Overseas deployment

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Floravante, Emile Prewar Life and D-Day
Alfred Anthony Alvarez was born in Boston, Massachusetts to parents with Irish ancestry in April 1924. He joined the...
St. Julian, James Prewar Life and Deployment to the Philippines
James Anthony Saint Julien, Senior was born in January 1923 in New Orleans [Annotator's Note: New Orleans, Louisiana]....
Sacks, Abraham Prewar Life and Drafted
Abraham Sacks was born in September 1919 in London, England with one younger sister. He arrived in New York [Annotator'...
Roslensky, Marvin Prewar Life and Enlistment
Marvin A. Roslansky was born in Lakefield, Minnesota in November 1922. His family went through the Great Depression [...
Cupina, John Prewar Life and into the Army
John J. Cupina was born in 1926 in Binghamton, New York. His parents worked for the Endicott Johnson Shoe Factory in...
Zingheim, John Prewar Life and Overseas Deployment
Dr. John Julien Zingheim was born in July 1923 in San Jose [Annotator's Note: San Jose, California]. [Annotator's Note...
Van Wart, Fergus Prewar Life and Piloting Higgins Boats
Fergus Van Wart was born in August 1926 in Dallas, Texas. He was an only child. He went to high school in Dallas and...
Stumpfa, James Prewar Life and Reflections on the War
Jim Stumpfa did not suffer during the Great Depression [Annotator's Note: Great Depression; a global economic...
Burnside, Frank Prewar Life and Wartime in India
Frank R. Burnside was born in February 1915 in Tensas Parish in Newellton, Louisiana, on Franklin Plantation, where he...
Slack, Otis Prewar Life in the Army
Otis Arthur Slack was born in Canton, Illinois in April 1921. He was raised by his aunt and uncle as his mother was...
Cummings, John Prewar Life in the Navy
Albert Elmer "John" Cummings was raised in Richmond, Virginia. The Depression [Annotator's Note: Great Depression; a...
Stahl, Floyd Prewar Life to Africa
Floyd Stahl was born in October 1924 in Grand Rapids, Michigan. He grew up on a farm near Alto, Michigan. He was the...
Liston, Earl Prewar Life to Army
Earl Roger Liston was born in October 1923 in Mitchell, South Dakota with four brothers. His father was a farmer who...
Rosenberg, George Prewar Life to Army Air Corps
George Henry Rosenberg was born in Chicago, Illinois in June 1922. His father was able to retain a job in the railroad...
Bourgeois, Emiline Prewar Life to Army Nurse Corps
Emiline Ann Bourgeois went to nurses' school [Annotator's Note: Hotel Dieu School of Nursing in New Orleans, Louisiana...
Fried, J. M. Prewar Life to Army Officer
J.M. "Jimmy" Fried, Jr. was born in December 1919 and grew up in Vicksburg, Mississippi. He had one older brother and...
Haack, Frederick Prewar Life to Army Pilot
Frederick Haack was born in New York City [Annotator's Note: New York, New York in 1920] and grew up in Wyoming where...
Acker, Charles Prewar Life to Army to Home
Charles Acker was born in February 1922 in Willow Grove [Annotator's Note: Willow Grove, Pennsylvania]. His father was...
Porter, Allen Prewar Life to Army Training
[Annotator's Note: Coughing can be heard throughout this segment.] Allen Porter was born in Market, Michigan in 1925....
Allen, Warren "Bill" Prewar Life to Army Training
Warren William "Bill" Allen, Junior was born in January 1924 in Saint Louis, Missouri. He grew up with two younger...
Jameson, Andrew Prewar Life to Being Drafted
Andrew George Jameson was born in San Francisco [Annotator's Note: San Francisco, California] in April 1925. His father...
Zarger, Edward Prewar Life to Being Shot At
Edward Zarger was born in March 1926 in Hagerstown, Maryland. His father was a farmer. His mother was an organist....
Shapiro, Lester Prewar Life to Burma Hospital
Lester Shapiro was born in October 1921 in Rochester, New York. He went as a walk-on for a scholarship at the...
Ruiz, Manuel Prewar Life to Combat
Manuel Ruiz was born in March 1921 in Dallas, Texas but was raised by foster parents in Minnesota. His foster family...
Wilson, James Prewar Life to Crossing the Equator
James Wilson's World War 2 record starts in the summer of 1941. He and his oldest brother out of seven children were in...
Fiore, Dominick Prewar Life to Deployment
[Annotator's Note: The interview begins with Dominic Fiore asking the interviewer not to repeat a story of his killing...
Friedenberg, Bernard Prewar Life to Deployment
Bernard Friedenberg was born on 10 October 1921. He grew up in Atlantic City [Annotator's Note: Atlantic City, New...
Willhour, Dick Prewar Life to Deployment
Richard "Dick" Willhour was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma in December 1924. He had a younger brother who served in the Air...
Bachmann, George Prewar Life to Deployment
George W. Bachmann, Junior was born in 1925 in Akron, Ohio and was raised there with one brother and two sisters. His...
Nesossis, Richard Prewar Life to Deployment
Richard Lamey Nesossis was born in Beaumont, Texas in 1922. His father died two years after Nesossis' birth. Nesossis'...
Landrum, Thomas Prewar Life to England
Thomas Landrum was born in April 1919 in Shreveport, Louisiana. His father was a painter and paper hanger. He was sick...
Bowling, Don Prewar Life to England
Don Bowling was born in Penoke, near Princeton, West Virginia in July 1925. His father was superintendent of mines and...
Keller, Jack Prewar Life to England
Jack Keller was born in June 1924 in Cincinnati [Annotator's Note: Cincinnati, Ohio]. His parents and brother were...
London, James Prewar Life to England
James Harvard London was born in Cordell, Oklahoma in June 1925. London does not remember growing up. His father worked...
Lomax, Charles "Charlie" Prewar Life to England
Charlie Lomax was born in January 1921 in East Spencer, North Carolina. He graduated from Wake Forest University [...
Parker, William Prewar Life to England
William "Bill" Parker was born in November 1924 in Torrance, California. Parker grew up in Tulsa, Oklahoma. In his...

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