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In God's hands: a posthumous autobiography of Stephen Lloyd Smith

A portion of missionary Stephen Lloyd Smith's unpublished autobiography, "In God's Hands," depicting the experience of his family as civilian internees of the Japanese in the Philippines during World War II.

Date: May 1, 2001

Creator: Smith, Stephan Lloyd, 1893-1983 & Smith, Donald P., 1922-

Partner: UNT Oral History Program

Oral History Interview with Bruce Gordon Elliot, May 17, 2002

Interview with Bruce Elliot, a Navy veteran and POW from Montezuma, Kansas. Elliot discusses his family, joining the Navy and volunteering for Asiatic service, the start of war and the bombing of Cavite Navy Yard in the Philippines, retreat to Corregidor, capture by the Japanese, escaping internment on Palawan and joining Moro guerillas, sabotage, linking up with Australian forces, evacuation to Australia and returning to the United States, becoming a deepsea diver, and Korean War service. In a… more

Date: May 17, 2002

Creator: Alexander, Bill & Elliot, Bruce Gordon

Partner: UNT Oral History Program

Oral History Interview with Kenneth Poff, August 10, 1997

Interview with Kenneth Poff, a Army WWII veteran from Wrightsville, Pennsylvania, who served with the 1913th Engineer Aviation Battalion. Poff discusses his early life, being drafted and training, shipping out to Townsville, Australia, and landing on New Guinea, fighting attached to the 1st Marine Division for the Cape Gloucester and Hollandia campaigns, constructing and maintaining an airstrip, the Lingayan Gulf campaign in the Philippines, the atomic bomb and VJ-Day, and returning home.

Date: August 10, 1997

Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Poff, Kenneth

Partner: UNT Oral History Program

Oral History Interview with W. W. Hughes, November 17, 2003

Interview with W. W. Hughes, a Texas National Guard WWII veteran from Grand Prarie, Texas. Hughes discusses growing up in the Great Depression, joining the National Guard and equestrian service in the 112th Cavalry at Fort Clark, the start of war and deployment to New Caledonia and Australia, preparations for combat, amphibious landings at Arawe Island off New Britain, scout patrols and combat, operations in New Guinea at the Driniumor River, Japanese POWs, actions in the Philippines at Leyte … more

Date: November 17, 2003

Creator: Johnston, Glenn T. & Hughes, W. W.

Partner: UNT Oral History Program

Oral History Interview with Clarence Kingsley, November 21, 2003

Interview with Charles Kingsley, a Texas National Guard WWII veteran from Dallas, Texas, who served in the 112th Cavalry. Kingsley discusses his upbringing, joining the Guard, the Louisiana Maneuvers, deployment to New Caledonia, his troop's machine gun section/platoon, Woodlark Island, the Battle of Arawe, New Guinea and the Battle of Drinumor River, the Battles of Leyte and Luzon, his thoughts on the generals he served, and thoughts on the 112th.

Date: November 23, 2003

Creator: Johnston, Glenn T. & Kingsley, Clarence

Partner: UNT Oral History Program

Oral History Interview with Frank Curre, Jr., April 19, 2002

Interview with Navy veteran Frank Curre Jr. The interview includes Curre's personal experiences about joining the Navy, boot camp, being aboard the battleship USS Tennessee during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor, and his subsequent experiences in the Pacific Theater during World War II. Additionally, Curre talks about pre-war shipboard life and training exercises, his activities during the attack on Pearl Harbor, aftermath of the attack, his transfer to the yard minesweeper YMS-102 at Breme… more

Date: April 19, 2002

Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Curre, Frank, Jr.

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 William Garbo, Sr., 2003-2004

Interview with landscape architect and Army veteran William Garbo Sr. The interview includes Garbo's personal experiences about the G Troop, 112th Cavalry, in the Southwest Pacific Theater during World-War II, growing up in an Italian-American family in Mississippi during the Great Depression, volunteering for the draft and processing at Camp Shelby, Hattiesburg, Mississippi, basic training at Camp Lee, Petersburg, Virginia, being assigned to the 26th War Dog Platoon and to New Guinea in 1944, … more

Date: November 24, 2003

Creator: Johnston, Glenn T. & Garbo, William, Sr.

Partner: UNT Oral History Program

Oral History Interview with Charles C. Brabham, Jr., September 9, 2003

Interview with Army veteran Charles C. Brabham Jr. The interview includes Brabham's personal experiences about the Southwest Pacific Theater during World War II, his youth in Dallas during the Great Depression, joining the 112th Cavalry at age 16, his mobilization and various assignments, and his medical evacuation die to malaria, dysentery, and hookworm.

Date: September 9, 2003

Creator: Johnston, Glenn T. & Brabham, Charles C., Jr.

Partner: UNT Oral History Program

Oral History Interview with Melvin R. Baird, 1998

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

Date: August 18, 1998

Creator: Baird, James & Baird, Melvin R.

Partner: UNT Oral History Program

Oral History Interview with Bennie G. Snider, June 10, 2002

Interview with banker and Navy veteran Bennie G. Snider. The interview includes Snider's personal experiences about the Pacific Theater during World War II, youth and education in Denton, Texas, joining the Navy, and boot training and electrical engineering school. Snider talks about duties aboard the USS Hancock, his assignment to Task Group 58 and the invasion of the Philippines, as well as the invasions of Iwo Jima and Okinawa, kamikaze attacks and the Hancock being hit by a kamikaze, burial… more

Date: June 10, 2002

Creator: Lane, Peter B. & Snider, Bennie, G.

Partner: UNT Oral History Program

Oral History Interview with Dolphus Compere III, June 9, 2009

Interview with World War II veteran Dolphus E. Compere III as part of the Tarrant County War Veterans Oral History Project. The interview includes Compere's personal experiences of childhood in Dallas, Texas, medical school at Baylor College of Medicine in Dallas, and interning at the University of Michigan prior to his enlistment in the Army Air Corp as a surgeon with the Third Air Commando Group. Additionally, Compere discusses his experiences in the Philippines providing medical care to mili… more

Date: June 9, 2009

Creator: Hegi, Benjamin P. & Compere, Dolphus E., III

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 Lanson B. Ditto, October 11, 1996

Interview with Lanson B. Ditto, clothier and Navy veteran regarding personal experiences about the Pacific, Atlantic, and Mediterranean Theaters during World War II. Ditto talks about his education, enlistment in the Navy V-7 Program, midshipman training, assignment to the USS Langley, pre-war duty in the Philippines, coming of war and combat around the Philippines and Netherlands East Indies, the sinking of the Langley and his transfer to the USS Pecos, the sinking of the Pecos and his rescue … more

Date: October 11, 1996

Creator: Alexander, William J. & Ditto, Lanson B.

Partner: UNT Oral History Program

Oral History Interview with John J. Clemens, May 13, 2003

Interview with John J. Clemens. The interview includes Clemens' personal experiences about childhood and early adulthood in Houston, Texas, World War II-era service in the U.S. Navy, serving aboard USS Wren in the Pacific Theater, and piloting a ship into Tokyo Bay immediately following the Japanese surrender. Clemens speaks about convoy missions across the Atlantic Ocean, the January 4, 1944 sinking of the USS Turner while moored in New York Harbor and the court of inquiry regarding the sinkin… more

Date: May 13, 2003

Creator: Alexander, William J. & Clemens, John J., 1921-

Partner: UNT Oral History Program

Oral History Interview with Herb Elfering, December 6, 2001

Interview with electrical engineer and Army veteran Herb Elfering, The interview includes Elfering's personal experiences with a searchlight/radar battery, 251st Coast Artillery Regiment, at camp Malekole during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. Elfering also gives brief descriptions of his later experiences at Bougainville and Luzon.

Date: December 6, 2001

Creator: Alexander, William J. & Elfering, Herb

Partner: UNT Oral History Program

Oral History Interview with Harlan W. Crouse, July 2, 2004

Interview with Army veteran Harlan W. Crouse, including personal experiences about combat in the Philippines during World War II, the Japanese surrender in Yokohama Harbor, and being present during the post-war U.S. occupation of Japan.

Date: July 2, 2004

Creator: Alexander, William J. & Crouse, Harlan W., 1926-

Partner: UNT Oral History Program

Oral History Interview with Jean Balch, October 12, 1996

Interview with Navy veteran Jean Balch, including Balch's personal experiences about the Pacific theater, being a prisoner-of-war of the Japanese during World War II, boot camp, radio, radar, and gunnery school, operations during the Leyte invasion, missions over Luzon, and raids on Japanese installations on Formosa and Saigon, French Indo-China. Additionally, Balch talks about his plane being shot down on a raid to Hong Kong and his capture on January 16, 1945, interrogations and beatings by t… more

Date: October 12, 1996

Creator: Alexander, William J. & Balch, Jean

Partner: UNT Oral History Program

Oral History Interview with George and Wanda Holcombe, January 2, 2017

Interview with George Holcombe, a Methodist pastor and civil rights activist from Houston, Texas, and his wife and associate Wanda, from Sims, Texas. The Holcombes discuss their family origins, initial exposure to racial problems and civil rights, their respective educations, pastoral work in Baton Rouge and Chicago, the Ku Klux Klan and dangers encountered, work with the Ecumenical Institute of Chicago and empowering black communities, the 1968 Chicago riots, Fifth City, and similar work in Au… more

Date: January 2, 2017

Creator: Czap, Joseph; Holcombe, George & Holcombe, Wanda

Partner: UNT Oral History Program

Oral History Interview with Frank H. Bigelow, June 13, 2002

Interview with Navy veteran Frank H. Bigelow, survivor of the siege of Corregidor. The interview includes Bigelow's personal experiences about being a prisoner-of-war of the Japanese during World War II, boyhood in North Dakota, various jobs during the Great Depression, and enlisting in the Navy. Additionally, Bigelow speaks about volunteering for duty in the Philippines and his assignment to the submarine tender USS Canopus, pre-war military life in the Philippines, the Japanese bombing of Cav… more

Date: June 13, 2002

Creator: Alexander, William J. & Bigelow, Frank H., 1921-

Partner: UNT Oral History Program

Oral History Interview with John B. Brush, February 3, 1998

Interview with John Brush, a businessman and WWII POW from White Plains, New York. Brush discusses his family history, school, work for Procter & Gamble Company, marriage, moving to Manila in 1941, the lead up to war, the Japanese invasion of the Philippines, internment by the Japanese army at Santo Tomas Prison Camp, survival with his family, censorship and propaganda, shanties and villages, fake identities to help US servicemen survive, move to Los Baños camp, liberation, and return to the US. more

Date: February 3, 1998

Creator: Alexander, William J. & Brush, John B.

Partner: UNT Oral History Program

Oral History Interview with William L. Archer, June 10, 1986

Interview with William L. Archer, an employee of Caltex Petroleum Corporation from Prosperity, Pennsylvania. Archer discusses his education and hiring by Texaco, assignment to the Philippines in 1938, work as a lube engineer, mining operations in the Philippines, distribution, relations between the Philippine and New York offices, marketing strategies, company policies, World War Two and hiding on Negros Island, liberation and the reestablishment of company operations, the post-war market, reor… more

Date: June 10, 1986

Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Archer, William L.

Partner: UNT Oral History Program

Oral History Interview with Thomas P. Emery, February 21, 1995

Interview with Thomas P. Emery, a US Army WWII veteran from Solana Beach, California, who served as a pathfinder in the 6th Army Special Special Recon Unit. Emery discusses joining the Army and airborne training, assignment to G-2, scout and pathfinder training, attending OCS, deployment to New Guinea, formation of the Alamo Scouts, learning to live and fight in the jungle, his first mission, raids and harassing Japanese troops, traveling aboard the USS Missouri, and fighting in the Philippines. more

Date: February 21, 1995

Creator: Alexander, Wm. J. & Emery, Thomas P.

Partner: UNT Oral History Program

Oral History Interview with Howard Charles, March 25, 1998

Interview with Howard Charles, a Marine WWII veteran and POW from Partridge, Kansas. Charles discusses growing up in the Great Depression; joining the Marine Corps and training; assignment to the USS Houston (CA-30) at Manila as a heavy machine gunner and events before the war; the Battle of Sunda Strait and sinking of the Houston; capture by the Japanese and being held at Serang, Java; experiences in internment and forced labor at Bicycle Camp in Batavia, Changi Camp in Singapore, various camp… more

Date: March 25, 1998

Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Charles, Howard R.

Partner: UNT Oral History Program

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