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Mervosh, Michael "Iron Mike" Early Life and Becoming a Marine
Michael Mervosh was born in Pittsburgh in 1923. The Great Depression taught him how to be frugal. At 18, he joined the...
Pryor, Frank Early Life and Becoming a Marine
Frank Lloyd Pryor was born in Wilson, Oklahoma in January 1926. His father worked as a telegraph operator for a...
Knapps, Walter Early Life and Becoming a Marine
Walter Knapps was born in February 1921 in New Roads, Louisiana. His mother died in a house fire when he was six years...
Houston, Jack Early Life and Becoming a Marine
Jack Houston was born in Rochester, New York in May 1926. His father was a foreman in a foundry and was able to...
Gimbut, Raymond Early Life and Becoming a Sailor
Raymond Day Gimbut was born in 1921 in Brooklyn [Annotator's Note: Brooklyn is one of the five boroughs in New York,...
McCorriston, James "Fran McCorriston" Early Life and Becoming a Sailor
James Francis McCorriston was born in Trenton, New Jersey, in February 1925, but grew up in Florence, New Jersey....
Barnes, Alvin Early Life and Becoming a Sailor
Alvin Barnes was born December in 1925 in Minden, Nebraska. His family moved from the small Midwestern town and bought...
Franklin, Paul Early Life and Becoming a Soldier
Paul A. Franklin was born in in February 1922 in Elm Grove, Louisiana. He was raised during the Great Depression [...
Lininger, Schuyler Early Life and Becoming a Soldier
Schuyler Lininger was born in Evanston, Illinois in October 1923. Lininger had one older brother and one younger sister...
Penwell, Richard Early Life and Becoming a Soldier
Richard F. Penwell was born in February 1923 in Lancaster [Annotator's Note: Lancaster, Pennsylvania]. His father...
Marich, Robert Early Life and Becoming a Soldier
Robert Marich was born in January 1923 in Chicago, Illinois. At the age of 16, his family moved to Beloit, Wisconsin. A...
Fernandez, Milton Early Life and Becoming a Soldier
Milton Fernandez was born in September 1924 in Puerto Rico. He had eight siblings in his family. His father had a meat...
Tubach, James Early Life and Becoming a Soldier
James "Jim" Tubach was born in April 1926 in Fall City, Nebraska. He grew up there on a dairy farm with ten brothers...
Gallichant, Normand Early Life and Becoming a Soldier
Normand F. Gallichant was born in March 1921 in Danielson, Connecticut. He had four brothers. His father was a mechanic...
Reed, Carlos Early Life and Becoming a Soldier
Carlos V. Reed was born in December 1923 in Los Angeles, California. He was an only child. Before he was one year old,...
Bollich, James Early Life and Becoming an Airman
James J. Bollich was born on a farm south of Eunice [Annotator's Note: Eunice, Louisiana]. His family primarily grew...
Steele, Ben Early Life and Becoming an Airman
Ben Steele joined the Army Air Corps in 1940. He was raised on a cattle ranch north of Billings [Annotator's Note:...
Fitch, Mason Early Life and Becoming an Airman
Mason Brownell Fitch was born in September 1925 in Rochester, New York. He graduated high school in 1943 and took the...
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...
Mosher, Alfred Early Life and Deployment to Guam
Alfred Raymond Mosher was born in December 1921 in Adrian, Missouri. He recalled the Great Depression and how lots of...
Shaw, Claude Early Life and Education
Claude Bufford Shaw grew up around Carson Lake [Annotator's Note: Carson Lake, Arkansas] until he was about 11 years...
Johnsen, Erik Early Life and Enlistment
Erik Frithjof Johnsen was born in New Orleans, Louisiana in August 1925 and had one brother who had been born in 1922....
Neiman, Leon Early Life and Enlistment
Leon J. Neiman was born on 20 December 1924 in Reading, Pennsylvania. Neiman and his siblings were all born in the same...
Borne, Edwin Early Life and Enlistment
Edwin Joseph Borne, Jr. was born in New Orleans, Louisiana. His father was an engine operator who was on the ground...
Burke, Murphy Early Life and Enlistment
Murphy Burke was born in Morgan City, Louisiana in February 1926. He and his only sibling, a sister, grew up in New...
Kight, Otis Early Life and Enlistment
Otis Kight grew up near Atlanta [Annotator's Note: Atlanta, Georgia] and nearby Stone Mountain [Annotator's Note: Stone...
Fogg, Floyd Early Life and Enlistment
Floyd Fogg was born in April 1926 in Lacombe, Louisiana. When he was three years old, his family moved to Slidell,...
Galella, Armando Early Life and Enlistment
Armando Galella was born in January 1921 in New York, New York. When he was around four years old, he moved with his...
Mc Murray, Steve Early Life and Enlistment
Steve McMurray was born in June 1925 in New Orleans, Louisiana. His father worked as an accountant for a realty company...
Savage, Frank Early Life and Enlistment
Frank N. Savage was born in June 1921 in Lawrenceburg, Indiana. His parents had a difficult time during the depression...
McEwen, Richard Early Life and Enlistment
Richard McEwen was born in Silver Creek, New York, and lived there with his parents and two siblings until he was eight...
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....
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...
Strausbaugh, Leo Early Life and Entrance Into Service
Leo V. Strausbaugh was a captain in charge of B Company of the 6th Ranger Battalion [Annotator's Note: Company B, 6th...
Gresham, Ray Early Life and Entrance Into Service
Ray Gene Gresham was born in July 1927 in Lawrence County, Illinois, the last of the six children of a farmer. After...
Lee, Edward Early Life and Entrance Into Service
Edward Lee Allesandro was born in April 1923 in Denver, Colorado, and grew up mostly in Pueblo, Colorado. He left high...

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