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Showers, Donald "Mac" Segment 1
Showers was born on a farm in Iowa. As a student, he remembers the Armed Forces recruiting students. The first station...
Quintana, Ben Segment 1
Quintana was born in McComb, Mississippi on December 15th, 1921. McComb was a railroad town. The majority of the...
Snapp, Helen Segment 1
Snapp was born in Washington D.C. She lived there for about two years and then moved to Colorado. She eventually moved...
Henderson, William Segment 1
Henderson begins the interview stating that he wouldn't be there if not for the actions of B-24 crewman.Henderson's...
Hamilton, Virginia Segment 1
Hamilton gives a vivid description of growing up during the Great Depression. Times were tough but her family made it...
De Mers, William Segment 1
DeMers was born in Rice Lake, Wisconsin on March 3rd, 1915. He had 6 brothers and 6 sisters. All 13 lived to be to...
Bishop, Charles Segment 1
Charles Bishop was born in New Haven, Connecticut in November of 1920. The depression years were sketchy. His mother...
Vessey, John "Jack" Segment 1
John Vessey goes by Jack. His father was John and his son is named John and his grandson is named Jack. They all...
Mack, Frank Segment 1
Mack was born in his grandparent’s home. He lived there as an infant. When he got a little older his parents moved to a...
Christie, Robert Segment 1
Robert Christie was born on Long Island, New York. Christie came from an all New York family. His mother’s family had...
Dennis, David Segment 1
David A. Dennis was born in Terre Haute, Indiana in 1919. He was living on a farm when the crash came. His father was a...
Ohr, Freddie Segment 1
Freddie Ohr was born in Portland, Oregon in 1919. When he was four years old they moved to Idaho where Ohr grew up. Ohr...
Dupuy, Marsden "Pic" Segment 1
Dupuy remembers times being hard during the Depression. They always had food to eat, but there were certain things that...
Wahlen, George Segment 1
Wahlen was born in a farmhouse near Ogden, Utah. Soon after he was born his family moved to Ogden where they stayed...
Spivey, Leonard Segment 1
Leonard Spivey was born on a farm five or six miles north of Artesia, New Mexico. At a very young age Spivey was on the...
Karr, Robert Segment 1
Karr grew up in West Virginia in a little town called Mannington. His father and his relatives worked in the oil fields...
Greer, Richard Segment 1
[Annotators note: Interview starts off in mid conversation about the format of the interview.] Richard Greer was born...
Delewski, Lawrence Segment 1
The Laffey [Annotator's Note: US Navy destroyer USS Laffey, DD-724] had new radar and sonar equipment and that put the...
Ward, Harold Segment 1
Harold Ward was born in Atlantic City, New Jersey in April 1921. Ward had the life of a bastard growing up as he was...
Baynham, James Segment 1
Baynham grew up during the Great Depression but doesn't recall life being too bad. After graduating from high school he...
Myers, Leroy Segment 1
Myers didn't lock his doors when he was growing up. If strangers came by, you would share food with them. People came...
Hawk, John Segment 1
Hawk begins talking about how he refused to go to Washington D.C. to accept the Medal of Honor because he was tired of...
Milosevich, Risto Segment 1
Risto Milosevich grew up in East Los Angeles, California. During summer vacation he would repair concrete driveways to...
James, C.W. "Tex" Segment 1
James was born in North Texas in Aberdene. The town is no longer there. He lived there until he was 10 years old. His...
Compton, Lynn "Buck" Segment 1
Lynn Compton goes by the nickname Buck. Compton was born and raised in Los Angeles. He went to high school and then to...
Crain, Joe Segment 1
Crain was born in northern Louisiana. He grew up on a farm. During the depression everyone in his family had to work in...
Scheffel, Charles Segment 1
Charles Scheffel was born in Eden, Oklahoma in 1919. His father was an illegal immigrant from Sweden and passed away...
Van Kirk,Theodore "Dutch" Segment 1
Theodore Van Kirk, known as Dutch, was born in Pennsylvania. He grew up in a very small town and he described himself...
Kanaya, Jimmie Segment 1
Jimmie Kanaya was born in Clackamas, Oregon in 1920 and grew up working on a farm from dawn to dusk. He experienced the...
Erickson, Martha Segment 1
Erickson was born in Richland Center, Wisconsin in 1918. Her father was still fighting in World War I in France. He...
Cokinos, Michael Segment 1
Michael Cokinos grew up in Beaumont, Texas. During the Great Depression, life was pretty strict for him. His parents...
Bacon, Giles Segment 1
Giles Bacon served with an MP [Annotator’s Note: military police] battalion on Ford Island at Pearl Harbor. He was born...
Galloway, Thomas Segment 1
Galloway was born in Mobile, Alabama in 1923. Galloway was very fortunate during the Great Depression. His father had a...
Wicker, Benjamin Segment 1
Wicker was born in Scotlandville, Louisiana in 1923. He had a good life growing up, his father worked for the railroad...
Hopkins, Lewis Segment 1
Hopkins grew up on a small farm in Georgia. It was a tenant farm. Hopkins father was farming a piece of property that...
Baptiste, Wallace Segment 1
Baptiste was born in Saint James Parish, Louisiana on 4 November 1916. He is in town [Annotator's Note: New Orleans]...

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