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Mosher, Alfred Early Life and Deployment to Guam
Alfred Raymond Mosher was born in December 1921 in Adrian, Missouri. He recalled the Great Depression and how lots of...
Pocoroba, Joseph Early Life and Enlistment
Joseph Pocoroba was born in Newark, New Jersey in August 1919. He attended Good Counsel grammar and high school [...
Lalande, Edward Early Life and Enlistment
Edward Lalande was born in Moreauville, Louisiana in March 1919. He had three brothers and three sisters. He had a good...
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...
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...
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...
Carter, Paul Early Life and Entrance Into Service
Paul Carter was born in Febuary 1922 in Davidson County [Annotator's Note: Davidson County, North Carolina], the son of...
Strausbaugh, Leo Early Life and Entrance Into Service
Leo V. Strausbaugh was a captain in charge of B Company of the 6th Ranger Battalion [Annotator's Note: Company B, 6th...
Labat, Ubert Early Life and Entrance Into Service
Ubert Labat was born in May 1924 in Luling, Louisiana and was raised in New Orleans, Louisiana. He was one of seven...
Lee, Edward Early Life and Entrance Into Service
Edward Lee Allesandro was born in April 1923 in Denver, Colorado, and grew up mostly in Pueblo, Colorado. He left high...
Stent, Frederick Early Life and Entrance Into Service
Frederick Stent was born in August 1923 in Charleston, South Carolina. He did a lot of traveling around the large...
Zuras, Nicholas Early Life and Entrance Into Service
Nicholas J. Zuras was born in Washington D.C. in July 1918. He grew up during the Great Depression [Annotator's Note:...
Lee, Arthur Early Life and Entrance Into Service
Arthur Lee was born in June 1921 in Abbeville, Louisiana, the second of five children. When he was two years old, the...
Bayuk, Rose Early Life and Entrance Into Service
Rose Bayuk was born in 1915 on a plantation in northern Minnesota. The fourth of five children, she lived the greater...
Freeman, Bradford Early Life and Entrance Into Service
Bradford Clark Freeman was born in Lowndes County [Annotator's Note: Lowndes County, Mississippi], and attended school...
Theodore, Theodore Early Life and Entrance Into Service
Theodore Theodore was born in July 1924 in Chicago, Illinois, the middle child of three children in the family. His...
Raby, Glynn Early Life and Entrance Into Service
Glynn G. Raby, Jr. was born in Memphis [Annotator's Note: Memphis, Tennessee] in 1924. His father owned service...
Willette, Edward Early Life and Entrance to Service
Edward G. Willette was born in August 1924 in Chicago, Illinois. He and his sister, the children of a milk salesman,...
Radford, Charles Early Life and Fighting in North Africa
Early life for Charles Radford was tough because of the Great Depression. He grew up in a family of eight including his...
Sakato, George Early Life and Joining the 442nd Regimental Combat Team
George Sakato was born in Colton, California at a Union Pacific and Southern Pacific hub for the Railroad company. His...
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...
Gulotta, James Early Life and Joining the Army
Judge James Gulotta was born in November 1923 and grew up in New Orleans. He went through the depression years which...
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...
Bailey, Raymond Early Life and Joining the Navy
Raymond Bailey was born and raised in Champaign-Urbana, Illinois. Jobs at the time only paid about one dollar per day....
Butler, Barbara Early Life and Joining the Red Cross
Barbara Butler was born in Syracuse, New York in 1921. Her father was a salesman so they moved around a lot when she...
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...
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...
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...
Harris, Oran Early Life and Overseas Deployment
Oran Harris was born in Hartford, Tennessee in September 1924. His childhood home was near the Smoky Mountains, about...
Lee, Theodore Early Life and Paratrooper Training
Theodore R. Lee was born in August 1922 in Cody, Wyoming. He had poor eyesight as a child and had to wear thick glasses...
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...
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...
Dugas, Sr., Maurice Early Life and Testing Atomic Bombs at Bikini Atoll
Maurice Joseph Dugas, Sr. was born in September 1928 in New Orleans, Louisiana. His father worked at the Roosevelt...
Rose, Olaf "Olly" Early Life and the Draft
Olaf Rose was born in August 1921 in Pontiac, Michigan, and was the oldest of four children. His father was in the...

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