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Transcription of Oral History Interview with Ella Williams

Description: Transcription of an interview with Ella Williams, a resident of Channelview, Texas, and the area surrounding Baytown since approximately 1920. Topics include a discussion about the 1915 hurricane on Hog Island in the San Jacinto River.
Date: 2018
Creator: Webber, Betsy & Williams, Ella
Partner: Lee College

Texas Attorney General Opinion: O-3562

Description: Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, Gerald Mann, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification; Is a corporation required to give a discharged employee a statement in writing of the cause of his discharge?
Date: 1941
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Texas Attorney General Opinion: JM-623

Description: Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, Jim Mattox, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification; Constitutionality of article 5196, V.T.C.S., requiring corporations to give a written statement of cause for discharge employees
Date: January 20, 1987
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Texas Attorney General Opinion: O-4002

Description: Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, Gerald Mann, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification; Arrests - searches without warrant - probable cause - fees.
Date: 1941
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Oral History Interview with David Belvin, April 23, 2015

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with David Belvin. Belvin joined the Navy in June, 1941 and trained at San Diego. After training and before the war started, he went to machinist school and then was assigned to the USS Dobbin (AD-3). He spent some time in Australia and recalls a submarine attack in Sydney Harbor. After his brother was lost at sea during the Battle of Leyte Gulf, Belvin was sent back to the US for reassignment after some home leave. Belvin was di… more
Date: April 23, 2015
Creator: Belvin, David
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation

Oral History Interview with William Meriwether, July 27, 2016

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with William Meriwether. Meriwether was studying to become a doctor when he entered the Army Medical Corps in December, 1942. He continued training as a doctor and was discharged in 1946. He was recalled and commissioned in 1952 and spent one year in Korea as a pathologist with the 48th MASH unit and studied the cause of serious infectious diseases along the DMZ. Meriwether relates details of his career in Army medicine.
Date: July 27, 2016
Creator: Meriwether, William
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation

Oral History Interview with Carl Amundson, October 24, 2007

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Carl Amundson. Amundson joined the Navy in September 1942 and received basic training at Great Lakes. Upon completion, he was assigned to an APD at Pearl Harbor that transported Marines throughout the South Pacific. He returned to the States and became a plank holder aboard the USS Gambier Bay (CVE-73). After abandoning ship at the Battle of Samar, he survived 40 hours in the water despite not knowing how to swim. Amundson r… more
Date: October 24, 2007
Creator: Amundson, Carl
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation

Oral History Interview with Donald McWilliams, January 24, 2017

Description: The National Museum of the pacific War presents an oral interview with Donald McWilliams. McWilliams finished high school in 1942 and joined the Marine Corps in March, 1943. He went overseas in October and joined the Fifth Marines. At Cape Gloucester, McWilliams served in a headquarters and supply company handling ammunition. He also went to Peleliu and recalls a friend he lost there. McWilliams also went to Okinawa with the First Marine Division. He shares anecdotes about time at Pavuvu and in… more
Date: January 24, 2017
Creator: McWilliams, Donald
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation

Oral History Interview with Julie Jones

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Julie Jones. Jones was a young teenager in Iowa when the war began. Her family gardened, farmed, rationed, and saved. They kept a pile of scrap metal to contribute to the war effort, even tossing in the aluminum foil from gum wrappers. Many families in her hometown lost someone in the war, hanging stars in their windows to commemorate them. Her own brother served in the Signal Corps in Italy, servicing aircraft equipment. Jo… more
Date: unknown
Creator: Jones, Julie
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation

Oral History Interview with Marbury Councell, June 19, 2015

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Marbury Councell. Councell joined the Army Air Forces in June, 1943 and trained in Maryland and Mississippi to become an aerial gunner. He was assigned as a ball turret gunner on a B-17 bomber in the 337th Bomb Squadron, 96th Bomb Group once he got overseas to England. He flew on 11 missions before being shot down in February, 1945. His pilot managed to get the plane to crash land in Switzerland, where Councell received medi… more
Date: June 19, 2015
Creator: Councell, Marbury
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation

Oral History Interview with Robert Brecount, September 21, 2007

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Robert Brecount. Brecount joined the Navy in 1942 and received basic training at Farragut. He attended radio technician school at Texas A&M and Corpus Christi. Upon completion, he was sent to the Special Projects School for Air, where he learned to jam enemy radars. He joined the USS Enterprise (CV-6) in December 1944. His duty was so secretive that only one person aboard ship knew to expect his arrival. At Okinawa he surviv… more
Date: September 21, 2007
Creator: Brecount, Robert
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation

[John Tower Edited Speech on Soviet Military Technology given to the Texas AFL-CIO Summer Youth Citizenship Conference at St. Edward's University in Austin, Texas, June 18, 1965]

Description: Speech explaining the ways in which Senator Tower agrees and disagrees with labor goals and asserting that he and labor have the common cause of opposing Communism. Argues that the Soviet Union has surprised the world with the development of solid fuel rockets and massive air transport vessels and that the United States needs to better anticipate Soviet technological advances.
Date: June 18, 1965
Creator: Tower, John G. (John Goodwin), 1925-1991
Partner: Southwestern University

Oral History Interview with Keith Selvey, May 8, 2019

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Keith Selvey. Selvey joined the Army in June 1941. He served with the 40th Infantry Division, 185th Infantry Regiment, and was stationed in California in December 1941. They served on guard duty on outposts. In January of 1943, they relocated to Fort Lewis, Washington. In the fall, they were deployed to Hawaii, where they fortified Oahu and Selvey was promoted to sergeant. In early 1944, they participated in the New Britain campa… more
Date: May 8, 2019
Creator: Selvey, Keith
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation

Oral History Interview with Edward Shackelford, April 27, 2016

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Edward Shackelford. Shackelford joined the Army Air Forces in March 1943. He completed basic training in Miami Beach, Florida. From there he went to Fort Collins, Colorado, and had weapons training and learned to be a clerk typist. He then went to Gunter Field, Alabama, and worked with budgets and accounting, before he volunteered to go overseas. He was with the 13th Air Force Headquarters on Palawan. In June 1944 he boarded… more
Date: April 27, 2016
Creator: Shackelford, Edward
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation

Oral History Interview with John Edwards, May 5, 2011

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with John Edwards. Edwards joined the Army Air Forces in 1944. He was trained as an aircraft engine mechanic and was sent to the Philippines where he became a crewman on an A-26 bomber. Edwards describes how his plane flew missions with P-61s as escorts and gives some detail on the types of targets that were selected. He talks about how his plane was hit by anti-aircraft fire and forced down during an attack on a Japanese airfiel… more
Date: May 5, 2011
Creator: Edwards, John
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation

Oral History Interview with Michael Ganitch, December 6, 2008

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Michael Ganitch. Ganitch joined the Navy in January 1941 and was assigned to the USS Pennsylvania (BB-38) as a quartermaster. He was getting ready to play a football game against the team from the USS Arizona (BB-39) when Pearl Harbor suddenly came under attack. He climbed to his battle station in the crow’s nest, grateful for the extra protection from his football padding. He recalls that American planes were shot down by f… more
Date: December 6, 2008
Creator: Ganitch, Michael
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation

Oral History Interview with Jack Bailey, July 5, 2007

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Jack Bailey. Bailey joined the Texas National Guard when he was 14 years old, lying about his age. In November 1939, his unit was mobilized and he left for the Philippines with the 36th Division. Bailey shipped overseas and his group was diverted to Australia after the attack on Pearl Harbor. They boarded a Dutch troop ship and headed for Java. On Java, outnumbered and out of ammunition, his unit surrendered to the Japanese … more
Date: July 5, 2007
Creator: Bailey, Jack
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation

Oral History Interview with Ronald Veltman

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral monologue with Ronald Veltman. Upon graduating from high school in 1940, Veltman joined the Navy. After completing basic training in Newport, Rhode Island, and Hospital Corpsman School in Portsmouth, Virginia, he was assigned to the commissioning crew of the USS Hornet (CV-8) in October 1941. Veltman was aboard the Hornet during the Doolittle Raid in April, 1942. He met Lieutenant Colonel Doolittle and took his photo. Veltman was also aboa… more
Date: unknown
Creator: Veltman, Ronald
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation

Oral History Interview with Bob Floyd, October 23, 2007

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Bob Floyd. Floyd was on track to become as a ship builder, but was drafted into the Navy before graduating from high school. He was assigned to the USS Midway (CVE-63), which was renamed the USS St. Lo (CVE-63) one year later, without the sailors even knowing it. Floyd’s early voyages were to Australia and Pearl Harbor, and he recounts becoming a shellback. Upon joining a large task force at Pearl Harbor, he sailed to Saipan… more
Date: October 23, 2007
Creator: Floyd, Bob
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation

Oral History Interview with Carlo Didio, January 14, 2007

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Carlo Didio. Didio joined the Navy in early 1942, having already worked as a patternmaker in the ship repair unit at the Norfolk Naval Yard. After basic training, he was stationed at the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard as a second class patternmaker. He commissioned and boarded the USS Kermit Roosevelt (ARG-16) as part of the repair crew at the Panama Canal. The ship then headed for Saipan. Didio then traveled to Okinawa, where … more
Date: January 14, 2007
Creator: Didio, Carl
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation

Oral History Interview with Wayne Holtzman, February 13, 2007

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Wayne Holtzman. Holtzman joined the NROTC at Northwestern and graduated in February 1944 with a degree in chemistry and a commission in the Navy. He then boarded the USS Iowa (BB-61) as an antiaircraft gunnery officer. After performing an intense but brief shore bombardment at Iwo Jima, he watched the invasion. At Okinawa, the Iowa unleashed tremendous fire power on kamikazes, almost running out of ammunition. An enemy plane… more
Date: February 13, 2007
Creator: Holtzman, Wayne
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation

Oral History Interview with Jim Wood, April 7, 2009

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Jim Wood. Wood joined the Marine Corps in January 1943 after graduating from the University of Illinois. Following special training near Camp Pendleton, Wood joined the 3rd Raider Battalion for further training in New Caledonia. His first campaign was Bougainville, where the dense jungle made it difficult to spot enemies until they were dangerously close. Wood, a rifleman, was permitted to carry a Thompson machinegun after h… more
Date: April 7, 2009
Creator: Wood, Jim
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation

Oral History Interview with Angelo Gagliano, February 10, 2010

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Angelo Gagliano. Gagliano joined the Navy in August 1942. He describes his experiences in basic training at Newport, Rhode Island. Gagliano was assigned to an air service unit and then transferred to the USS Langley (CVL-27). He became an aviation storekeeper and also served as an ammunition handler on a 40mm gun. Gagliano describes a time when he was a passenger on a TBF that catapulted off of the ship and how he blacked-ou… more
Date: February 10, 2010
Creator: Gagliano, Angelo
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation

Oral History Interview with Thomas Lawson, November 18, 2014

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Thomas M. Lawson. Lawson was born in Pierre, South Dakota in 1924. After two years of ROTC in college, he joined the Army Air Forces in August 1943. After basic training in Wichita Falls, Texas, he went to pilot training at Randolph Field in San Antonio. He was ready to solo in a PT-19 trainer, but his instructor pilot was not happy with his forced landing exercise and he was washed out. Being a pilot now out of the question… more
Date: November 18, 2014
Creator: Lawson, Thomas M.
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
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