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Oral History Interview with Melvin R. Baird, 1998

Description: Interview with Navy veteran Melvin R. "Pancho" Baird. It includes a combination of interviewing and reading from Baird's personal correspondence about his pre-World War II experiences with the U.S. Asiatic Fleet and his later experiences in the Pacific Theater during World War II. Baird talks about his stationing aboard the destroyer USS Alden as a radioman, the grounding of the SS President Hoover off of Hoishito Island, the Sino-Japanese War, liberty ashore various Asian port cities, events o… more
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Date: August 18, 1998
Creator: Baird, James & Baird, Melvin R.
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Partner: UNT Oral History Program

Oral History Interview with Jean Balch, October 12, 1996

Description: Interview with Navy veteran Jean Balch, including Balch's personal experiences about the Pacific theater, being a prisoner-of-war of the Japanese during World War II, boot camp, radio, radar, and gunnery school, operations during the Leyte invasion, missions over Luzon, and raids on Japanese installations on Formosa and Saigon, French Indo-China. Additionally, Balch talks about his plane being shot down on a raid to Hong Kong and his capture on January 16, 1945, interrogations and beatings by t… more
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Date: October 12, 1996
Creator: Alexander, William J. & Balch, Jean
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Partner: UNT Oral History Program
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[News Script: Houston]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about firemen in Galveston who continue to keep a close watch on a smoldering warehouse complex.
Date: June 18, 1974, 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
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[News Script: Galveston pier]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about fire officials at Galveston who say that one un- attended smoldering cotton bale may have caused the 5 to 10 million dollar fire at a two square block pier at the Galveston Wharves overnight.
Date: June 18, 1974, 6:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Script
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Newsmap. For the Armed Forces. 291st week of the war, 173rd week of U.S. participation

Description: Front: Text describes action on various war fronts: Americans Isolate Ruhr; Vienna Threatened; Ryukyus Invaded. Maps: Eastern Europe, South Pacific, Okinawa. Back: Map of China's southeast coast. Includes inset maps: Shanghai, Wenchow, Foochow, Swatow, Canton, Hong Kong.
Date: April 9, 1945
Creator: [United States.] Army Service Forces. Army Information Branch.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Poster
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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[News Script: London]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about the dollar slumped on international money markets amid uncertainty brought on by a congressional move to impeach president Nixon.
Date: August 1, 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
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APEC - Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation: Free Trade and Other Issues

Description: As a result of an initiative by Australia in 1989, the United States joined with eleven other Asia/Pacific nations in creating APEC, the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation organization. This report discusses the annual Ministerial Meeting of APEC in Seattle, held from November 17 - 19, 1993.
Date: November 10, 1993
Creator: Nanto, Dick K.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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APEC and Free Trade in the Asia Pacific

Description: This report discusses the summit held by President Bill Clinton and other leaders of the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) on November 19, 1995. The report discusses the primary reason for the summit, an Action Agenda intended to lead to free and open trade and investment among its members. The report also discusses how APEC countries were divided on certain issues going into this summit.
Date: November 14, 1995
Creator: Nanto, Dick K.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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[News Script: International briefs]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering international news stories in Tokyo, Hong Kong, Manila, and the United States.
Date: October 3, 1972
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Script
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: International briefs]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering international news stories in Tokyo, Hong Kong, Manila, and the United States.
Date: October 3, 1972
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Script
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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Oral History Interviews with Howard Yergin, January 1986

Description: Interview with Howard Yergin, an employee of Caltex Petroleum Corporation from New York City. Yergin discusses his career with the company, including his education and Army service, hiring by Caltex, move to Shanghai in 1948 and business conducted there, businessmen who helped reestablish Caltex's Chinese market after WWII, fleeing China in 1949, attempts at recouping capital from the Chinese government, operations in Hong Kong, changes in the oil market over the years, corporate financing, int… more
Date: {1986-01-23,1986-01-24}
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Yergin, Howard
Item Type: Refine your search to only Book
Partner: UNT Oral History Program
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