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Robert Merrill Taylor was born in Worcester, Massachusetts in October 1920. There were nine children in his family. He...
Sterling Baker was born in October 1924 in Texas. His mother and grandmother raised five children during the Great...
[Annotator's Note: The interview starts with the crew setting up.] Selwyn Preston Gilmore, Sr. was born in Berwick,...
Raymond Kaiser was born in Brooklyn [Annotator's Note: Brooklyn is one of the five boroughs in New York, New York] in...
Ernest Chauvin was born in Houma, Louisiana in October 1925. He lived there until he was drafted in 1943 or 1944. His...
Wynn Bauer was born Clay Center, Kansas in September 1923. He grew up on a farm. He went to a two-room school with...
Herman Yates was born in Anna, Illinois in November 1921. He had eight brothers and sisters. His father was a farmer....
Wesley Fronk was born in August 1922 in Jardine, Montana. His father was a homesteader. He grew up on the homestead. He...
Edward J. Nickerson, Jr. was born in Chicago [Annotator's Note: Chicago, Illinois] in July 1920. His father was a...
Donald Dean Paynter was born in Madison, Wisconsin in August 1922. His brother was in World War 2 as well. His father...
Raymond Cauble was born in Blue Island, Illinois in February 1918. His father was a carpenter and contractor. He was...
Phineas Stevens was born in Jackson, Mississippi in December 1917. He grew up during the Great Depression. He attended...
Robert J. "Bob" Goebel was born in Racine, Wisconsin. He attended school there. He did not have any college when Pearl...
Gale Ammerman was born in Sullivan, Indiana in March 1923. He grew up there. After high school in Dugger, Indiana, he...
John Symons was born in Calumet, Michigan in July 1915. He graduated from Calumet High School. He moved to Detroit [...
Joseph Silvia was born in April 1922 in Newport, Rhode Island. He was exposed to the military at age 12, by a soldier...
Hersey Goodwin was born in January 1925 in Morehouse Parish, Louisiana in the town of Jones. He lived on a farm. He...
James Billingsley was born in Erie, Pennsylvania in November 1923. He remembers the Depression [Annotator's Note: Great...
David Foerster was born in Jacksonville [Annotator's Note: Jacksonville, Florida] in July 1923. He grew up there. He...
Joseph Stefaniak was born in Buffalo, New York in February 1920. He lived in the good old days. His father worked part-...
Peter "Pete" Behr was born in Fresno, California in 1925. His father lost his job during the Great Depression [...
James N. Rizzo enlisted in the Air Force and served for 22 months. After attending basic training at Keesler Field,...
James Stewart Rosenbaum was born in Chicago, Illinois in August 1925. His father was an insurance and hat salesman. He...
Jack Dye was born in Alamosa, Colorado. His family left when his three and his mother passed away. His father was...
Charles Taylor was born in December 1923 in Hyde Park, Massachusetts. Taylor recalls growing up during the Great...
Robert Savage was born in Lawrenceburg, Indiana in December 1924. He grew up in a duplex owned by his grandmother and...
Lawrence J. Delaune, Sr. was born in Patterson, Louisiana in September 1924. He grew up on his family's strawberry farm...
William Graham Jameson was born on 29 April 1929 in Rochester, New York. During the Great Depression [Annotator's Note...
[Annotator's Note: The interview starts on a black screen.] William Nesser was born in Columbus, Ohio in February 1920...
William Smith was born in Ashland, Kentucky in March 1922. His dad was a doctor who was a surgeon in World War 1. The...
Edna Davis was born in September 1921 in Cleveland, Ohio. She lived there until she was seven when her father died,...
Robert Jones was born in Mendon, Michigan and spent his teenage life working on a farm. When he graduated high school,...
Henry Schaller was born in April 1924 in Chicago, Illinois. He attended school there until he went to college. His...
Helen Kushnir was born in February 1926 in Dearborn, Michigan and has been there all of her life. She had three sisters...
Eugene T. Leavy was born on 26 November 1925 in New York City. At a young age, he moved with his family to the Jamaica...
Dr. Robert Beynon was born in August 1924 in New Castle, Pennsylvania. He graduated in 1942 and enlisted in the Navy....

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