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[Lytton Springs quilting club, 1 of 2]

Description: Audio recording of the Lytton Springs quilting club. Recorded by Dee Azadian.
Date: October 5, 1976
Duration: 1 hour 34 minutes 23 seconds
Creator: Azadian, Dee
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Lytton Springs quilting club, 2 of 2]

Description: Audio recording of the Lytton Springs quilting club. Recorded by Dee Azadian.
Date: October 5, 1976
Duration: 46 minutes 33 seconds
Creator: Azadian, Dee
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[Oral history, interview with Lizzie Kirksey, 1 of 2]

Description: Audio recording of oral history with Lizzie Kirksey. Interview conducted by Sherry Scarborough.
Date: February 5, 1977
Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes 25 seconds
Creator: Azadian, Dee
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[Oral history, Lula V. Byars interview, 3 of 3]

Description: Audio recording of oral history with Lula V. Byars. Interview conducted by Judith Eakin.
Date: March 5, 1977
Duration: 1 hour 29 minutes 56 seconds
Creator: Azadian, Dee
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[Oral history, interview with Irene Harbert]

Description: Audio recording of oral history with Irene Harbert. Interview conducted by Sherry Scarborough.
Date: April 5, 1977
Duration: 1 hour 31 minutes 18 seconds
Creator: Azadian, Dee
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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Oral History Interview with Barney Webber, May 5, 1986

Description: Interview with Barney Webber, a resident of Baytown, Texas since 1920. Webber answers general questions and describes life in early Baytown including crime, schooling, transportation and social life.
Date: May 5, 1986
Duration: 1 hour 48 seconds
Creator: Mayo, Martha & Webber, Barney
Partner: Lee College
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Oral History Interview with John Brush, January 5, 1993

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with John Brush. Brush was assigned to serve as the Chief Engineer of the Philippine Manufacturing Company in Manila, before World War II. He and his wife traveled to Manila in May of 1941 and operated the factory until the end of December. He and his wife were taken prisoner into Santo Tomas Internment Camp in January of 1942. Brush shares details of the accommodations, building structure, atmosphere, food rations, starvation, illnes… more
Date: January 5, 1993
Duration: 1 hour 10 minutes 28 seconds
Creator: Brush, John
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
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Oral History Interview with Ray Amstutz, April 5, 1997

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Ray Amstutz. Amstutz joined the Army Reserve (Student Training Corps) while in college at the University of Tulsa. On May 8, 1943 he was inducted and went to Fort Sill, Oklahoma for processing and then to Camp Maxie, Paris, Texas for three months basic training. The Army sent him back to school at the University of Oklahoma where he finished one semester. From there, he went to Camp Claiborne in Louisiana where they were tra… more
Date: April 5, 1997
Duration: 1 hour 13 minutes 20 seconds
Creator: Amstutz, Ray
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
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Oral History Interview with Ann Liedtke, December 5, 2000

Description: Transcript of an oral interview with Ann Liedtke. Ms Liedtke was a young, single woman in Britain during the war and relates her experiences there including meeting her husband and becoming a war bride. She was in Oxford, England working for a bank as an Addressograph operator and joined the American Red Cross there when they first asked for volunteers. The Clarendon Hotel was taken over and used by the Red Cross, opening on July 7, 1943. The Red Cross had dances on Wednesday, Saturday and Sund… more
Date: December 5, 2000
Duration: 38 minutes 14 seconds
Creator: Liedtke, Ann
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
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Oral History Interview with James Spears, April 5, 2001

Description: Interview with James Spears, an ammunition worker on the home front during WWII. He describes the war as he saw it from the home front.
Date: April 5, 2001
Duration: 1 hour 6 minutes
Creator: Brosh, Kate & Spears, James
Partner: Lee College
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Oral History Interview with Marion Wall Lowrey, May 5, 2001

Description: Interview with Marion Wall Lowrey talking about her career, especially her role at the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center. She talks about her relationship with Dr. R. Lee Clark and his wife Dr. Bert Davis Clark. She also talks about the time when the institution was housed at the Baker Estate and segregation in the early years of the institution.
Date: May 5, 2001
Duration: 1 hour 3 minutes 02 seconds
Creator: Lowrey, Marion Wall & Brunet, Lesley Williams
Partner: University of Texas MD Anderson Center
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Oral History Interview with Robert Korner, July 5, 2001

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Robert Korner. Korner was born in Star City, Indiana 31 December 1921 and graduated from high school in 1940. After working at various jobs, he was employed by a company that manufactured the Norden bombsight. As a machinist his work was classified as essential to war production, thus exempting him from military service. He felt it was his duty to serve his country however, and joined the US Navy in 1944. After completing bo… more
Date: July 5, 2001
Duration: 22 minutes 39 seconds
Creator: Korner, Robert
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
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Oral History Interview with Raymond Maxwell, August 5, 2001

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Raymond Maxwell. Maxwell was born 19 May 1926 in Monon, Indiana. In 1942 he attended the government sponsored National Youth Organization School training in mechanics. In 1944 he was drafted into the Army. After completing training at Camp Fannin, Texas he was sent to Fort Ord, California. He went to Hawaii where he received jungle training and practiced landings. Maxwell received additional jungle training at Saipan. He was… more
Date: August 5, 2001
Duration: 2 hours 7 minutes 47 seconds
Creator: Maxwell, Raymond
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
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Oral History Interview with Joe Tacker, October 5, 2001

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Joe Tacker. Tacker was born in Cornith, Mississippi on 6 November 1924. Enlisting in the US Navy in January 1943 he underwent boot camp at San Diego, California. He then attended quartermaster school. In August 1943 he was assigned to the USS Buchanan (DD-484). He recalls cruising off the coast of Bougainville when the ship was subjected to shelling by Japanese shore batteries resulting in casualties. He tells of going aboar… more
Date: October 5, 2001
Duration: 1 hour 4 minutes 53 seconds
Creator: Tacker, Joe
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
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Oral History Interview with Donald Shown, November 5, 2001

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Donald Shown. Shown was born 23 November 1920 on a ranch in Oregon. He joined the Navy in 1939 and went to boot camp in San Diego. Upon completion, he was assigned to the USS Indianapolis (CA-35) as a deck hand and during battle stations he was a gun pointer. After delivering troops to Melbourne, Australia, the Indianapolis was ordered to the Bering Sea to patrol the Aleutian Islands. Heavy seas damaged the ship making repai… more
Date: November 5, 2001
Duration: 1 hour 28 minutes 01 second
Creator: Shown, Donald
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
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Oral History Interview with John W. Finn, December 5, 2001

Description: Transcript of an oral interview with John W. Finn. Finn grew up in California and joined the Navy in 1926. He went through training. By 1941, he has been made Chief Petty Officer and is in the BP-14 squadron. This squadron arrived in Kaneohe Bay on the USS Enterprise in May 1941. Finn has become the Chief Ordnance and Bombsight man. He describes the Japanese bombing Kaneohe Bay just before Pearl Harbor. He took a gun outside and is exposed to Japanese strafing while he fires at the airplanes. H… more
Date: December 5, 2001
Duration: 1 hour 31 minutes 48 seconds
Creator: Finn, John W.
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
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Oral History Interview with Robert Chaffin, December 5, 2001

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Robert Chaffin. Chaffin was born on 30 March 1922 in Spring Valley, Texas. After graduating from high school in 1940 he worked for the National Youth Administration as an aircraft mechanic trainee. He joined the US Navy and had two weeks of boot camp at Corpus Christi Naval Air Station (NAS), Texas. Upon completing boot training he was sent to the Beeville NAS, Texas. In 1943 he was assigned to United States. Navy. Carrier A… more
Date: December 5, 2001
Duration: 1 hour 19 minutes 56 seconds
Creator: Chaffin, Robert
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
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Oral History Interview with J. C. Kerr, April 5, 2002

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with J.C. Kerr. Kerr was born in Dillard, Oklahoma in 1921. Joining the Navy in 1939, Kerr was assigned to the USS Tennessee (BB-43) after attending boot camp in San Diego, California. He began on the job motor machinist training in the engine room while aboard. In 1941 he was transferred to the USS Washington (BB-56) as she began convoy duty in the Atlantic. In September 1942 the ship went to New Caledonia. Kerr tells of the shi… more
Date: April 5, 2002
Duration: 2 hours 20 minutes 02 seconds
Creator: Kerr, J. C.
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
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Oral History Interview with Vic Niemeyer, April 5, 2002

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Vic Niemeyer. Niemeyer was born in Houston, Texas on 28 September 1919. Graduating from the University of Texas in June 1941, he entered the Naval Reserve Officers Training School at Northwestern University in Chicago in September. Receiving a commission upon graduation in January 1942 he went to New London, Connecticut and reported aboard the USS R-18 (SS-95), a World War I submarine. Niemeyer recalls going to sea two days … more
Date: April 5, 2002
Duration: 50 minutes 50 seconds
Creator: Niemeyer, Vic
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
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Oral History Interview with Thomas Knouff, June 5, 2002

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Thomas Knouff. Knouff joined the Coast Guard in February of 1942. He served aboard a patrol boat in charge of depth charges. They patrolled the shipping lanes between the US and Cuba. He later served as a Leading Seaman aboard a yard oiler, and participated in the Battle of Leyte in October of 1944. They traveled to Luzon, Mindoro and Manila in the Philippines and remained in that area through early 1946. Knouff was discharged in… more
Date: June 5, 2002
Duration: 52 minutes 15 seconds
Creator: Knouff, Thomas
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
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Oral History Interview with Lewis R. Guthrie, July 5, 2002

Description: Interview with Sergeant Major Lewis R. Guthrie, a United States Marine veteran of the Vietnam War, Desert Storm, and actions in Somalia. Guthrie answers questions and expands on his many experiences during the wars he fought in, where he trained, the supplies and rations they were given, and the combat that he saw.
Date: July 5, 2002
Duration: 1 hour 19 minutes 33 seconds
Creator: Miller, Fawn & Guthrie, Lewis R.
Partner: Lee College
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Oral History Interview with Joe Drastata, August 5, 2002

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Joe Drastata. Drastata was born in El Campo, Texas on 1 August 1924 and entered the Army Air Forces in March 1943. After receiving initial training at Jefferson Barracks, Missouri he was sent to Fort Bragg, North Carolina where he was assigned to the 65th Troop Carrier Squadron, 403rd Troop Carrier Group. During July 1943 the unit went on board the USAT Maui bound for Australia. Drastata tells of the 28 day trip and describe… more
Date: August 5, 2002
Duration: 53 minutes 39 seconds
Creator: Drastata, Joe
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
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Oral History Interview with Kenneth Gardner, September 5, 2002

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Kenneth Gardner. Gardner joined the Navy in March of 1943. He served as Storekeeper First-Class. In December he deployed to New Hebrides (now Vanuatu), where all supply work was being conducted. Gardner worked in an oil and grease warehouse for the duration of the war. He shares details of his living and working conditions on the island. He was discharged in April of 1946.
Date: September 5, 2002
Duration: 1 hour 22 minutes 55 seconds
Creator: Gardner, Kenneth
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
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Oral History Interview with Everett Reamer, November 5, 2002

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Everett Reamer. Reamer was born in Elizabethtown, Ohio 20 January 1915. On 1 February 1941, he joined the Army. He arrived at Manila on 21 April 1941 aboard the USS Republic (AP-33). He went to Corregidor where he was assigned to the 60th Coast Artillery and began six weeks of basic training. While the attacks on Cavite Naval Base could be seen from Corregidor, Reamer was not involved in any action until 29 December 1941, at… more
Date: November 5, 2002
Duration: 2 hours 52 minutes 14 seconds
Creator: Reamer, Everett
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
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