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Map to illustrate the Civil War.

Description: Map shows state boundaries, military posts, major cities, and notable physical features. Inset: "North Eastern Virginia." Relief shown by hachures. Scale [ca. 1:9,216,000].
Date: 1885
Creator: A. S. Barnes & Co.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

Oral History Interview with General Robert E. Galer, March 14, 1998

Description: Transcript of an interview with General Robert E. Galer, a Marine Corps veteran (VMF-224) and recipient of the Medal of Honor, concerning his experiences in the Pacific Theater during World War II. Galer discusses his pre-war training at Pensacola and Quantico; assignment to Saint Thomas and reminiscences about the "destroyers-for bases" deal, 1940; experiences at Ewa during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941; assignment to Guadalcanal as commander of VMF-224, August 30, 19… more
Date: March 14, 1998
Creator: Alexander, William J. & Galer, Robert E.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Book
Partner: UNT Oral History Program

Oral History Interview with Harold L. Gensler, March 31, 2001

Description: Interview with Harold L. Gensler, a Navy veteran (USS Edgecombe), concerning his experiences in the Pacific Theater during World War II. Youth in Ossining, New York; employment with the New York Central Railroad during the late 1930s and early 1940s; enlistment in the Navy SeaBees, 1943; basic training, Camp Perry, Virginia, 1943; temporary assignment as a clerk at the Oakland Naval Supply Center, 1943-44; assignment to the USS Edgecombe (APA-164), 1944; marital problems; operations around Leyt… more
Date: March 31, 2001
Creator: Alexander, William J. & Gensler, Harold L.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Book
Partner: UNT Oral History Program

Oral History Interview with Vernon Hanks, March 7, 1998

Description: Interview with Vernon Hanks, a Navy veteran (USS Wright), concerning his experiences as a Navy chaplain in the Pacific Theater during World War II. Early career in the ministry; the coming of war and his decision to join the Chaplain Corps; Navy Chaplaincy School, Norfolk, Virginia, 1942; stateside duties, Cherry Point, North Carolina, and Bunker Hill, Indiana, 1942-43; his views of a chaplain's role and responsibilities; assignment to the seaplane tender USS Wright, 1943; activities as the Wri… more
Date: March 7, 1998
Creator: Alexander, William J. & Hanks, Vernon
Item Type: Refine your search to only Book
Partner: UNT Oral History Program

Oral History Interview with Richard L. Johnston, February 17, 1999

Description: Interview with William J. Alexander, a Army WWII veteran from Universal, Pennsylvania, who served as an officer of the 382nd Engineer Battalion (Separate), a unit of black enlisted troops. Alexander discusses growing up, joining the Civilian Conservation Corps, joining the Army and commissioning through OCS, training, deployment to India, building the Ledo Road, General Joseph Stilwell, constructing the 20th Bomber Command HQ, working in a steelmill, the atomic bomb, returning home, and postwar… more
Date: February 17, 1999
Creator: Alexander, William J. & Johnston, Richard L.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Book
Partner: UNT Oral History Program

Oral History Interview with JoEarl Morris, February 3, 2000

Description: Interview with JoEarl Morris, Army Air Forces veteran (14th Bomb Wing, 392nd Bomb Group, 2nd Bomb Division, 8th Air Force), concerning his experiences as a B-24 bombardier in the European Theater during World War II. His education and employment in the oil industry; enlistment in the Aviation Cadet Program, 1942; basic training, Kelly Field, San Antonio, Texas, 1942; primary flight training, Victory Field, Vernon, Texas, 1942; his washing out of pilot training; ground school, Ellington Air Forc… more
Date: February 3, 2000
Creator: Alexander, William J. & Morris, JoEarl
Item Type: Refine your search to only Book
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
Item Type: Refine your search to only Book
Partner: UNT Oral History Program

Oral History Interview with Floyd Thorn, August 14, 2000

Description: Interview with Floyd Thorn, a Navy veteran (VP-44), concerning his experiences as a pilot in the Pacific Theater during World War II. His youth in Texas; pre-war flying experience; decision to join the Navy Aviation Cadet Program, 1938; flight training, Pensacola Naval Air Station, Florida, 1938-39; Mine Warfare Laboratory, Yorktown, Virginia, 1939; operational training, North Island, San Diego, California, 1939-40; assignment to VP-44; training with PBYs, Ford Island, Oahu, Hawaii, 1941; his e… more
Date: August 14, 2000
Creator: Alexander, William J. & Thorn, Floyd
Item Type: Refine your search to only Book
Partner: UNT Oral History Program

[Letter from William B. Alwood to W. B. Munson, March 10, 1913]

Description: Letter from William B. Alwood to W. B. Munson asking if Munson is willing to be nominated to serve on the International Commission on Viticulture and asking for the names of people, particularly from Texas or the Southwest, who may be interested in the International Viticulture Congress to be held in San Francisco in 1915.
Date: March 10, 1913
Creator: Alwood, William B.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Letter
Partner: Grayson College Foundation
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