Oral history interview, [19--].

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Oral history interview, [19--].

Topics include experiences during World War II including enlistment, basic training, and Officers Candidate School, experiences in England as a supply officer, the Normandy Invasion and stories of the front lines, his return to Texas, and his feelings about having served in the war. Postwar topics include his years as a graduate student at University of Texas and his experiences as history professor at Stephen F. Austin State College, including his colleagues, the student body, and college presidents Alton William Birdwell, Paul L. Boynton, and Ralph Wright Steen.

1 sound cassette.Transcript: 1 item.

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University of Texas.

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These slides were transferred to the Briscoe Center from the Harry Ransom Center in 2008. From the guide to the UT Color Slides Collection 2008-079., 1938-1965, (Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, The University of Texas at Austin) These images were used for UT’s 75th Anniversary presentations in 1958. Many are copies of photographs in the Briscoe Center’s collections and are dated much earlier than the reproductions in this collection. From the guide to ...

Steen, Ralph Wright

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Birdwell, Alton William, 1870-1954

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Boynton, Paul L. (Paul Lewis), 1898-1958

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Stephen F. Austin State College

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United States. Army

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The United States Army is the largest branch of the United States Armed Forces and performs land-based military operations. It is one of the seven uniformed services of the United States and is designated as the Army of the United States in the United States Constitution, Article 2, Section 2, Clause 1 and United States Code, Title 10, Subtitle B, Chapter 301, Section 3001. As the largest and senior branch of the U.S. military, the modern U.S. Army has its roots in the Continental Army, which wa...

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