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Little, Henry Prewar Life to Drafted
Henry Floyd Little was born Kemper County, Mississippi near DeKalb. He lived in the country and his family raised their...
Browning, Earl Prewar Life to Drafted
Earl Dean Browning was born in January 1926 in Annawan, Illinois. [Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks Browning what...
Squire, Vernon Prewar Life to Drafted
Vernon Squire was born in a farming community that was a very small town [Annotator's Note: Orland, California]. Being...
Hackman, Delbert Prewar Life to Drafted
Delbert Franklin Hackman was born on a farm near Havana, Illinois in September 1919. He grew up on a farm and worked...
Loidolt, Raymond Prewar Life to Drafted
Raymond Loidolt was born in 1924 on a farm east of Pierz, Minnesota. The farm kept the six of them busy. He went to...
Reluga, Matthew Prewar Life to Drafted
Matthew A. Reluga was playing football and got the notice that Pearl Harbor was attacked [Annotator's Note: the...
Baxter, Lionel Prewar Life to Drafted
Lionel Baxter served in the 941st Field Artillery in Battery A [Annotator's Note: Battery A, 941st Field Artillery...
Howard, William Prewar Life to Drafted
William Edwin Howard was born in Grand Island, Florida on his grandfather's farm in July 1924. He fished there on Lake...
Forcinella, Frank Prewar Life to Drafted
Frank Forcinella was born in February 1925 in Rensselaer, New York. His childhood was good. They had hard times and...
Gierka, Eugene Prewar Life to Drafted
Eugene Henry Gierka was born in August 1924 in Albany, New York. His parents came from Poland. His father ran a butcher...
Rooney, Andrew Prewar Life to Drafted
[Annotator's Note: The interview starts with the set up and with Andrew A. Rooney looking through a book while talking...
Rugeley, Robert Prewar Life to Drafted
Robert S. Rugeley was born in January 1925 in Dallas, Texas. He was raised in Wichita Falls, Texas. His father was the...
Guitard, Robert Prewar Life to Drafted
Robert Guitard was born in January 1927 in Westbrook, Maine, the home of Rudy Vallée [Annotator's Note: Hubert Prior...
Alspaugh, James Prewar Life to Drafted
James Alspaugh was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma in January 1925. His parents came to Oklahoma when it was still Indian...
Levit, Sydney Prewar Life to Drafted
Sydney Levit was born in Philadelphia [Annotator's Note: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania] in July 1924. He grew up in a...
Mason, Leslie Prewar Life to Drafted
Leslie B. Mason, Junior was born in 1926 in Montevideo, Minnesota. He did not stay there long. His father worked as a...
Tallon, Donald Prewar Life to Drafted
Don Tallon was born in Trenton, New Jersey in August 1924. His family was quite poor. The neighborhood was segmented...
Whaley, Ellis Prewar Life to Drafted
Ellis Whaley was born in Lumberport, West Virginia in December 1923. He grew up in Columbus, Ohio. He went to high...
Larson, William Prewar Life to Engineer
William H. Larson was born in December 1917 in Fremont, Nebraska. His parents were second-generation Scandinavians. His...
Landrum, Thomas Prewar Life to England
Thomas Landrum was born in April 1919 in Shreveport, Louisiana. His father was a painter and paper hanger. He was sick...
Bowling, Don Prewar Life to England
Don Bowling was born in Penoke, near Princeton, West Virginia in July 1925. His father was superintendent of mines and...
London, James Prewar Life to England
James Harvard London was born in Cordell, Oklahoma in June 1925. London does not remember growing up. His father worked...
Parker, William Prewar Life to England
William "Bill" Parker was born in November 1924 in Torrance, California. Parker grew up in Tulsa, Oklahoma. In his...
Evans, Donald Prewar Life to Enlistment
Donald Evans was born August 1923 in Phoenixville, Pennsylvania. He had three brothers and a sister who was the oldest...
Raner, Norman Prewar Life to Enlistment
Norman Raner was born in November 1917 near Guthrie Center, Iowa. He went to high school and then worked in a CC Camp [...
Galbraith, Wendell Prewar Life to Enlistment
Wendell Galbraith was born in Detroit [Annotator's Note: Detroit, Michigan] in January 1925. He had two sisters and one...
Walker, Charles Prewar Life to Enlistment
Charles Walker was born on a farm near Sumner, Georgia. When you live on a farm family, everybody works. He did not...
Aldous, Robert Prewar Life to Enlistment
Robert G. Aldous was sometimes called "Bob". He was born in July 1925 in Ogden, Utah and grew up in Huntsville, Utah....
Kennedy, Irvin F. Prewar Life to Enlistment
Irvin Kennedy was born and raised in Algiers [Annotator's Note: Algiers neighborhood in New Orleans, Louisiana] and...
Tyler, Vernon Prewar Life to Enlistment
Vernon Leo Tyler was born in August 1923 in Los Angeles, California. There was no work [Annotator's Note: during The...
Kirk, James Prewar Life to Enlistment
James Read Kirk was born in September 1924 in Watseka, Illinois. His parents moved to the Detroit area [Annotator's...
Bluestein, Bernard "Bernie" Prewar Life to Enlistment
[Annotator's Note: There is a loud hissing noise throughout this clip.] Bernard B. "Bernie" Bluestein was born in...
Berman, Stanley Prewar Life to Enlistment
Stanley Berman was born in September 1920 in Columbus, Ohio, moved to Cleveland, Ohio, and finally to Cincinnati [...
King, William Prewar Life to Enlistment
William King was born October 1925 in Brooklyn, New York. It was a nice community that was rather mixed, Italians and...
Lochra, Albert Prewar Life to Enlistment
Albert Pultz Lochra, Jr. was born in Uniontown, Pennsylvania in August 1925. They lived in a coaling town named Amend [...
Langrehr, Henry Prewar Life to Enlistment
Henry Langrehr grew up during the Great Depression in Clinton [Annotator's Note: Clinton, Iowa]. It was a hard time....

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