranha (SS-389) and USS Haddo (SS-255), Commander in Chief of the Pacific (CINCPAC), Commander of the 5th Air Force (ComAF5), Commander of Sub… more
Date: July 1, 1945
Creator: Fleet Radio Unit Pacific
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Location: See Bounding Coordinates
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation

[FRUPAC War Map: July 3, 1945]

Description: Map overlay documenting the activities of the US Naval operations, Japanese ships, and cargo ships on July 3, 1945. The overlay contains annotations regarding United States submarines USS Capitaine (SS-336), USS Barb (SS-220), USS Gabilan (SS-252), USS Piranha (SS-389), and USS Runner (SS-275), destroyer USS Murray (DD-576), Commander in Chief of the East Indies (CINCEI), Commander of the 7th Fleet (Com7Flt), Commander Fleet Air Wing 4 (ComFltWing4), 5th Bombardment Squadron (BomCom 5), Command… more
Date: July 3, 1945
Creator: Fleet Radio Unit Pacific
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Location: See Bounding Coordinates
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation

[James R. Connor and Four Servicemen]

Description: Photograph of James R. Connor with four other servicemen. Three men are standing in the back and two are crouching in the front. The men are standing on a road with shrubbery on the side. The men are smiling towards the camera.
Date: June 1945
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation

[FRUPAC War Map: November 9, 1944]

Description: Map overlay documenting the activities of the US Naval operations, Japanese ships, and cargo ships from November 9, 1944. The overlay contains annotations regarding USS Queenfish (SS-393), USS Louisville (CA-28), USS Wasp (CV-18), USS Chester (CA-27), USS Pensacola (CA-24), USS Salt Lake City (CA-25), Commander Submarine Pacific, Radio Hollandia, Bombardment Wing Air Force, Commander Task Force 73.4, Commander 3rd Fleet, Task Group 38.1, Task Group 38.2, Task Group 38.3, Task Group 38.4, Comman… more
Date: November 9, 1944
Creator: Fleet Radio Unit Pacific
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Location: See Bounding Coordinates
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation

[Landing Ship Unloading an Amphibious Truck]

Description: Photograph of an LST (Landing Ship, Tank) unloading a Duck (amphibious truck) in the shallow water off the Guam beachhead. A group of men stand along the edge of the landing ship's deck and watch as two other men sit in the amphibious truck. A second ship resides in the background.
Date: 1944-07~
Creator: United States. Marine Corps.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation

Oral History Interview with Andrew Bofinger, March 10, 2006

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Andrew Bofinger. Bofinger joined the Naval Reserves in October of 1941, and was called to active duty on 15 December 1941. He served as Boatswain’s Mate Second Class, and worked on the offshore patrol in sailing vessels searching for Japanese subs. In June of 1943 he received a direct commission as ensign, and was assigned as Skipper aboard the minesweeper, YMS-93. In early 1944 they traveled to Hawaii, then the Marshall Islands … more
Date: March 10, 2006
Creator: Bofinger, Andrew
Item Type: Refine your search to only Text
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
transcript

Oral History Interview with Andrew Bofinger, March 10, 2006

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Andrew Bofinger. Bofinger joined the Naval Reserves in October of 1941, and was called to active duty on 15 December 1941. He served as Boatswain’s Mate Second Class, and worked on the offshore patrol in sailing vessels searching for Japanese subs. In June of 1943 he received a direct commission as ensign, and was assigned as Skipper aboard the minesweeper, YMS-93. In early 1944 they traveled to Hawaii, then the Marshall Islands … more
Date: March 10, 2006
Duration: 1 hour 20 minutes 59 seconds
Creator: Bofinger, Andrew
Item Type: Refine your search to only Sound
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation

Photo Memories of a Seabee Battalion

Description: Book compiled by the 136th Naval Construction "Seabee" Battalion documenting the history of the group from boot camp in Virginia to various military installations across the U.S. and more permanent postings in Guam and Japan during World War II. There are photographs of various persons and evens as well as an epistolary narrative and lists of names by company at the end of the text.
Date: 1945
Creator: United States. Naval Construction Battalion, 136th.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Book
Partner: Arlington Historical Society’s Fielder House Museum

[FRUPAC War Map: November 10, 1944]

Description: Map overlay documenting the activities of the US Naval operations, Japanese ships, and cargo ships from November 10, 1944. The overlay contains annotations regarding USS Chester (CA-27), USS Pensacola (CA-24), USS Salt Lake City (CA-25), USS Wasp (CV-18), USS Reno (CL-96), USS Flounder (SS-251), Task Group 30.2, Commander Carrier Division 29, Commander Naval Force Group, 14th Arm Air Force, Commander 7th Fleet, Commander in Chief Pacific, Commander 13th Air Force, Commander Task Group 73.4, Com… more
Date: November 10, 1944
Creator: Fleet Radio Unit Pacific
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Location: See Bounding Coordinates
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation

[Letter to Margaret Burlen from the Far East Air Materiel Command, June 17, 1947]

Description: Letter to Margaret Burlen from Brigadier General Frederick M. Hopkins. Hopkins tells Burlen he is writing from Fuchu, Japan. He refers to a previous letter Burlen sent which was responded to by the Catholic Chaplain who wrote to all who had lost someone in action from that organization. He shares that since the war has ended he has visited most of Japan and sees the effectiveness of Burlen's son's bombing raids everywhere. He mentions his time in Guam before being assigned to Iwo Jima. He sends… more
Date: June 17, 1947
Creator: Hopkins, Frederick M.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Letter
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation

[Letter to Margaret Burlen from Colonel Carl R. Storrie, December 3, 1945]

Description: Letter to Margaret Burlen from Colonel Carl R. Storrie regarding her son, Robert Burlen. Storrie expresses his sympathies for Burlen's son's contribution to the war effort. Storrie says he has included photographs from her son's tour of duty in the Air Force in the Pacific. He hopes they will serve as a token of the memorable performance. He further expresses sympathy claiming her son was a valuable member of the service and there is a constant search for missing servicemen.
Date: December 3, 1945
Creator: Storrie, Carl R.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Letter
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
transcript

Oral History Interview with Al Jowdy, September 21, 2008

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Al Jowdy. Jowdy enlisted in the Navy in July 1942 at the age of 15, with his parents’ consent. His first assignment was pulling bodies out of sunken ships in Pearl Harbor. At Guadalcanal, his ship was torpedoed. Due to the presence of enemy subs, he could not be rescued initially and spent two weeks floating in a raft. Then he joined a rescue effort to aid the USS Wasp (CV-7), only to be torpedoed again, spending another fou… more
Date: September 21, 2008
Duration: 1 hour 6 minutes 31 seconds
Creator: Jowdy, Al
Item Type: Refine your search to only Sound
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation

Oral History Interview with Al Jowdy, September 21, 2008

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Al Jowdy. Jowdy enlisted in the Navy in July 1942 at the age of 15, with his parents’ consent. His first assignment was pulling bodies out of sunken ships in Pearl Harbor. At Guadalcanal, his ship was torpedoed. Due to the presence of enemy subs, he could not be rescued initially and spent two weeks floating in a raft. Then he joined a rescue effort to aid the USS Wasp (CV-7), only to be torpedoed again, spending another fou… more
Date: September 21, 2008
Creator: Jowdy, Al
Item Type: Refine your search to only Text
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
transcript

Oral History Interview with Alvino Mendoza, April 25, 2017

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Alvino Mendoza. Mendoza was born in Round Rock, Texas on 1 March 1926, and briefly tells of his life before entering the US Navy. After completing boot training at Camp Wallace, Texas he was assigned as a seaman aboard USS St. George (AV-16). His battle station was loader on an anti-aircraft gun. Mendoza describes his experiences during the Battle of Okinawa in which the St. George, as well as USS Curtiss (AV-4), were hit by kami… more
Date: April 25, 2017
Duration: 2 hours 21 minutes 25 seconds
Creator: Mendoza, Alvino
Item Type: Refine your search to only Sound
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation

Oral History Interview with Alvino Mendoza, April 25, 2017

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Alvino Mendoza. Mendoza was born in Round Rock, Texas on 1 March 1926, and briefly tells of his life before entering the US Navy. After completing boot training at Camp Wallace, Texas he was assigned as a seaman aboard USS St. George (AV-16). His battle station was loader on an anti-aircraft gun. Mendoza describes his experiences during the Battle of Okinawa in which the St. George, as well as USS Curtiss (AV-4), were hit by kami… more
Date: April 25, 2017
Creator: Mendoza, Alvino
Item Type: Refine your search to only Text
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation

[Letter from Robert S. Schwab to Chester W. Nimitz, February 18, 1965]

Description: Letter from Commander Robert S. Schwab to Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz sharing a story from Guam in July 1945 in which one of Schwab's neuropsychiatry patients escapes Kunkle's Fleet 103 Hospital and comes across Admiral Nimitz's jeep. Schwab also discusses his work as a medical consultant in Guam in 1961 and 1962.
Date: February 18, 1965
Creator: Schwab, Robert S.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Letter
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation

[Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz Sits at Desk in Headquarters]

Description: Photograph of Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz sitting at his desk holding a large document open in his hands. His desk is covered with papers, folders, books and a pair of glasses. Flt. Adm. Nimitz is wearing a light-colored uniform with short sleeves, two pockets on the front and five stars pinned to either die of his collar. Behind him is a phone sitting on a small table in front of a window.
Date: April 16, 1945
Creator: United States. Navy.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
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