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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.
Partner: UNT Oral History Program
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[News Clip: VFW awards]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the Veterans of Foreign Wars hosting an awards dinner at the conclusion of their weeklong convention in Dallas.
Date: June 27, 1951
Duration: 41 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Oral History Interview with Inga Pennock, January 27, 1990

Description: Interview with Inga Pennock, a Holocaust survivor from Berlin. Pennock discusses her family background, experiencing antisemitism and the start of Nazi rule, trying to leave Germany and hiding, increasing violence, Kristallnacht, losing family, fleeing to Shanghai, Japanese occupation and the ghetto, working as a nurse for the Japanese, living conditions, liberation, and life afterwards.
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Date: January 27, 1990
Creator: Rosen, Keith G. & Pennock, Inga
Partner: UNT Oral History Program
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[News Clip: Mexia Prisoner Of War]

Description: Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.
Date: May 27, 1986, 6:00 p.m.
Duration: 1 minute 51 seconds
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

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.
Partner: UNT Oral History Program

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.
Partner: UNT Oral History Program
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[News Script: Doolittle to tour aircraft plants]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a visit to Fort Worth's Carswell Air Force Base by retired U.S. Air Force Lieutenant General James Doolittle.
Date: February 27, 1955
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Condoms]

Description: Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.
Date: February 27, 1986
Duration: 1 minute 53 seconds
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Oral History Interview with Robert Crist, May 27, 1993

Description: Interview with Robert Crist, an Army veteran, concerning his experiences at Fort Shafter with the 9th Signal Service Company during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
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Date: May 27, 1993
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Crist, Robert
Partner: UNT Oral History Program
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[News Script: Carlton]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about general Carlton who will be speaker at dinner meeting of the Air force association and airpower council in Fort Worth.
Date: June 27, 1974, 6:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Doolittle to tour aircraft plants]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about a visit to Fort Worth's Carswell Air Force Base by retired U.S. Air Force Lieutenant General James Doolittle.
Date: February 27, 1955
Duration: 56 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Oral History Interview with Garlen W. Eslick, April 27, 1990

Description: Interview with Garlen W. Eslick, a Navy WWII veteran from Milan, Missouri who served aboard the USS Oklahoma (BB-37) when it was sunk at Pearl Harbor. Eslick discusses joining the Navy and basic training, assignment to the Oklahoma, accommodations aboard, the food, the crew, liberty, being bombed and torpedoed, the Oklahoma capsizing, being trapped inside the ship, rescue, work after the attack, and service aboard the Saratoga (CV-3).
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Date: April 27, 1990
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Eslick, Garlen W.
Partner: UNT Oral History Program
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[News Script: VFW awards]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the Veterans of Foreign Wars hosting an awards dinner at the conclusion of their weeklong convention in Dallas.
Date: June 27, 1951
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Dr. Niemoeller]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about Dr. Martin Niemoeller, a concentration camp survivor, giving an address at Southern Methodist University in Dallas.
Date: August 27, 1957
Duration: 52 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Texas memorial day]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about Texans who will honor war dead in speeches and ceremonies across the state.
Date: May 27, 1974, 6:30 a.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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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.
Partner: UNT Oral History Program
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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.
Partner: UNT Oral History Program
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