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Raby, Glynn Early Life and Entrance Into Service
Glynn G. Raby, Jr. was born in Memphis [Annotator's Note: Memphis, Tennessee] in 1924. His father owned service...
Oreck, David Early Life and Flight School
David Oreck was born in 1923 in Duluth, Minnesota. Around the age of 18, he decided to go to the University of...
Amundson, Adolph "A.W. Amundson" Early Life and Flight Training
Adolph William Amundson was born in November 1923 in White Bear Lake, Minnesota. He lived in a small town, but there...
Bronfin, Fred Early Life and Going to Tulane
Fred Bronfin was born and raised in New Orleans, Louisiana. He was born to immigrant parents immediately after World...
Kinney, Gabriel Early Life and Joining the Army
[Annotator's Note: Interview begins with the interviewer speaking with Gabriel Kinney about his nephew being in jump...
Gulotta, James Early Life and Joining the Army
Judge James Gulotta was born in November 1923 and grew up in New Orleans. He went through the depression years which...
Whitten, Sumner Early Life and Joining the Marine Corps
Sumner Whitten was born in Newton, Massachusetts. After high school he went to Amherst College. In college he was in...
Higgins, Richard Early Life and Joining the Marines
Richard Higgins was born in Arlington, Massachusetts in Sims Hospital. Higgins moved to Harrison, Maine when he was...
Knutson, Caroll Early Life and Joining the USAAF
Carroll Knutson was born in March 1924 in Santa Monica, California. Both his parents had children from their previous...
Reynolds, Florence G. Early Life and Joining the WASPs
Florence G. Shutsy-Reynolds ran stores for almost 14 years. She would make the things people could not find. She was...
Slay, Charles Early Life and Losing a Friend to the Japanese
Charles Slay was born in December 1921 in Holloway, Louisiana. He was one of the first boys in the area to finish high...
Maxwell, Robert Early Life and Mediterranean Combat
Robert D. Maxwell was born in October 1920 in western Kansas. With the winds blowing the land away, the family headed...
Freligh, Robert Early life and meeting his brother on Saipan
Robert Freligh’s father died when he was two and a half years old. His mother worked full time as a pharmacist but was...
Doolan, Robert Early Life and Meeting His Heroes
Robert Doolan was born in March 1917 in Cincinnati, Ohio. It was wonderful to grow up in Cincinnati and he still loves...
Wells, Raymond Early Life and Military Training
Raymond Wells was born in Eagle, Colorado in April 1922. He was living in Secora, New Mexico and remembers the day the...
Stein, Murray Early Life and Military Training
Murray Stein was born on 23 September 1925 and grew up in Brooklyn, New York. He played football and graduated from...
McGee, Joseph Early Life and Military Training
Joseph F. McGee Junior was born in Utah, Alabama on 6 March 1924. He was standing in front of his town's post office...
Crump, Ralph Early Life and Moving to California
Ralph Crump was born and raised in Council Bluffs, Iowa. The years of the Great Depression were "terrible," Crump said...
Bianconi, Anthony Early Life and Navy Entry
Anthony Bianconi was born in September 1920 in Youngstown, Ohio. When he was quite young, his family moved to Mount...
Carraway, Myron Early Life and Navy Entry
Myron J. Carraway was born in Idaho [Annotator’s Note: in Jackson, Idaho in March 1922] and grew up there. He graduated...
Audler, Richard Early Life and Navy Military Training
Richard Audler was born in New Orleans [Annotator's Notes: New Orleans, Louisiana] in December 1925. He had one younger...
Wellford, Harry Early Life and Navy Training
Harry Walker Wellford was born in Memphis, Tennessee on 6 August 1924. He spent his entire life there except for his...
Smith, Perry Early Life and Pearl Harbor
Perry Smith was born at West Point, New York in 1934 while his father was serving as an instructor at the US Military...
Honz, Burdell Early Life and Service Before the Attack on Pearl Harbor
Burdell S. Hontz was born in May 1922 in Pen Argyl, Pennsylvania. He gradated high school in Pen Argyl in 1939 and...
Patti, Frank Early Life and the Draft
Frank Patti was born in December 1924 in Hammond, Louisiana and grew up on a produce farm where his parents shared the...
Sgobbo, Dominick Early Life and the Draft
Dominick Sgobbo was born in October 1924 in East Harlem, New York City, New York. The fifth of eight children of...
Auerbach, Herbert Early Life and Wartime Service
Herbert Auerbach was born in June 1922 and grew up in Brooklyn, New York. He attended a local high school in what is...
Gehlen, Wilhelm Early Life During the War
Wilhelm Gehlen was born in November 1934 in Viersen [Annotator's Note: Viersen, Germany]. He remembers growing up...
Shima, Terry Early Life in Hawaii
Terry T. Shima was born in January 1923 outside of Hilo, Hawaii. He grew up on a sugar plantation. His parents both...
Irvine, Elizabeth "Elizabeth Lautzenheiser" Early Life in the Philippines
Elizabeth Lautzenheiser Irvine was born in July 1927 in Baguio, Philippines [Annotator's Note: Baguio, Luzon,...
Carroll, Orville Early Life through Deployment
Orville Carroll was born in Bend, Oregon in December 1924. He grew up in Sisters, Oregon, graduated from high school...
Whelan, Robert Early Life to Army Life
Robert Whelan was born in Buffalo, New York in May 1925 at Millard Fillmore Hospital and grew up in nearby Snyder [...
Phillips, James Early Life to Army Life
James W. Phillips was born in August 1921 in Middletown, Pennsylvania. He was the oldest of four, and his father was a...
Sutcliffe, Albert Early Life to Deployment
Albert G. Sutcliffe was born 12 May 1925 in Bisbee, Arizona. When he was about two years old his family moved to Los...
Hissey, Paul Early Life to Enlistment in the Army Air Corps
Paul Hissey was born in 1922 in Chelsea, Massachusetts. His father was a Navy man who served in World War 1. His family...
Born, James Early Life to Iwo Jima
James Born was born in 1922 in Denver, Colorado. His father was a railroad man so his family was living in Denver or...

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