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Oral History Interview with Janine Winn, July 18, 2015

Description: Transcript of an interview with Janine Winn, homesteader and simple life advocate, concerning her childhood; early experiences gardening and outdoors; decision to homestead in Maine.
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Date: July 18, 2015
Creator: Pomerleau, Clark A. & Winn, Janine, 1948-

Oral History Interview with Dorinda Marby, January 18, 2014

Description: Audio log for a recording of an interview with Dorinda Marby, former flight attendant for Braniff International Airways, conducted for the Flying Voices oral history project. In the interview Marby discusses her experiences as a flight attendant and lessons learned during her career.
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Date: January 18, 2014
Creator: Schnur, Abra & Marby, Dorinda

Oral History Interview with Nelda Ireland, January 18, 2014

Description: Audio log for a recording of an interview with Nelda Ireland, former customer service agent for Braniff International Airways, conducted for the Flying Voices oral history project. Content includes personal reflections of Braniff’s impact and experiences with customers, being a part of the Braniff family, reflections on the airline industry as a whole.
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Date: January 18, 2014
Creator: Schnur, Abra & Ireland, Nelda

Oral History Interview with Mary Franklin, October 18, 2013

Description: Interview with Mary Franklin, an activist in the Dallas LGBT community from Riverhead, New York. Franklin discusses her family background, the neighborhood she grew up in in, dyslexia and struggles in school, her sexuality and coming out, the LGBT scene on Long Island, "gay" as a term, her first girlfriend, Anita Bryant, applying for a marriage license on National Coming Out Day, feminism and activism, moving to Dallas, the decriminalization of homosexuality in Texas, the HIV-AIDS epidemic, thr… more
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Date: October 18, 2013
Creator: Castillo, Vogel Vladimir & Franklin, Mary

Oral History Interview with Hui Sun, November 18, 2012

Description: Interview with Hui Sun, a Chinese-American immigrant from Ankang, Shaanxi, China. Hui Sun discusses her childhood, her marriage, coming to the United States, American and Chinese culture, her children, parenting, her local Chinese community, Chinese holidays, reflections on love and personal growth, and her service in the People's Liberation Army.
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Date: November 18, 2012
Creator: Bravo, Francis & Sun, Hui

Oral History Interview with Billie Joyce Towles, February 18, 2010

Description: Interview with Billie Joyce Towles, longtime resident of Weatherford, Texas, as part of the Weatherford Oral History Project. The interview includes Towles' personal experiences of childhood and education in Weatherford, Depression-era struggles, and living in Weatherford during World War II. Towles also discusses her father's work with the Works Progress Administration, marriage to Norman Towles, her family's switch from Democratic loyalty to Republican, her personal evolution on race issues, … more
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Date: February 18, 2010
Creator: Liles, Debbie & Towles, Billie Joyce

Oral History Interview with Ralph L. Cerny, September 18, 2000

Description: Interview with Army veteran Ralph L. Cerny. The interview includes Cerny's personal experiences about being a combat infantryman in the Southwest Pacific Theater during World War II, joining the Illinois National Guard, federalization of the Illinois National Guard, training at Camp Forrest, Tennessee, shipping to Camp Darwin, Australia, and combat around Mount Austen on Guadalcanal. Additionally, Cerny talks about the formation of the American Division and landings at New Caledonia, transferri… more
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Date: September 18, 2000
Creator: Lane, Peter B. & Cerny, Ralph L.

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

Description: 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
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Date: November 18, 1999
Creator: Alexander, William J. & Ford, Wilbur H.

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

Description: 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
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Date: June 18, 1999
Creator: Charpentier, Leonard A.

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.

Oral History Interview with William W. Pearsall, June 18, 1997

Description: Transcript of an interview with William W. Pearsall concerning his experiences on the homefront as a teenager in Elgin, Illinois, during World War II. Pearsall discusses his education and childhood in Elgin; local reaction to the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941; air raid drills and blackouts; attempts to make people war conscious; spy hysteria; censorship of mail; harassment of German Americans; gasoline rationing; scrap drives; war bond drives; Victory Gardens; rationing of… more
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Date: June 18, 1997
Creator: Jackson, Sarah C. & Pearsall, William W.

Oral History Interview with Ralph W. Nelson, April 18, 1996

Description: Transcript of an interview with Ralph W. Nelson, a Navy veteran, concerning his experiences while aboard the submarines USS Batfish and USS Parche in the Pacific Theater during World War II. Submarine School, San Francisco, California, 1942; early torpedo problems; his responsibilities as a fire controlman; assignment to the Batfish, 1944; various patrols in the Luzon Strait and Makassar Strait; lifeguard duty off Palau for downed airmen; transfer to the Parche, 1945.
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Date: April 18, 1996
Creator: Maglaughlin, Barry & Nelson, Ralph W.

Oral History Interview with Alan Taniguchi, March 18, 1995

Description: Interview with Alan Taniguchi, former Dean of Architecture at UT-Austin and a Japanese-American internee during WWII, from Brentwood, California. Taniguchi discusses his family and childhood, experiences of racism, the attack on Pearl Harbor and its effects, having his home raided by the FBI, his father's detention and that of Japanese community leaders, preparing for internment, moving to the Gila Relocation Camp in Arizona, life there, leaving the camp for resettlement in Detroit, and life af… more
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Date: March 18, 1995
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Taniguchi, Alan

Oral History Interview with Frank Tremaine, March 18, 1995

Description: Transcript of an interview with Frank Tremaine, a journalist and World War II news correspondent, concerning his experiences as a bureau manager in the Pacific Theater for the United Press during World War II. Tremaine discusses the Pearl Harbor attack, military censorship, CINCPAC and Admiral Chester Nimitz, Admiral William ("Bull") Halsey, General Douglas MacArthur, an account of the Japanese surrender and ceremonies aboard the USS Missouri on September 2, 1945.
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Date: March 18, 1995
Creator: Byrd, R. W. (Richard W.) & Tremaine, Frank

Oral History Interview with Frank Tremaine, March 18. 1995

Description: Interview with Frank Tremaine, a journalist from Detroit, Michigan, regarding his memories of working as a correspondent for the United Press of the Pacific Theater of Operations during World War II. Tremaine discusses Pearl Harbor, the political environment of the WWII era, major military figures, and a description of the Japanese surrender and ceremonies aboard the USS Missouri.
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Date: March 18, 1995
Creator: Byrd, Richard W. & Tremaine, Frank

Oral History Interview with John Bumgarner, March 18, 1995

Description: Interview with John Bumgarner, a physician and an Army veteran, concerning his experiences as a prisoner-of-war of the Japanese following the fall of the Philippines during World War II. Bumgarner discusses the fall of Bataan and his capture, Bilibid Prison in Manila (1942), Cabanatuan (1942-1944), the hell ship to Japan (1944), Hakodate, Hokkaido (1944-1945), and his liberation.
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Date: March 18, 1995
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Bumgarner, John R.

Oral History Interview with John R. Bumgarner, March 18, 1995

Description: Transcript of an interview with John R. Bumgarner, physician, U.S. Army WWII veteran, and prisoner-of-war of the Japanese following the fall of the Philippines in World War II. He discusses the fall of Bataan and capture; Bilibid Prison, Manila, 1942; Cabanatuan, 1942-44; hell ship to Japan, 1944; Hakodate, Hokkaido, 1944-45; and his liberation.
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Date: March 18, 1995
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Bumgarner, John R. (John Reed)

Oral History Interview with Margaret Gillooly, March 18, 1995

Description: Interview with Margaret Gillooly, a civilian internee of the Japanese in WWII from San Francisco, California. Gillooly discusses her family's move to the Philippines in 1938, schooling, the start of war and the Japanese invasion, staying in Cebu City, her parents' escape from Manila and surviving a sinking in Manila Bay, Japanese occupation of Cebu, being moved to Manila, various experiences surviving internment at Santo Tomas Prison Camp, bombings, the American invasion and liberation, a Japan… more
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Date: March 18, 1995
Creator: Byrd, Richard W. & Gillooly, Margaret

Oral History Interview with Anne L. Cleveland, March 18, 1994

Description: Interview with Anne Cleveland about her recollections of women's clubs in Texarkana, Texas. Cleveland discusses the Current Topic Club, the Sue Sanderson Garden Club, church activities, entertainment, women's household chores, and the Civic Music Club.
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Date: March 18, 1994
Creator: Rowe, Beverly & Cleveland, Anne Lieberman

Oral History Interview with Geralene Young, January 18, 1994

Description: Interview with Geralene Young about her experiences as an employee of the Red River Army Depot in Texarkana, Arkansas during World War II and the postwar years. Young discusses hiring and promotion practices, relations between male and female workers, social activities, and the social and economic effects of the depot on Texarkana.
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Date: January 18, 1994
Creator: Brantley, Janet G. & Young, Geralene Mahone

Oral History Interview with Cleon Stewart, March 18, 1993

Description: Interview with Cleon Stewart, a Texas National Guard WWII veteran and POW from Tulia, Texas, who served and was captured with the 2nd Battalion, 131st Field Artillery (known as the "Lost Battalion"). Stewart discusses joining the National Guard, training and the Louisiana Maneuvers, deployment to the Pacific in November, 1941, diversion to Java after December 7th, Japanese air strikes and the invasion, the American surrender and initial internement by the Japanese, experiences in internment at … more
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Date: March 18, 1993
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Stewart, Cleon

Oral History Interview with Marie Healey, February 18, 1992

Description: Interview with Marie Healey, a former vocational home economics teacher for the National Youth Administration from Waxahachie, Texas. Healey discusses her background, career in the NYA during the Great Depression, and projects they undertook.
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Date: February 18, 1992
Creator: Woestman, Kelly & Healey, Marie B.
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Oral History Interview with John W. Flemmons, Jr., March 18, 1989

Description: Interview with John W. Flemmons, Jr., a United States Navy veteran from Lubbock, Texas, regarding his experiences and memories of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor of December 7, 1941 while aboard the target battleship USS Utah.
Date: March 18, 1989
Creator: Burley, Rick & Flemmons, John W., Jr.
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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
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