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Oral History Interview with Albert B. Block, April 27, 1990

Description: Interview with Albert B. Block, a United States Navy veteran from Yorktown, Texas, regarding his experiences and memories of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor of December 7, 1941 while aboard the battleship USS West Virginia.
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Date: April 27, 1990
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Block, Albert B.
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Oral History Interview with Albert Kamenicky, April 27, 1990

Description: Interview with Albert Kamenicky, a United States Navy veteran from Rogers, Texas, regarding his experiences and memories of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor of December 7, 1941 while aboard the cruiser USS Phoenix.
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Date: April 27, 1990
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Kamenicky, Albert
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Oral History Interview with Anna Robinson, November 27, 2007

Description: Interview with Anna Robinson, a Women's Army Corps veteran from Fort Worth, Texas. Robinson discusses her family and childhood, joining the WAC, transfer to Germany as a supply clerk in 1946, life and work in that assignment, being in a car wreck, her sexuality and gays in the service, the Iraq War and George W. Bush, leaving the Army and work for the city of Forth Worth as an artist, her church involvement, and returning to Germany,
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Date: November 27, 2007
Creator: Quick, Janice L. & Robinson, Anna
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Oral History Interview with Clyde J. Shelton, July 27, 1987

Description: Interview with Clyde J. Shelton, a United States Army veteran from Mexia, Texas, regarding his experiences and memories as a prisoner-of-war of the Japanese during World War II after being captured when his artillery unit, the "Lost Battalion," was captured off the coast of java in 1942.
Date: July 27, 1987
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Shelton, Clyde J.
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Oral History Interview with Ed Fendell, October 27, 2006

Description: Interview with Ed Fendell, NASA communications engineer and assistant flight director, as part of the Skylab Oral History Project. The interview includes Fendell's personal experiences about childhood, serving in the Korean War-era Air Force, and joining NASA in 1963. Additionally, Fendell speaks about his communications work for Apollo, Skylab, the International Space Station, and Space Shuttle program missions, trouble-shooting for Skylab missions, lessons learned from the Skylab program, per… more
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Date: October 27, 2006
Creator: Johnson, Michael & Fendell, Ed
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Oral History Interview with George Koury, Jr., April 27, 1972

Description: Interview with George Koury, Jr., Marine Corps veteran and survivor of the Bataan Death March. The interview includes Koury's personal experiences as a prisoner-of-war of the Japanese during World War II. Koury talks about the Fall of Bataan and his capture, the Bataan Death March, Camp O'Donnell, Nichols Field, hell ship to Formosa and to Japan, Prison Camp No. 7, and liberation.
Date: April 27, 1972
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Koury, George, Jr.
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Oral History Interview with Ivan Arteaga, October 27, 2009

Description: Interview with Ivan Arteaga, Mexican national and immigrant to Princeton, Texas, as part of the DFW Metroplex Immigrants Oral History Project. The interview includes Arteaga's personal experiences of childhood and education in Mexico City. Arteaga also talks about his family's decision to immigrate to Provo, Utah, his first impressions of the U.S., marriage, deciding to relocate to Texas, opinions regarding anti-immigrant feelings prevalent in American culture and regarding the U.S. immigration… more
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Date: October 27, 2009
Creator: Dunbar, Paul & Arteaga, Ivan
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Oral History Interview with J. D. Bradley, June 27, 2003

Description: Interview with postmaster and Army veteran J.D. Bradley. The interview includes Bradley's personal experiences about being a guard during the International Military Tribunal for the Far East in Tokyo after World War II, enlisting in the army, basic training, various assignments, guard duty in the court docks during the tribunal, and guarding Hideki Tojo. Bradley talks about rules and regulations for Military Police guards, steps taken to prevent suicides among the prisoners, the physical descri… more
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Date: June 27, 2003
Creator: Koontz, Christopher N. & Bradley, J. D.
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Oral History Interview with John A. Roberts, April 27, 1999

Description: Interview with General John Roberts, a Air Force WWII veteran from Arkansas, who served for over twenty years with General Roger Ramey of Denton, Texas. Roberts discusses Ramey's background and his own, Army Air Corps pilot training, the start of the war and assignment under Ramey, changing commands and transition to the B-29, Curtis LeMay, the atomic bomb, postwar work, Ramey's health and death, his relationships with various figures, Douglas MacArthur and Harry Truman, the racial integration … more
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Date: April 27, 1999
Creator: Lane, Peter B.; Garland, Terry & Roberts, John A.
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Oral History Interview with John Munn, April 27, 1990

Description: Interview with John Munn, a United States Army Air Force veteran from North Carolina, regarding his experiences and memories of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor of December 7, 1941 while stationed at Wheeler Field.
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Date: April 27, 1990
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Munn, John
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Oral History Interview with Leigh D. Josephson, May 27, 1986

Description: Interview with executive of Caltex Petroluem Corporation, Leigh D. Josephson, including his personal experiences related to employment with Standard Oil of California, his assignment to Bahrain and transfer to Caltex, the construction of Ras Tanura refinery in Saudi Arabia, and the bombing of the Bapco refinery in Bahrain. Josephson also talks about refinery operations in Bahrain during and after World War II, his various positions and responsibilities with Caltex and Bapco, work in Bahrain and… more
Date: May 27, 1989
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Josephson, Leigh D.
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Oral History Interview with Mr. and Mrs. C.S. Sykes, September 27, 1971

Description: Interview with Mr. C. S. Sykes, a US Army WWII veteran from Ardmore, Oklahoma, and his wife, from Tulsa, Oklahoma. Both were on Oahu on December 7th, 1941, and witnessed the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. They discuss the peacetime army, being stationed at Schofield Barracks, living on Kawailoa Beach, events prior to the attack, and events during the attack on Oahu.
Date: September 27, 1971
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E.; Sykes, C. S. & Sykes, Mrs. C. S.
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Oral History Interview with O. H. "Ike" Harris, November 27, 1972

Description: Interview with Senator O. H. "Ike" Harris, a Republican Texas state legislator from Dallas, Texas. Harris discusses the second, third, and fourth special sessions of the 62nd Legislature, including: the issue of state funding of primaries; Governor Preston Smith's actions on spending; the appointment of Larry Teaver to head of the State Insurance Commission; the calling of the fourth special session; insurance companies and their influence; discrimination in insurance policies; competitive rate… more
Date: November 27, 1972
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Harris, Ike, 1932-
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Oral History Interview with Oh. H. "Ike" Harris, November 27, 1978

Description: Interview with Senator O. H. "Ike" Harris, a Republican member of the Texas Senate from Dallas, concerning his experiences while attending the second special session of the 65th Texas Legislature. Senator Harris discusses tax relief, other legislators at the session, the Peveto Bill, and Governor Briscoe's influence.
Date: November 27, 1978
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Harris, Ike, 1932-
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Oral History Interview with Robert H. Flatley, October 27, 1999

Description: Interview with business executive and Army Air Forces veteran Robert H. Flatley. The interview includes Flatley's personal experiences about being a P-38 pilot in the Pacific Theater during the World War II, basic training, flight training, P-38 training, various assignments and missions, and the destruction of forty-seven locomotives. Flatley also talks about various missions to targets in the Philippines, activities between combat missions, postwar military activities in the Philippines, and … more
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Date: October 27, 1999
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Flatley, Robert H.
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Oral History Interview with Robert L. Nettles, February 27, 1993

Description: Interview with Robert L. Nettles, a member of the Civilian Conservation Corps from Groesbeck, Texas. Nettles discusses his family's difficulties on the farm and joining the CCC, initiation and hazing, the layout of Mother Neff State Camp and accommodations, daily routine, pay, CCC Alumni, and reflections on the Corp's impact in his life.
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Date: February 27, 1993
Creator: McCrain, James B. & Nettles, Robert L.
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Oral History Interview with Robert Stewart, March 27, 2003

Description: Interview with jazz musician Robert "Bob" Stewart. In the interview, Steward speaks about his early interest in music, his first drum set, first professional job with the Shorty Clements Band, attending college, his employment as a disk jockey, his definition of jazz, playing with the Charles Scott Band in fort Worth, after-hours clubs in Fort Worth, jazz's role in bringing together black and white musicians, various jazz clubs and venues in Fort Worth, musicians unions, the lack of full-time e… more
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Date: March 27, 2003
Creator: Brown, Peggy Brandt & Stewart, Robert
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Oral History Interview with William G. Adair, May 27, 1971

Description: Interview with Major William G. Adair, an Army WWII veteran and POW from Birmingham, Alabama. Stationed in the Philippines when the Japanese invaded in December 1941, Adair was captured, survived the Bataan Death March, and interned at Cabanatuan before going to Osaka and Zentsuji, Japan for the remainder of the war.
Date: May 27, 1971
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Adair, William G.
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