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Bertucci, George Early Life
George Joseph Bertucci was born in July 1925 in New Orleans and was raised there. His mother passed when he was three...
Fricker, Eugene Early Life
Edgar Eugene “Gene” Fricker goes by Gene because he liked being greeted that way. He was born in June 1926 in Cushing,...
Perry, Robert Early Life
Robert Perry was born in Ebenezer, Louisiana, near Crowley [Annotator's Note: Crowley, Louisiana], in November 1926. He...
Brooks, Lawrence Early Life
Lawrence N. Brooks was born in 1909 in Norwood, Louisiana, near Baton Rouge. Most of his youth was spent near...
Hammond, Robert Early Life
Robert Hammond was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1926. His father was a postal worker and his mother a...
Malta, Samuel Early Life
Samuel Malta was born in March 1925 at Revere, Massachusetts near Boston. He learned to swim early since it was a...
Blackwell, David Early Life
David McKinley Blackwell was born in Holden, Louisiana and grew up in Washington Parish. He grew up on a farm where...
Fitzgerald, Ray Early Life
Ray Fitzgerald was born in March 1922 in Union County in North Mississippi. He grew up there in a rural home. The draft...
Maddox, Claire Early Life
Claire Maddox was born in Pittsburg, Kansas in 1924 [Annotator's Note: April 1924]. He had two older brothers. It was a...
Guderian, Emmett Early Life
Emmett Charles Guderian Jr., was born in December 1926 in New Orleans [Annotator's Note: New Orleans, Louisiana]. He...
Frisco, Paul Early Life
Paul J. Frisco was born in May 1925 in Newark, New Jersey. He lived there until he was 15 years old and then moved to...
Brooks, Charles Edward Early Life
Charles Brooks was born in Dallas, Texas. Life in the Great Depression was difficult. His mother had been widowed when...
Celaya, Adolfo Early Life
Adolfo V. Celaya was born in Florence, Arizona in May 1927. He had one brother and two sisters. Celaya was the oldest...
Currier, Al Early Life
Al Currier was born in what is now Eastpointe, Michigan in October 1923. He grew up there during the Depression [...
Bale, Edward Early Life
Edward Bale was born in Dallas, Texas in 1920. He was the only child. His father was in the automobile tire business....
Rodrigues, Alfred Early Life
Alfred Rodrigues was born on the island of Kauai in Hawaii in October 1922. His mother died early in his life and his...
Zimmer, Mitchell Early Life
Mitchell Zimmer was born in Detroit but moved to Yugoslavia which was Austria-Hungary before World War 1. His mother...
Phillips, Cass Early Life
Cass Phillips was born in Pampa, Texas in April 1920. The doctor ran late to his delivery. The family moved off a farm...
Theis, Kenneth Early Life
Kenneth W. Theis was born on 16 February 1923 in East St. Louis, Illinois. The family moved to Amarillo, Texas when he...
Ledesma, Trinidad Early Life
Trinidad Ledesma was born in November 1924 in Downey, California. His parents did not speak English. They only spoke...
Memory, Frank Early Life
Frank George Memory was born in Slaterville, Utah in July 1923. He had one brother and a sister and was the middle...
Addison, Robert Early Life
Robert A. Addison was born in Akron, Ohio on 7 December 1922. The family moved several times but settled down in...
Broll, Walter Early Life
Walter Broll was born in 1925 in Baltimore, Maryland. He grew up and was educated in Baltimore. During the Great...
Hammer, Richard Early Life
[Annotator's Note: Richard Antoine Hammer, Sr. and the interviewer informally chat for a few minutes prior to the start...
Phillips, Sidney Early Life
Sidney Philips was born and raised in Mobile, Alabama. He grew up on Georgia Avenue in midtown. Eugene [Annotators Note...
Goldsborough, William Early Life
William Goldsborough was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in January 1926 and grew up in the rural community of...
Cahoon, Robert Early Life
Robert Hilton Cahoon was born in Chunky, Mississippi in October 1921. Cahoon liked school, but school was only for...
Cassidy, John Early Life
John Cassidy was born in June 1915 in Bridgeport, Connecticut, the son of a 17 year old girl who couldn't support a...
Bergbower, Harold Early Life
Harold Bergbower was born in Newton, Illinois in 1920. He had four brothers and two sisters. He was the fifth born of...
Suter, Martin Early Life
Martin L. Suter was born in January 1921, in Rochester, New York. He had a brother and sister growing up, but he was...
Yoho, David Early Life
David Yoho was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in August 1928 and grew up in the inner city. He had two sisters....
Kellogg, Fermer Early Life
Fermer Kellogg was born in April 1925. He was born, raised and resides in Burbank, California. His family made...
Franklin, Ralph Early Life
Ralph C. Franklin was born in Cincinnati, Ohio in 13 July 1920. Life was wonderful during his youth. Raised in a middle...
von Frisch, Alvin Early Life
Alvin von Frisch was born in Giessen, Germany in 1920. He began his education there but he, his mother, two sisters,...
Hall, William Early Life
William Hall was born in Denver, Colorado in July 1920. His family soon moved to Green River, Wyoming where his father...
Loving, Burl Early Life
Burl Loving was born in January 1927 in Garden City, Kansas. In 1930, his family moved to San Francisco [Annotator’s...

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