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Jean Colby oral history interview
Oral history interview with Jean Colby conducted by Stefanie Barkholz on March 23, 2005 for the UNLV Women's Studies Veteran Oral History Project. The interview covers Colby's service in the United States Air Force during World War II, the Korean War, and Vietnam.
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Billie D'Entremont oral history interview
Oral history interview with Billie D'Entremont conducted by Gemma Lund on April 8, 2005 for the UNLV Women's Studies Veteran Oral History Project. The interview covers D'Entremont's service in the United States Coast Guard Women's Reserve during World War II.
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Robert W. MacKenzie Papers
The Robert W. MacKenzie Papers (approximately 1950-2010) contain the personal papers of Robert MacKenzie and materials documenting the long-term effects of atomic testing. The collection contains photographs, material documenting the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act deals, surveys about veterans and their children with diseases, the Curtiss Marines, letters and correspondence, audiovisual material, and original drawings and cartoons of ships drawn by MacKenzie. MacKenzie was stationed on a ship during Castle Bravo, the first in a series of high-yield thermonuclear weapon design tests conducted by the United States at Bikini Atoll, Marshall Islands, as part of Operation Castle. Detonated on March 1, 1954, the device remains the most powerful nuclear device ever detonated by the United States.
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Veterans' organizations
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Transcript of interview with Joanne Pattiani Molen by Irene Rostine, January 25, 1997
Interviewed by Irene Rostine. In July of 1955, Joanne Molen's husband was offered a job at Nellis Air Force Base, so they moved from Alturas, California, to Las Vegas. Joanne had worked for Citizens Utilities in Alturas as a Western Union teletype operator, so she got a job with the Southern Nevada Telephone Company. She was the only woman to hold some of the positions she held. She worked for the telephone company, which became Sprint, for more than forty years, ending up as a main engineer. Joanne also was a volunteer and was active in community organizations including the American Ex-Prisoners of War and the Disabled American Veterans organizations, which lead to her being appointed by Governor Richard Bryan to the state of Nevada's Veterans Advisory Commission where she became the first woman to hold the position of chairman for the Commission. She was also voted Women of the Year four times by the local chapter of the American Business Women's Association for her work with veterans.
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