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Oral History Interview with John Hill, March 11, 1999

Description: Interview with John Hill, a businessman and Navy veteran (USS Boise), concerning his experiences in the Pacific Theater during World War II. Enlistment in the Navy, December, 1941; assignment as a radio communications officer; duty on an LST around Kavieng; construction of a radio station on Emirau; transfer to the cruiser USS Boise, 1944; personal observations about General Douglas A. MacArthur; Battle of Leyte Gulf, 1944, and kamikaze attacks; postwar career in the television industry.
Date: March 11, 1999
Creator: Alexander, William J. & Hill, John
Partner: UNT Oral History Program

Oral History Interview with Russell Speer, September 11, 1996

Description: Interview with Russell Speer, Army veteran (Quartermaster Corps), concerning his experiences in the China-Burma-India Theater during World War II. His education and youth in South Texas; enlistment in the Army, September, 1942; assignment to the Courts-Martial Section, Fort Sam Houston, San Antonio, Texas, 1942-44; Officer Candidate School, Fort Lee, Virginia, 1944; Quartermaster School, Fort Lee, 1944; assignment to Chabua, India, 1945, as a rations breakdown officer; his job as a warehouse of… more
Date: September 11, 1996
Creator: Alexander, William J. & Speer, Russell
Partner: UNT Oral History Program

Oral History Interview with Abram Millar, June 11, 1999

Description: Interview with Abram Millar, Army Air Forces veteran (365th Bomb Squadron, 305th Bomb Group, 8th Air Force), concerning his experiences as a B-17 gunner/bombardier in the European Theater during World War II. His youth in West Texas; enlistment in the Aviation Cadet Program, 1943; Drake University, 1943; pre-flight training, Santa Ana, California, 1943; washing out of the Aviation Cadet Program due to his problems with depth perception; armament school, Lowry Air Force Base, Denver, Colorado, 1… more
Date: June 11, 1999
Creator: Lane, Peter B. & Millar, Abram
Partner: UNT Oral History Program

Oral History Interview with Corenna Smeltzer, August 11, 1999

Description: Interview with Corenna Young Smeltzer, factory worker, concerning her experiences as a riveter at Armstrong Cork and Rubber Company, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, during World War II. Effects of the Great Depression on her family; her first job experience in a knitting mill; incentives to seek a job as a riveter with Armstrong, 1942; transportation problems; shift work; wage discrimination; length of the workday and workweek; riveting work on F4U Corsair fuselages; reaction of male employees to the … more
Date: August 11, 1999
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Smeltzer, Corenna
Partner: UNT Oral History Program

Oral History Interview with Gerald Johns, August 11, 1997

Description: Interview with Gerald Johns and Irmgard (nee Stieger) Johns, Army veteran (SHAEF) and his German war bride), concerning his experiences in the European Theater during World War II while attached to SHAEF; her experiences as a German civilian before and during World War II. His original assignment to K Company, 116th Infantry, 29th Division; transfer to Headquarters Command, SHAEF, as head of the officer's mess, 1944; comments about entertainers Glenn Miller, Jack Benny, Paulette Goddard, and AL… more
Date: August 11, 1997
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E.; Johns, Gerald & Johns, Irmgard
Partner: UNT Oral History Program

Oral History Interview with Albert E. Kemp, December 11, 1995

Description: Interview with Al Kemp, a Navy veteran, concerning his experiences aboard the destroyer USS Dewey during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. The Appendix at the end of the volume includes: a photocopy of a list of awards Albert Kemp received from the United States Navy [1 leaf] and photocopies of newspaper clippings about Kemp returning to the Navy to participate in the Vietnam War, the first dated "Aug. or Sept. 1968" and the second dated April 18, 1968 [2 leaves].
Date: December 11, 1995
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Kemp, Albert E.
Partner: UNT Oral History Program

Oral History Interview with Philip Brodsky, December 11, 1989

Description: Interview with Philip Brodsky, a pharmacologist, a civil servant, an Army veteran, and a survivor of the Bataan Death March, concerning his experiences as a prisoner-of-war of the Japanese during World War II. Brodsky discusses the Japanese bombing of Nichols Field, the fall of Bataan and his capture, the Bataan Death March, Camp O'Donnell (1942), Palawan Island (1942-1944), the hell ship to Formosa (1944), and his liberation.
Date: 1989-12-11/1989-12-13
Creator: Burlage, George & Brodsky, Philip
Partner: UNT Oral History Program

[Minutes of the Ahavath Sholom Ladies Cemetery Society: 1934-1949]

Description: Ledger containing the minutes for the Ahavath Sholom Ladies Cemetery Society in Fort Worth, including proceedings of meetings, decisions and projects, and financial records.
Date: 1934-07-11/1949-12
Creator: Ahavath Sholom Ladies Cemetery Society
Partner: Fort Worth Jewish Archives

Oral History Interview with Forrest Biard, June 11, 1992

Description: Interview with Forrest Biard, a United States Navy veteran from Bonham, Texas, regarding his experiences and memories of World War II while serving as a cryptanalyst. Biard discusses his education, learning Japanese in Japan right before the war hit, codes, Pearl Harbor, and Midway.
Date: June 11, 1992
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Biard, Forrest R.
Partner: UNT Oral History Program

Oral History Interview with Allen S. Kilborn, March 11, 1991

Description: Interview with Allen S. Kilborn, a former member of the Civilian Conservation Corps from Boone, Iowa, regarding his experiences and memories of participating in the CCC during the Great Depression.
Date: March 11, 1991
Creator: Daniels, John D. (John David), 1946- & Kilborn, Allen S.
Partner: UNT Oral History Program

Oral History Interview with Pat Gulley, May 11, 1988

Description: Interview with Pat Gulley, a community activist and a member of the Denton Christian Women's Interracial Fellowship. Gulley explains her involvement with the group, the history of race relations in Denton, the desegregation of public facilities and schools, early group meetings, opposition to the Fellowship, and its contributions.
Date: May 11, 1988
Creator: Lohr, Mary & Gulley, Pat
Partner: UNT Oral History Program

Oral History Interview with Donald C. Brain, March 11, 1981

Description: Interview with Donald C. Brain, a United States Navy veteran from Long Beach, California. Brain discusses his experiences as a prisoner-of-war of the Japanese during World War II after his cruiser, the USS Houston, was sunk off the coast of Java in 1942.
Date: March 11, 1981
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Brain, Donald C.
Partner: UNT Oral History Program

Oral History Interview with William J. Stewart, June 11, 1981

Description: Interview with William J. Stewart, a United States Navy veteran from Cherryvale, Kansas. Stewart discusses his experiences as a prisoner-of-war of the Japanese during World War II after his cruiser, the USS Houston, was sunk off the coast of Java in 1942.
Date: July 11, 1981
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Stewart, William J.
Partner: UNT Oral History Program

Oral History Interview with Stuart Henry, January 11, 1979

Description: Interview with Stuart Henry, an environmentalist from Austin, Texas, regarding his upbringing and family, work in the air and water conservation movements, involvement with environmental societies, interactions with the Corps of Engineers, and work as a lobbyist for the Sierra Club.
Date: January 11, 1979
Creator: Smallwood, J. B. & Henry, Stuart
Partner: UNT Oral History Program

Oral History Interview with Ross Dungan, July 11, 1977

Description: Interview with Ross Dungan, U.S. Army veteran, concerning his experiences at Fort Weaver with the A Battery, 14th Coast Artillery during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Date: July 11, 1977
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Dungan, Ross, 1914-
Partner: UNT Oral History Program

Oral History Interview with Elmer Childress, July 11, 1977

Description: Interview with Elmer Childress, U.S. Navy veteran, concerning his experiences aboard the destroyer USS Reid during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Date: July 11, 1977
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Childress, Elmer
Partner: UNT Oral History Program

Oral History Interview with Jubal Hendricks, April 11, 1977

Description: Interview with Jubal Hendricks, U.S. Navy veteran, concerning his experiences aboard an officers' gig alongside the repair ship USS Medusa during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Date: April 11, 1977
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Hendricks, Jubal
Partner: UNT Oral History Program

Oral History Interview with Orland Seeley, January 11, 1977

Description: Interview with Orland Seeley, U.S. Navy WWII veteran, concerning his experiences aboard the cruiser USS Honolulu during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Date: January 11, 1977
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Seeley, Orland
Partner: UNT Oral History Program

Oral History Interview with H. H. Snelson, June 11, 1976

Description: Interview with Harry Snelson, U.S. Navy veteran, concerning his experiences aboard the destroyer USS Cummings during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Date: June 11, 1976
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Snelson, Harry H.
Partner: UNT Oral History Program

Oral History Interview with Richard Griffin, June 11, 1998

Description: Interview with Richard Griffin about his experiences while employed by the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression. He discusses his childhood in Minneapolis, Minnesota; joining the CCC; assignment to Company 708 at Camp Rabideau in Blackduck, Minnesota; description of camp; life in camp.
Date: June 11, 1998
Creator: Hughen, Bill & Griffin, Richard
Partner: UNT Oral History Program

Oral History Interview with Paul D. Stein, March 11, 1998

Description: Interview with Paul Stein, an Army veteran (2nd Battalion, 131st Field Artillery, Texas National Guard), member of the "Lost Battalion." His experiences as a prisoner-of-war of the Japanese during World War II. Fall of Java and capture; imprisonment in Surabaya, 1942; Changi Prison Camp, Singapore, 1942; hell ship to Japan, 1943; Nagasaki shipyards, 1943-45; Orio, Kyushu, 1945, and American air raids; liberation; description of damage at Nagasaki after the dropping of the atomic bomb.
Date: March 11, 1998
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Stein, Paul Daniel, 1920-2007
Partner: UNT Oral History Program

Oral History Interview with Allen S. Kilborn, March 11, 1991

Description: Interview with Allen S. Kilborn, U.S. Army veteran, concerning his experiences as an Army officer in the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression. Kilborn worked at camps in Winterset, Iowa (Company 2726); Leon, Iowa (Company 783); Tarkio, Missouri (Company 1742); Gallatin, Missouri (Company 1742); and Harrisonville, Missouri (Company 3773).
Date: March 11, 1991
Creator: Daniels, John D. (John David), 1946- & Kilborn, Allen S.
Partner: UNT Oral History Program

Oral History Interview with Donald C. Brain, March 11, 1981

Description: Interview with Donald C. Brain, U.S. Navy WWII Veteran and survivor of the sinking of the USS Houston, about his experiences as a prisoner-of-war of the Japanese during World War II. He discusses the sinking of the USS Houston, 1942; capture and imprisonment at Serang, Java; Bicycle Camp, Batavia, 1942; Changi Prison Camp, Singapore, 1942; building the Burma-Thailand Death Railway, 1942-44; Kanchanaburi, Thailand, 1944-45; liberation.
Date: March 11, 1981
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Brain, Donald C.
Partner: UNT Oral History Program
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