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Negrotto, Constance Early Life
Constance Negrotto was born on 8 August 1924 to Ralph and Inez Hinkel. When she was five years old, the family moved to...
Downing, James Early Life
James Willis Downing was born in August 1913 in Missouri. He grew up in a small town where things were somewhat...
St. Germain, John Early Life
John St. Germain was born in Saint John, North Dakota in September 1926. He had four brothers and two sisters. Two...
Sciortino, Philip Early Life
Philip James Sciortino, Sr. was born in New Orleans [Annotator's Note: New Orleans, Louisiana] in September 1923. He...
Jackson, William Early Life
William Jackson was born in April 1923 in El Paso, Texas. He lived there until he was 16 years old. He moved to...
Birnbaum, Stanley Early Life
Stanley Jack Birnbaum was happy as a native New Yorker [Annotator's Note: New York, New York] growing up there. His...
Collie, C. Early Life
C. Charles Collie, Jr. was born in Little Rock, Arkansas in 1922 and grew up there. He left in 1940 to enroll in the...
Schmidt, Philip Early Life
Philip Schmidt was born in June 1922 in Alton, Iowa. It was a small town with not much entertainment and few friends....
Oplinger, Robert Early Life
Robert Oplinger was born in August 1925 and grew up in Jeannette, Pennsylvania. He enjoyed his life. He remembers the...
Fontenot, Herbert Early Life
Herbert Nelson Fontenot was born in April 1927 in Fenton, Louisiana. His father died when Fontenot was only 11 years...
Fisher, David Early Life
David Fisher was born in December 1925 in Evangeline, Louisiana and grew up in Jennings, Louisiana where his family...
Hajiro, Barney Early Life
Barney Hajiro was born in September 1916 in Puunene, Maui in the Hawaiian Islands. His parents immigrated from Japan in...
Leith, Hal Early Life and Army/OSS Training
Harold “Hal” Leith was born in June 1919 in Butte, Montana. During the Great Depression [Annotator's Note: the Great...
Scales, James Early Life and Becoming a Marine
James Shelton Scales was born in April 1917 in Sandy Ridge, North Carolina. It was a farming community in Stokes County...
Moore, Hilar Early Life and Becoming a Marine
Hilar Clement Moore, Jr., served in the United States Marine Corps in the 2nd Marine Division. During the war, he was a...
Furrow, Robert Early Life and Becoming a Soldier
Robert Gaylord Furrow was born September 1920 in Elwood, Nebraska. His family moved to Maywood [Annotator's Note:...
Haggerty, June Early Life and Becoming a WAVE
June Catherine Elliott Haggerty was born in New Orleans [Annotator's Note: New Orleans, Louisiana]. She grew up in Pass...
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...
Gerrits, Edward Early Life and Becoming an Airman
Edward Gerrits was born in Racine, Wisconsin, but was raised in Miami, Florida. He enjoyed going to the Florida...
Grimes, Vernon Early Life and Becoming an Airman
Vernon Grimes was born in May 1921 in Wichita [Annotator's Note: Wichita, Kansas]. He grew up with a sister in various...
Laborde, John Early Life and Enlistment
John P. Laborde, Sr. was born in Marksville, Louisiana in November 1923. His father was superintendent of Avoyelles...
Moore, Frederick Early Life and Enlistment
Frederick Moore was born in December 1924 in Cambridge, Massachusetts and grew up in Arlington, Massachusetts during...
Carlson, Harry Early Life and Enlistment
Harry Carlson was born in October 1924 in Springfield, Pennsylvania. He grew up there as a single child. His father...
Willette, Edward Early Life and Entrance to Service
Edward G. Willette was born in August 1924 in Chicago, Illinois. He and his sister, the children of a milk salesman,...
Biestek, Jane "Jane Laird" Early Life and Family
Jane Biestek was born in January 1925 in the Lamport Hotel Bear Creek, Montana. Her mother was working in the hotel and...
Eleser, Carey Early Life and Joining in the Navy
Carey Eleser was born in August 1924 in Roseville, Louisiana and grew up in Ponchatoula. He was born at a Catholic...
Van der Pool, Ivan Early Life and Military Training
Ivan Van der Pool was born and raised in New York [Annotator's Note: New York, New York]. He had a normal childhood...
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...
Achee, Lorraine Early Life in New Orleans
Lorraine Achee was born in September 1924 in New Orleans, Louisiana. She grew up in the Carrollton neighborhood which...
Irvine, Elizabeth "Elizabeth Lautzenheiser" Early Life in the Philippines
Elizabeth Lautzenheiser Irvine was born in July 1927 in Baguio, Philippines [Annotator's Note: Baguio, Luzon,...
Irvine, Elizabeth "Elizabeth Lautzenheiser" Education and Her Grandmother
Elizabeth Lautzenheiser Irvine began attending school in the internment camp [Annotator's Note: the Santo Tomas...
Swinney, Lauren Education and Working for the Carnegie Illinois Steel Company
Lauren Swinney was born in LaSalle, Illinois and grew up in Gary, Indiana. During that time, Gary had the Carnegie...
Benjamin, Adelaide El Paso
Adelaide Benjamin remembers the first Christmas tree the family had out there [Annotator's Note: in El Paso, Texas]....
Brukman, Jack End of the War
Jack Brukman could not tell the war was coming to a close. The airplanes he serviced as a ground crewman had been...
Sadler, Richard End of the War
Burt Richard Sadler did not have time to think about the end of the war. He thought he would be sent to drive landing...

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