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Amundson, Adolph "A.W. Amundson" Early Life and Flight Training
Adolph William Amundson was born in November 1923 in White Bear Lake, Minnesota. He lived in a small town, but there...
Fronk, Wesley Early Life and Friends
Wesley Fronk had one sister and grew up in a lot of different places. He never had any problems making friends. Moving...
Murphy, Dawn "Dawn Higgins" Early Life and Growing Up a Higgins
Dawn Higgins Murphy was born in New Orleans, Louisiana. She grew up there when times were different than presently....
Mugliston, Gwendolyn Early Life and Internment
Gwendolyn Mugliston was born in October 1939 in Suyoc, Luzon, Philippines. Her father was a gold mining engineer. Her...
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...
Eleser, Carey Early Life and Joining in the Navy
Carey Eleser was born in August 1924 in Roseville, Louisiana and grew up in Ponchatoula. He was born at a Catholic...
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...
Griffenhagen, George Early life and joining the Army
George Bernard Griffenhagen was in Plzen, Czechoslovakia on VE-Day [Annotator's Note: Victory in Europe Day], 8 May...
Denius, Franklin "Frank" Early life and joining the army
[Annotators Note: Interview begins with the interviewer discussing with Franklin Denius how he should answer questions...
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...
Carlson, Clarence Early Life and Joining the Army Air Forces
Clarence Carlson was born Kittson, Minnesota in June 1921. His family moved to Svea Township where he attended school...
Powers, Robert Early Life and Joining the Marine Corps
Robert Powers was born in June 1924 in St. Paul, Minnesota, but grew up in Hopkins, Minnesota. Growing up, he lived...
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...
Tillery, Allen Early Life and Joining the Marines
Allen Tillery was born in Shreveport, Louisiana in 1925. He was attending high school in Shreveport when the Japanese...
Blackwell, Astley Early Life and Joining the Navy
Astley Blackwell, Jr. was born in Birmingham, Alabama in April 1925. During the depression his family lived with his...
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....
Marcarelli, Ralph Early Life and Joining the Navy
Ralph G. Marcarelli was born in July 1924 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. His father was a cabinet maker and his mother...
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...
Knutson, Caroll Early Life and Joining the USAAF
Carroll Knutson was born in March 1924 in Santa Monica, California. Both his parents had children from their previous...
Baile, Richard Early Life and Joining the USAAF
Richard Baile was born in December 1920 on a farm in Missouri east of Kansas City near the town of Washburn. They had a...
Reynolds, Florence G. Early Life and Joining the WASPs
Florence G. Shutsy-Reynolds ran stores for almost 14 years. She would make the things people could not find. She was...
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...
Slay, Charles Early Life and Losing a Friend to the Japanese
Charles Slay was born in December 1921 in Holloway, Louisiana. He was one of the first boys in the area to finish high...
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...
Doolan, Robert Early Life and Meeting His Heroes
Robert Doolan was born in March 1917 in Cincinnati, Ohio. It was wonderful to grow up in Cincinnati and he still loves...
Wells, Raymond Early Life and Military Training
Raymond Wells was born in Eagle, Colorado in April 1922. He was living in Secora, New Mexico and remembers the day the...
Oakes, Robert Early Life and Military Training
Robert Tyler Oakes was born in March 1922 in New Albany, Indiana. He enjoyed his youth participated in plays in high...
Van der Pool, Ivan Early Life and Military Training
Ivan Van der Pool was born and raised in New York [Annotator's Note: New York, New York]. He had a normal childhood...
Stein, Murray Early Life and Military Training
Murray Stein was born on 23 September 1925 and grew up in Brooklyn, New York. He played football and graduated from...
Pilcher, Joseph Early Life and Motivations
In Brussels, Belgium, Joseph Pilcher was surprised to run into his former typing teacher from Lafayette High School [...
Crump, Ralph Early Life and Moving to California
Ralph Crump was born and raised in Council Bluffs, Iowa. The years of the Great Depression were "terrible," Crump said...
Schneider, Irwin Early Life and Naval Commissioning
Irwin R. Schneider was born in August 1921 in Newark, New Jersey. He was raised there. His father was a school teacher...
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...

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