Naval Aviation

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Halvorsen, Gail Early Life and Air Force Career
Gail Halvorsen was born in October 1920 in Salt Lake City, Utah. He and his family moved to Garland, Utah. He competed...
Garcia, Ray Early Life and Becoming a Pilot
Ray Garcia enlisted in November 1942. He had been tested for the aviation cadet program for the Army Air Force prior to...
Stege, John Early Life and Becoming a Pilot
John Arthur Stege was born in Los Angeles, California in October 1920. The Great Depression [Annotator's Note: the...
Goldberg, Edwin Early Life and Becoming a Pilot
[Annotator's Note: There is a background humming noise throughout this interview.] Edwin “Pete” Goldberg was born in...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Gerrits, Edward Early Life and Becoming an Airman
Edward Gerrits was born in Racine, Wisconsin, but was raised in Miami, Florida. He enjoyed going to the Florida...
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...
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...
Carroll, Wesley Early Life and Entrance Into Service
Wesley Carroll was born in Slidell, Louisiana in 1922. He grew up there, and graduated from high school in 1939, after...
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...
Pipes, Richard Early Life and Fleeing from Poland
Dr. Richard Pipes was born in 1923 in a small Silesian town where his father had a chocolate factory. In 1928, his...
Weber, Rosemarie Early Life and Internment in Santo Thomas
Rosemarie Weber was born in Saint Paul's Catholic Hospital in the Intramuros, the walled city in Manila, in the...
McAuliffe, Edwin Early Life and Losing a Brother
[Annotators Note: there is an interruption about 45 seconds into the interview after which the interview is started...
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...
McNeely, Marigold Early Life and Onset of War
Marigold "Margot" McNeely was born in London, England in 1926. She moved from London to a small seaside resort called...
Smith, Perry Early Life and Pearl Harbor
Perry Smith was born at West Point, New York in 1934 while his father was serving as an instructor at the US Military...
Goldstein, Rosette Early Life and Persecution
Rosette Goldstein was born in 1938 in Paris, France. Her family moved into a one bedroom apartment where they were the...
Lanzetta, Frank Early Life and Service on the USS Hill (DE-141)
Frank Dominic Lanzetta was born in August 1925 in New Orleans [Annotator's Note: New Orleans, Louisiana]. He had six...
Maiten, Sidney Early Life and Serving on the USS Catoctin (AGC-5)
Sidney Maiten was born in September 1925 in Brooklyn, New York. He enjoyed his early life there. He delivered...
Gehlen, Wilhelm Early Life During the War
Wilhelm Gehlen was born in November 1934 in Viersen [Annotator's Note: Viersen, Germany]. He remembers growing up...
Shima, Terry Early Life in Hawaii
Terry T. Shima was born in January 1923 outside of Hilo, Hawaii. He grew up on a sugar plantation. His parents both...
Brandes, Rita Early Life in Wartime Germany
Rita Brandes was born in July 1939 in Bremen [Annotator's Note: Bremen, Germany]. As a young child, she knew only the...
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...
Keller, Fred Early Life, Drafted into the Navy, and Deployment
Fred L. Keller Jr. was born Algiers, Louisiana in January 1924. After he graduated high school, he got a job working at...
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...
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...
Edwards, Randall Early Life, Enlistment and Re-Enlistment
Randall Edwards was born in July 1917 near Pine Bluff, Wyoming. His family lived on ranches in various parts of the...
Dickinson, Robert Early Life, Enlistment and Training
Robert Dickinson was born in Brooklyn, New York, in September 1924, the second of two children. At an early age his...
Serna, Fernando Early Life, Enlistment, Training and Corregidor
Fernando Serna was born in Laredo, Texas in October 1922. He was a senior in high school when the war started. He was...
Bazet, James Early Life, Enlistment, Training and Deployment
James Bazet was born in December 1923 in New Orleans, Louisiana. When he was two years old, he was taken to live in...
Courtney, Melbourne Early Life, Entrance Into Service and Overseas Deployment
Melbourne Sanford Courtney was born near Cynthiana, Kentucky in 1925. He lived on a family farm, and his memory of...

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