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Thomas Myrick was born in November 1927 in Monroe, Louisiana and lived there on and off during his early childhood. His...
Herbert W. Ridyard was born in July 1925 in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. He lived a very basic life when growing up. There...
Philip James Sciortino, Sr. was born in New Orleans [Annotator's Note: New Orleans, Louisiana] in September 1923. He...
William Jackson was born in April 1923 in El Paso, Texas. He lived there until he was 16 years old. He moved to...
Melvin Dahlberg was born in August 1924 in St. Paul, Minnesota, just days after his parents had moved there from Sweden...
Delano Roosevelt Brister was born in Sieper, Louisiana in 1933. The town was an old logging camp area. Trains were used...
Milton Moxon was born in Sparta, Michigan in March 1925 and grew up in Grand Rapids. He was the fifth of seven children...
Stanley Jack Birnbaum was happy as a native New Yorker [Annotator's Note: New York, New York] growing up there. His...
Wallace Jeffery was born on 27 January 1922 in Sioux City, Iowa. He moved many times but by nine years of age, the...
Eric Kahn was born in July 1929 in Wiesbaden, Germany. His father was from an observant Jewish family and fought in the...
Brigitte Rodgers was born in January 1943 in Berlin, Germany. She and an older brother were the children of an engineer...
Frank Mancuso was born and raised in the 9th ward of New Orleans and attended C.J. Colton High School. His father died...
Frank Hartzell was born in January 1925 in Buffalo, New York. After six months, his family moved to the Philadelphia...
Philip Schmidt was born in June 1922 in Alton, Iowa. It was a small town with not much entertainment and few friends....
Martin Carmody was raised in California and was a senior at San Jose State University. His family had lived there for...
Joseph McGuire was born in 1919 and the first few years of his life were lived in abject poverty. He used a local creek...
Paul Rothenheber was born in September 1925 in Lorsch, Germany. He left Germany when he was two years old. His parents...
William Pierce was born in Queens Village Long Island, New York in January 1925. He grew up in Queens and attended...
Robert Villars was born in New Orleans, Louisiana in January 1925. His father held his job as a clerk throughout the...
Joe K. McPhail was born in Carthage, Mississippi and grew up there. He joined the CCC [Annotator's Note: Civilian...
Claude Larry Taylor was born in November 1926 in Sorrento, Louisiana. His father worked for the lumber industry moving...
Walter Halloran was born on 25 August 1923 in Chatfield, Minnesota. Growing up on his family’s farm was extremely...
Ernest Gross was born in July 1929 in Turc, Romania and he did not have a good life. When he was seven, his father and...
Vernon Alexander was born in Memphis, Tennessee in 1924 and lived there for the first five years of his life. His dad...
Russell Mayeur was born in New Orleans, Louisiana in September 1927. His family had a tough time during the Depression...
Joseph Otho Goble was born near Statesville, North Carolina in September 1914. He, along with his four siblings, grew...
Edgar Marion Cole was born in Dallas, Texas in 1925. His parents were poor and he had to help the family financially...
Jackson Augustus "Jack" Ashton, Senior was born in February 1925 in Brewton, Alabama. He had a brother and sister....
Medary G. Boudreaux was born in New Orleans, Louisiana in June 1921. Prior to the war, he attended Commercial High...
Herbert Nelson Fontenot was born in April 1927 in Fenton, Louisiana. His father died when Fontenot was only 11 years...
Myers Bernard Rosenbloom was born in June 1922 in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania. He has three sisters, many nieces and...
Clifford Suthern Hayes was born in February 1926 in Manhattan, New York. His stepfather worked as a manger in a grocery...
Theodore Vallas was born in March 1921 in a small town in Idaho [Annotator's Note: Pocatello, Idaho]. His father died...
Lee Roy Dugas was born in August 1926 in Scott, Louisiana. His grandmother owned a small cotton farm on which his...
David Heath was born in November 1921 in Toppenish, Washington. When he was seven, his family moved to Montana. While...
David Fisher was born in December 1925 in Evangeline, Louisiana and grew up in Jennings, Louisiana where his family...

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