Oral history interview with Don Houseman, 2002 November 2002.

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Oral history interview with Don Houseman, 2002 November 2002.

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Interview with Donelson M. Houseman, insurance executive, real estate investor, and Army veteran (D Company, 1st Battalion, 423rd Infantry Regiment, 106th Infantry Division), concerning his experiences in the European Theater during World War II; his experiences as a prisoner-of-war of the Germans. Pre-war education and college at the University of Texas; his reaction to the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941; his decision to enlist in the Enlisted Reserve Corps; processing at Fort Sam Houston, San Antonio, Texas, April, 1943; basic training, Camp Callan, San Diego, May-June, 1943; Office Candidate School, Camp Davis, Wilmington, North Carolina, 1943-44; his engagement to Kathryn Buckley, January, 1944; assignment to an antiaircraft battalion, Fort Fisher, North Carolina, 1944; infantry officer refresher course, Fort Benning, Georgia, 1944; assignment to the 106th Infantry Division, Camp Atterbury, Indiana, August, 1944; training as a mortar platoon leader; shipment to England, October, 1944; relief of the 2nd Infantry Division in the Ardennes, December 8, 1944; the Ardennes Offensive and the Battle of the Bulge, December 16, 1944; his description of the winter weather and the battle; his severe wrist wound; capture by German troops, December 19, 1944; Stalag VI-G, Cologne, Germany, 1944-45; his time in the prison infirmary; prison camp living conditions; his deteriorating medical condition; transfer to a German military hospital at Montabaur for the possible amputation of his arm; treatment of his wound with sulfa; liberation, April, 1945; further treatment for his wound at McCluskey General Hospital, Temple, Texas; his marriage on June 9, 1945; his return to the University of Texas and postwar business career. Appendix consists of "World War II Scrapbook," which includes telegram informing interviewee's family that he was missing in action (ten leaves).

107, [11] leaves : facsims. ; 29 cm.

University of North Texas Library, UNT

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University of North Texas Library, UNT

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