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Oral History Interview with Bill Leonard, May 28, 2002

Description: Interview with William "Bill" Agnew Leonard I, textile businessman and Marine Corps veteran (Bombing Squadron VMB-433), concerning his experiences as a PBJ (B-25) pilot in the Southwest Pacific Theater during World War II. Prewar experience at Clemson University in ROTC at Citizen's Military Training, Fort Bragg, North Carolina; Civilian Pilot Training Program, 1940-41; decision to enter the Navy V-5 Program, December, 1941; pre-flight training, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, 1941-42; … more
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Date: May 28, 2002
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Leonard, Bill
Partner: UNT Oral History Program
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Oral History Interview with Glenn M. Stinchcomb, November 17, 1999

Description: Interview with Glenn M. Stinchcomb, an engineer and Navy veteran (VP-27), concerning his experiences as a PB4Y-2 co-pilot during World War II and the early years of the Cold War. Decision to enlist in the Navy on May 9, 1945; acceptance in the V-5 Program for naval aviators, Southwestern University, Georgetown, Texas, 1945-46; pre-flight training, Naval Air Station, Ottumwa, Iowa, 1946; his decision to participate in the Holloway Program as a midshipman, 1946; primary flight training, Naval Air… more
Date: November 17, 1999
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Stinchcomb, Glenn M.
Partner: UNT Oral History Program

Oral History Interview with Malcolm Leland, May 28, 2002

Description: Interview with Malcolm Leland, artist, sculptor, potter, and Marine Corps veteran (Bombing Squadron VMB-433), concerning his experiences as a PBJ (B-25) co-pilot in the Southwest Pacific Theater during World War II. His pre-war art career; enlistment in the Navy Aviation Cadet Program, 1942; pre-flight training, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, 1942; primary flight training, Grosse Isle, Michigan, 1942; basic and advanced flight training, Pensacola, Florida, 1943; training in multi-engine aircraft … more
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Date: May 28, 2002
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Leland, Malcolm
Partner: UNT Oral History Program
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[News Script: Kidnaping]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about FBI who predicts that the family of the newspaper heiress will hear from her abductors.
Date: February 12, 1974, 6:30 a.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Coast Guard]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story of Former Chief of Staff, who spoke in Arlington at the 19-74 District Conference of the Coast Guard Auxiliary.
Date: January 26, 1974, 10:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Four Fatal]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story of 4 people who were killed in Greenville when the car in which they were riding was struck broadside by a tractor-trailer truck loaded with sheet metal.
Date: August 22, 1973, 10:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Greenville Fatal]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story of a tractor-trailer truck which is loaded with sheet metal, slammed broadside into a car at a busy intersection in Greenville is now leaving 4 person dead.
Date: August 22, 1973, 6:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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Oral History Interview with Admiral J. Lloyd Abbot, Jr., March 14, 1998

Description: Transcript of an interview with Admiral J. Lloyd Abbot, Jr., a Navy veteran, comments about his service in the Pacific Theater during World War II. Abbot discusses the U. S. Naval Academy, 1935-39; assignment to USS Enterprise, 1939; assignment to USS Gilmer, 1939-41; flight training at Pensacola, 1941; assignment to Advanced Carrier Training Group (Pacific), 1941-42; assignment to VF-6 (Fighting 6) aboard the USS Enterprise, 1942; assignment to VS-1D-14 in the South Pacific, 1942-43; commandin… more
Date: March 14, 1998
Creator: Alexander, William J. & Abbot, J. Lloyd, Jr.
Partner: UNT Oral History Program
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Oral History Interview with General Robert E. Galer, March 14, 1998

Description: Transcript of an interview with General Robert E. Galer, a Marine Corps veteran (VMF-224) and recipient of the Medal of Honor, concerning his experiences in the Pacific Theater during World War II. Galer discusses his pre-war training at Pensacola and Quantico; assignment to Saint Thomas and reminiscences about the "destroyers-for bases" deal, 1940; experiences at Ewa during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941; assignment to Guadalcanal as commander of VMF-224, August 30, 19… more
Date: March 14, 1998
Creator: Alexander, William J. & Galer, Robert E., 1913-2005
Partner: UNT Oral History Program
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[News Script: News summaries]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story summaries. The Saigon government proposed a ten-point plant to the Viet Cong. Doubts remained the recognition of the Cambodian government. And, former attorney general John Mitchell was expected to answer a subpoena in connection with the trial of a group of anti-war protestors.
Date: April 25, 1973, 6:30 a.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Florida arrests]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about two men being arrested in Pensacola, Florida for armed robbery.
Date: April 9, 1973
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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Northwestern Florida Ecological Characterization: An Ecological Atlas. Map Narratives

Description: A report regarding the Northwestern Florida Ecological Characterization study, the purpose of which is to compile existing information about the biological, social, and physical sciences for the gulf coastal counties of Florida from Escambia County to Hernando County.
Date: September 1984
Creator: Palik, Thomas F. & Kunneke, J. Thomas
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Oral History Interview with Dave C. Sanford, February 25, 1999

Description: Interview with Dave C. Sanford, a Army WWII veteran from Carter, South Dakota, who served as a mortarman in the 37th Infantry Division. Sanford discusses growing up, his experiences in the Great Depression, being drafted and training, the New Georgia, Guadalcanal, Bougainville, and Philippine campaigns, being wounded and discharged, and life afterwards.
Date: February 25, 1999
Creator: Alexander, William J. & Sanford, Dave C.
Partner: UNT Oral History Program
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Oral History Interview with Marion E. Carl, May 3, 1993

Description: Interview with Maj. Gen. Marion E. Carl, a Marine Corps WWII fighter ace and test pilot from Hubbard, Oregon. Carl discusses his education, joining the Marines, flight training, deployment aboard the USS Saratoga at the start of the war, first air-to-air combat, service at Midway and Guadalcanal, return to the States as a squadron commander, flying a promotional circuit and getting married, return to the South Pacific, Rabaul, end of combat flying and work as a test pilot at Patuxent River NAS,… more
Date: May 3, 1993
Creator: Daniels, John D. (John David), 1946- & Carl, Marion E.
Partner: UNT Oral History Program
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[News Script: 6 PM sports]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about college doubleheaders delayed due to rain, NBA playoff action, George Sauer announces retirement from the Jets, an update on Monsanto Open Golf tournament, and a sit down with new Spurs outfielder Leon Brown.
Date: April 16, 1971, 6:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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Disaster Preparedness in Escambia County Florida: The Influence of Oral Narratives

Description: This work addresses hurricane preparedness in Escambia County, Florida. It explores preparing for hurricanes as an informal learning process occurring within personal networks and embedded in beliefs, values, and attitudes. Findings reveal that participants learned to prepare from their parents in childhood and improved upon that knowledge through direct experience in adulthood. Later, they passed this knowledge on to their children as well as co-workers. These preparations are embedded in beli… more
Date: December 2018
Creator: Vanlandingham, Keith Marcel
Partner: UNT Libraries
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[News Script: Unlisted telephone numbers]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about a man in Pensacola, Florida asking the telephone company for a new unlisted number but never receiving it.
Date: August 30, 1970, 10:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Camille]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story.
Date: August 17, 1969, 10:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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