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[Council Meeting]

Description: Sound recording of Oral History Association members conducting a council meeting.
Date: July 28, 1979
Duration: 1 hour 59 minutes 34 seconds
Creator: Oral History Association
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[Council Meeting]

Description: Sound recording of Oral History Association members conducting a business meeting.
Date: July 27, 1979
Duration: 1 hour 57 minutes 22 seconds
Creator: Oral History Association
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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Wingspread Conference

Description: Sound recording of an Oral History Association event titled "Wingspread Conference".
Date: July 28, 1979
Duration: 7 minutes 26 seconds
Creator: Oral History Association
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[Council Meeting]

Description: Sound recording of Oral History Association members conducting a council meeting.
Date: July 27, 1979
Duration: 59 minutes 15 seconds
Creator: Oral History Association
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[The Blaine Dunlap Collection - Showdown at the Hoedown (Master Mix)]

Description: This audio recording documents musicians, craftspeople, and attendees at the fourth annual Smithville Fiddlers' Jamboree in Smithville, Tennessee. The recording includes interviews and musical performances.
Date: July 1975
Duration: 57 minutes 10 seconds
Creator: Dunlap, Blaine
Partner: UNT Media Library
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Oral History Interview with James Macia, July 21, 2000

Description: Interview with James "Herb" Macia of San Antonio, Texas, who is a veteran of the United States Armed Forces during World War Two. In the interview, Mr. Macia recalls memories about growing up as well as his days as a mining engineer, the Doolittle Raid, North Africa, Normandy, and D-Day.
Date: July 21, 2000
Duration: 4 hours 10 minutes 44 seconds
Creator: Cox, Floyd & Macia, James
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
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Oral History Interview with James Phinney, July 15, 2010

Description: Interview with James (Jim) Phinney, an aircraft electrician for the U. S. Navy during Wold War II. He discusses joining the Navy, going through boot camp and becoming an aircraft electrician. He was assigned to the USS Lexington but abandoned ship after it was hit by a torpedo. He was rescued and was then sent to San Diego to be reassigned to the USS Enterprise. He mentions being at Guadalcanal and later aboard a sub-chaser. The crew crossed the Equator and consequently participated in an initi… more
Date: July 15, 2010
Duration: 2 hours 38 minutes 49 seconds
Creator: Cox, Floyd; Phinney, James & O'Konski, Susan
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
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Oral History Interview with Morton Harrington, July 6, 2007

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Morton Harrington. Harrington joined the Navy in January of 1944. He completed Gunnery School and Aviation Ordnance School, learning about aircraft bombs, fuses, various caliber guns, rockets, flags, radio communication and Morse Code. Beginning February of 1945 Harrington was assigned to the USS Nehenta Bay (CVE–74), serving as a turret gunner aboard both TBF’s and TBM’s. Their ship qualified with F4-U Corsair squadrons for carr… more
Date: July 6, 2007
Duration: 1 hour 32 minutes 09 seconds
Creator: Harrington, Morton
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
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Oral History Interview with Thomas McCrea, July 10, 2007

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Thomas McCrea. McCrea joined the Army in September of 1943. He completed an Army Specialized Training Program in Fort Benning, Georgia. He provides vivid details of his training. He served with the 3rd Army, C Company, 1st, Battalion, 376th Infantry Regiment, 94th Infantry Division. McCrea and his group qualified as an Expert Infantry Division. In August of 1944 they traveled to Scotland, then on to England. In September they lan… more
Date: July 10, 2007
Duration: 2 hours 14 minutes 07 seconds
Creator: McCrea, Thomas
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
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Oral History Interview with James Walsh, July 13, 2007

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with James Walsh. Walsh was born in Wheeler, Indiana on 19 October 1926. He quit high school in 1944 and joined the Navy. He went to the Great Lakes Naval Training Station in Illinois for six weeks of boot training followed by six months of amphibious training and gunnery training at Norfolk, Virginia. Upon completion of the training he went by troop train to Portland, Oregon. In September 1944 he went aboard Landing Craft Suppor… more
Date: July 13, 2007
Duration: 1 hour 51 minutes 42 seconds
Creator: Walsh, James M.
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
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Oral History Interview with Joseph Meyer, July 11, 2007

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Joseph Meyer. Meyer participated in ROTC in high school. While studying at St. Louis University, he enlisted in the Army Air Forces Reserves. In February 1943, after one semester of college, he was called to active duty and began flight training, earning his wings in March 1944. He was then sent to Karachi, India, to join the 33rd Fighter Group, 59th Squadron. After an unexciting period of time, due to a lack of planes to fl… more
Date: July 11, 2007
Duration: 1 hour 3 minutes 57 seconds
Creator: Meyer, Joseph
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
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Oral History Interview with Russell Banwart, July 24, 2007

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Russell Banwart. Banwart was born 16 March 1923 in Angona, Iowa into a family of nine children. He describes life during the Great Depression. Upon completing Marine Corps boot camp in San Diego, he entered radio school, after which he was assigned to the 2nd Marine Division, 2nd Marine Regiment. He describes boarding the USS Crescent City (APA-21) and participating in the invasion of Tarawa. Banwart describes the action aro… more
Date: July 24, 2007
Duration: 2 hours 21 minutes 33 seconds
Creator: Banwart, Russell G.
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
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Oral History Interview with Eddie W. Cook, July 18, 2007

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Eddie W Cook. Cook was drafted into the Army in June 1943. Despite being an experienced ship welder and foreman, he was assigned as a rifleman. When Cook deployed to India in December 1943, the troop ship was fitted with iron bars made to separate white from black soldiers. Upon arrival in Bombay, it was obvious the place had been recently bombed. The men then headed to a replacement depot in Assam. Meanwhile, one of Cook’s … more
Date: July 18, 2007
Duration: 1 hour 1 minute 22 seconds
Creator: Cook, Eddie W
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
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Oral History Interview with William Starke, July 17, 2007

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with William Starke. Starke joined the Army Air Forces in March of 1942. He completed flight training and graduated at Williams Field, Arizona, in July of 1943 as a P-38 pilot. He provides details of his flight training and the various planes he flew. In November he traveled to Guadalcanal and joined the 44th Fighter Squadron, 13th Air Force. Starke served as a P-38 Lightning pilot and completed 121 missions throughout the Pacific, in… more
Date: July 17, 2007
Duration: 1 hour 46 minutes 13 seconds
Creator: Starke, William
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
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Oral History Interview with Frank R. Mace, July 26, 2007

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Frank Mace. Mace was born in Carseland, Alberta, Canada on 27 May 1917 and graduated from high school in Washington 1937. In 1940, he joined Morrison-Knudsen, Inc. as a construction worker and group chaplain on Wake Island arriving on 9 January 1941. He began constructing runways and buildings. Mace tells of the Japanese invasion of the island, of the combat and of the casualties taken prior to surrender. He tells of the sta… more
Date: July 26, 2007
Duration: 1 hour 18 minutes 19 seconds
Creator: Mace, Frank
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
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Oral History Interview with George Beeler, July 24, 2000

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with George Beeler. Beeler joined the Army in April of 1943. He was assigned to a Military Police battalion with the 45th Infantry Division. In December, he was transferred to Baltimore. He completed Officer Candidate School in the spring of 1944. In December, Beeler completed additional schooling as a marine repair officer. In June of 1945 he deployed to Hickman Field in Hawaii, serving as a shipment officer, in preparation for the i… more
Date: July 24, 2000
Duration: 2 hours 55 minutes 37 seconds
Creator: Beeler, George
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
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Oral History Interview with James Grumman, July 18, 2000

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with James Grumman. Grumman joined the Army Air Corps in 1940 and earned his wings and commission in March, 1942. On one of his first assignments, he met General Patton in California. He went overseas to England in 1944 and was assigned to the 401st Bomb Group, 614th Bomb Squadron where he flew combat mission from May to September. Grumman flew 30 missions over France and Germany before coming home in November 1944. Upon his retu… more
Date: July 18, 2000
Duration: 2 hours 5 minutes 11 seconds
Creator: Grumman, James
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
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Oral History Interview with Raymond Kurner, July 19, 2000

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Raymond Kurner. Kurner joined the Army Air Forces in September of 1942. He served as a B-24 copilot with the 15th Air Force, 47th Bomb Wing, 98th Bomb Group. He deployed in December of 1943 to Casablanca. In January of 1944, they transferred to the 47th Bomb Wing headquarters in Manduria, Italy. Kurner participated in the Italian Campaign, flying 41 bombing missions over Italy, Germany, Romania and Hungary.
Date: July 19, 2000
Duration: 3 hours 14 minutes 26 seconds
Creator: Kurner, Raymond
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
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Oral History Interview with Harold Leon, July 7, 2010

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Harold Leon. Leon graduated from the Army Air Forces Cadet School at Kelly Field in San Antonio in April of 1942. He was assigned to the 12th Bomb Group, 83rd bomb Squadron, a B-25 outfit at Esler Field in Louisiana. He worked as the squadron navigator. In July of 1942 he traveled to Moascar in Egypt to a base the British had established. He completed 55 missions and his group helped stop the advance of German General Erwin Romme… more
Date: July 7, 2010
Duration: 1 hour 20 minutes
Creator: Leon, Harold
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
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Oral History Interview with John Tuznik, July 23, 2003

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with John Tuznik. Tuznik was born near Random, Poland on 24 June 1923. He attended school until 1937 at which time he began working on the farm. He tells of German soldiers occupying the country and of the demands they made on the Polish citizens. In 1942 soldiers of the German Army killed his mother, father and a friend and burned the house down because they were suspected of being members of the Polish underground. He was force… more
Date: July 23, 2003
Duration: 32 minutes 41 seconds
Creator: Tuznik, John
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
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Oral History Interview with Nancy Tuznik, July 23, 2003

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Nancy Tuznik. Tuznik was born in Aremark, Norway 30 October 1931. She tells of her life before the German occupation in 1940. The German Army occupied Norway and all farmers were required to furnish a certain percentage of what they raised to the Wehrmacht. She recalls that her father was involved with the underground resistance forces but has no knowledge of the extent of his involvement. She does remember various relatives… more
Date: July 23, 2003
Duration: 21 minutes 52 seconds
Creator: Tuznik, Nancy
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
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Oral History Interview with Hack Langstaff, July 11, 2001

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Hack Langstaff. Langstaff joined the Naval Reserves around 1938, and went on active duty in June of 1941. After flight school, he was selected and commissioned as a second lieutenant in the Marine Corps in June of 1942. Langtaff completed carrier training in October, flying a Grumman F3F and F4F. In 1943, he was assigned to the Russell Islands, completing missions over Rabaul and Bougainville. Beginning June of 1945, Langstaff wa… more
Date: July 11, 2001
Duration: 2 hours 4 minutes 11 seconds
Creator: Langstaff, Hack
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
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Oral History Interview with Horace Chester Gould, July 9, 2003

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Horace Chester Gould. Gould joined the Marine Corps in July of 1940. He served as a military policeman at Quantico, Virginia. Gould additionally served with the 5th Amphibious Corps, and participated in the battles of Tinian, Saipan and Iwo Jima. He participated in the allied occupation of Japan after the war ended. He was discharged in late 1945.
Date: July 9, 2003
Duration: 1 hour 50 minutes 10 seconds
Creator: Gould, Horace Chester
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
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Oral History Interview with Donald Guthrie, July 8, 2003

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Donald Guthrie. Guthrie joined the Navy in late December of 1941. In 1942, he flew PBY Catalinas with Patrol Squadron 23, a Black Cat Squadron. They were assigned to Midway, participating in patrols searching for the Japanese invasion force. They also supported the invasion of and operations at Guadalcanal. In 1943, Guthrie was assigned to Funafuti and completed air, sea and rescue missions. In 1944, he flew missions over Kwajale… more
Date: July 8, 2003
Duration: 1 hour 29 minutes 18 seconds
Creator: Guthrie, Donald
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
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