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Oral History Interview with David and Virginia Ciruli, April 18, 1987

Description: Interview with David and Virginia Ciruli, farmers and ranchers from Pueblo, Colorado, to gather their recollections and experiences as second generation Italians. They discuss their education, the immigration experience of their parents, the establishment of their own farming and ranching business, and their children.
Date: April 18, 1987
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E.; Ciruli, David & Ciruli, Virginia
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Partner: UNT Oral History Program

Oral History Interview with William Tucker, September 25, 1985

Description: Interview with William Tucker, a business executive from Boston, regarding his experiences working for Caltex Petroleum Corporation, their refinery construction and expansion during World War II and after the war, the oil industry, and Caltex in India, Australia, Germany, Japan, Korea, and South Africa.
Date: September 25, 1985
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Tucker, William
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Oral History Interview with George Hargens, December 14, 1985

Description: Interview with George Hargens, a former Caltex executive from San Francisco, California, to discuss his experiences working for Standard Oil during the Great Depression, his transfer to Caltex and establishment of the German market, work as a director of several oil companies, and leaving Caltex.
Date: September 14, 1985
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Hargens, George
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Oral History Interview with Darwin McMillan, September 16, 1985

Description: Interview with Darwin "Mac" McMillan, a long-term employee of Caltex from California, discussing his background, employment with Texaco and Standard Oil, the history of Caltex and his work as an executive there, his various assignment experiences in China the Philippines, Germany, India, and South Africa, and the oil market.
Date: September 16, 1985
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E.
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Oral History Interview with Herbert M. Fish, July 31, 1985

Description: Interview with Herbert M. Fish, an executive at Caltex Petroleum Corporation from Boston, Massachusetts. Fish discusses his time working at Shell Oil during the Depression, experience in the U.S. Army, his duties at Caltex, marketing with Chinese agents and visiting China, dealing with Japanese executives, and Caltex European operations.
Date: August 31, 1985
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Fish, Herbert M.
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Oral History Interview with Marvin B. Edwards, March 6, 1971

Description: Interview with Marvin B. Edwards, chemist and Army Air Corps veteran (95th Bombardment Group, 8th Air Force), concerning his experiences as a prisoner-of-war of the Germans after being shot down over Nazi-occupied Europe during World War II. Edwards discusses his rescue by the Belgian underground, his capture and interrogation (1944), solitary confinement, Stalag Luft 3, Sagan, Germany, Nürnberg (Stalag 13-D) and Moosburg (Stalag 7-A) (1945), and his liberation by American troops. Appendix incl… more
Date: March 6, 1971
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Edwards, Marvin B., 1923-
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Partner: UNT Oral History Program

Oral History Interview with Jefferson D. Roberts, March 14, 1973

Description: Interview with Jefferson D. Roberts, a businessman and an Army Air Corps veteran (339th Bomb Squadron, 96th Bombardment Group, 8th Air Force), concerning his experiences as a prisoner-of-war of the Germans after being shot down over Nazi Germany during World War II. Roberts discusses the shooting down of his bomber (1944), his capture and interogation near Frankfurt, Heidekruge, East Prussia (1944), a prison camp near Berlin (1944), the forced march from Nürnberg to Moosberg (1945), prison camp… more
Date: March 14, 1973
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Roberts, Jefferson D.
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Partner: UNT Oral History Program

Oral History Interview with Carlton J. Killgo, March 23, 1972

Description: Interview with Carlton J. Killgo, a Army Air Corps WWII veteran and POW from Slocum, Texas, who was shot down and captured by German forces. Killgo discusses enlisting in the Air Corps before the war, training and becoming a B-17 crewmember, deployment to England, his missions, getting shot down, capture by German civilians, transfer to Stalag Luft #4, experiences in internment there, liberation by the Soviet Army, and return to the United States.
Date: March 23, 1972
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Killgo, Carlton J.
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Partner: UNT Oral History Program

Oral History Interview with Arthur Dodge Jr., January 8, 1971

Description: Interview with Arthur B. Dodge, Jr., a US Army WWII veteran from Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Dodge recounts his service in M Company, 350th Infantry Regiment, 88th Infantry Division, which landed in Morocco and moved through Algeria in late-1943, before landing in Italy, where his unit took up position on the Cassino-Rapido-Garigliano front in March, 1944. Dodge describes prolonged skirmishing with German forces near Tremesuoli, Lazio, the breakout from Cassino, advancing into northern Italy, and … more
Date: January 8, 1971
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Dodge Jr., Arthur B.
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Partner: UNT Oral History Program

Oral History Interview with Eugene R. Cronin, February 1, 1972

Description: Interview with Eugene Cronin, a US Army Air Corps WWII veteran and POW from Kansas City, Missouri. Cronin discusses his time as a B-24 crewmember stationed at Cerignola, Italy, the kinds of missions flown, his being shot down over Hungary and captured by the German Army, and his experiences in captivity at Vienna, Frankfurt, and Stalag Luft #1 near Barth in Western Pommerania.
Date: February 1, 1972
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Cronin, Eugene R.
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Partner: UNT Oral History Program

Oral History Interview with Harry A. Thompson, April 18, 1973

Description: Interview with Harry Thompson, an Army WWII veteran and POW from Dallas, Texas. Thompson discusses being drafted before the war and training for field artillery at Fort Sill, his assignment to the 99th Infantry Division, training in England, the Siegfried Line, the Battle of the Bulge and his capture at Büllingen, Belgium, being interrogated and transported into Germany, and his experiences in internment at Limburg.
Date: April 18, 1973
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Thompson, Harry A.
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Partner: UNT Oral History Program

Oral History Interview with Bertha Rosenzweig, November 15, 1979

Description: Interview with Bertha Rosenzweig, co-founder of Tex-Glass, Inc. in Decatur, Texas. The interview includes Rosenzweig's personal experiences about her education in New York, and having a teaching career. Rosenzweig talks about her family background, her knowledge of her husband's family background and his life in Europe during the Hitler era, his technical training, work in glass factories, starting his own glass factory in Vienna, fleeing Nazis and migrating to Greece, the Jewish underground in… more
Date: November 15, 1979
Creator: Jenkins, Floyd & Rosenzweig, Bertha
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Partner: UNT Oral History Program
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