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Grugett, George Prewar Life to Aviation Cadet
George Grugett was born in McConnell, Tennessee which no longer exists. His father worked for the railroad. He moved...
Geary, Joseph Prewar Life to Aviation Cadet
Joseph Geary was born in Dallas, Texas in February 1924. He was an only child and was pampered by his parents. His...
McCowen, William Prewar Life to Aviation Cadet Program
William McCowen was born in 1926 in Elmsford, New York. During the Depression [Annotator's Note: the Great Depression...
Brasel, Robert Prewar Life to Basic Training
Robert J. "Bob" Brasel was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma in 1923. They had a side yard and, in the summer of 1936, when it...
Wolf, Robert Prewar Life to Basic Training
Robert Wolf was born in New York City, [Annotator's Note: New York, New York] in August 1925. His mother was from...
Holleman, Louis Prewar Life to Basic Training
[Annotator's Note: There is a lot of background noise throughout this clip.] Malcolm Louis Holleman was born in July...
Neste, Norman A. Prewar Life to Basic Training
Norman Neste was born in August 1923 in Hemet, California. His father was a housing contractor and they did well during...
McGee, George Prewar Life to Basic Training
George Wesley McGee was born in April 1925 in Bridgeport, Nebraska. When McGee was nine years old the family moved to...
Gemperline, Eugene Prewar Life to Basic Training
Eugene J. Gemperline was born in Portsmouth, Ohio in June 1923. [Annotator's Note: A telephone rings in the background...
Wise, Curtis Prewar Life to Basic Training
Curtis Winfred Wise was born in September 1919 in Kannapolis, North Carolina. Growing up there was great. It was a mill...
Bernardi, Joseph Prewar Life to Basic Training
Joseph Richard Bernardi, Senior was born in March 1923 in the Bronx [Annotator's Note: the Bronx is one of the five...
Freeman, Leslie "Vincent" Prewar Life to Basic Training
L. Vinson Freeman, Jr., in his Army records it is Leslie V. Freeman, was born in Saint Louis, Missouri in June 1923. He...
Gagel, Helen "Cosgrove" Prewar Life to Becoming an Army Nurse
Helen Gagel [Annotator’s Note: born Helen Cosgrove] was born in 1915 in Sauk Centre, Minnesota. She had four brothers...
Loring, Bud Prewar Life to Being Commissioned
Bud Loring was born in Brockton, Massachusetts. His father was an automotive, boat, and heavy construction mechanic....
Bielec, William Prewar Life to Being Drafted
William F. Bielec was born in March 1917 [Annotator's Note: in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania]. He was born into a Polish-...
Hihn, Stewart Prewar Life to Being Drafted
Stewart Hihn was born in Baltimore, Maryland in August 1923. His father died when he was only 21 months old, and he was...
Jameson, Andrew Prewar Life to Being Drafted
Andrew George Jameson was born in San Francisco [Annotator's Note: San Francisco, California] in April 1925. His father...
McDonald, Robert Prewar Life to Being Drafted
Robert W. McDonald was born in Carlinville, Illinois in January 1924. His father was born when Abraham Lincoln [...
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...
Zarger, Edward Prewar Life to Being Shot At
Edward Zarger was born in March 1926 in Hagerstown, Maryland. His father was a farmer. His mother was an organist....
Hillard, Frank Prewar Life to Bombsight Training
Frank Hilliard was born in May 1923 in Little Rock, Arkansas. He was always an aircraft enthusiast and took his first...
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...
Johnson, Burton Prewar Life to Boot Camp
Burton "Burt" Johnson was born in December 1925 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. When he was seven, he spent the summer at...
Reavis, Carrel Prewar Life to Boot Camp
Carrel Reavis was born in Lawrenceville, Virginia. He grew up in the country on a farm. He had a large family, 17 kids...
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...
Drake, Betty Prewar Life to Boot Camp
Betty Sue Drake was born in November 1924 in Winston County, Alabama, where she graduated from high school. Pearl...
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...
Wilson, James Prewar Life to Crossing the Equator
James Wilson's World War 2 record starts in the summer of 1941. He and his oldest brother out of seven children were in...
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...
Friedenberg, Bernard Prewar Life to Deployment
Bernard Friedenberg was born on 10 October 1921. He grew up in Atlantic City [Annotator's Note: Atlantic City, New...
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...

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