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Lininger, Schuyler Early Life and Becoming a Soldier
Schuyler Lininger was born in Evanston, Illinois in October 1923. Lininger had one older brother and one younger sister...
Penwell, Richard Early Life and Becoming a Soldier
Richard F. Penwell was born in February 1923 in Lancaster [Annotator's Note: Lancaster, Pennsylvania]. His father...
Day, Morris "Gene" Early Life and Becoming a Soldier
Morris Eugene Day was born in October 1924 in Racine, Missouri, near Joplin [Annotator's Note: Joplin, Missouri]. His...
Furrow, Robert Early Life and Becoming a Soldier
Robert Gaylord Furrow was born September 1920 in Elwood, Nebraska. His family moved to Maywood [Annotator's Note:...
Engel, Robert Early Life and Becoming a Soldier
Robert C. Engel was born in Summerdale [Annotator's Note: Summerdale, Alabama]. He was birthed by a neighbor he called...
Fernandez, Milton Early Life and Becoming a Soldier
Milton Fernandez was born in September 1924 in Puerto Rico. He had eight siblings in his family. His father had a meat...
Tubach, James Early Life and Becoming a Soldier
James "Jim" Tubach was born in April 1926 in Fall City, Nebraska. He grew up there on a dairy farm with ten brothers...
Fulco, Joseph Early Life and Becoming a Soldier
Joseph P. Fulco was born in December 1925, in New Orleans [Annotator's Note: New Orleans, Louisiana]. His father ran a...
Benson, Norman Early Life and Becoming a Soldier
Norman Gustaf Benson's family was Swedish. His father was born in Sweden and immigrated to the United States at an...
Slomka, Edwin Early Life and Becoming a Soldier
Edwin Slomka was born in New York City [Annotator's Note: New York, New York] in January 1926. He grew up with an older...
Reed, Carlos Early Life and Becoming a Soldier
Carlos V. Reed was born in December 1923 in Los Angeles, California. He was an only child. Before he was one year old,...
Nyman, Geraldine "Geri" Early Life and Becoming a WASP
Geraldine Nyman was born in Emmett, Idaho in 1920. She grew up with a family that moved every year. Her father was a...
Haggerty, June Early Life and Becoming a WAVE
June Catherine Elliott Haggerty was born in New Orleans [Annotator's Note: New Orleans, Louisiana]. She grew up in Pass...
Glass, Helen Early Life and Becoming a WAVE
Helen Anderson Glass was born in March 1923 in North Walpole, New Hampshire but was raised in New Jersey. Even though...
Gerrits, Edward Early Life and Becoming an Airman
Edward Gerrits was born in Racine, Wisconsin, but was raised in Miami, Florida. He enjoyed going to the Florida...
Grimes, Vernon Early Life and Becoming an Airman
Vernon Grimes was born in May 1921 in Wichita [Annotator's Note: Wichita, Kansas]. He grew up with a sister in various...
Blackwood, William Early Life and Becoming an Army Officer
William Blackwood was born in March 1921 in Lancaster, Ohio. He was an only child, and lived in a small community near...
Harkness, Henrietta Early Life and Becoming and Becoming an Army Nurse
Henrietta Harkness was born in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania in October 1918. Her father was a foreman at the Bethlehem Steel...
Fitts, Charles Early Life and Being Drafted
Charles Fitts, Jr. was born in December 1924 in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. He lived there until he was about four years old....
Knight, Edwin Early Life and College
Edwin Knight was born in 1923 in Washita, Arkansas. He grew up on a small farm there during the Great Depression....
Boehm, Robert Early Life and Current Family
Robert Kenneth “Bob” Boehm was born in August 1925 in St. Louis, Missouri. He grew up there until he enlisted in the...
Peniche, Ed Early Life and Draft
Eduardo Alberto Peniche Carvajal was born in Progreso, Yucatan, Mexico in June 1925. He was the oldest of eight...
Vaadi, Eugene Early Life and Enlisting
Eugene Vaadi was born 1 July 1921 Watertown, New York. He spent his life there until entering the military. His father...
Lindquist, Donald Early Life and Enlistment
Donald A. Lindquist was born in New Orleans, Louisiana in September 1924 and lived there until Hurricane Katrina in...
Lalande, Edward Early Life and Enlistment
Edward Lalande was born in Moreauville, Louisiana in March 1919. He had three brothers and three sisters. He had a good...
Orlando, Joseph Early Life and Enlistment
Joseph Orlando was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in January 1922. He was the 11th child born but four of his...
Witmer, Donald Early Life and Enlistment
Donald Witmer was born an only child in September 1924 in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. His mother died when he was 18...
Linett, Joseph Early Life and Enlistment
Joseph "Joe" Linett was born in Wilmerding, Pennsylvania in April 1924, the younger of two male children in his family...
Lovell, James Early Life and Enlistment
James Lovell was born in March 1928 in Cleveland, Ohio, but as a young child his father's profession in the heating...
Neiman, Leon Early Life and Enlistment
Leon J. Neiman was born on 20 December 1924 in Reading, Pennsylvania. Neiman and his siblings were all born in the same...
Burke, Murphy Early Life and Enlistment
Murphy Burke was born in Morgan City, Louisiana in February 1926. He and his only sibling, a sister, grew up in New...
Gilmore, Wayne Early Life and Enlistment
Wayne McKinnon Gilmore was born in Mount Hope, Kansas in November 1921. His family moved to Opelousas [Annotator's Note...
Weiner, Reuben Early Life and Enlistment
Reuben Weiner was born in Los Angeles, California on Bastille Day [Annotator's Note: national day of France] in July...
Mahier, Henry Early Life and Enlistment
Henry H. Mahier was born in July 1926 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. He grew up in the country north of town, on family...
Reale, Albert Early Life and Enlistment
Albert Reale was born in March 1925 in New Britain, Connecticut. He had a good childhood among his three brothers in a...
Verlander, David Early Life and Enlistment
David E. Verlander, Jr. was born in New Orleans, Louisiana in 1923, the youngest of four children. His father was a...

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