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Oral History Interview with Jean Elizabeth Sheppard Hatcher, December 11, 2008

Description: Interview with Jean Elizabeth Sheppard Hatcher, a Coast Guard Women's Reserves veteran (or SPARS). The interview discusses her childhood and education in Edwardsville,Virden, and Girard, Ill.; father's experience in World War I; waitressing and clerical work following high school graduation; memories of Pearl Harbor attack; decision to enlist in Coast Guard SPAR program in June 1944; clerical training at Palm Beach, Fla.; meeting future husband, Bill Hatcher, at USO Club in West Palm Beach, Fla… more
Date: December 11, 2008
Creator: Hegi, Benjamin P. & Hatcher, Jean Elizabeth Sheppard
Partner: UNT Oral History Program

Oral History Interview with Nat Imber, October 11, 2007

Description: Interview with Nat Imber, a Navy veteran. The interview discusses his childhood and education at New York University, work with Works Progress Administration-funded physical education programs; career in New York public schools; enlistment in U.S. Navy following Pearl Harbor; experience in the service as a Jew; assignment as physical training instructor to bases in Virginia, California, and Maryland; marriage to Dorothy; move to wife's hometown of Fort Worth, then to New York City, and again to… more
Date: October 11, 2007
Creator: Decoster, Charlotte & Imber, Nat
Partner: UNT Oral History Program

Oral History Interview with Alan Steinshnider, October 11, 2007

Description: Interview with Alan Steinshnider, a Navy veteran of the Vietnam War. The interview discusses his childhood in Phoenix, Ariz.; decision to enlist in the U.S. Naval Reserves; active duty career, including service on USS Yorktown, USS Bonhomme Richard, USS Oriskany, concluding with assignment to Naval Air Station Grand Prairie, Tex.; "shellback" initiation; opinions regarding benefits of military service; daughter's military service. At the end includes a photocopy of various plaques.
Date: October 11, 2007
Creator: Wisely, Karen & Steinshnider, Alan
Partner: UNT Oral History Program

Oral History Interview with Amelia Govan, November 11, 2006

Description: Interview with Amelia Govan, a longtime resident of Eastland, Texas, concerning her experiences regarding rural life, racial segregation, and race relations in Eastland County, Texas; early childhood in a farming family in Elmo, Texas; family's move to town of Eastland; decision to move to Los Angles, Cal., in search of work; return to Eastland; religious and social life among African Americans in Eastland; family history.
Date: November 11, 2006
Creator: Rose, Harriett DeAnn & Govan, Amelia
Partner: UNT Oral History Program

Oral History Interview with Mae Green, October 11, 2006

Description: Interview with Mae Green, an African-American resident of Cisco, concerning her memories of childhood in Robertson County, Texas, farming family; experience in one-room, all-black schoolhouse and E.A. Kemp High School; marriage to Roland Green and decision to move to Abilene, Texas; separation from Roland Green and decision to move with three young children to Cisco; work as a maid, factory worker, and nurse's aide; children's experiences in desegregating schools relationships with black and wh… more
Date: October 11, 2006
Creator: Rose, Harriett DeAnn & Green, Mae
Partner: UNT Oral History Program

Oral History Interview with Herbie Johnson, April 11, 2006

Description: Interview with Dr. Herbert K. "Herbie" Johnson, an African-American alumnus of North Texas State College, concerning his memories of childhood in "Near North" Dallas and South Dallas, Texas, including bombing of African-Americans' homes in newly desegregated South Dallas; early education in all-black schools, including Lincoln High School, in Dallas; experience at Texas Southern University; two years' service in U.S. Army; decision to enroll at North Texas State College in 1957; experience of b… more
Date: April 11, 2006
Creator: May, Paul & Johnson, Herbie
Partner: UNT Oral History Program

Oral History Interview with Robert James Widmer, Sr., June 11, 2004

Description: Interview with Robert J. Widmer, Sr., Army Air Forces veteran (738th Bomb Squadron, 304th Bomb Group, 15th Air Force), concerning his experiences as a B-24 pilot in the European theater during World War II; also his experiences as a prisoner-of-war of the Germans. His youth during the Great Depression in Toledo, Ohio; college at the University of Toledo and Columbia University; his decision to enlist in the Aviation Cadets, December, 1941; basic training, Santa Ana, California, August, 1942; pr… more
Date: June 11, 2004
Creator: Lane, Peter B. & Widmer, Robert James, Sr.
Partner: UNT Oral History Program

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 Edward L. Silar, August 11, 2000

Description: Interview with Edward L. Silar, a business executive and Army Air Forces veteran, concerning his experiences as a pilot trainee in the United States during World War II. Life in Wrightsville, Pennsylvania, during the Great Depression; the decision of the twin Silar brothers to enter the Aviation Cadet Program, 1942; basic training, Miami Beach, Florida, 1943; Air Crew Student Training, Centre College, Danville, Kentucky, 1943; Aviation Cadet Classification Center, Nashville, Tennessee,1943; pre… more
Date: August 11, 2000
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Silar, Edward L.
Partner: UNT Oral History Program

Oral History Interview with Larry Graham, December 11, 2003

Description: Interview with Larry Graham, businessman, concerning his experiences while attending the Texas International Pop Festival, Lewisville, Texas, August 30-September 1, 1969. His first experiences with the Sixties counterculture at Allen's Landing, Houston, Texas; his attraction to rock 'n roll music; his earning the nickname "The Diller" from distributing Armadillo Comics in high school; his use of drugs as a teenager; his decision to attend the Texas International Pop Festival; living conditions … more
Date: December 11, 2003
Creator: Tittle, Dennis G. & Graham, Larry
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 Carlos Puente, March 11, 2003

Description: Interview with Carlos Puente, political activist, concerning his involvement in the Mexican-American community of Fort Worth, Texas, 1970-2003. His family's migration from Mexico to Texas in the 1920s; his youth in Galveston; his decision to quit school in the ninth grade; his earning a GED; business school at Galveston Business College and subsequent employment in the Galveston County tax assessor-collector's office; his marriage; his being drafted into the Marine Corps, 1966; service in Vietn… more
Date: March 11, 2003
Creator: Ray, Dulce Ivette & Puente, Carlos
Partner: UNT Oral History Program

Oral History Interview with Jack Ramsey, June 11, 2001

Description: Interview with Jack C. Ramsey, artist and Army veteran (D Company, 393rd Regiment, 99th Infantry Division), concerning his experiences as a combat infantryman in the European Theater during World War II. Educational background; ROTC, John Tarleton Agricultural College, Stephenville, Texas, 1941-42; basic training, Camp Wolters, Mineral Wells, Texas, 1942; assignment to the Army Specialized Training Program, East Texas State Teachers College, Commerce, Texas, 1942; termination of the ASTP and hi… more
Date: June 11, 2001
Creator: Alexander, William J. & Ramsey, Jack
Partner: UNT Oral History Program

Oral History Interview with Alvin D. Holdcraft, May 11, 2001

Description: Interview with Alvin D. Holdcraft, Army veteran (112th Infantry Regiment, 28th Infantry Division), concerning his experiences as a combat infantryman in the European Theater during World War II; his experiences as a prisoner-of-war of the Germans. Early youth moving around various states in the Midwest and the East Coast; enrollment at Staunton Military Academy, Staunton, Virginia, 1941-42; induction into the Army, 1943; basic training, Camp Croft, Spartanburg, South Carolina, 1943; assignment … more
Date: May 11, 2001
Creator: Simpson, Patrick B. & Holdcraft, Alvin D.
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 Jean Elizabeth Sheppard Hatcher, December 11, 2008

Description: Interview with Jean Elizabeth Sheppard Hatcher, a veteran of the Coast Guard Women's Reserves from Illinois, regarding her experience her experiences growing up during the Depression, serving in the military during World War II, and her family life after that. Hatcher discusses her background, military experience, waitressing and clerical work, discharge, marriage, and involvement with Ridglea United Methodist Church.
Date: December 11, 2008
Creator: Hegi, Benjamin P. & Hatcher, Jean Elizabeth Sheppard
Partner: UNT Oral History Program
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