[Underwood diaries / Robert Bruce Underwood and Underwood family]. [1939-1945]

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Underwood, Robert Bruce, 1914-2001. [Underwood diaries / Robert Bruce Underwood and Underwood family].

[Underwood diaries / Robert Bruce Underwood and Underwood family]. [1939-1945]

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/57197134

This collection of diaries was written primarily by Robert Bruce Underwood, a former superintendent of El Jardin School in Brownsville, Texas, public relations officer in the United States Army Air Forces during WWII, journalism professor at Temple University as well as a teacher at the Universidad de Navarra in Spain and part-time instructor in communications at the University of Texas at Brownsville. Mr. Underwood earned a bachelor's degree in journalism at Southern Methodist University, an MA from Stanford University in 1954, and a doctorate at the University of Missouri. He was a long-time resident of Brownsville, Texas and was a writer and editor for numerous publications. The diaries written by him include the years 1942 and 1945 and include interesting observations on the atomic bomb drop on Hiroshima, mention of WWII American fighter ace Richard Ira Bong, the death of Franklin D. Roosevelt, and comments as to political corruption in Galveston, Texas and Port Isabel, Texas. These diaries also reflect life in Brownsville, Texas and its sister city, Matamoros, Tamaulipas (Mexico) and speak of Mexican American participation during WWII including enclosed newspaper clipping concerning Brownsville native Private First Class Jose M. Lopez of the 2nd Infantry Division of the U.S. Army who was credited with killing 100 Germans while serving as a machine gunner. These WWII-era diaries provide a unique inside perspective of public relations issues within the United States Army Air Forces and life in general within this branch of the American military.

4 v. : ill., ports. ; 20-24 cm.

University of Texas at Brownsville, University Library