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Haines, Joseph Prewar Life and The Draft
Joseph Haines was born in March 1922 in Reading, Pennsylvania. He had one older sister. He was raised by his mother who...
Burkett, William Prewar Life and Training
William Burkett was born in Oklahoma City [Annotator’s Note: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma] in November 1925. He had three...
Waldeck, Frank Prewar Life and Training
Frank J. Waldeck was born in May 1922 in Cleveland, Ohio. He attended high school there before studying accounting and...
Levitt, Sydney Prewar Life to Airborne Training
[Annotator's Note: A person is seen walking back and forth in the background from time to time throughout this clip]....
Graddy, J. Prewar Life to Army
J. D. Graddy was born in Hopkins County, Kentucky in March 1925. He was the fifth child in a family of 11 siblings. One...
Liston, Earl Prewar Life to Army
Earl Roger Liston was born in October 1923 in Mitchell, South Dakota with four brothers. His father was a farmer who...
Lowder, James Prewar Life to Army
[Annotator's Note: There is white noise throughout this clip.] James L. Lowder was born in Cleveland, Ohio in June 1926...
Carlson, Donald Prewar Life to Army Enlistment
Donald Rudolph Carlson was born in 1929 [Annotator's Note: in Chicago, Illinois]. Life was great growing up. His...
Uchida, Togue Prewar Life to Army Training
Togue Uchida was born in October 1917 in Stoughton, Wisconsin and lived there until he was 12 years old. He moved to...
Brasel, Robert Prewar Life to Basic Training
Robert J. "Bob" Brasel was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma in 1923. They had a side yard and, in the summer of 1936, when it...
Wolf, Robert Prewar Life to Basic Training
Robert Wolf was born in New York City, [Annotator's Note: New York, New York] in August 1925. His mother was from...
Neste, Norman A. Prewar Life to Basic Training
Norman Neste was born in August 1923 in Hemet, California. His father was a housing contractor and they did well during...
McGee, George Prewar Life to Basic Training
George Wesley McGee was born in April 1925 in Bridgeport, Nebraska. When McGee was nine years old the family moved to...
Gemperline, Eugene Prewar Life to Basic Training
Eugene J. Gemperline was born in Portsmouth, Ohio in June 1923. [Annotator's Note: A telephone rings in the background...
Elliott, Calvin Prewar Life to Basic Training
Calvin Elliott was born in February 1918 in Whitesville, Delaware. He grew up in Maryland after moving there when he...
Wise, Curtis Prewar Life to Basic Training
Curtis Winfred Wise was born in September 1919 in Kannapolis, North Carolina. Growing up there was great. It was a mill...
Freeman, Leslie "Vincent" Prewar Life to Basic Training
L. Vinson Freeman, Jr., in his Army records it is Leslie V. Freeman, was born in Saint Louis, Missouri in June 1923. He...
Medway, Irwin Prewar Life to Being Drafted
[Annotator's Note: This clip begins with Irwin Medway talking with the interviewer about his current life and classes...
Bielec, William Prewar Life to Being Drafted
William F. Bielec was born in March 1917 [Annotator's Note: in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania]. He was born into a Polish-...
Dunlavy, Jack Prewar Life to Being Drafted
Jack Dunlavy was born In Avery, Mississippi in June 1925. It was a small town. His father was a millwright at the...
Hihn, Stewart Prewar Life to Being Drafted
Stewart Hihn was born in Baltimore, Maryland in August 1923. His father died when he was only 21 months old, and he was...
Jameson, Andrew Prewar Life to Being Drafted
Andrew George Jameson was born in San Francisco [Annotator's Note: San Francisco, California] in April 1925. His father...
McDonald, Robert Prewar Life to Being Drafted
Robert W. McDonald was born in Carlinville, Illinois in January 1924. His father was born when Abraham Lincoln [...
Biondo, Frank Prewar Life to Being Drafted
[Annotator's Note: Someone offscreen talks to the interviewer about looking at Frank Biondo's uniform.] Frank Biondo...
Parham, Henry Prewar Life to Being Drafted
[Annotator's Note: There is a very loud humming noise throughout this clip.] Henry Parham was born in November 1921 in...
Zarger, Edward Prewar Life to Being Shot At
Edward Zarger was born in March 1926 in Hagerstown, Maryland. His father was a farmer. His mother was an organist....
Bache-Wiig, John Prewar Life to Boot Camp
John Bache-Wiig, Jr.'s name is hyphenated because he is Norwegian. Somebody had married and had two children and both...
Reavis, Carrel Prewar Life to Boot Camp
Carrel Reavis was born in Lawrenceville, Virginia. He grew up in the country on a farm. He had a large family, 17 kids...
Klimas, Irvin Prewar Life to Boot Camp
Irvin C. Klimas was born in Wheeling, West Virginia in October 1920. [Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks what...
Wilson, James Prewar Life to Crossing the Equator
James Wilson's World War 2 record starts in the summer of 1941. He and his oldest brother out of seven children were in...
Jacobson, Martin Prewar Life to Demolition Training
Martin Jacobson was born in Zurich, Montana in 1921. He attended college and got a deferment from service until he...
Fiore, Dominick Prewar Life to Deployment
[Annotator's Note: The interview begins with Dominic Fiore asking the interviewer not to repeat a story of his killing...
Bachmann, George Prewar Life to Deployment
George W. Bachmann, Junior was born in 1925 in Akron, Ohio and was raised there with one brother and two sisters. His...
Nesossis, Richard Prewar Life to Deployment
Richard Lamey Nesossis was born in Beaumont, Texas in 1922. His father died two years after Nesossis' birth. Nesossis'...
Yip, Wallace Prewar Life to Drafted
Wallace Yip, Sr. was born in Canton, China and left when he was ten years old. He left his mother and came to the...
Wieland, Kenneth Prewar Life to Drafted
Kenneth Wieland was born in Fisher, Minnesota September 1926. He grew up there. [Annotator's Note: Someone enters the...

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