Prewar life

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Negrotto, Constance Early Life
Constance Negrotto was born on 8 August 1924 to Ralph and Inez Hinkel. When she was five years old, the family moved to...
Marcus, Bernard Early Life
Bernard Marcus was born on 14 May 1922. He was born in the Bronx in New York City. He lived there for 20 years before...
Schrader, Ernst Early Life
Ernst Schrader was born on a large estate that his father worked on near Hamburg, Germany in October 1919. Hamburg was...
Hirschmann, Peter Early Life
Peter Hirschmann was born in December 1924 in Nuremberg, Germany. He was raised there as the son of a patriotic World...
Ganitch, Michael Early Life
Michael Mickey Ganitch was born in November 1919 in Mogadore, Ohio. He grew up on a farm with all the associated hard...
Clark, Russell Early Life
Russell E. Clark was born in Carlisle, Pennsylvania in 1925. He was an only child. His father was a salesman all his...
Gehrett, John Early LIfe
John Gehrett was born in July 1921 in Huntingdon, Pennsylvania, where grew up and was educated. The family home was on...
Gross, Ernest Early Life
Ernest Gross was born in Turc, Romania [Annotator's Note: Turc or Turt, Romania] in 1929. He describes his lifelong...
Brown, Grace "Grace Janota" Early Life
Grace Brown was born in November 1921 in a farm in Texas. Growing up on a farm was tough, but she enjoyed it. She liked...
Samet, Judah Early Life
Judah Samet was born in February 1938 in Debrecen, Hungary. His family was Hasidic and his father was a Talmudic...
Arst, Paul Early Life
Paul Arst was born in Memphis, Tennessee in February, 1921, but grew up in Drew, Mississippi. There were not many...
Cresswell, Constance Early Life
Constance Cresswell was born in 1924 in Nutfield, Surrey, England. When she was about six years old, she moved with...
Gruen, Dieter Early Life
Dieter Martin Gruen was born in November 1922 in Walldorf, Germany. His father was a school principal and his mother...
St. Germain, John Early Life
John St. Germain was born in Saint John, North Dakota in September 1926. He had four brothers and two sisters. Two...
Ridyard, Herbert Early Life
Herbert W. Ridyard was born in July 1925 in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. He lived a very basic life when growing up. There...
Sciortino, Philip Early Life
Philip James Sciortino, Sr. was born in New Orleans [Annotator's Note: New Orleans, Louisiana] in September 1923. He...
Jackson, William Early Life
William Jackson was born in April 1923 in El Paso, Texas. He lived there until he was 16 years old. He moved to...
Brister, Delano Early Life
Delano Roosevelt Brister was born in Sieper, Louisiana in 1933. The town was an old logging camp area. Trains were used...
Haynes Sr., James Early Life
James E. Haynes Sr. was born in December 1923 in Dorchester County at Summerville, South Carolina. He was one of 12...
Moxon, Milton Early Life
Milton Moxon was born in Sparta, Michigan in March 1925 and grew up in Grand Rapids. He was the fifth of seven children...
Strait, Perry Early Life
Perry Strait was born in Ocean Springs, Mississippi in April 1923. He grew up in a rural setting where his father was a...
Kahn, Eric Early Life
Eric Kahn was born in July 1929 in Wiesbaden, Germany. His father was from an observant Jewish family and fought in the...
Higgins, Francis "Jack Higgins" Early Life
Francis John "Jack" Higgins was born in October 1922 in Omaha, Nebraska. He left there at two years of age and moved to...
McGuire, Joseph Early Life
Joseph McGuire was born in 1919 and the first few years of his life were lived in abject poverty. He used a local creek...
Gaterman, Walter Early Life
Walter N. Gaterman was born in Saint Louis in December 1921. He was in the printing trade before the war. He heard...
Villars, Robert Early Life
Robert Villars was born in New Orleans, Louisiana in January 1925. His father held his job as a clerk throughout the...
McPhail, Joe Early Life
Joe K. McPhail was born in Carthage, Mississippi and grew up there. He joined the CCC [Annotator's Note: Civilian...
Taylor, Claude Early Life
Claude Larry Taylor was born in November 1926 in Sorrento, Louisiana. His father worked for the lumber industry moving...
Halloran, Walter Early Life
Walter Halloran was born on 25 August 1923 in Chatfield, Minnesota. Growing up on his family’s farm was extremely...
Ross, George Early Life
George Vincent Ross was born in September 1926 in Albany, New York. He grew up there. He had one brother, Edward, and...
Gross, Ernest Early Life
Ernest Gross was born in July 1929 in Turc, Romania and he did not have a good life. When he was seven, his father and...
Goble, Joseph Early Life
Joseph Otho Goble was born near Statesville, North Carolina in September 1914. He, along with his four siblings, grew...
Ashton, Jackson Early Life
Jackson Augustus "Jack" Ashton, Senior was born in February 1925 in Brewton, Alabama. He had a brother and sister....
Boudreaux, Medary Early Life
Medary G. Boudreaux was born in New Orleans, Louisiana in June 1921. Prior to the war, he attended Commercial High...
Fontenot, Herbert Early Life
Herbert Nelson Fontenot was born in April 1927 in Fenton, Louisiana. His father died when Fontenot was only 11 years...
Rosenbloom, Myers Early Life
Myers Bernard Rosenbloom was born in June 1922 in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania. He has three sisters, many nieces and...

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