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Leon Crawford, Oral History Moment
No full textThis is an audio recording of an Oral History Moment with Leon Crawford. An Oral History Moment is a small segment of clips from an oral history interview presented by a narrator. The interview was conducted March 8, 2016. The interviewer is Madison Garcia. The script author is Nick Sprenger, and the narrator is Allan Folsom.
In this interview, Leon Crawford discusses his service in the Navy during World War II and his participation in the Invasion of Guam as a Seabee. He also discusses his work to help rebuild the island.
Leon Crawford was born in Mansfield, Louisiana where his family worked as farmers. Crawford became interested in joining the military and fighting in World War II after seeing wounded veterans return home. He tried to join the Air Force at age 17 but his mother refused to sign his enlistment papers. In 1944 Crawford joined the Navy because the enlistment papers only required the signature of one parent, and he knew that his father would sign. Crawford attended basic training at Camp Wallace in Texas.
Following basic training, Crawford was shipped to Pearl Harbor, the Marshall Islands, and finally the Mariana Islands. Crawford and the Navy Seabee Battalion worked as ammunition support for the 3rd Division of the Marines during the Invasion of Guam in April of 1944. After Guam was capturedd by Allied forces, the Seabee battalion that Crawford was in helped rebuild the island. Crawford worked as a machine operator in Company D where they cleaned up the mountainside and built an air field, ammunition dump, and mess hall and began construction on runways. Crawford recalls meeting General Chester W. Nimitz during his time overseas.
Following the surrender of Japan on September 2, 1945, Crawford waited six months for a transport boat to take him home. When the transport arrived in March 1946, it made stops at Kwajalein and Wake Island to pick up additional service members waiting to return to the United States. The ship was supposed to take them to California but they changed course to Seattle and hit a typhoon. Being on the ship during the typhoon was the only time Crawford was afraid during his time of service. However, the ship arrived at port safely.
Following his service, Crawford attended school at the Industrial Training Institute in Chicago, Illinois. He was hired by Southeastern Advertising and Sales Systems and was eventually promoted to Southern Regional Manager. He began working in the food industry, from which he eventually retired.https://lair.etamu.edu/scua-oral-history-all/1114/thumbnail.jp
Leon Crawford, Oral History Moment Script
No full textThis is a script of an Oral History Moment with Leon Crawford. An Oral History Moment is a small segment of clips from an oral history interview presented by a narrator. The interview was conducted March 8, 2016. The interviewer is Madison Garcia. The script author is Nick Sprenger, and the narrator is Allan Folsom.
In this interview, Leon Crawford discusses his service in the Navy during World War II and his participation in the Invasion of Guam as a Seabee. He also discusses his work to help rebuild the island.
Leon Crawford was born in Mansfield, Louisiana where his family worked as farmers. Crawford became interested in joining the military and fighting in World War II after seeing wounded veterans return home. He tried to join the Air Force at age 17 but his mother refused to sign his enlistment papers. In 1944 Crawford joined the Navy because the enlistment papers only required the signature of one parent, and he knew that his father would sign. Crawford attended basic training at Camp Wallace in Texas.
Following basic training, Crawford was shipped to Pearl Harbor, the Marshall Islands, and finally the Mariana Islands. Crawford and the Navy Seabee Battalion worked as ammunition support for the 3rd Division of the Marines during the Invasion of Guam in April of 1944. After Guam was capturedd by Allied forces, the Seabee battalion that Crawford was in helped rebuild the island. Crawford worked as a machine operator in Company D where they cleaned up the mountainside and built an air field, ammunition dump, and mess hall and began construction on runways. Crawford recalls meeting General Chester W. Nimitz during his time overseas.
Following the surrender of Japan on September 2, 1945, Crawford waited six months for a transport boat to take him home. When the transport arrived in March 1946, it made stops at Kwajalein and Wake Island to pick up additional service members waiting to return to the United States. The ship was supposed to take them to California but they changed course to Seattle and hit a typhoon. Being on the ship during the typhoon was the only time Crawford was afraid during his time of service. However, the ship arrived at port safely.
Following his service, Crawford attended school at the Industrial Training Institute in Chicago, Illinois. He was hired by Southeastern Advertising and Sales Systems and was eventually promoted to Southern Regional Manager. He began working in the food industry, from which he eventually retired.https://lair.etamu.edu/scua-oral-history-all/1115/thumbnail.jp
Leon Battista Alberti: <i>On Painting</i>
No full textLeon Battista Alberti was one of the most important humanist scholars of the Italian Renaissance. Active in mid-fifteenth-century Florence, he was an architect, theorist, and author of texts on perspective and painting. Leon Battista Alberti: On Painting is a cardinal work that revolutionized Western art. In this volume Rocco Sinisgalli presents a new English translation and critical examination of Alberti's seminal text. Dr Sinisgalli reverses the received understanding of the relationship between the Italian and Latin versions of Alberti's treatise by demonstrating that Alberti wrote it first in Italian and then translated it into a polished Latin over the course of several decades. This volume is richly illustrated to help demonstrate how Alberti understood optics and art.</jats:p
The social context of the Book of Job
No full textAlthough much has been written about the Book of Job, no consensus exists among scholars with regard to issues such as the dating and origins of this book. In this article the controversies surrounding the social context of the book of Job are discussed. This is followed by an attempt to reconstruct a possible socio-theological context for this book. In doing this, special attention will be given to the writer� s possible relationship with the mainstream theological tradition of his day. This will be done by considering the possible aim of the �implied� author in constructing the book as well as the ways in which he has gone about achieving this aim. It is concluded that the implied author aimed to critically comment on the way in which the orthodox wisdom teachers of his time had clung to the traditional dogma of divine retribution. In doing this, this author seems to have employed various indirect techniques such as the use of a dramatic narrative to convey his message
Leon Laizer Watters
No full textImage show Leon L. Watters (far left) at Pioneer Day Celebration in Logan, Utah with Governor Dern. Leon L. Watters was a Utah-born scientist, industrialist, and author from an early Jewish pioneer community in Salt Lake City
Leon Watters and Albert Einstein
No full textLeon Watters: With his colleague, Albert Einstein. Watters was a Utah-born scientist, industrialist, and author
The Simons Array CMB polarization experiment
No full textInternational audienceThe Simons Array is a next generation cosmic microwave background (CMB) polarization experiment whose science target is a precision measurement of the B-mode polarization pattern produced both by inflation and by gravitational lensing. As a continuation and extension of the successful POLARBEAR experimental program, the Simons Array will consist of three cryogenic receivers each featuring multichroic bolometer arrays mounted onto separate 3.5m telescopes. The first of these, also called POLARBEAR-2A, will be the first to deploy in late 2016 and has a large diameter focal plane consisting of dual-polarization dichroic pixels sensitive at 95 GHz and 150 GHz. The POLARBEAR-2A focal plane will utilize 7,588 antenna-coupled superconducting transition edge sensor (TES) bolometers read out with SQUID amplifiers using frequency domain multiplexing techniques. The next two receivers that will make up the Simons Array will be nearly identical in overall design but will feature extended frequency capability. The combination of high sensitivity, multichroic frequency coverage and large sky area available from our mid-latitude Chilean observatory will allow Simons Array to produce high quality polarization sky maps over a wide range of angular scales and to separate out the CMB B-modes from other astrophysical sources with high fidelity. After accounting for galactic foreground separation, the Simons Array will detect the primordial gravitational wave B-mode signal to r > 0.01 with a significance of > 5σ and will constrain the sum of neutrino masses to 40 meV (1σ) when cross-correlated with galaxy surveys. We present the current status of this funded experiment, its future, and discuss its projected science return.© (2016) COPYRIGHT Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE). Downloading of the abstract is permitted for personal use only
First person – Leon Green
No full textFirst Person is a series of interviews with the first authors of a selection of papers published in Biology Open, helping early-career researchers promote themselves alongside their papers. Leon Green is first author on ‘Sperm-duct gland content increases sperm velocity in the sand goby’, published in BIO. Leon is a PhD student in the lab of Charlotta Kvarnemo at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, investigating how fish adapt to the abiotic environment
Leon Laizer Watters
No full textLeon L. Watters was a Utah-born scientist, industrialist, and author from an early Jewish pioneer community in Salt Lake City. He is shown here with a colleague of his, Albert Einstein
Leon Laizer Watters
No full textLeon L. Watters was a Utah-born scientist, industrialist, and author from an early Jewish pioneer community in Salt Lake City. He is shown here with a colleague of his, Albert Einstein
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