112,103 research outputs found
Oral History Interview with Frank M. 'Tommy' Thompson, February 19, 2005
No full textThe National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Frank M. ""Tommy"" Thompson. Thompson was attending the University of Virginia in 1942 when he decided to enlist in the Marine Corps with some friends. Soon, he found himself training in Hawaii. He describes the lines of men waiting to get into the whorehouses in Honolulu. He landed on Saipan with the Second Marine Division where he describes a banzai attack by the Japanese infantry. Thompson witnessed the famous incident when Marine General Holland M. Smith fired Army General Ralph Smith on Saipan. Thompson continues with more anecdotes about combat on Saipan. He also went to Guam right before the island was declared secure. Thompson shares an anecdote about selling souvenirs to Army and Navy personnel on Guam. He then discusses landing and fighting on Iwo Jima. He finishes with an anecdote about guarding General H.M. Smith's quarters on Oahu toward the end of the war
South Thompson Planning Report
No full textThe South Thompson River Basin is a major sub-regional area of the Thompson-Nicola Regional District. The South Thompson serves as a pathway for major salmon runs, a corridor for rail and highway transportation, a recreational resource for the Kamloops/Shuswap population, a scenic treasure, an agricultural base, a reservoir of flat land, and a clean water supply. It contains a priceless record of our archaeological and historical past. At the same time, it is obvious that this area is a delicate and vulnerable ecological and aesthetic system. Haphazard or random residential sprawl, ill considered industrial development, or inappropriate land use of any type could endanger and destroy this resource permanently. A policy statement indicating the desired directions in which the Regional District should permit development to proceed is imperative. This document, then, is a statement of policy.Not peer reviewedPlanning documentInterim Repor
South Thompson Settlement Strategy: Policy Document
No full textThe purpose of the South Thompson Settlement Strategy (STSS) is to strike a balance between anticipated settlement pressures and the many other important values in the South Thompson valley.Not peer reviewedPlanning documen
South Thompson Valley and Pinantan official settlement plan.
No full textThe recommended policies contained in this plan provide the Thompson-Nicola Regional District with the means to protect and enhance the agricultural economic base, regulate the supply and location of rural residential growth, guide commercial and industrial development and satisfy the historical, recreational, social and environmental concerns of the settlement plan area.Not peer reviewedPlanning documen
Letter from M. Boone Stapp, Retailers Commercial Bureau, Baltimore, Maryland, to Haydn Thompson, Durham, North Carolina, September 13, 1934
No full textThis letter is from the Haydn Neal Thompson Letter Collection. Contents of the collection include correspondence, primarily handwritten and of a personal nature. The bulk of materials are from Thompson's family members, including his mother, Marie Thompson, and sister, Janet Thompson, with a few letters from aunts and cousins. The remaining majority consists of letters from friends, primarily girlfriends. The conversation across letters emphasizes school and social happenings. Politics and the economy (Great Depression) do not receive much notice, though a change in the tone of letters is noticeable from the 1920's to the 1930's, becoming more sober and fatalistic
Letter from M. A. Dale, Taussig, Day, Fairbank, and Company, St. Louis, Missouri, to Haydn Thompson, Alton, Illinois, November 23, 1928
No full textThis letter is from the Haydn Neal Thompson Letter Collection. Contents of the collection include correspondence, primarily handwritten and of a personal nature. The bulk of materials are from Thompson's family members, including his mother, Marie Thompson, and sister, Janet Thompson, with a few letters from aunts and cousins. The remaining majority consists of letters from friends, primarily girlfriends. The conversation across letters emphasizes school and social happenings. Politics and the economy (Great Depression) do not receive much notice, though a change in the tone of letters is noticeable from the 1920's to the 1930's, becoming more sober and fatalistic
Personal Papers (MS 80-0002)
No full textLetter from Arthur M. Alpert to Peter and Nancy Thompson inviting them to the annual H. Kempner company dinner
Personal Papers (MS 80-0002)
No full textCopy of a letter from Arthur M. Alpert to Peter and Nancy Thompson inviting them to the annual H. Kempner company dinner
Oral Memoirs of Clinton M. Thompson
No full textAn oral history interview with Clinton Marty Thompson, former director of both the Tulsa Medical College Library and Robert M. Bird Health Sciences Library at University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center.N
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