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[News Script: F-111]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about showing off planes to Australia.
Date: March 2, 1971, 10:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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Oral History Interview with Cleatus A. LeBow, May 2, 2006

Description: Interview with Cleatus A. LeBow, a serviceman in the U. S. Navy during World War II. LeBow joined the navy in 1943 and went from Lubbock, Texas to San Diego for recruit training. He shipped out to Pearl Harbor aboard an LST from San Francisco. At Pearl Harbor, he was assigned to a work detail aboard the USS Oklahoma, which had just been righted. Shortly thereafter, he boarded the USS Indianapolis to serve as a range finder operator on one of the gun turrets. Upon leaving Hawaii, the Indianapoli… more
Date: May 2, 2006
Duration: 1 hour 40 minutes 39 seconds
Creator: Misenhimer, Richard & Lebow, Cleatus A.
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
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Oral History Interview with Albert Brown, March 2, 2010

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Albert Brown. Brown joined the Navy and served as a Radarman with amphibious forces at Guadalcanal for one year. In 1942, Brown worked aboard submarines as a specialist in surface attacks using radar. Admiral Chester Nimitz appointed him the officer in charge to create the Pacific Fleet Radar School for Senior Officers, and to instruct them in radar techniques. Brown completed this work through late 1945. He continued his service… more
Date: March 2, 2010
Duration: 1 hour 48 minutes 31 seconds
Creator: Brown, Albert
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation

Oral History Interview with Albert Brown, March 2, 2010

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Albert Brown. Brown joined the Navy and served as a Radarman with amphibious forces at Guadalcanal for one year. In 1942, Brown worked aboard submarines as a specialist in surface attacks using radar. Admiral Chester Nimitz appointed him the officer in charge to create the Pacific Fleet Radar School for Senior Officers, and to instruct them in radar techniques. Brown completed this work through late 1945. He continued his service… more
Date: March 2, 2010
Creator: Brown, Albert
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation

Oral History Interview with Thomas A. Whitehead, February 2, 1977

Description: Interview with Thomas Whitehead, a Texas National Guard WWII veteran and POW from Wichita Falls, Texas. Whitehead discusses his experiences as a member of 2nd Battalion, 131st Field Artillery, the "Lost Battalion" captured on Java in March 1942, including: joining the National Guard; participation in the Louisiana Maneuvers; departure for the Philippines and diversion to Brisbane; assignment to Sangosari Airfield near Malang; the surrender of American forces; internment at Tanjong Priok and Bic… more
Date: February 2, 1977
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Whitehead, Thomas A.
Partner: UNT Oral History Program

[Letter from Cornelia Yerkes, October 2, 1945]

Description: Letter from Cornelia Yerkes discussing her friends Phyl and Buzz leaving Guam for Saipan, two Red Cross girls getting into a road accident in a Jeep, delivering food, washing clothes, and being invited to an indigenous person's wedding.
Date: October 2, 1945
Creator: Kafka, Cornelia V. Yerkes
Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

[Marine Puppies]

Description: Photograph of Pvt. William A. Zeckman (left) and Cpl. Harry M. Wells (right) holding five puppies that were adopted by the Marines as mascots. Zeckman is shirtless with long pants and is holding three puppies. Wells is also shirtless with long pants and is holding two puppies.
Date: August 2, 1944
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation

[Sailor on the U.S.S. Langley]

Description: Photograph of a shirtless sailor with his back to the camera crouched down on the flight deck of the U.S.S. Langley (CVL-27), anchored in Majuro Atoll, Marshall Islands. A 40 mm gun is attached to the ship on the left side. The U.S.S. Saratoga (CV-3), U.S.S. Yorktown (CV-10), and U.S.S. Enterprise (CV-6) can be seen on the horizon.
Date: March 2, 1944
Creator: Smith, Loran F.
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation

[American Rice Thrasher in Guam]

Description: Photograph of a group of Marines inspecting an American rice thrasher found in the outskirts of Agat Town, Guam. The marines stand partially in uniform. Three of the marines are facing towards the rice thrasher while the rest look directly towards the camera.
Date: August 2, 1944
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
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