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Oral History Interview with William Belt, December 5, 2005

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with William Belt. Belt joined the Navy after earning a master's degree and went to midshipman' school. He earned a commission and reported aboard USS Tuscaloosa (CA-37)in May 1943. Belt was aboard when the Tuscaloosa participated in the invasion of France and was at Iwo Jima. He also recalls being off Okinawa. Belt went aboard HMS Duke of York and met Admiral Sir Bruce Fraser one day. He also attended the Japanese Language Schoo… more
Date: December 5, 2005
Duration: 1 hour 26 minutes 38 seconds
Creator: Belt, William T.
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
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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 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 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 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 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 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 Johnnie Singleton, January 5, 2005

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Johnnie Singleton. Singleton entered the Navy at 16 in June 1941 and trained at Corpus Christi. Singleton is African American and served as a mess attendant in a segregated Navy. He went aboard the USS Maryland (BB-46) at Pearl Harbor in September 1941. On December 7, 1941, Singleton was in the officers' galley when the Japanese struck. He went to his battle station in an ammunition handling room below deck. Next, Singleton … more
Date: January 5, 2005
Duration: 1 hour 15 minutes 54 seconds
Creator: Singleton, Johnnie
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 Jack Bailey, July 5, 2007

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Jack Bailey. Bailey joined the Texas National Guard when he was 14 years old, lying about his age. In November 1939, his unit was mobilized and he left for the Philippines with the 36th Division. Bailey shipped overseas and his group was diverted to Australia after the attack on Pearl Harbor. They boarded a Dutch troop ship and headed for Java. On Java, outnumbered and out of ammunition, his unit surrendered to the Japanese … more
Date: July 5, 2007
Duration: 1 hour 1 minute 06 seconds
Creator: Bailey, Jack
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
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Oral History Interview with Rudolph Fanska, July 5, 2007

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Rudolph Fanska. Fanska was drafted into the Marine Corps in 1943. He mentions his first landing at Cape Gloucester. Fanska then took part in the landing at Peleliu and describes how he was wounded and the treatment he received on a hospital ship. He also served at Okinawa and earned a Silver Star. Fanska was wounded in the leg and describes lengthy recovery. He was discharged in 1946.
Date: July 5, 2007
Duration: 26 minutes 39 seconds
Creator: Fanska, Rudolph
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
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Oral History Interview with Ben McDonald, May 5, 2005

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Ben McDonald. McDonald entered the University of Texas Navy ROTC program in July, 1943 and graduated and was commissioned in January, 1945. He then joined USS Wichita (CA-45) as a gunnery officer in time for the Okinawa invasion. McDonald discusses kamikazes, suicide swimmers, and going ashore on Okinawa to serve as a fire control forward observer for his ship. When the war ended, the Wichita proceeded to Nagasaki Bay. McDon… more
Date: May 5, 2005
Duration: 1 hour 54 minutes 28 seconds
Creator: McDonald, Ben F.
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
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[Wesley Phelps interview with Paul Smith, October 5, 2022]

Description: Audio interview from the Wes Phelps Podcast Interviews Collection recorded during on October 5th, 2022 in Washington, D.C. Phelps interviews attorney Paul Smith on his experiences clerking for Justice Lewis Powell during the trial Lawrence v. Texas. Smith discusses the roll he played in the supreme court trial which would eventually rule sodomy laws which policed "homosexual conduct" to be unconstitutional.
Date: October 5, 2022
Duration: 50 minutes 34 seconds
Creator: Phelps, Wes
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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Oral History Interview with Howard B. "Jeep" Stebelton, October 5, 2012

Description: Transcript of an oral interview with Howard B. “Jeep” Stebelton. Born in 1922, he was drafted into the Army Air Force in January, 1943. He was trained in airplane mechanics and aerial engineering. He describes aerial gunnery training at Kingman Army Airfield, Arizona. In the summer of 1944, he was sent to England and assigned to the 91st Bombardment Group, 324th Bomb Squadron. As top turret gunner, he went on missions to bomb targets in Germany, including a railroad yard in Hamm and an engine f… more
Date: October 5, 2012
Duration: 1 hour 15 minutes 27 seconds
Creator: Stebelton, Howard B. "Jeep"
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
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Oral History Interview with Afton Keeton, April 5, 2003

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Afton Keeton. Keeton joined the Navy in early 1942. He completed Hospital Corps School, and served as a Pharmacist’s Mate. He volunteered for Submarine School. From 1944 through the end of the war, Keeton worked in the sick bays aboard USS Seadragon (SS-194) and USS Tilefish (SS-307). He shares numerous anecdotes of his work aboard the submarines, though does not go into detail of where they traveled through the Pacific. Keeton c… more
Date: April 5, 2003
Duration: 42 minutes 25 seconds
Creator: Keeton, Afton
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
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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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Alumni Spotlight #3: High Education Solutions with Dr. Stella Mulberry Antic

Description: Podcast produced by the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI) that features an interview with UNT Alumnus Dr. Stella Mulberry Antic, founder of Stellar Higher Education Solutions. Susan and Dr. Mulberry Antic discuss how educators can approach college student development from a holistic viewpoint. They also discuss her faculty career development services, in which she helps faculty members who are working toward promotion or tenure.
Date: August 5, 2020
Duration: 28 minutes 49 seconds
Creator: University of North Texas. Osher Lifelong Learning Institute.
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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Alumni Spotlight #11: Finding Inspiration and Healing in Music with Jeff Coffin

Description: Podcast produced by the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI) that features an interview with UNT Alumnus Jeff Coffin, Grammy-winning saxophonist and member of many notable projects, including the Dave Matthews Band. Susan and Jeff discuss his history with music, inspiration he receives from teaching at Vanderbilt University’s Blair School of Music, and his other creative endeavors, such as photography and the creation of children's books. Jeff also plays the tárogató live during the podcast. more
Date: May 5, 2021
Duration: 42 minutes 54 seconds
Creator: University of North Texas. Osher Lifelong Learning Institute.
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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Episode 19: Peggy Higgins

Description: Interview with Peggy Higgins for the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI) podcast. In this premiere episode of our second season, Susan interviews OLLI at UNT Faculty and Advisory Council member, Peggy Higgins. They discuss how Peggy's background in interior design led to a second career in Health Care Sciences and Alzheimer's education, and how her diverse interests have influenced the unique courses she now offers on the psychology of color for OLLI at UNT.
Date: September 5, 2019
Duration: 27 minutes 05 seconds
Creator: Supak, Susan & Higgins, Peggy
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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Oral History Interview with Joe Schmerber, December 5, 2017

Description: Interview with Joe Schmerber, who worked for and helped establish departments in Mooney Aircraft Company and Bridgestone Tires. The interview discusses his parents, early years as one of nine children, his work experience, education, interest in aviation, and family life.
Date: December 5, 2017
Duration: 1 hour 12 minutes 18 seconds
Creator: Collins, Francelle Robison; Flory, Bonnie Pipes & Schmerber, Joe Henry
Partner: Kerr County Historical Commission
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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 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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