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Oral History Interview with Gail Halvorsen, March 21, 2016

Description: Interview with Col. Gail Halvorsen, a Air Force veteran from Salt Lake City, Utah, who took part in the Berlin Airlift. Halvorsen discusses his family background, growing up, learning to fly, joining the Air Corps and flying various missions around the Atlantic during WWII, experiences in the Berlin Airlift, and relationships with Germans he affected. In appendix are various photos of and by Halvorsen from throughout his career, and letters he received from German children.
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Date: March 21, 2016
Creator: Moody, Kimberly & Halvorsen, Gail Seymour
Partner: UNT Oral History Program
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[News Script: Middle East & Mormon]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story of United Nations spokesman saying that army personnel from Israel and Egypt will meet again to discuss a possible pullback of troops along Suez Canal. Also, about the president of the Mormon Church who died in Salt Lake City.
Date: December 27, 1973, 6:30 a.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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