Great Depression

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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...
Daniel, Lora Prewar Life to Union Carbide
Lora E. Daniel was born August 1917 in Florence, Alabama. She was the youngest of five children. They farmed and she...
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...
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...
Brewster, Oliver Prewar Life, Being Drafted and Deployment to Europe
Oliver Brewster was born in 1926 in Lincoln Parish, Louisiana. He had three sisters. His father was a sharecropper, and...
Poye, Matthew Prewar Life, Being Drafted and Training
Matthew Poye was born in January 1928 in White Valley, Pennsylvania. He had two brothers and four sisters. His family...
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...
Sylvest, Thomas Prewar Life, Education and Enlistment
Thomas Ard Sylvest was born in September 1925 in Provencal, Louisiana. He had 12 brothers and sisters. His father was a...
Purvis, Frank Prewar Life, Education, and ROTC
[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks Frank Purvis what he brought with him. He explains]. Frank Purvis was born in...
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...
Crowley, Daniel Prewar Life, Enlistment and Deployment
Daniel Crowley was born in May 1922 in Greenwich, Connecticut. He had five brothers. He remembers that during the Great...
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...
Campbell, Donald Prewar Life, Enlistment and Training
Donald Campbell was born in 1923 in Cedar Lake, Mississippi, the son of a sawmill worker. He grew up during the Great...
Grenny, Guy Prewar Life, Military Academy and ROTC
Guy Grenny was born in April 1927 in Spokane, Washington. It was a blessing to live in Spokane in his circumstances....
Stewart, Roy Prewar Life, Military Training and Overseas Deployment
Roy Stewart was born in September 1926 in Amite, Louisiana. He enjoyed living in a small town. His father was an...
Treen, John Prewar Life, School and Military Training
John Treen was born in 1926 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana where he resided until his family moved to New Orleans when he...
Hughes, Lowell Prewar Life, the CMTC and Joining the 45th Infantry Division
Lowell Hughes was born in Poteau, Oklahoma in October 1919. He stayed there until he was 18 years old. He went to the...
Bruner, Lauren Prewar Life, the Depression Years and Enlisting in the Navy
Lauren Bruner was born in November 1920 in Shelton, Washington. He discusses his upbringing and childhood by recounting...
Pribyl, William Prewar Life, the Draft and Deployment
William J. Pribyl was born in September 1923 in Baltimore, Maryland. He served in the Army as the Technical Executive...
Martin, Oscar Prewar Life, the Draft and Military Training
Oscar Otto Martin was born in Watseka, Illinois in June 1924. He was the oldest of three siblings. His only brother...
Schmittgens, Leo Prewar Life, the Draft, and Boot Camp
Leo William Schmittgens was born in Saint Louis [Annotator's Note: Saint Louis, Missouri] in February 1926. He had four...
Brown, Bernard Prewar Portland to Training in Texas
Bernard Brown was born in Portland, Oregon in 1924 and moved to Salem, Oregon with his family when he was 13 years old...
Steeg, Moise Prewar to Air Force Careers
Moise S. Steeg, Jr. did not want to be in the infantry. He got in at a fortunate time when bases were being built for...
Tarantelli, Armand Prewar to Armored Training
[Annotator's Note: There is another person in the room off screen that interjects to help interviewee with the...
Pohorilla, Michael Prewar to Army Air Corps Cadet School
Michael J. "Mike" Pohorilla was born in the coal mining town of Kingston, Pennsylvania in January 1924. Pohorilla...
Batty, William Prewar to Army Training
[Annotator’s Note: A dog panting is audible in the background throughout segment.] William Batty was born in December...
Paulk, William Prewar to Bombardier Training
William Morris Paulk was born in Vernon, Texas in 1924. He grew up there with two brothers and one twin sister. In the...
Klenoski, Richard Prewar to Bomber Navigator
Richard Klenoski was born in Saginaw, Michigan in June 1924. He had three brothers and two sisters and was number two....
Cain, Howard Prewar to Breakout
Howard Cain was born in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin in November 1926. At age seven, the family moved to Chicago [Annotator’s...
Kent, Edward Prewar to Breakout of War
Edward F. Kent was born in November 1917 and grew up with one older sister. During the Great Depression [Annotator's...
Traina, Joseph Prewar to Coast Guard
Joseph Traina was born in Labadieville, Louisiana in June 1917. [Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks what he recalls...
Baker, Sterling Prewar to Coxswain
Sterling Baker was born in October 1924 in Texas. His mother and grandmother raised five children during the Great...
Gilmore, Selwyn Prewar to Draft
[Annotator's Note: The interview starts with the crew setting up.] Selwyn Preston Gilmore, Sr. was born in Berwick,...
Kaiser, Raymond Prewar to Drafted
Raymond Kaiser was born in Brooklyn [Annotator's Note: Brooklyn is one of the five boroughs in New York, New York] in...
Chauvin, Ernest Prewar to Drafted
Ernest Chauvin was born in Houma, Louisiana in October 1925. He lived there until he was drafted in 1943 or 1944. His...

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