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Oral History Interview with Bill Barnett, May 18, 2000
No full textThe National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Bill Barnett. Barnett was born in the San Joaquin Valley on 17 June 1920. Upon graduation from high school in 1937, he entered the United States Naval Academy. After graduating from the Academy in December 1941, he was assigned to the gunnery department aboard the USS Helena (CL-50) which was being repaired after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. After being repaired the ship was sent to Espiritu Santos where it operated with a task force that included other cruisers and destroyers. Barnett was involved in a battle with a Japanese naval force in which a number of ships were sunk. After undergoing repairs in Sydney, Australia, the ship participated in the battle of Guadalcanal and was sunk in Kula Gulf in July 1943. He describes the sinking of the ship and how he exited the vessel. He was picked up by the USS Radford (DD-446) while other survivors made it to the island of Vella Lavella. He and other survivors were taken to Espiritu Santos where, after three weeks, they boarded a liberty ship and returned to the United States. He was then assigned to the USS Bataan (CVL-29) and participated in the invasions of Tarawa and Kwajalein. Barnett concludes the discussion by telling of various experiences and assignments following the end of World War II and his retirement in 1964
Interview with Bill Barnett
No full textBill Barnett was interviewed by Kenneth Martin on March 29, 1984. Barnett discusses his work in the QRA Department as a scientific programmer and on the failure reporting system on the Shrike missile. Barnett also discusses his work as a systems analyst developing an anti-ballistic missile defense solution. Barnett discusses moving to Holland and joining GSI (Geophysical Service Inc.) to work on ASC (Advanced Scientific Computer) technology in 1972 before returning to Texas. Barnett discusses the early years of the ASC project in depth
Oral History Interview with Bill Barnett, May 18, 2000
No full textThe National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Bill Barnett. Barnett was born in the San Joaquin Valley on 17 June 1920. Upon graduation from high school in 1937, he entered the United States Naval Academy. After graduating from the Academy in December 1941, he was assigned to the gunnery department aboard the USS Helena (CL-50) which was being repaired after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. After being repaired the ship was sent to Espiritu Santos where it operated with a task force that included other cruisers and destroyers. Barnett was involved in a battle with a Japanese naval force in which a number of ships were sunk. After undergoing repairs in Sydney, Australia, the ship participated in the battle of Guadalcanal and was sunk in Kula Gulf in July 1943. He describes the sinking of the ship and how he exited the vessel. He was picked up by the USS Radford (DD-446) while other survivors made it to the island of Vella Lavella. He and other survivors were taken to Espiritu Santos where, after three weeks, they boarded a liberty ship and returned to the United States. He was then assigned to the USS Bataan (CVL-29) and participated in the invasions of Tarawa and Kwajalein. Barnett concludes the discussion by telling of various experiences and assignments following the end of World War II and his retirement in 1964
Bill Nicholls
No full textDelissaville Mission. The man in the centre with the white shirt on is the one and only Bill Harney - author and expert on Indigenous history. Photo shows buildings with several people standing around, child on right obviously scared of soldier with gas mask and rifle. Delisaville.Foley, Mike
Jere Nash Interview with Bill Allain
No full textInterview conducted by author Jere Nash with former Mississippi Attorney General and Governor Bill Allain in the process of writing Mississippi Politics: The Struggle for Power, 1976-2006. Topics covered include Allain\u27s work in the state Attorney General\u27s office on federal litigation on civil rights and school integration cases; Joe Patterson; Ross Barnett and James H. Meredith; Paul B. Johnson Jr.; John Bell Williams; J.P. Coleman; legislative reapportionment law suit; Harold Cox; congressional reapportionment law suit; separation of powers law suits in Mississippi; Mississippi Power and Light law suit; Republican allegations of Allain\u27s homosexuality; Mississippi Supreme Court; and Bill Waller
Bill McPeters to Honorable Ross Barnett, 19 September 1962
Get PDFMcPeters offers support for Barnett and states that he still owns land with a tree that was used for lynching 55 years ago. He offers to bury him or them without expense to the state.https://egrove.olemiss.edu/west_union_gov/1008/thumbnail.jp
Jere Nash Interview with Bill Spell
No full textInterview conducted by author Jere Nash with Bill Spell in the process of writing Mississippi Politics: The Struggle for Power, 1976-2006. Topics covered include Spell\u27s career background; Daily News editor Fred Sullins; Godwin Advertising Agency and Mississippi media; John Stennis; Charlie Sullivan; J.P. Coleman; oil industry; Fielding Wright; 1952 Democratic National Convention; Democrats for Eisenhower; Claude F. Clayton; Thomas G. Abernethy; John E. Rankin; Walter Sillers; Ross Barnett; James O. Eastland; integration at the University of Mississippi; Spell acting as a lobbyist for Beech Aircraft; Stennis Space Center; working for Stennis; 1971 governors race between Bill Waller and Charlie Sullivan; Stennis and Richard Nixon; Cliff Finch administration; Bankers Trust; J.P. Coleman\u27s nomination to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit; congressional race between Wayne Dowdy and Lyles Williams; 1983 gubernatorial race between Bill Allain and Leon Bramlett; and Mike Parker
[Bill Harney beside a termite mound, ca. 1950s] [picture].
No full textTitle based on information from acquisition documentation.; Part of collection: Collection of photographs of author and bushman, Bill Harney, ca. 1940-1962.; Also available in an electronic version via the Internet at: http://nla.gov.au/nla.pic-vn3705618; Purchased from Michael Treloar Antiquarian Booksellers, List 90, Lot 64, 2006
[Bill Harney relaxing on Melville Island, ca. 1950s] [picture].
No full textTitle based on information from acquisition documentation.; Condition: Scratches from pen markings, middle left and lower right.; Part of collection: Collection of photographs of author and bushman, Bill Harney, ca. 1940-1962.; Also available in an electronic version via the Internet at: http://nla.gov.au/nla.pic-vn3705639; Purchased from Michael Treloar Antiquarian Booksellers, List 90, Lot 64, 2006
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