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Riggs, Clarence Prewar Life to Pilot
Clarence Edward "Ed" Riggs, Jr. was born in Burns, Kansas. His father was a rural mail carrier to support his family...
Race, John "Jack Race" Prewar Life to Pilot
John T. "Jack" Race was born Crystal Lake, Pennsylvania in May 1921. He grew up there. His father was a carpenter and a...
Asbury, Richard Prewar Life to Pilot Training
Richard Asbury was born in Maryland [Annotator's Note: Prince Frederick, Maryland in September 1920] and had a good...
Twigger, William Prewar Life to Postwar Life
William J. Twigger was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and lived his entire life there. He was the eldest of four...
Winslow, Lawson Prewar Life to Postwar Navy Life
Lawson T. Winslow, Junior was born February 1926 in Hardin, Montana in Little Bighorn County, where Custer [Annotator's...
Marshall, James Prewar Life to Radioman
James "Jim" Marshall was born in August 1923 in Reading, Kansas. He grew up on a farm with his six siblings. His family...
Becker, Clarence Prewar Life to Reconnaissance Pilot
Clarence Becker was born in Rochester, New York one week after World War 1 ended, 18 November 1918. He was the fifth of...
Albright, William Prewar Life to Reported as Missing In Action
William Albright's father was a mailman. Albright was born in May 1923 in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. In 1960, he worked...
Eads, Arthur Prewar Life to Seabee Training
Arthur L. Eads was born in Plainville, Kansas [Annotator's Note: in August 1920]. His father was a farmer, but then...
Levee, Harris Prewar Life to Secret Life
Harris H. Levee was born in August 1919 in Sheepshead Bay in Brooklyn, New York [Annotator's Note: Brooklyn is one of...
Currier, William Prewar Life to Service
William Currier was born in Westbrook, Maine in 1926. He grew up with two brothers and was raised by his parents....
Cohen, Benjamin Prewar Life to Soldier
Benjamin Wolf Cohen got his legal middle name after he contracted Polio as a young child. He was cured miraculously...
Wombacher, Delbert Prewar Life to the 4th Cavalry Regiment
Delbert Frank Wombacher was born in Lawrence, Nebraska on a farm [Annotator's Note: in October 1918]. He grew during...
Alter, Joseph Prewar Life to the Army
Joseph Alter was born in New York City [Annotator's Note: New York, New York] in May 1923. His father kept his job as a...
Dillon, Gerard Prewar Life to the Draft
Gerard Dillon was born in New Orleans [Annotator's Note: New Orleans, Louisiana] in January 1920. His mother was a...
Stiles, John Prewar Life to the Marine Corps
John Stiles was born in September 1924 in Wadestown, West Virginia. He grew up there. He was the second of seven...
Brown, Jules Prewar Life to the Navy
Jules Desloge Brown was born in 1923 at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. His father was a colonel in the cavalry of the Army....
Connelly, James Prewar Life to the Navy
James T. Connelly was born in June 1922 in Dorange, South Carolina on a farm. His father had to hunt for a job. His...
Sturman, William Prewar Life to the Navy
William Helm Sturman was born in April 1924 in Elida, New Mexico. He had two brothers and two sisters. During the...
Tatum, John Prewar Life to the Pacific
John Wesley Tatum was born in 1919 in New Orleans, Louisiana. He worked in North Carolina at a pole mill in Leland...
Hyland, Everett Prewar Life to the Pennsy
Everett Hyland was born in Stamford, Connecticut in March 1923. His father died when he was one year old. He had one...
Buckley, James Prewar Life to the USS LST-1013
James Buckley was born in March 1923 in Sharon, Connecticut. He attended school in his house until high school. He went...
Cummings, Mary Prewar Life to the WAVES
Mary Cummings was born in Dunkirk, New York in April 1921. It was the Depression [Annotator's Note: the Great...
Lowe, Robert Prewar Life to Top Secret Radar Sets
Robert Lowe was born in Hutton, Louisiana in July 1922. He worked his way through high school during the Great...
Trahan, Horace Prewar Life to US Navy
Horace Trahan was born in January 1927 in Maurice, Louisiana. He had one brother and two sisters. His father owned a...
Carruth, John Prewar Life to VE-Day
John Carruth was born in February 1927 in Jefferson, Georgia. He was raised on a farm. As soon as the school bus...
Tennant, Harry Prewar Life to War's End
[Annotator's Note: The interviewer has Harry Tennant answer questions written to him.] Harry Tennant was born in...
Jaffe, Stanley Prewar Life to War's End
Dr. Stanley Jaffe was born in Cleveland, Ohio in February 1925. He grew up in Cleveland and did his college work there...
Rippin, Elsie Prewar Life to WAVES
Elsie Marie "Kitty" Rippin was born in Ellinger, Texas in January 1924. She moved around a lot with her family during...
Foster, Myrtle Prewar Life to WAVES
Mrs. P.A. "Tippy" Foster was born in December 1920 in Kaufman, Texas. She grew up in East Texas as one of seven...
Belcher, Lewis Prewar Life, Draft, and Training
Lewis E. Belcher was born on Christmas Day 1923 in Barnesboro, Pennsylvania. His father did a lot of things, including...
Linger, Russell Prewar Life, Draft, and Training
Russell Bretz Linger, Jr. was born in Winter Haven, Florida in March 1921. He lived there until he was 13 years old....
Gorman, Ted Prewar Life, Enlistment and Boot Camp
[Annotator's Note: The video cuts in and out and is hard to hear at times. Questions and answers are often...
Stroud, William Prewar Life, Enlistment and Training
William Scott Stroud was born in June 1921 in Huntington, Arkansas but soon moved to Shady Point, Oklahoma where he...
James, Eugene Prewar Life, Enlistment, and Training
Eugene N. James was born in Brewton, Alabama. His father was a Methodist minister, and they spent a lot of time in West...
Johnson, Erwin Prewar Life, Enlistment, Training and Deployment to the Philippines
Erwin Johnson was born in October 1921 in New Orleans, Louisiana. He attended George Washington School through the...

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