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Oral History Interview with Shuford M. Alexander, Jr., December 2, 1999

Interview with engineer and Army Air Forces veteran Shuford M. Alexander, Jr. The interview includes Alexander's personal experiences about being a fighter pilot in Italy during World War II, basic training, flight training, various assignments and transfers, Operation STRANGLE, being shot down by flak over Piacenza, and being rescued by Italian partisans. Additionally, Alexander talks about his link-up with a British A-4 Mission and his attempt to reach Allied lines, his betrayal by a German a… more

Date: December 2, 1999

Creator: Alexander, William J. & Alexander, Shuford M., Jr.

Partner: UNT Oral History Program

Oral History Interview with Wilbur H. Ford, November 18, 1999

Interview with Army Air Forces veteran Wilbur H. Ford. The interview includes Ford's personal experiences about being a B-17 pilot in the European Theater during World War II, training, transferring to the Army Air Force from the Army, flight training, B-17 transition training, and crew training. Ford also talks about his assignment to the 401st Bomb Group, enemy flak, the highlights of his nine missions over Germany, battle damage to his plane, the Dresden raid, returning to the States, and t… more

Date: November 18, 1999

Creator: Alexander, William J. & Ford, Wilbur H.

Partner: UNT Oral History Program

Oral History Interview with E. Benjamin Dunn, November 16, 1999

Interview with E. Benjamin Dunn, a Army WWII veteran and POW from Gorham, Illinois, who was captured by the Japanese on Java with the 2nd Battalion, 131st Field Artillery (the "Lost Battalion.") Dunn discusses training in the Army, transfer to 2-131 and deployment to the Pacific, the fall of Java and being captured, experiences in internment in Batavia and later Changi Prison Camp in Singapore, building the Burma-Thailand Death Railway, and liberation.

Date: November 16, 1999

Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Dunn, E. Benjamin

Partner: UNT Oral History Program

Oral History Interview with Warren D. Crumbling, November 13, 1999

Interview with Warren D. Crumbling, Army veteran, special agent, and member of the White House Security Detail for President Lyndon B. Johnson. The interview includes Crumbling's personal experiences about education and employment before entering the military, basic training, various assignments, and being appointed to the White House Security Detail at President Lyndon B. Johnson's LBJ Ranch. Additionally, Crumbling talks about relations between the military and civilian law enforcement author… more

Date: November 13, 1999

Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Crumbling, Warren D.

Partner: UNT Oral History Program

Oral History Interview with James N. Hall, November 10, 1999

Interview with James N. Hall, a Army Air Force WWII veteran from Burkburnett, Texas. Hall discusses joining the Air Force from college, basic training, classification, flight training, the P-47, fighter tactics, deplyoment to Le Culot Airfield in Belgium, his first mission, briefings and intelligence, Air Support Parties, close air support, flak, bomber escort, air-to-air encounters, casualties, logistics, German civilians, crash landings, V-E Day, and return to civilian life.

Date: November 10, 1999

Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Hall, James N.

Partner: UNT Oral History Program

Oral History Interview with Robert H. Flatley, October 27, 1999

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

Date: October 27, 1999

Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Flatley, Robert H.

Partner: UNT Oral History Program

Oral History Interview with Harry Bradford Urey, Jr., October 14, 1999

Transcript of an interview with Harry Bradford Urey, Jr., a mechanical engineer and Army Air Forces veteran (454th Bomb Squadron, 323rd Bomb Group, 9th Air Force), concerning his experiences as a B-26 pilot in the European Theater during World War II.

Date: October 14, 1999

Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Urey, Harry Bradford, Jr.

Partner: UNT Oral History Program

Oral History Interview with Fiske Hanley, October 13, 1999

Transcript of an interview with Fiske Hanley, an aeronautical engineer and Army Air Forces veteran (398th Bomb Squadron, 504th Bomb Group, 313th Bomb Wing, 20th Air Force), concerning his experiences during World War II, including as a flight engineer aboard B-29s in the Pacific Theater and as a prisoner-of-war of the Japanese.

Date: October 13, 1999

Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Hanley, Fiske, II, 1920-

Partner: UNT Oral History Program

Oral History Interview with Robert Seidel, September 7, 1999

Interview with Robert Seidel, a Army Air Force WWII veteran from Elkhart, Indiana, who served in the 763rd Bomb Squadron in the European Theater. Accompanied by his wife Helen, Seidel discusses his family, the start of the war and joining the Air Corps, training as a flight engineer, assignment to the B-24 and deployment to Spinazzola, Italy, flying combat missions, life at the base, ditching his aircraft near Salzburg and getting captured, being interrogated, internment at Stalag Luft IV, libe… more

Date: September 7, 1999

Creator: Lane, Peter B. & Seidel, Robert

Partner: UNT Oral History Program

Oral History Interview with William E. Cooper, September 7, 1999

Interview with business executive and Army Air Forces veteran William E. Cooper. The interview includes Cooper's personal experiences about being a B-29 pilot in the Pacific Theater, pre-flight and flight training, various assignments, and dropping supplies by parachute to prisoners-of-war. Cooper also talks about living on Guam, mechanical weaknesses of the B-29, his descriptions of Nagasaki and Hiroshima from the air after the dropping of the atomic bombs, his disappointment with not being ab… more

Date: September 7, 1999

Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Cooper, William E.

Partner: UNT Oral History Program

Oral History Interview with Thomas Richard Young, September 3, 1999

Transcript of an interview with Thomas Richard Young, artist and Army Air Forces veteran (463rd Bomb Group, 774th Bomb Squadron, 15th Air Force), concerning his experiences as a B-17 pilot and a prisoner-of-war in the European Theater during World War II. Appendix includes a photocopy of a drawing titled, "North Compound, Stalag Luft III, Sagan, Germany, January, 1945."

Date: September 3, 1999

Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Young, Thomas Richard

Partner: UNT Oral History Program

Oral History Interview with Archie Gantt, August 31, 1999

Interview with Army veteran Archie Gantt. The interview includes Gantt's personal experiences about the European Theater during World War II, boyhood in central Texas, basic training, shipping to England, combat on the Siegfried Line, and the Battle of the Bulge. Additionally, Gantt talks about leadership problems, combat living conditions, Officer Candidate School and commissioning, and his postwar war service in Europe.

Date: August 31, 1999

Creator: Lane, Peter B. & Gantt, Archie

Partner: UNT Oral History Program

Oral History Interview with James G. Turner, August 7, 1999

Transcript of an interview with James G. Turner, Marine Corps veteran (Regimental Headquarters Company, 14th Marine Regiment, 4th Marine Division), concerning his experiences on Saipan in the Pacific Theater during World War II. Turner discusses his decision to join the Marine Corps, December 7, 1942; boot camp, Parris Island; formation of the 4th Marine Division at Camp Pendleton, California, 1943; preparations on Maui for the invasion of Saipan; the amphibious landings on Saipan, June 15, 194… more

Date: August 7, 1999

Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Turner, James G.

Partner: UNT Oral History Program

Oral History Interview with Mervin Garver, August 6, 1999

Interview with Mervin Garver. The interview includes Garver's personal experiences about education and childhood during the Great Depression, being a defense worker at Riverside Foundry, blackouts and air raid wardens, and President Franklin D. Roosevelt's visits to Wrightsville by train. Garver also talks about his draft classification as 4-F due to psychoneurosis, his personal feelings about being classified as 4-F, local reactions to his 4-F status, the production of hand grenade and radar c… more

Date: August 6, 1999

Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Garver, Mervin

Partner: UNT Oral History Program

Autobiographical Narrative of Leonard A. Charpentier, June 18, 1999

Narrative of Dr. Leonard A. Charpentier. The narrative includes a monologue of Charpentier's experiences as a P-47 fighter pilot in the European Theater during World War II. Charpentier talks about basic training, flight training, fighter pilot training, his assignment to the 86th Fighter Squadron on Corsica, the P-47 Thunderbolt, various missions, his being shot down on a mission over southern France and being captured, the treatment of his wounds at a German field hospital, and his postwar me… more

Date: June 18, 1999

Creator: Charpentier, Leonard A.

Partner: UNT Oral History Program

Oral History Interview with Eugene L. Crumling, May 18, 1999

Interview with Eugene L. Crumling, bartender and former professional ballplayer. The interview includes Crumling's personal experiences about being a professional baseball player in the U.S. during World War II. Crumling talks about his semi-pro baseball career in the late 1930s and early 1940s, the origin of his nickname, signing his first professional contract, life in the minor leagues during wartime, his draft classification as 4-F, his employment in defense-related work during the off-seas… more

Date: May 28, 1999

Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Crumling, Eugene L.

Partner: UNT Oral History Program

Oral History Interview with Thomas A. Chipman, May 21, 1999

Interview with Thomas A. Chipman, who is a World War II veteran and restaurant business owner from Hill City, Kansas. In the interview, Chipman discusses his experiences as a medic and driver in the European Theatre during the war. He describes what basic training and his induction into the Army was like, and also talks a little bit about when he was sent to the Pennsylvania Military College to earn a degree in engineering. Chipman recollects when his battalion was transported to England and Fr… more

Date: May 21, 1999

Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Chipman, Thomas A.

Partner: UNT Oral History Program

Oral History Interview with John A. Roberts, April 27, 1999

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

Date: April 27, 1999

Creator: Lane, Peter B.; Garland, Terry & Roberts, John A.

Partner: UNT Oral History Program

Oral History Interview with Gale E. Nevill, March 23, 1999

Interview with Gale E. Nevill, a Army WWII veteran from Houston, Texas. Nevill discusses his family background and upbringing, jobs in the oil business, joining the National Guard, attending Rice University, getting commissioned, overseeing a Civilian Conservation Corps camp, working through the Depression, activation and assignment to 6th Army HQ, deployment to Brisbane, 6th Army operations in the South Pacific and Philippines, the end of the war and life afterwards.

Date: March 23, 1999

Creator: Alexander, William J. & Nevill, Gale Erwin

Partner: UNT Oral History Program

Oral History Interview with James Driver, March 21, 1999

Interview with Navy veteran James Driver. The interview includes Driver's personal experiences about being a dive-bomber and fighter pilot during the Pacific Theater during World War II, various phases of training, dive-bomber training, having convoy escort duty off New Hebrides, the neutralization of Rabaul, transferring to fighter planes, flying combat air patrol off the carrier USS Hancock, providing cover for the Marine landings on Okinawa, combat against kamikazes, engagements against enem… more

Date: March 21, 1999

Creator: Alexander, William J. & Driver, James

Partner: UNT Oral History Program

Oral History Interview with Allen Stafford, March 12, 1999

Interview with Allen Stafford, a Texas National Guard WWII veteran from Kiowa County, Oklahoma, who served with the 124th Cavalry Regiment. Stafford discusses his early life, working in Texas oil fields, enlisting and training, deployment to the China-Burma-India Theater and reorganization as an infantry unit, combat operations with the Japanese around the Burma Road, and returning to the United States.

Date: March 12, 1999

Creator: Alexander, William J. & Stafford, Allen E.

Partner: UNT Oral History Program

Oral History Interview with Alton O. Crawley, March 9, 1999

Interview with electrical engineer and Army veteran Alton O. Crawley. The interview includes Crawley's personal experiences about the China-Burma-India Theater during World War II, having pre-war civilian jobs in radio/communications work, training for Office of Strategic Services operations, being assigned to Wudu, China, coast watching activities and radio transmissions, and various miscellaneous accounts of his tour of duty in China. The interview includes an appendix with various letters ac… more

Date: March 9, 1999

Creator: Alexander, William J. & Crawley, Alton O.

Partner: UNT Oral History Program

Oral History Interview with George B. Andrews, March 5, 1999

Transcript of an interview withGeorge B. Andrews, Army Air Forces veteran (526th Fighter Squadron, 86th Fighter Group, 9th Air Force), concerning his experiences as a fighter pilot in the European Theater during World War II. Appendix includes thirty-six pages of recollections from the interviewee.

Date: March 5, 1999

Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Andrews, George B.

Partner: UNT Oral History Program

Oral History Interview with Leslie W. Bray, Jr., March 3, 1999

Interview with Army Air Forces veteran Leslie W. Bray, Jr. The interview includes Bray's personal experiences about the China-Burma-India Theater during World War II, youth during the Great Depression, flight training, being designated as the commander of the 16th Combat Cargo Squadron, stationing at Sylhet, India as part of his assignment to the CBI Theater, supplying the British 14th Army in Burma, flying difficulties due to weather conditions, various transfers, and flying "The Hump." Bray a… more

Date: March 3, 1999

Creator: Alexander, William J. & Bray, Leslie W., Jr.

Partner: UNT Oral History Program

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