Enlistment

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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...
Burrell, Joseph Prewar Life to Enlistment
Joseph Burrell was born in Toledo, Ohio in February 1922. His family moved to Detroit [Annotator's Note: Detroit,...
Rozett, Walter Prewar Life to Enlistment
Walter Rozett was born in the Bronx, New York [Annotator's Note: the Bronx is one of the five boroughs in New York, New...
Wulf, Lawrence Prewar Life to Enlistment
Lawrence Wulf was born in Avoca, Nebraska in May 1919. His father was a farmer but was also the director of a bank his...
Cole, Harold Prewar Life to Enlistment
Harold Stanford Cole was born in New York in 1924. He grew up in a poor family. He loved the 1920s and 1930s. They had...
Lewter, Robert Prewar Life to Enlistment
Robert Lewter was born Lincoln County, Tennessee in October 1927. His father was a sharecropper. Lewter grew up...
Berman, Stanley Prewar Life to Enlistment
Stanley Berman was born in September 1920 in Columbus, Ohio, moved to Cleveland, Ohio, and finally to Cincinnati [...
Mikus, John Prewar Life to Enlistment
John Mikus, Jr. was born in Meadow Lands, Pennsylvania in October 1921. His father was a coal miner. Mikus had seven...
Kofsky, Bernard Prewar Life to Enlistment
[Annotator's Note: Video glitches several times throughout this segment.] Bernard Kofsky was born in Brooklyn, New York...
Love, John Prewar Life to Enlistment
John Edward Love was born in Clovis, New Mexico in August 1922. His father abandoned his family during the Great...
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 [...
Wilson, Anderson Prewar Life to Enlistment
Anderson Wilson was born in March 1923 in Lake Washington, Mississippi. His mother died when he was three years old....
Coop, Willard Prewar Life to Enlistment
Willard Haul "Jack" Coop was born in April 1924 in Sulphur, Kentucky. He grew up with two younger sisters. His family...
Stachel, Robert Prewar Life to Enlistment
Robert A. Stachel was born in June 1924 in Hamtramck, Michigan. Growing up during the Depression [Annotator's Note: the...
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....
Gabour, James Prewar Life to Enlistment
James Anthony Gabour was born in October 1913 in Texarkana, Texas. He grew up with five brothers and four sisters. His...
Lesniewski, Joseph Prewar Life to Enlistment
Joseph Lesniewski was born in Erie, Pennsylvania in August 1920. He had one brother and three sisters growing up. He...
Andrews, Dennis Prewar Life to Enlistment
Dennis Allen Andrews was born Mount Solon, Virginia. His father worked at Goodrich Rubber Company to support his family...
Williams, Bernice Prewar Life to Enlistment
Bernice Williams was born in March 1921 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. She had a normal life. Her father worked for an...
Sherman, Joyce Prewar Life to Enlistment
Joyce Sherman was born August 1921 in Philadelphia [Annotator's Note: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania] at the Women's...
McHardy, Arthur Prewar Life to Enlistment
Arthur McHardy was born Angus, Scotland in October 1924. He vaguely recalls growing up in Scotland. He was only five [...
Butz, John Prewar Life to Flight Training
John B. Butz was born in Fort Worth, Texas on 14 September 1920. The Great Depression [Annotator's Note: The Great...
McDermott, James Prewar Life to FLying Anti-Submarine Patrols
James J. McDermott was born in Clearfield, Pennsylvania in October 1920. He worked for a brick manufacturing plant and...
Colson, Earl Prewar Life to France
Earl Colson was born in Lancaster, Pennsylvania in November 1924. He had two brothers. His dad was a caretaker at the...
Magnifico, Charles Prewar Life to France
Charles Magnifico was born in 1923 in Jersey City, New Jersey during the Depression [Annotator's Note: The Great...
Wold, Vernon Prewar Life to Infantry Training
Vernon Wold was born in January 1926 in Fargo, North Dakota. He grew up on a farm with an aunt after his parents died...
Brewer, Chester Prewar Life to Joining the Army Air Corps
Chester Brewer was born in Sewickley, Pennsylvania in 1922. When the Great Depression struck, his parents lost their...
Blakey, Thomas Prewar Life to Jump School
Thomas J. Blakey was born in Nacogdoches, Texas in 1920. [Annotator's Note: An interviewer asks Blakey where he was...
Culpepper, George Prewar Life to Leyte, Philippines
[Annotator's Note: There is a lot of skipping in the beginning of this clip.] George Culpepper was born in Fort Valley...
Pike, Henry Prewar Life to Marine
Henry Quinton Pike [Annotator's Note: An announcement interrupts interview from 0:00:19.000 to 0:00:36.000] was born in...
O'Hara, Richard Prewar Life to Marine
Richard O'Hara was born in Chicago, Illinois in July 1925 and lived there until he was about 15. He considers...
Wilson, Bobby Prewar Life to Marine
Bobby C. Wilson was born in West Monroe [Annotator's Note: West Monroe, Louisiana] in February 1925. His father was a...
Moore, Calvin Prewar Life to Marine Corps
Calvin B. Moore was born in December 1923 in Chattanooga, Tennessee. He had eight brothers and sisters. His father was...
de la Vergne, Cyril Prewar Life to Marine Corps
[Annotator's Note: The screen starts out black.] Cyril de la Vergne was born in New Orleans, Louisiana on 12 December [...
Smith, Thomas Prewar Life to Marshall Islands
Thomas J. Smith, Junior was born in June 1924 in Schenectady, New York. He was a senior in high school and had just...

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