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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...
Carroll, Orville Early Life through Deployment
Orville Carroll was born in Bend, Oregon in December 1924. He grew up in Sisters, Oregon, graduated from high school...
Easterling, Lewis "Tom" Early Life to Army Air Force Training
Lewis Thomas Easterling was born in January 1924 in Ellerbe, North Carolina and grew up in Rockingham [Annotator's...
Whelan, Robert Early Life to Army Life
Robert Whelan was born in Buffalo, New York in May 1925 at Millard Fillmore Hospital and grew up in nearby Snyder [...
Phillips, James Early Life to Army Life
James W. Phillips was born in August 1921 in Middletown, Pennsylvania. He was the oldest of four, and his father was a...
Watson, Donald Early Life to Basic Training
Donald G. Watson was born in 1922 in New London, Connecticut. His father owned one of the first radio stores in the...
Muller, Henry Early Life to Commission
Henry J. Muller, Jr. born 7 April 1917 just one day after the US entered World War One. He was brought up on the...
Sutcliffe, Albert Early Life to Deployment
Albert G. Sutcliffe was born 12 May 1925 in Bisbee, Arizona. When he was about two years old his family moved to Los...
Chester, Daniel Early Life to Deployment
Daniel Chester was born in February 1925 in Lakewood, Ohio, went through grammar and high school there, and lived in a...
Venverloh, Joseph Early Life to Draft to Overseas
Joseph Venerloh was born in 1923 in Saint Louis, Missouri. He was one of seven siblings. His dad worked in the office...
Skare, Theodore Early Life to Drafted
Theodore Skare was born in April 1924 in Two Harbors, Minnesota. His family moved to Chicago, Illinois when he was baby...
Amrod, Paul Early Life to Enlistment
Paul Amrod was born in November 1926 in Saugerties, New York, the tenth of 11 children. His father, a Lebanese...
Hissey, Paul Early Life to Enlistment in the Army Air Corps
Paul Hissey was born in 1922 in Chelsea, Massachusetts. His father was a Navy man who served in World War 1. His family...
Born, James Early Life to Iwo Jima
James Born was born in 1922 in Denver, Colorado. His father was a railroad man so his family was living in Denver or...
Johnson, Homer Early Life to Marine Corps
Homer Johnson was born in Detroit, Michigan in 1924. During the Great Depression, his father worked for Ford Motor...
Losada, Vincent Early Life to Military Training
Vincent Losada was born in Cleveland, Ohio in May 1925. His parents were both immigrants from Spain. His father was a...
Barger, Joseph Early Life to Navy Life
Joseph Barger was born in Dayton, Tennessee in 1925, and grew up in Chattanooga, Tennessee. He took a bus to school...
Fouts, Henry Early Life to Overseas Deployment
Henry Sherman Fouts was born in June 1924 in Atlanta, Georgia. Life was hard. His father worked for a dollar a day to...
Sniff, Alvin Early Life to Ship Life
Alvin Sniff was born in March 1925 in New Orleans, Louisiana. When the war started, he quit school and went to work in...
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...
Johnson, Malcolm Early Life to Wake Island
Malcolm D. Johnson was born in Colville, Washington. He does not have many memories of the Great Depression. He grew up...
Sherbecoe, Martin Early Life to Working in Hawaii
Martin Sherbecoe was born in 1920 in Stamford, Connecticut. His father was a skilled mechanic and from a very early age...
Smith, John Early Life, and Enlistment
John E. Smith was born in June 1922 in Magnolia, Arkansas. His father was an Army sergeant and the family moved around...
Siebert, Herbert Early Life, Being Drafted and Military Training
Herbert Siebert was born in April 1925 in Saint Louis County, Missouri. He was one of five siblings; his father died...
Gordon, Fred Early Life, College, and Military Training
Fred Gordon was born in 1918 in Emerson, Nebraska. He was one of nine children and his father was a teacher during the...
Spencer, John Early Life, Commissioning and Assignment
A captain when he was discharged from the Navy, John Curtis Spencer was born and raised in Richmond, Virginia and was...
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...
Scholl, Richard Early Life, Enlisting and Freezing in Texas
Richard Scholl was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin in 1920. His father worked for Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance...
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...
Sparks, Bennett "Bud Sparks" Early Life, Enlistment and Assignment
Rear Admiral Bennett Sher Sparks, United States Coast Guard, Retired, was born in October 1925 in Pittsburg,...
Amico, Thomas Early Life, Enlistment and Assignment
Thomas Amico was born in June 1926, the fourth of four children of Italian immigrants who settled into an area called...
Piazzo, Lincoln Early Life, Enlistment and Aviation Training
Lincoln Piazzo was born in December 1918 in Reno, Nevada. His father was an immigrant, working in the transportation of...
Stewart, Stanley Early Life, Enlistment and Basic Training
Stanley Stewart was born in July 1924 in Hershey, Pennsylvania. He lived in that model small town, where his father...
Baumgarten, Aaron Early Life, Enlistment and Basic Training
Aaron Baumgarten was born in 1922 in New York, New York, the fifth of the five sons in his family. His father worked in...
Spraker, Elmer Early Life, Enlistment and Basic Training
Elmer Spraker was born in April 1927 in Malden, Massachusetts, the second of two children. After his mother died...
Jefferson, Alexander Early Life, Enlistment and Becoming a Pilot
[Annotator's Note: This clip begins with the interviewer attempting to level out the audio.] Alexander Jefferson was...

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