Prewar life

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Nygren, Karl Prewar Life
Carl Nygren was born in March 1927 in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. It was a colony town. They had a radio. There were...
Scully, William Prewar Life
William Scully was born in November 1922 in London [Annotator’s Note: London, England]. His family was living in London...
Byrnes, William Prewar Life
William E. Byrnes was born in Chicago [Annotator's Note: Chicago, Illinois] in January 1926. His family moved around a...
Wicker, Thomas Prewar Life
Thomas Wicker was born in New Orleans, Louisiana in August 1923. Growing up during the Great Depression, money was...
Liberato, Louis Prewar Life
Louis Liberato was born in May 1925 in Clifton Heights, Pennsylvania. He had two sisters and one brother and was the...
Smith, William S. Prewar Life
William C. Smith, Junior was born in Hartford, Connecticut in August 1917. His father was supporting three families...
Stables, Barbara Prewar Life
Barbara Stables was born in November 1926 in Mobile, Alabama. They were not affected too much by the Depression [...
Smith, Bernard Prewar Life
Bernard Smith was born in July 1923 in Brooklyn, New York. He did not grow up there. They moved to Syracuse, New York...
Taliancich, Joseph Prewar Life
Joseph Taliancich was born in Louisiana in 1920. His father came over from Yugoslavia and went into the oyster business...
Payne, Carl Prewar Life
Carl Payne was born in December 1919 in Herrick, Pennsylvania. He grew up in a dairy farm community. His father left...
Annas, Floyd Prewar Life
Floyd Annas was born in March 1925 in Granite Falls, North Carolina. He moved to a farm when he was 12 years old. Annas...
McCormick, Bruce Prewar life
Bruce McCormick was born in Altoona, Pennsylvania and lived there until 1939 when they moved to Chesapeake, Virginia....
Griffis, James Prewar Life
James A. Griffis was born in Lake Forest, Illinois in October 1924. His father was a general contractor. Lake Forest...
Caudle, John Prewar Life
John Caudle was born in January 1926 in a farmhouse in Farmington [Annotator's Note: Farmington, North Carolina]. It...
Smith, Lamar Prewar Life
Reverend Doctor Lamar Edward Smith was born in Jasper, Texas in May 1927. He grew up in Mineola, Texas with his parents...
Osborne, Loraine Prewar Life
Loraine Osborne was born in Prestonsburg, Kentucky in 1925. She grew up on a farm. They canned everything. When they...
Burkle, Henry Prewar Life
Henry Burkle was born in West Monroe, Kansas in September 1921. West Monroe was a coal mining town of immigrants. His...
Settles, Louise Prewar Life
Louise Settles was born in Framingham, Massachusetts in June 1916. She was working for Bethlehem Steel at Fore River...
O'Brien, Ryan Prewar Life
Ryan O'Brien was born in March 1922 in Los Angeles, California. The Great Depression started when he was seven. His dad...
Eshelman, Raymond Prewar Life
Ray Eshelman was born in Dayton, Ohio, in July 1925. He grew up there and attended school. He graduated [Annotator's...
Wellington, Harold Prewar Life
Harold Wellington was born in Great Barrington, Massachusetts in September 1924. He had one older brother and one...
Cole, Wendell Prewar Life
[Annotator's Note: Wendell Delavan Cole suffers from Parkinson's disease and needs the assistance of his son to...
Welch, Darrell Prewar Life
Darrell Welch is a fifth generation Texan born in Center City, Texas [Annotator's Note: in March 1918]. He moved West...
Tso, Samuel Prewar Life
[Annotator's Note: This interview is conducted with a group of Navajo veterans present, many of whom can be heard off-...
Gibb, Owen Prewar Life
Owen Gibb was born in Canada in 1925. His parents were farmers. He was raised on a farm in Alberta [Annotator’s Note:...
Chambers, Eugene Prewar Life
Eugene W. Chambers was born on a farm in Union Mills, Indiana in January 1922. His father was a farmer. Chambers became...
Grass, Philip Prewar Life
Philip Grass grew up in Alexandria [Annotator’s Note: Alexandria, Louisiana], but was born near Port Allen, Louisiana....
Allegrezza, Johnny Prewar Life
Johnny Allegrezza was born in Mississippi in January 1923. He went to school through the ninth grade. His parents...
Cowell, Ernest Prewar Life
Ernest Cowell was born in January 1927 in Los Angeles, Hollywood [Annotator's Note: Los Angeles, California]. His...
Willett, Richard Prewar Life
Richard Willett was born in San Antonio, Texas in January 1925. He lived in San Antonio until 1938 when his family...
Stewart, Roy Prewar Life
[Annotator's Note: The interview begins with the interviewer explaining to Roy Stewart how the interview process works...
Salter, Cary Prewar Life
Cary Salter was born in December 1921 near Macon, Mississippi. His father was a country doctor. They lived seven miles...
Hillenbrand, Bernard Prewar Life
Bernard Hillenbrand was born in May 1925 in Syracuse, New York. Growing up in the Great Depression [Annotator's Note:...
Naylor, Rosamond Prewar Life
Rosamund Naylor was born in April 1922 in Massachusetts. Her family lived in her grandfather’s house. Her father worked...
Prince, Robert Prewar Life
Robert Prince was born in Seattle, Washington in November 1919. He was the second of four boys. All of them served in...
Ramsey, Rosemary Jane Prewar Life
[Annotator's Note: The interview starts mid-conversation.] Rosemary Ramsey was born in Levington, Michigan [Annotator's...

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