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Marcus, Bernard Early Life
Bernard Marcus was born on 14 May 1922. He was born in the Bronx in New York City. He lived there for 20 years before...
Dietzel, Paul Early Life
[Annotator's Note: Interview begins with Paul Dietzel and the interviewer talking about LORAN and flying over the vast...
Curtis, William W. Early Life and Basic Training
William Curtis was born in 1921 in a shack five miles outside of Hazlehurst, Mississippi in the Martinville Community....
David, Maynard Early Life and Becoming a Bombardier
Maynard David grew up on a farm west of Topeka, Kansas. He went to high school in Silver Lake, Kansas and graduated in...
Elliott, Lucy Early Life and Becoming a Burner
Lucy T. Elliot was born in 1924. Her father was Dennis Toups. There were five girls and two boys in the family. Her...
Scales, James Early Life and Becoming a Marine
James Shelton Scales was born in April 1917 in Sandy Ridge, North Carolina. It was a farming community in Stokes County...
Moore, Hilar Early Life and Becoming a Marine
Hilar Clement Moore, Jr., served in the United States Marine Corps in the 2nd Marine Division. During the war, he was a...
Pryor, Frank Early Life and Becoming a Marine
Frank Lloyd Pryor was born in Wilson, Oklahoma in January 1926. His father worked as a telegraph operator for a...
Spielberg, Arnold Early Life and Becoming a Soldier
[Annotator's Note: The interview begins with the interviewer and Arnold Spielberg mid-conversation]. Spielberg was in...
Penwell, Richard Early Life and Becoming a Soldier
Richard F. Penwell was born in February 1923 in Lancaster [Annotator's Note: Lancaster, Pennsylvania]. His father...
Jenkins, Samuel Early Life and Becoming a Soldier
[Annotator's Note: The interview begins with the interviewer explaining what he will be doing during the interview....
Frey, Robert Early Life and Becoming a Soldier
Robert G. Frey was born in August 1924 in Bethlehem and ended up in Bath [Annotator's Note: Bethlehem and Bath,...
Glass, Helen Early Life and Becoming a WAVE
Helen Anderson Glass was born in March 1923 in North Walpole, New Hampshire but was raised in New Jersey. Even though...
Grimes, Vernon Early Life and Becoming an Airman
Vernon Grimes was born in May 1921 in Wichita [Annotator's Note: Wichita, Kansas]. He grew up with a sister in various...
Harkness, Henrietta Early Life and Becoming and Becoming an Army Nurse
Henrietta Harkness was born in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania in October 1918. Her father was a foreman at the Bethlehem Steel...
Gilmore, Wayne Early Life and Enlistment
Wayne McKinnon Gilmore was born in Mount Hope, Kansas in November 1921. His family moved to Opelousas [Annotator's Note...
McEwen, Richard Early Life and Enlistment
Richard McEwen was born in Silver Creek, New York, and lived there with his parents and two siblings until he was eight...
Lippman, Robert Early Life and Entrance Into Service
Robert Lippman was born in Rome, New York in September 1923, in a small town surrounded by farmland. His father had a...
Smithson, Jack Early Life and Entrance Into Service
Jack A. Smithson was born in Malvern, Arkansas in 1923. As a kid, he worked in the sawmill there. At about 15, Smithson...
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...
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...
McEnery, James Early Life and Joining the Marines
James McEnery was born in Brooklyn, New York in September 1919. He grew up in Brooklyn in a rugged area. There was a...
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...
Polito, Felix Early Life and Military Service Overview
Felix J. Polito was born in Franklin, Louisiana in 1922. He lived there until he was 19 years old. In January 1942, he...
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...
Baham, Marietta Early Life and the Attack on Pearl Harbor
Marietta Estopinal Baham was born in Arabi, Louisiana. The depression [Annotator's Note: Great Depression] was very sad...
Holt, Thomas Early Life and Training
Thomas Michael Holt was born in July 1919 in Oak Ridge, North Carolina. His father was head of a military school. Most...
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...
Strait, Donald Early Life, Enlistment and Assignment
Donald Strait was born in April 1918 in East Orange, New Jersey, and spent his first five years in Montclair, New...
Abbenhaus, Gerald Early Life, Enlistment and Training
Gerald Abbenhaus was born in January 1920 on a farm in northeast Nebraska. He went to Bloomfield High [Annotator's Note...
Thrift, Clem Early Life, Enlistment and Training
Clem Thrift was born in January 1927 in Thomasville, North Carolina. He never knew his father, who died in an accident...
Gibbens, Elizabeth Early Life, Enlistment and Training
Elizabeth Gibbens was born in January 1920 in Corning, New York. Her father, a schoolteacher at the time, moved the...
Green, Arthur Early Life, Enlistment, and Military Training
Arthur George Green was born in Rock Port, Missouri in April 1926. His family moved to Wilsey, Kansas when he was about...
Rans, Robert Early Life, Entering the Service, Training and Overseas Deployment
Robert Rans was born in Chicago, Illinois in April 1921. Family life was mostly normal until the war started. He worked...
DeMott, Joseph Early War Duty in the Pacific
When the war started, Joseph DeMott was still working as a radio operator. His group was scheduled to take off for...

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