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Boehm, Robert Early Life and Current Family
Robert Kenneth “Bob” Boehm was born in August 1925 in St. Louis, Missouri. He grew up there until he enlisted in the...
Vaadi, Eugene Early Life and Enlisting
Eugene Vaadi was born 1 July 1921 Watertown, New York. He spent his life there until entering the military. His father...
Notebaert, Richard Early Life and Enlistment
Richard Notebaert was born in January 1920 in Rochester, New York. He was youngest of the four children of a bridge and...
Angier, John Early Life and Enlistment
John Francis Angier was born in June 1923 in Burlington, Vermont. He feels fortunate he was brought up on a dairy farm...
Reese, Lloyd Early Life and Enlistment
Lloyd William (Bill) Reese was born in Milton Center, Ohio. His father was a superintendent of schools. They moved to...
Moore, Frederick Early Life and Enlistment
Frederick Moore was born in December 1924 in Cambridge, Massachusetts and grew up in Arlington, Massachusetts during...
Hackler, Maurice "Hack" Early Life and Enlistment
Maurice Hackler was born in 1922, the second of two sons, in Cherryville, Kansas where his parents owned and operated a...
Bonelli, William Early Life and Enlistment
William Patrick Bonelli was born in March 1921 in Indiana, Pennsylvania. He grew up with an older brother. He credits...
Marsaglia, Donald Early Life and Entering the Army Air Force
Donald Marsaglia was born in Coal City, Illinois in April 1924. Coal City was a small town of about 1,300 people....
McGill, John Early Life and Entrance Into Service
John Arch McGill was born in Okolona, Arkansas in 1923. His father raised open-range cattle, hogs and chickens, and...
Carroll, Wesley Early Life and Entrance Into Service
Wesley Carroll was born in Slidell, Louisiana in 1922. He grew up there, and graduated from high school in 1939, after...
Gust, Darrell Early Life and Entrance Into Service
Darrel D. Gust was born in Eau Claire, Wisconsin in November 1921. His mother died when he was 11 years old, and, at...
Welty, Orrin Early Life and Entrance Into Service
Orrin Welty was born in December 1922 in Lima, Ohio. He grew up during the Great Depression and spent summers working...
Epstein, Ben Early Life and Entrance Into Service
Ben Epstein was born in April 1921 in Brooklyn, New York, the youngest of four sons of Russian immigrants. His father...
Lippman, Robert Early Life and Entrance Into Service
Robert Lippman was born in Rome, New York in September 1923, in a small town surrounded by farmland. His father had a...
Faust, Virgil Early Life and Entrance Into Service
Virgil Faust was born in 1921 in Windber, Pennsylvania. His father was a carpenter by trade, and maintained housing for...
Amore, Frederick Early Life and Entrance Into Service
Frederick Amore was born in 1924 in Bay Ridge, New York and lived there until age 17 when he moved to Rome, New York....
McGlohon, John Early Life and Entrance Into Service
John McGlohon was born in June 1923 in Guilford County, North Carolina where he lived for the first six months of his...
Guisewite, Myron Early Life and Entrance Into Service
Myron L. Guisewhite was born in 1921 in Avis, Pennsylvania, one of the five children of a New York Central Railroad...
Theodore, Theodore Early Life and Entrance Into Service
Theodore Theodore was born in July 1924 in Chicago, Illinois, the middle child of three children in the family. His...
Kitowski, Charles Early Life and Entrance Into Service
Charles Kitowski was born in San Antonio, Texas in 1923. He grew up during the Great Depression [Annotator's Note:...
Tanner, Theodore Early Life and Flight School
Theodore Robert Tanner was born in Portland, Oregon in December 1920. He had one younger sister, born two years after...
Fronk, Wesley Early Life and Friends
Wesley Fronk had one sister and grew up in a lot of different places. He never had any problems making friends. Moving...
Baile, Richard Early Life and Joining the USAAF
Richard Baile was born in December 1920 on a farm in Missouri east of Kansas City near the town of Washburn. They had a...
Doolan, Robert Early Life and Meeting His Heroes
Robert Doolan was born in March 1917 in Cincinnati, Ohio. It was wonderful to grow up in Cincinnati and he still loves...
Oakes, Robert Early Life and Military Training
Robert Tyler Oakes was born in March 1922 in New Albany, Indiana. He enjoyed his youth participated in plays in high...
McGee, Joseph Early Life and Military Training
Joseph F. McGee Junior was born in Utah, Alabama on 6 March 1924. He was standing in front of his town's post office...
Pilcher, Joseph Early Life and Motivations
In Brussels, Belgium, Joseph Pilcher was surprised to run into his former typing teacher from Lafayette High School [...
Holmes, Capers Early Life and Navigation School
Capers Andrews Holmes, Jr. was born in Culloden, Georgia. During the Great Depression [Annotator's Note: The Great...
Burns, Lloyd Early Life and Pilot Training
Lloyd Burns was born in Bossier, Louisiana but grew up in Shreveport, Louisiana during the Great Depression. He had ten...
McGovern, George Early Life and Postwar Education
Avon is 60 miles south of Mitchell, South Dakota. George McGovern spent the first three years of his life in Avon. He...
Allen, George Early Life and the Attack on Pearl Harbor
George Allen was born in September 1925 in Alexandria, Louisiana. He had two sisters growing up there with him. His...
Goyette, Donald Early Life and the U.S. Entrance Into War
[Annotator's Note: The interview begins with a conversation between the interviewer and Donald F. Goyette who goes off...
Wofford, Jesse L. Early Life and Training
Dr. Jesse L. Wofford was born in the small, working community of Drew, Mississippi, where his family was in the farming...
Muri, James Early life in the Military
James Muri joined the Army so that he could become a pilot. Growing up in Montana Muri did not see many airplanes. He...
Carroll, Orville Early Life through Deployment
Orville Carroll was born in Bend, Oregon in December 1924. He grew up in Sisters, Oregon, graduated from high school...

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