University of Texas at El Paso DigitalCommons@UTEP Open Access Theses & Dissertations 2010-01-01 The Border at War: World War II Along the United States-Mexico Border Winifred Baumer Dowling University of Texas at El Paso,
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[email protected]. THE BORDER AT WAR: WORLD WAR II ALONG THE UNITED STATES-MEXICO BORDER WINIFRED B. DOWLING Department of History APPROVAL: ________________________ Charles Martin, Ph.D., Chair ________________________ Paul Edison, Ph.D. ________________________ Ernesto Chavez, Ph.D. ________________________ Josiah Heyman, Ph.D. ______________________________ Patricia D. Witherspoon, Ph.D. Dean of the Graduate School Copyright © By Winifred B. Dowling 2010 THE BORDER AT WAR: WORLD WAR II ALONG THE UNITED STATES-MEXICO BORDER by WINIFRED B. DOWLING DISSERTATION Presented to the Faculty of the Graduate School of The University of Texas at El Paso in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of DOCTOR OF PHILOSPHY Department of History THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT EL PASO December 2010 Acknowledgments My experience as a doctoral student at the University of Texas at El Paso was one of unending pleasure.