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Interview No. 871, Robert Upton
Interview No. 871, Robert Upton
Combined Interviews
Part of WWII: El Paso Homefront Project; recollects brief period spent in Los Alamos, NM. and his impressions of Manhattan Project physicists Robert Oppenheimer and Enrico Fermi; work experience at Kirtland Air Force Base and Sandia Laboratory, Albuquerque, and Imperial Valley, CA; German POWs at Fort Bliss, including Werner von Braun.
Interview No. 870, Reyes V. Torres
Interview No. 870, Reyes V. Torres
Combined Interviews
Part of WWII: El Paso Homefront Project; biographical data; provides detailed description of capture by German ski troopers after being shot down on combat mission to Regensberg, Germany; daily life in POW camps; liberation of camp by Russian Army; discrimination and prejudice in U.S. military.
Interview No. 869, Mary A. Lacy
Interview No. 869, Mary A. Lacy
Combined Interviews
Part of World War II: El Paso Homefront Project; biographical data; childhood memories of WWII, including rationing, curfews, blackouts, contributions of school children, and fashions; recalls arrival of telegram notifying family of father's death while on active duty in Europe, reflects on mother's success in overcoming difficulties raising family as single parent; discusses attending Texas Western College under War Orphan Bill.
Interview No. 863, Billy Pat Mckinney
Interview No. 863, Billy Pat Mckinney
Combined Interviews
Part of Big Bend National Park Oral History Project; extensive biographical information; recounts his experiences tracking, trapping, hunting and managing mountain lions, desert bighorn sheep, deer and bear in Black Gap Wildlife Management Area and Natural Area at Lajitas; establishment of Big Bend National Park and Black Gap Wildlife Management Area; how and why and why Big Bend residents sold land for creation of national park.
Interview No. 866, Thomas W. Stovall
Interview No. 866, Thomas W. Stovall
Combined Interviews
Part of Big Bend National Park Oral History Project; recalls enlistment in CCC and transfer of his 200-man company to Big Bend; discusses his duties as tent camp cook in Chisos Basin; prospective on role of CCC in the park and in lives of corps members.
Interview No. 864, Julia Nail Moss
Interview No. 864, Julia Nail Moss
Combined Interviews
Part of Big Bend National Park Oral History Project discusses social life among residents of Big Bend before and during acquisition of property for national park; recalls feasibility study by park system; effects of drought and overgrazing of livestock; destruction of family home by park service; offers her opinions on park service preservation policy, predator control; effect of Depression on ranchers' decisions to sell their land; family's governess; contact with Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) 1930s.
Interview No. 865, Cornelio Ramírez
Interview No. 865, Cornelio Ramírez
Combined Interviews
Part of Big Bend National Park Oral History Project; discusses building roads and bridges within the park; recalls childhood and education at Terlingua and delivering meals to miners; his involvement in rescue and recovery of hikers and tourists; recalls stint as park service crew member constructing water supply system to Chisos Basin; destruction of ranch homes and other structures by park service; construction of Panther Junction and Rio Grande Village.
Interview No. 868, Gordon L. Black
Interview No. 868, Gordon L. Black
Combined Interviews
Part of Health Care on the Border Project; biographical data; recollects medical education, internship, and stint in U.S. Navy during World War II; experiences as medical technician at Southwestern Hospital; history of radiology in El Paso; recalls meeting Dr. John W. Cathcart, early El Paso, early El Paso radiologist; discusses area hospitals, including Hotel Dieu, Providence, Sierra, and Sun Towers, establishment of El Paso Cancer Treatment Center.
Interview No. 814, Betty Seabrooke
Interview No. 814, Betty Seabrooke
Combined Interviews
Discusses experience as one of a group of El Paso women sent to San Antonio to learn hot to service aircraft during World War II; tells about her work at Biggs Field and El Paso Municipal Airport refueling planes; discusses social life during the war years especially dances held for servicemen at the service clubs at Ft. Bliss; describes personal encounter with Charles Lindburgh when he flew through El Paso.
Interview No. 815, Helen Wilkins
Interview No. 815, Helen Wilkins
Combined Interviews
Part of World War II Project. El Paso Homefront; biographical information; recalls Fort Bliss payroll pick-up at El Paso National Bank with armed guards and sacks of money; discusses rationing and arrival of troop trains; recalls dances at Liberty Hall and Rec Hall with Big Bands such as Tommy Dorsey; reflects on POWs, Italian camp across the street from Washington Park and the German Camp at Fort Bliss.
Interview No. 867, Roscoe Weaver
Interview No. 867, Roscoe Weaver
Combined Interviews
Part of Big Bend National Park Oral History Project; provides details about CCC, its policy and activities in park prior in acquisition by National Park Service; discusses environment, plant life, and wildlife of Chisos Basin and other areas; relations with Castolon residents and other communities along the Rio Grande; describes typical CCC work day; tells of strike at Chisos Basin in dispute with U.S. Army officer and subsequent arrival of armed troops from Fort Bliss; economic and social benefits of CCC; environmental changes in Big Bend 1942-1992.
Interview No. 813, Rosa Kondo Honda
Interview No. 813, Rosa Kondo Honda
Combined Interviews
Recalls her experiences as one of the few non- Mexicans enrolled at Bowie High School; social activities, economic conditions during the Great Depression; El Paso movie theaters; evidence of discrimination against Mexican by Anglos; reaction of Japanese community to bombing of Pearl Harbor; discusses confiscations of her U.S. identification card by U.S. officials during an attempt to cross the international border to visit her parents in El Paso; subsequent expulsion to Mexico city; Reflects on Japanese detainees; private Japanese school in Mexico city; Reflects on Japanese assimilation into Mexican society; views of the Mexican people.