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Stent, Frederick Early Life and Entrance Into Service
Frederick Stent was born in August 1923 in Charleston, South Carolina. He did a lot of traveling around the large...
Andrus, Ernest Early Life and Entrance Into Service
Ernest "Ernie" Andrus was born in 1923 near Severance, Kansas, the younger of two sons in a farming family. During the...
Lee, Arthur Early Life and Entrance Into Service
Arthur Lee was born in June 1921 in Abbeville, Louisiana, the second of five children. When he was two years old, the...
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...
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...
Brannon, Mark Early Life and Entrance Into Service
Mark Brannon was born in January 1917 in Augusta, Kansas, the third of six children in the family of a man who was in...
Dixon, Richard Early Life and Entrance to Service
Richard Tempus Dixon was born in June 1925 in Oakland, California. He was the second of two sons raised by his father...
Jaccarino, Richard Early Life and Entry into the Service
Richard Jaccarino was born in May 1925 in Brooklyn, New York. When he was still an infant, the family moved to the...
O'Leary, Frank Early Life and Family
Frank H. O’Leary was born in June 1921 in Boston [Annotator's Note: Boston, Massachusetts]. He had two older brothers....
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...
Amundson, Adolph "A.W. Amundson" Early Life and Flight Training
Adolph William Amundson was born in November 1923 in White Bear Lake, Minnesota. He lived in a small town, but there...
Bronfin, Fred Early Life and Going to Tulane
Fred Bronfin was born and raised in New Orleans, Louisiana. He was born to immigrant parents immediately after World...
Jacobs, Jr., Walter Early Life and Infantry Training
Walter Jacobs was born in Mississippi. His father worked a variety of jobs. Jacobs grew up on a farm that did not have...
Weber, Rosemarie Early Life and Internment in Santo Thomas
Rosemarie Weber was born in Saint Paul's Catholic Hospital in the Intramuros, the walled city in Manila, in the...
Gulotta, James Early Life and Joining the Army
Judge James Gulotta was born in November 1923 and grew up in New Orleans. He went through the depression years which...
Renstrom, Keith Early Life and Joining the Marine Corps
Keith Renstrom joined the Marine Corps on 13 June 1940. He went through boot camp in San Diego. He was raised on a farm...
Powers, Robert Early Life and Joining the Marine Corps
Robert Powers was born in June 1924 in St. Paul, Minnesota, but grew up in Hopkins, Minnesota. Growing up, he lived...
Whitten, Sumner Early Life and Joining the Marine Corps
Sumner Whitten was born in Newton, Massachusetts. After high school he went to Amherst College. In college he was in...
Shannahan, Claude Early Life and Joining the Marines
Claude Shannahan was named for three of his dad's brothers who had died of pneumonia in Canada. Shannahan was born in...
Higgins, Richard Early Life and Joining the Marines
Richard Higgins was born in Arlington, Massachusetts in Sims Hospital. Higgins moved to Harrison, Maine when he was...
Pendleton, Arthur Early Life and Joining the Marines
[Annotator's Note: Interviewer is setting up the interview and it begins with small talk about the war.] Arthur...
McEnery, James Early Life and Joining the Marines
James McEnery was born in Brooklyn, New York in September 1919. He grew up in Brooklyn in a rugged area. There was a...
Tillery, Allen Early Life and Joining the Marines
Allen Tillery was born in Shreveport, Louisiana in 1925. He was attending high school in Shreveport when the Japanese...
Oral history interview with Ray Felts on 15 September 2016 Early Life and Joining the Navy
Ray Felts was born in Cameron, Oklahoma in September 1926, the eldest of three children. He was 15, and on a double-...
Blackwell, Astley Early Life and Joining the Navy
Astley Blackwell, Jr. was born in Birmingham, Alabama in April 1925. During the depression his family lived with his...
Bailey, Raymond Early Life and Joining the Navy
Raymond Bailey was born and raised in Champaign-Urbana, Illinois. Jobs at the time only paid about one dollar per day....
Marcarelli, Ralph Early Life and Joining the Navy
Ralph G. Marcarelli was born in July 1924 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. His father was a cabinet maker and his mother...
Bergeron, Fred Early Life and Joining the Navy
Fred Bergeron was born in Abbeville, Louisiana in January 1923. Custom dictated that the mother would be taken care of...
Butler, Barbara Early Life and Joining the Red Cross
Barbara Butler was born in Syracuse, New York in 1921. Her father was a salesman so they moved around a lot when she...
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...
Freligh, Robert Early life and meeting his brother on Saipan
Robert Freligh’s father died when he was two and a half years old. His mother worked full time as a pharmacist but was...
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...
Schneider, Irwin Early Life and Naval Commissioning
Irwin R. Schneider was born in August 1921 in Newark, New Jersey. He was raised there. His father was a school teacher...
Carraway, Myron Early Life and Navy Entry
Myron J. Carraway was born in Idaho [Annotator’s Note: in Jackson, Idaho in March 1922] and grew up there. He graduated...
Wellford, Harry Early Life and Navy Training
Harry Walker Wellford was born in Memphis, Tennessee on 6 August 1924. He spent his entire life there except for his...
Harris, Oran Early Life and Overseas Deployment
Oran Harris was born in Hartford, Tennessee in September 1924. His childhood home was near the Smoky Mountains, about...

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