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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...
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...
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...
Spinato, Angelo Prewar Life to Boxer in College
Angelo Joseph Spinato was born in August 1923 in New Orleans [Annotator's Note: New Orleans, Louisiana]. He never left...
Shapiro, Lester Prewar Life to Burma Hospital
Lester Shapiro was born in October 1921 in Rochester, New York. He went as a walk-on for a scholarship at the...
George, Carroll Prewar Life to Coast Guard Academy
Carroll George was born in October 1919 in Atlanta, Georgia. He grew up ten miles from Atlanta out in the country. His...
Ruiz, Manuel Prewar Life to Combat
Manuel Ruiz was born in March 1921 in Dallas, Texas but was raised by foster parents in Minnesota. His foster family...
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...
Willhour, Dick Prewar Life to Deployment
Richard "Dick" Willhour was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma in December 1924. He had a younger brother who served in the Air...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Lomax, Charles "Charlie" Prewar Life to England
Charlie Lomax was born in January 1921 in East Spencer, North Carolina. He graduated from Wake Forest University [...
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...
Castellano, Nancy Prewar Life to Enlistment
Nancy Lynch Castellano was born in January 1924 in Belleville, New Jersey, with three siblings. Her father worked for...
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...

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