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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...
Audler, Richard Early Life and Navy Military Training
Richard Audler was born in New Orleans [Annotator's Notes: New Orleans, Louisiana] in December 1925. He had one younger...
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...
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...
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...
Burns, Lloyd Early Life and Pilot Training
Lloyd Burns was born in Bossier, Louisiana but grew up in Shreveport, Louisiana during the Great Depression. He had ten...
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...
Pesky, John Early Life and Pro Baseball
John “Johnny” Pesky was born in Portland, Oregon and went off to play baseball rather than going to college. He has a...
Kynett, Gerald Early Life and Reaction to Pearl Harbor
Gerald Kynett was born in December 1925 in Media, Pennsylvania. He grew up in Wallingford, Pennsylvania, right outside...
Whitaker, Harold Early Life and Reuniting with Family
[Annotator's Note: Interview begins with the interviewer introducing himself.] Harold Whitaker was born in Henrietta,...
Honz, Burdell Early Life and Service Before the Attack on Pearl Harbor
Burdell S. Hontz was born in May 1922 in Pen Argyl, Pennsylvania. He gradated high school in Pen Argyl in 1939 and...
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...
Warner, George Early Life and Serving in the Home Guard
George Warner was born in November 1929 in Greenwood, Mississippi, where he lived until he was five years old and his...
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...
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...
Allen, George Early Life and the Attack on Pearl Harbor
George Allen was born in September 1925 in Alexandria, Louisiana. He had two sisters growing up there with him. His...
Baham, Marietta Early Life and the Attack on Pearl Harbor
Marietta Estopinal Baham was born in Arabi, Louisiana. The depression [Annotator's Note: Great Depression] was very sad...
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...
Fruge, Weldon Early Life and the Draft
Weldon Fruge was born in January 1925 in Eunice, Louisiana. His parents were sharecroppers, moving from farm to farm...
Higgins, Gordon Early Life and the Draft
Gordon Higgins was born in February 1924 in New Haven, Connecticut, one of two sons who lived with their mother and...
Sgobbo, Dominick Early Life and the Draft
Dominick Sgobbo was born in October 1924 in East Harlem, New York City, New York. The fifth of eight children of...
Mermelstein, Seymour "Cy" Early Life and the Draft
Seymour Mermelstein was born October 1924 in Newark, New Jersey. He was the oldest of three children born to Jewish...
Bederson, Benjamin Early Life and the Draft
Benjamin Bederson was born in New York, New York, the son of Russian immigrants. He grew up in The Bronx and Brooklyn...
Breen, Vernon Early Life and the Family Business
Vernon Breen was born in Chicago [Annotator's Note: Chicago, Illinois] in March 1925. He grew up in River Forest,...
Reissig, Floyd J. Early Life and the Navy
Floyd James Reissig, known as Buddy, was born in Travis County, outside of Austin, Texas in March 1919. His father was...
Goyette, Donald Early Life and the U.S. Entrance Into War
[Annotator's Note: The interview begins with a conversation between the interviewer and Donald F. Goyette who goes off...
Wofford, Jesse L. Early Life and Training
Dr. Jesse L. Wofford was born in the small, working community of Drew, Mississippi, where his family was in the farming...
Ingram, Ruth Early Life and Wartime
Ruth Ingram was born in Scarsdale, New York in November 1928. Ingram was 13 years old when the war broke out and has...
Weber, Norman Early Life Before the War
Norman Weber was born in August 1935 in New York City [Annotator’s Note: New York City, New York]. His father was from...
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...
de Marcken, Christian Early Life in Belgium
Christian W. de Marcken was born in January 1928 in Brussels, Belgium. He was the oldest of nine children, and he and...
Oka, Walter Early Life in Hawaii
Walter Oka was born in May 1928 in a hospital in Ewa, but spent his young childhood in the town of Waianae, Oahu,...
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...
Achee, Lorraine Early Life in New Orleans
Lorraine Achee was born in September 1924 in New Orleans, Louisiana. She grew up in the Carrollton neighborhood which...
Irvine, Elizabeth "Elizabeth Lautzenheiser" Early Life in the Philippines
Elizabeth Lautzenheiser Irvine was born in July 1927 in Baguio, Philippines [Annotator's Note: Baguio, Luzon,...
Greenup, Rena Early Life in Thessaloniki
Rena Greenup was born in May 1936 in Thessaloniki, Greece of Jewish parents. Her father was a Greek Sephardic Jew and...

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