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Franzky, Gerhard Early Life and Joining the Military
Gerhard Franzky was a member of the 10th SS Panzer Division Frundsberg. Franzky was born in Leipzig, Germany in 1925....
Maxwell, Robert Early Life and Mediterranean Combat
Robert D. Maxwell was born in October 1920 in western Kansas. With the winds blowing the land away, the family headed...
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...
Stein, Murray Early Life and Military Training
Murray Stein was born on 23 September 1925 and grew up in Brooklyn, New York. He played football and graduated from...
Ford, John Early Life and Military Training
John Holton Ford was born in October 1921 in Hamilton, Ohio. He was also raised there. After the war, the family moved...
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...
Bianconi, Anthony Early Life and Navy Entry
Anthony Bianconi was born in September 1920 in Youngstown, Ohio. When he was quite young, his family moved to Mount...
Bartels, Carl Early Life and Navy Entry
Carl C. Bartels, M.D. [Annotator's Note: Doctor of Medicine] was born in Hamilton, Ohio in July 1917. The Great...
Lee, Theodore Early Life and Paratrooper Training
Theodore R. Lee was born in August 1922 in Cody, Wyoming. He had poor eyesight as a child and had to wear thick glasses...
Goldstein, Rosette Early Life and Persecution
Rosette Goldstein was born in 1938 in Paris, France. Her family moved into a one bedroom apartment where they were the...
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...
Gatewood, Otis Early Life and Postwar Career
Otis Gatewood was born in Olmstead, Arkansas in June 1923, but grew up in North Little Rock, Arkansas. The town was...
Warner, George Early Life and Serving in the Home Guard
George Warner was born in November 1929 in Greenwood, Mississippi, where he lived until he was five years old and his...
Higgins, Gordon Early Life and the Draft
Gordon Higgins was born in February 1924 in New Haven, Connecticut, one of two sons who lived with their mother and...
Sgobbo, Dominick Early Life and the Draft
Dominick Sgobbo was born in October 1924 in East Harlem, New York City, New York. The fifth of eight children of...
Mermelstein, Seymour "Cy" Early Life and the Draft
Seymour Mermelstein was born October 1924 in Newark, New Jersey. He was the oldest of three children born to Jewish...
Breen, Vernon Early Life and the Family Business
Vernon Breen was born in Chicago [Annotator's Note: Chicago, Illinois] in March 1925. He grew up in River Forest,...
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...
Weber, Norman Early Life Before the War
Norman Weber was born in August 1935 in New York City [Annotator’s Note: New York City, New York]. His father was from...
Gehlen, Wilhelm Early Life During the War
Wilhelm Gehlen was born in November 1934 in Viersen [Annotator's Note: Viersen, Germany]. He remembers growing up...
Shima, Terry Early Life in Hawaii
Terry T. Shima was born in January 1923 outside of Hilo, Hawaii. He grew up on a sugar plantation. His parents both...
White, Alexander Early Life in Poland
Alexander Bialywlos White was born in June 1923 in southern Poland. His parents, two brothers and sister were all...
Brandes, Rita Early Life in Wartime Germany
Rita Brandes was born in July 1939 in Bremen [Annotator's Note: Bremen, Germany]. As a young child, she knew only the...
Aigner, Leslie Early Life Leading to Deportation
Leslie Aigner was born in Nové Zámky, Czechoslovakia. In 1939, the town became part of Hungary. At the time, Aigner was...
Easterling, Lewis "Tom" Early Life to Army Air Force Training
Lewis Thomas Easterling was born in January 1924 in Ellerbe, North Carolina and grew up in Rockingham [Annotator's...
Whelan, Robert Early Life to Army Life
Robert Whelan was born in Buffalo, New York in May 1925 at Millard Fillmore Hospital and grew up in nearby Snyder [...
Phillips, James Early Life to Army Life
James W. Phillips was born in August 1921 in Middletown, Pennsylvania. He was the oldest of four, and his father was a...
Jucksch, William "Bill" Early Life to Assignment
William Jucksch was born in October 1925 in McAllen, Texas. His parents separated when he was just a toddler, and his...
Watson, Donald Early Life to Basic Training
Donald G. Watson was born in 1922 in New London, Connecticut. His father owned one of the first radio stores in the...
Hissey, Paul Early Life to Enlistment in the Army Air Corps
Paul Hissey was born in 1922 in Chelsea, Massachusetts. His father was a Navy man who served in World War 1. His family...
Losada, Vincent Early Life to Military Training
Vincent Losada was born in Cleveland, Ohio in May 1925. His parents were both immigrants from Spain. His father was a...
Fouts, Henry Early Life to Overseas Deployment
Henry Sherman Fouts was born in June 1924 in Atlanta, Georgia. Life was hard. His father worked for a dollar a day to...
Baumgarten, Harold Early Life, Becoming a Soldier and Training for D-Day
Harold Baumgarten served with the 116th Infantry Regiment, 29th Infantry Division during the first wave of attacks on D...
Rogers, John Early Life, Becoming a Tank Officer, and Fighting the Germans
John Rogers was born and raised in Terre Haute, Indiana. He went to college in Indiana then got a job as a recreation...
Siebert, Herbert Early Life, Being Drafted and Military Training
Herbert Siebert was born in April 1925 in Saint Louis County, Missouri. He was one of five siblings; his father died...

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