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Navajo country : Utah, Colorado, Arizona, and New Mexico, 1937.

Description: Map shows mid-twentieth century boundaries of Native American reservations and counties in Utah, Colorado, Arizona, and New Mexico. Township grid, towns, pueblos, chapter houses, national monuments, points of interest, water resources, roads, trails, railroads, and schools are indicated. Includes legend and statistics. Relief shown by hachures. Scale [ca. 1:378,000].
Date: 1945
Creator: Coulson, E. H.
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

Oral History Interview with Eugene Nielsen, December 11, 1989

Description: Interview with Eugene Nielsen, a Army WWII veteran and POW from Logan, Utah. Nielsen discusses his prewar assignment to Corregidor Island, the Battles of Bataan and Corregidor, capture by the Japanese, experiences in internment at Bilibid Prison, Cabanatuan, and Palawan, surviving the Palawan Massacre, and his rescue by Filipinos and American forces. Included is Nielsen's obituary of February 6, 2011.
Date: December 11, 1989
Creator: Burlage, George & Nielsen, Eugene
Partner: UNT Oral History Program

Oral History Interview with James T. Murphy, October 1, 2000

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with James T. Murphy. Murphy grew up in Montana and joined the Army Air Corps in May 1941. Once he finished training, he was assigned to the 43rd Bomb Group, 63rd Bomb Squadron. He then went to reconnaissance for the Battle of Midway. He then rejoined the Pacific Theater and pacticipated in skip bombing and flying B17s. He tells the story of receiving his Silver Star from General Douglas MacArthur. He mentions returning to the Ai… more
Date: October 1, 2000
Creator: Murphy, James T.
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
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