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Lininger, Schuyler Early Life and Becoming a Soldier
Schuyler Lininger was born in Evanston, Illinois in October 1923. Lininger had one older brother and one younger sister...
McGhee, Edwin Early Life and Becoming a Soldier
Edwin McGhee was born in Brownwood, Texas. His father was employed during the Depression and kept his family fed. The...
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...
Marich, Robert Early Life and Becoming a Soldier
Robert Marich was born in January 1923 in Chicago, Illinois. At the age of 16, his family moved to Beloit, Wisconsin. A...
Cowart, Thomas Early Life and Becoming a Soldier
Thomas Cowart was born in November 1925 in Mobile, Alabama. He grew up there in a poor family. He had three brothers...
Tubach, James Early Life and Becoming a Soldier
James "Jim" Tubach was born in April 1926 in Fall City, Nebraska. He grew up there on a dairy farm with ten brothers...
Gallichant, Normand Early Life and Becoming a Soldier
Normand F. Gallichant was born in March 1921 in Danielson, Connecticut. He had four brothers. His father was a mechanic...
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,...
Haggerty, June Early Life and Becoming a WAVE
June Catherine Elliott Haggerty was born in New Orleans [Annotator's Note: New Orleans, Louisiana]. She grew up in Pass...
Warren, Ennis Early Life and Becoming an Airman
Ennis C. Warren was born in Wilmer, Alabama in September 1923. His mother died when he was born. He was raised by his...
Grubb, Paul Early Life and Becoming an Airman
Paul James Grubb was born in September 1920 in Riverside, California. His mother died when he was six months old....
Fitch, Mason Early Life and Becoming an Airman
Mason Brownell Fitch was born in September 1925 in Rochester, New York. He graduated high school in 1943 and took the...
Blackwood, William Early Life and Becoming an Army Officer
William Blackwood was born in March 1921 in Lancaster, Ohio. He was an only child, and lived in a small community near...
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...
Fitts, Charles Early Life and Being Drafted
Charles Fitts, Jr. was born in December 1924 in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. He lived there until he was about four years old....
Vaadi, Eugene Early Life and Enlisting
Eugene Vaadi was born 1 July 1921 Watertown, New York. He spent his life there until entering the military. His father...
Clay, Russell Early Life and Enlisting in the Navy
Russell Clay joined the Navy originally because of the tough times during the Depression. His father tried to take care...
Johnsen, Erik Early Life and Enlistment
Erik Frithjof Johnsen was born in New Orleans, Louisiana in August 1925 and had one brother who had been born in 1922....
Weiner, Reuben Early Life and Enlistment
Reuben Weiner was born in Los Angeles, California on Bastille Day [Annotator's Note: national day of France] in July...
Finkbeiner, Theodore Early Life and Enlistment
Theodore Finkbeiner was the middle child between a brother and sister. He had just started Northeast Junior College [...
Marr, John W Early Life and Entering Service
John W. Marr was born in Johnson County, Missouri in May 1918. He grew up on a farm and moved farms twice during his...
Marsaglia, Donald Early Life and Entering the Army Air Force
Donald Marsaglia was born in Coal City, Illinois in April 1924. Coal City was a small town of about 1,300 people....
Renstrom, Keith Early Life and Joining the Marine Corps
Keith Renstrom joined the Marine Corps on 13 June 1940. He went through boot camp in San Diego. He was raised on a farm...
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...
Davis, Arthur Early Life and Joining the Navy
Arthur Q. Davis was born in March 1920 in New Orleans, Louisiana. His family lived on a rice plantation in Pointe a la...
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...
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...
Ford, John Early Life and Military Training
John Holton Ford was born in October 1921 in Hamilton, Ohio. He was also raised there. After the war, the family moved...
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...
Holmes, Capers Early Life and Navigation School
Capers Andrews Holmes, Jr. was born in Culloden, Georgia. During the Great Depression [Annotator's Note: The Great...
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...
Bartels, Carl Early Life and Navy Entry
Carl C. Bartels, M.D. [Annotator's Note: Doctor of Medicine] was born in Hamilton, Ohio in July 1917. The Great...
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...
West, Gerald L. Early Life and Pearl Harbor
Gerald V. West was born in Glens Falls, New York in October 1919. His family owned a farm of about 140 acres and West's...
Templet, Robert Paul Early Life and Prewar Service in the Navy
Robert Templet was born in New Orleans, Louisiana in September 1920. At the age of five years old, his family moved to...

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