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Oral History Interview with A. N. Wiseman, March 29, 2011

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Al Wiseman. Wiseman joined the Navy in 1942 and was assigned to the USS Greene (AVD-13). He served as a deck seaman and stood lookout while on watch. Wiseman discusses traveling as an escort to Brazil and then travelling to the Mediterranean. He describes taking part in the invasion of Southern France. The Greene was then sent to the Pacific and performed escort duty near Okinawa. He describes seeing several Japanese air att… more
Date: March 29, 2011
Duration: 1 hour 13 minutes 44 seconds
Creator: Wiseman, Al
Item Type: Refine your search to only Sound
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
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Oral History Interview with Alan Hildebrandt, November 12, 2009

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Alan Hildebrandt. Hildebrandt enlisted in the Army Air Forces in July of 1942. He describes the planes he flew during training, including the PT-19, the BT-13 and the UC-78. Hildebrandt was commissioned and received his pilot rating in November of 1943. Upon graduation he trained on the B-26 at Laughlin Field. Hildebrandt served as a pilot in the 95th Bomb Squadron, 17th Bomb Group, 12th Air Force. They first traveled to Morocco,… more
Date: November 12, 2009
Duration: 1 hour 14 minutes 16 seconds
Creator: Hildebrandt, Alan
Item Type: Refine your search to only Sound
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation

Oral History Interview with A. N. Wiseman, March 29, 2011

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Al Wiseman. Wiseman joined the Navy in 1942 and was assigned to the USS Greene (AVD-13). He served as a deck seaman and stood lookout while on watch. Wiseman discusses traveling as an escort to Brazil and then travelling to the Mediterranean. He describes taking part in the invasion of Southern France. The Greene was then sent to the Pacific and performed escort duty near Okinawa. He describes seeing several Japanese air att… more
Date: March 29, 2011
Creator: Wiseman, Al
Item Type: Refine your search to only Text
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation

Oral History Interview with Alan Hildebrandt, November 12, 2009

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Alan Hildebrandt. Hildebrandt enlisted in the Army Air Forces in July of 1942. He describes the planes he flew during training, including the PT-19, the BT-13 and the UC-78. Hildebrandt was commissioned and received his pilot rating in November of 1943. Upon graduation he trained on the B-26 at Laughlin Field. Hildebrandt served as a pilot in the 95th Bomb Squadron, 17th Bomb Group, 12th Air Force. They first traveled to Morocco,… more
Date: November 12, 2009
Creator: Hildebrandt, Alan
Item Type: Refine your search to only Text
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation

Oral History Interview with Charles Scheffel, May 10, 2000

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Charles Scheffel. Scheffel grew up in Oklahoma and enlisted in the Army ROTC in 1940. He was called up in 1941 after Pearl Harbor. He was allowed to finish out his senior year of college and was married in March 1942. He embarked on the Queen Elizabeth from New Jersey in September 1942. As leader of 200 men, he landed in Scotland and drove with them to Whittington Barracks where they joined with the British 51st Highlanders.… more
Date: May 10, 2000
Creator: Scheffel, Charles
Item Type: Refine your search to only Text
Location: 36.126572 -97.073482
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation

[News Script: Arabs Arrested]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story of government of the Arab state of Kuwait who has arrested five Palestinian hijackers who killed 32 people at airports in Rome and Athens.
Date: December 19, 1973, 12:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Script
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Skylab & Feature]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story of killings in Rome and Athens has created confusion in five Arab terrorists. Skylab has organized surprise Christmas Eve Festivities. Vice President is vacating with his family at a Ski Resort in Colorado.
Date: December 24, 1973, 6:30 a.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Script
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Plane Crash]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story of a chartered Belgian jetliner which crashed during a storm near Tangiers, Morocco killed 105 persons on board.
Date: December 23, 1973, 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

[Letter from Harris Leon Kempner to Christian Clerc, May 30, 1962]

Description: Letter from Harris Leon Kempner to Christian Clerc introducing him his nephew, James C. Kempner who's now in naval service. And he's leaving for his post in Morocco and he might pass through Paris and Kempner has told him to get in touch with Christian if Jim ever needs help. And he might do that same thing at the end of the year after getting married and taking his wife back to Morocco with him.
Date: May 30, 1962
Creator: Kempner, Harris Leon
Item Type: Refine your search to only Letter
Partner: Rosenberg Library

[Letter from Harris Leon Kempner to John Ferguson, July 18, 1962]

Description: Letter from Harris Leon Kempner to John Ferguson congratulating him for his appointment as Ambassador to Morocco. He mentions that they'll miss seeing him in Paris because of this. Kempner also mentions about Herb's son, James C. Kempner who's in the Supply Corps as his eyesight didn't allow him to pass for anything else.
Date: July 18, 1962
Creator: Kempner, Harris Leon
Item Type: Refine your search to only Letter
Partner: Rosenberg Library

Oral History Interview with Arthur Dodge Jr., January 8, 1971

Description: Interview with Arthur B. Dodge, Jr., a US Army WWII veteran from Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Dodge recounts his service in M Company, 350th Infantry Regiment, 88th Infantry Division, which landed in Morocco and moved through Algeria in late-1943, before landing in Italy, where his unit took up position on the Cassino-Rapido-Garigliano front in March, 1944. Dodge describes prolonged skirmishing with German forces near Tremesuoli, Lazio, the breakout from Cassino, advancing into northern Italy, and … more
Date: January 8, 1971
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Dodge Jr., Arthur B.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Book
Partner: UNT Oral History Program

[Letter from I. H. to Cecile Kempner, February 27, 1950]

Description: Letter to Cecile from her father about past travel to Cuba, Guatemala, and Mexico, and experiences in those countries as well as their government, society, politics, religion, economics, and history. He also writes about Mexican art and future plans to return to Havana or Mexico City.
Date: February 27, 1950
Creator: Kempner, Isaac H. (Isaac Herbert), 1873-1967
Item Type: Refine your search to only Letter
Partner: Rosenberg Library
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