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D-day in History and Memory: the Normandy Landings in International Remembrance and Commemoration

Description: Over the past sixty-five years, the Allied invasion of Northwestern France in June 1944, known as D-Day, has come to stand as something more than a major battle. The assault itself formed a vital component of Allied victory in the Second World War. D-Day developed into a sign and symbol; as a word it carries with it a series of ideas and associations that have come to symbolize different things to different people and nations. As such, the commemorative activities linked to the battle offer a w… more
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Date: April 2014
Creator: Dolski, Michael R.; Edwards, Sam & Buckley, John
Partner: UNT Press

Oral History Interview with Keith Shelton, April 27, 2017

Description: Transcript of an interview with Keith Shelton, journalist, concerning his childhood in Oklahoma; family history; journalism training and career; Cold War military service in Germany; work for Dallas Times Herald; coverage of John F. Kennedy's 1963 Texas visit and assassination; coverage of Jack Ruby's trial; UNT journalism department; teaching journalism. Appendix includes various photos of Shelton, a letter from President Lyndon B. Johnson, a copy of a press release from The White House, and c… more
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Date: April 27, 2017
Creator: Moye, J. Todd & Shelton, Keith
Partner: UNT Oral History Program

A Machine-Gunner in France: The Memoirs of Ward Schrantz, 35th Division, 1917-1919

Description: This is the WWI memoir of Ward Schrantz, a National Guard officer and machine gun company commander in the Kansas-Missouri 35th Division. He extensively documents his experiences and those of his men, from training at Camp Doniphan to their voyage across the Atlantic, and to their time in the trenches in France’s Vosges Mountains and ultimately to their return home. He devotes much of his memoir to the Meuse-Argonne Offensive, in which the 35th Division suffered heavy casualties and made only m… more
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Date: April 2019
Creator: Schrantz, Ward L. & Patrick, Jeffrey L.
Partner: UNT Press

Oral History Interview with Linda Pina, April 8, 2013

Description: Interview with Linda Pina, a cousin of UNT interviewer Francis Bravo from Fort Worth, Texas, interviewed for for the Mexican American Women's Educational Experience project. Pina discusses growing up, school, her parents' divorce, and her own children and their education. In appendix is Bravo and Pina's family tree.
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Date: April 8, 2013
Creator: Bravo, Francis & Pina, Linda
Partner: UNT Oral History Program
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Oral History Interview with Harry A. Thompson, April 18, 1973

Description: Interview with Harry Thompson, an Army WWII veteran and POW from Dallas, Texas. Thompson discusses being drafted before the war and training for field artillery at Fort Sill, his assignment to the 99th Infantry Division, training in England, the Siegfried Line, the Battle of the Bulge and his capture at Büllingen, Belgium, being interrogated and transported into Germany, and his experiences in internment at Limburg.
Date: April 18, 1973
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Thompson, Harry A.
Partner: UNT Oral History Program
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Oral History Interview with David and Virginia Ciruli, April 18, 1987

Description: Interview with David and Virginia Ciruli, farmers and ranchers from Pueblo, Colorado, to gather their recollections and experiences as second generation Italians. They discuss their education, the immigration experience of their parents, the establishment of their own farming and ranching business, and their children.
Date: April 18, 1987
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E.; Ciruli, David & Ciruli, Virginia
Partner: UNT Oral History Program
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Oral History Interview with Lee E. Johnson, April 21, 1976

Description: Interview with Lee E. Johnson, a retired educator, concerning his recollections about military life during World War I. Johnson discusses his education; his enlistment in the Texas National Guard; his training at Pecan Gap; Camp Bowie; the formation of the 36th Division; officers training school at Camp Pike, Arkansas; embarkation for France; Saint-Amand and Saint-Nazairre.
Date: April 21, 1976
Creator: Milner, E. R. & Johnson, Lee E., 1893-
Partner: UNT Oral History Program
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Oral History Interview with Francis X. Fernandez de Garyalde, April 28, 1985

Description: Interview with Father Francis Fernandex, a Roman Catholic priest and a Basque from Alsasua, Navarre, discussing the role of religion in Basque culture, his pursuit of the priesthood, the Spanish Civil War, and Basque customs.
Date: April 28, 1985
Creator: Echeverria, Jeri & Fernandez de Garyalde, Francis
Partner: UNT Oral History Program

Oral History Interview with Milan Reban, April 8, 2017

Description: Transcript of an interview with Dr. Milan Reban, Professor emeritus of the UNT Political Science department and political activist, conducted in Richardson, Texas on April 8, 2017. Reban discusses his family background and experiences as a native of Czechoslovakia and survivor of the Nazi and Soviet invasions of that country, defection from Czechoslovakia and travel to the U.S, his education at the University of Miami and Michigan State University, and academic career at UNT.
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Date: April 8, 2017
Creator: Phillips, Michael; Friauf, Betsy & Reban, Milan
Partner: UNT Oral History Program

Oral History Interview with Alessandro Buccilli, April 6, 2011

Description: Interview with Italian immigrant Alessandro Buccilli, Director of Marketing and Sales Administration for Peterbilt Motors Company, as part of the DFW Metroplex Immigrants Oral History Project. Buccilli discusses his family background in Rome, Italy, his education, employment in the U.S., the shifts in perceptions about Italy and the U.S., social responsibility, learning English, his perspectives on the importance of language and culture, raising American children, and his legacy. The interview … more
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Date: April 6, 2011
Creator: Alexander, Matthew & Buccilli, Alessandro
Partner: UNT Oral History Program
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