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Johnson, Homer Early Life to Marine Corps
Homer Johnson was born in Detroit, Michigan in 1924. During the Great Depression, his father worked for Ford Motor...
Losada, Vincent Early Life to Military Training
Vincent Losada was born in Cleveland, Ohio in May 1925. His parents were both immigrants from Spain. His father was a...
Barger, Joseph Early Life to Navy Life
Joseph Barger was born in Dayton, Tennessee in 1925, and grew up in Chattanooga, Tennessee. He took a bus to school...
Grossman, Sidney Early Life to Navy Training
[Annotator's Notes: There is some chit chat between the interviewer and interviewee before the interview begins.]...
Fouts, Henry Early Life to Overseas Deployment
Henry Sherman Fouts was born in June 1924 in Atlanta, Georgia. Life was hard. His father worked for a dollar a day to...
McLain, Cecil Early Life to the Battle of Okinawa
Cecil Ezell McLain was born in November 1921 in Auburn, Alabama. He grew up through the Great Depression in Robertsdale...
Johnson, Malcolm Early Life to Wake Island
Malcolm D. Johnson was born in Colville, Washington. He does not have many memories of the Great Depression. He grew up...
Smith, John Early Life, and Enlistment
John E. Smith was born in June 1922 in Magnolia, Arkansas. His father was an Army sergeant and the family moved around...
Dunford, Philip Early Life, Basic Training and Overseas Deployment
Philip Dunford was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in July 1925. He lived in Chester, Virginia when he was five...
Rogers, John Early Life, Becoming a Tank Officer, and Fighting the Germans
John Rogers was born and raised in Terre Haute, Indiana. He went to college in Indiana then got a job as a recreation...
Siebert, Herbert Early Life, Being Drafted and Military Training
Herbert Siebert was born in April 1925 in Saint Louis County, Missouri. He was one of five siblings; his father died...
Hochadel, Joseph Early Life, Being Drafted, Medic Training and Overseas Deployment
Joseph Hochadel served in the 34th Infantry Division, 133rd Infantry Regiment, 3rd Battalion as a combat medic. He was...
Lennon, Daniel Early Life, Being Drafted, Training and Deployment
Daniel J. Lennon was born in February 1925 in Vienna, Austria. His father was in graduate school for medicine. They...
Gordon, Fred Early Life, College, and Military Training
Fred Gordon was born in 1918 in Emerson, Nebraska. He was one of nine children and his father was a teacher during the...
Ingram, George Early Life, Commission and Assignment
George Ingram was born in December 1918 in Mellow Valley, in Clay County, Alabama, one of the seven children of a...
Wilterdink, Virginia Early Life, Education and Enlistment
Virginia Wilterdink was born near the Canadian border in Woodland, Maine in October 1922. She was one of five children...
Samuelson, Arne Early Life, Education, and Basic Training
Arne Samuelson was born in January 1922 in Sandefjord, Norway. He was two years old when he immigrated to America with...
Scholl, Richard Early Life, Enlisting and Freezing in Texas
Richard Scholl was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin in 1920. His father worked for Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance...
Burke, Dracos Early Life, Enlistment and Assignment
Dracos Burke was born in September 1919 in New Iberia, Louisiana at a time when automobiles were rare. His father was a...
Childs, J. Early Life, Enlistment and Assignment
J. W. Childs was born in Cisco, Texas. From a young age, however, he and his little sister lived with their parents in...
Myers, Jr., William Early Life, Enlistment and Assignment
William Myers, Jr. was born in New Orleans, Louisiana in February 1926. During the Great Depression his father worked...
Johnston, Roy Early Life, Enlistment and Assignment
Roy Johnston was born in Emma, Louisiana and grew up in various settlements in the northwest of the state. His father...
Flynn, David Early Life, Enlistment and Assignment to the USS Houston (CA-30)
David Flynn was born in November 1919 in Collegeville, Minnesota, where his father was the athletic director at St....
Wiebe, Ted Early Life, Enlistment and Assignment to the USS Lexington (CV-2)
Ted Wiebe was born in Dallas, Oregon and raised around southeast Portland. When his father was killed in an automobile...
Piazzo, Lincoln Early Life, Enlistment and Aviation Training
Lincoln Piazzo was born in December 1918 in Reno, Nevada. His father was an immigrant, working in the transportation of...
Stewart, Stanley Early Life, Enlistment and Basic Training
Stanley Stewart was born in July 1924 in Hershey, Pennsylvania. He lived in that model small town, where his father...
Baumgarten, Aaron Early Life, Enlistment and Basic Training
Aaron Baumgarten was born in 1922 in New York, New York, the fifth of the five sons in his family. His father worked in...
Spraker, Elmer Early Life, Enlistment and Basic Training
Elmer Spraker was born in April 1927 in Malden, Massachusetts, the second of two children. After his mother died...
Jefferson, Alexander Early Life, Enlistment and Becoming a Pilot
[Annotator's Note: This clip begins with the interviewer attempting to level out the audio.] Alexander Jefferson was...
Morgan, Thomas Early Life, Enlistment and Boot Camp
Thomas Edgar Morgan, Sr., was born in September 1920 in Bossier City, Louisiana with one sister. He grew up in...
Griffith, Ralph Early Life, Enlistment and Deployment
Ralph Griffith was born in March 1923 in Hannibal, Missouri, one of four children. His father was an iron worker with...
Guercia, Salvador Early Life, Enlistment and Deployment
Salvador Guercia was born in February 1926 in Long Beach, Mississippi. He lived on his grandfather's farm until he was...
Emory, Ray Early Life, Enlistment and Deployment
Ray Emory was born in Peoria, Illinois, one of eight children. His father lost his leg during the Great Depression,...
Caffarel, Carl Early Life, Enlistment and Education
Carl Caffarel was born in 1925 in Plaquemines, Louisiana, and grew up in the nearby town of Port Allen, Louisiana. The...
Aldridge, Fred Early Life, Enlistment and Joining the USS Helena (CL-50)
Fred A. Aldridge was born in Orlando, North Carolina. After graduating high school in September 1935 he enlisted in the...
Yavenue, Richard Early Life, Enlistment and Military Training
Richard Yavenue was born in July 1925 in Harvey, Illinois. He had three sisters. His dad was a laborer and died when...

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