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Welty, Orrin Early Life and Entrance Into Service
Orrin Welty was born in December 1922 in Lima, Ohio. He grew up during the Great Depression and spent summers working...
Labat, Ubert Early Life and Entrance Into Service
Ubert Labat was born in May 1924 in Luling, Louisiana and was raised in New Orleans, Louisiana. He was one of seven...
Gresham, Ray Early Life and Entrance Into Service
Ray Gene Gresham was born in July 1927 in Lawrence County, Illinois, the last of the six children of a farmer. After...
Lee, Edward Early Life and Entrance Into Service
Edward Lee Allesandro was born in April 1923 in Denver, Colorado, and grew up mostly in Pueblo, Colorado. He left high...
Mabarac, Raymond Early Life and Entrance Into Service
Raymond Mabarac was born in January 1922 and grew up in Detroit, Michigan. He was the second of four sons. His father...
Madison, Robert Early Life and Entrance Into Service
Robert Madison was born in Cleveland, Ohio in July 1923, one of four sons of an educated black man, who held "all sorts...
Epstein, Ben Early Life and Entrance Into Service
Ben Epstein was born in April 1921 in Brooklyn, New York, the youngest of four sons of Russian immigrants. His father...
Lippman, Robert Early Life and Entrance Into Service
Robert Lippman was born in Rome, New York in September 1923, in a small town surrounded by farmland. His father had a...
Faust, Virgil Early Life and Entrance Into Service
Virgil Faust was born in 1921 in Windber, Pennsylvania. His father was a carpenter by trade, and maintained housing for...
Zuras, Nicholas Early Life and Entrance Into Service
Nicholas J. Zuras was born in Washington D.C. in July 1918. He grew up during the Great Depression [Annotator's Note:...
Amore, Frederick Early Life and Entrance Into Service
Frederick Amore was born in 1924 in Bay Ridge, New York and lived there until age 17 when he moved to Rome, New York....
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...
Bayuk, Rose Early Life and Entrance Into Service
Rose Bayuk was born in 1915 on a plantation in northern Minnesota. The fourth of five children, she lived the greater...
Freeman, Bradford Early Life and Entrance Into Service
Bradford Clark Freeman was born in Lowndes County [Annotator's Note: Lowndes County, Mississippi], and attended school...
Guisewite, Myron Early Life and Entrance Into Service
Myron L. Guisewhite was born in 1921 in Avis, Pennsylvania, one of the five children of a New York Central Railroad...
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...
Frothingham, Richard Early Life and Entrance Into Service
Richard Frothingham was born in 1925 in New York City [Annotator's Note: New York, New York]. He spent his early...
Kitowski, Charles Early Life and Entrance Into Service
Charles Kitowski was born in San Antonio, Texas in 1923. He grew up during the Great Depression [Annotator's Note:...
DeMott, Joseph Early Life and Entrance Into Service
Joseph DeMott was born in August 1918 in Big Run, Pennsylvania. He was the only child of a railroad worker and a...
Raby, Glynn Early Life and Entrance Into Service
Glynn G. Raby, Jr. was born in Memphis [Annotator's Note: Memphis, Tennessee] in 1924. His father owned service...
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...
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,...
Pedersen, Allen Early Life and Entry into the Military
Allen Pedersen was born in Valley City, North Dakota in May 1916. His grandfather immigrated from Denmark. He grew up...
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....
Thompson, Willie Early Life and Family
Willie Wesley Thompson was born in April 1918 in Modeste, Louisiana. His paternal grandparents were former slaves and...
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...
Radford, Charles Early Life and Fighting in North Africa
Early life for Charles Radford was tough because of the Great Depression. He grew up in a family of eight including his...
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...
Oreck, David Early Life and Flight School
David Oreck was born in 1923 in Duluth, Minnesota. Around the age of 18, he decided to go to the University of...
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...
Murphy, Dawn "Dawn Higgins" Early Life and Growing Up a Higgins
Dawn Higgins Murphy was born in New Orleans, Louisiana. She grew up there when times were different than presently....
Aigner, Eva Early Life and Implementation of Anti-Jewish Laws
Eva Aigner was born in 1937 in Kosice, Czechoslovakia. Her father would travel and sell hats while her mother would...
Wesselhoeft, Adolf "Wes" Early Life and Internment in America
Retired Air Force Lieutenant Colonel Adolf Wesselhoeft was born in September 1936 in Chicago, Illinois, of German...
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...

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