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Oral History Interview with Jerell E. Crow, August 24, 2002

Description: Interview with Jerell E. Crow. He entered the Coast Guard in 1940 and trained in Florida and New York City. He served aboard a Landing Ship, Tank (LST) when those ships were first introduced. He traveled to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania to the Neville Island Shipyard operated by the Dravo Corporation as part of a crew that brought an LST down the Mississippi River to New Orleans. From there, the crew practiced operations at Biloxi, Mississippi. Eventually, Crow travelled to San Diego aboard the LST … more
Date: August 24, 2002
Duration: 51 minutes 18 seconds
Creator: Rabalais, Larry & Crow, Jerell E.
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
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Oral History Interview with Ed Carseth, August 6, 2003

Description: Interview with Ed Carseth, a pilot during World War II. He discusses an early interest in aviation and earned his pilot's license through the Civilian Pilot Training program. He spent a year as an instructor before joining the Air Transport Command. Through 1944 he delivered aircraft to Australia before being assigned to Myitkyina, Burma. He speaks of living conditions at Myitkyina. He flew materials over the Himalaya Mountains (the Hump) from Burma to Kunming, China. Carseth relates anectdotes… more
Date: August 6, 2003
Duration: 1 hour 10 minutes 30 seconds
Creator: Metzler, Ed & Carseth, Ed
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
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[News Clip: Guam-Quake]

Description: B-roll video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.
Date: August 8, 1993, 5:30 p.m.
Duration: 57 seconds
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Sweepstakes]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story of Colgate-Dinah Shore Winners Circle Golf Sweepstakes which was one of those contests you could have entered if you had been so inclined.
Date: August 22, 1973, 6:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Sweepstakes]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story saying that like each year National concerns tempt contest-minded Americans with offers of small fortunes in Grand Prize money in return for the mere mailing of an entry form.
Date: August 22, 1973, 10:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Women]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story.
Date: August 12, 1972, 6:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Letter from Cornelia Yerkes, August 7, 1945]

Description: Letter from Cornelia Yerkes discussing remaining with the Red Cross on Guam, stories from an indigenous woman about the Japanese occupation, going to a dance, talking with aviators, life on Guam, photos, and Red Cross staffing.
Date: August 7, 1945
Creator: Kafka, Cornelia V. Yerkes
Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

[Letter from Cornelia Yerkes, August 27, 1945]

Description: Letter from Cornelia Yerkes discussing the recipient's letters, the weather, her assignment by the Red Cross to work with the 314th Bomb Wing on Guam, transfers, boots, and her friend Billy Ball. Typed on Sheraton Hotel stationary.
Date: August 27, 1945
Creator: Kafka, Cornelia V. Yerkes
Partner: National WASP WWII Museum
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