Reaction to Pearl Harbor

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McGlohon, John Early Life and Entrance Into Service
John McGlohon was born in June 1923 in Guilford County, North Carolina where he lived for the first six months of his...
Smithson, Jack Early Life and Entrance Into Service
Jack A. Smithson was born in Malvern, Arkansas in 1923. As a kid, he worked in the sawmill there. At about 15, Smithson...
Guisewite, Myron Early Life and Entrance Into Service
Myron L. Guisewhite was born in 1921 in Avis, Pennsylvania, one of the five children of a New York Central Railroad...
Frothingham, Richard Early Life and Entrance Into Service
Richard Frothingham was born in 1925 in New York City [Annotator's Note: New York, New York]. He spent his early...
Kitowski, Charles Early Life and Entrance Into Service
Charles Kitowski was born in San Antonio, Texas in 1923. He grew up during the Great Depression [Annotator's Note:...
Raby, Glynn Early Life and Entrance Into Service
Glynn G. Raby, Jr. was born in Memphis [Annotator's Note: Memphis, Tennessee] in 1924. His father owned service...
Dixon, Richard Early Life and Entrance to Service
Richard Tempus Dixon was born in June 1925 in Oakland, California. He was the second of two sons raised by his father...
Willette, Edward Early Life and Entrance to Service
Edward G. Willette was born in August 1924 in Chicago, Illinois. He and his sister, the children of a milk salesman,...
Pedersen, Allen Early Life and Entry into the Military
Allen Pedersen was born in Valley City, North Dakota in May 1916. His grandfather immigrated from Denmark. He grew up...
Jaccarino, Richard Early Life and Entry into the Service
Richard Jaccarino was born in May 1925 in Brooklyn, New York. When he was still an infant, the family moved to the...
Tanner, Theodore Early Life and Flight School
Theodore Robert Tanner was born in Portland, Oregon in December 1920. He had one younger sister, born two years after...
Oreck, David Early Life and Flight School
David Oreck was born in 1923 in Duluth, Minnesota. Around the age of 18, he decided to go to the University of...
Amundson, Adolph "A.W. Amundson" Early Life and Flight Training
Adolph William Amundson was born in November 1923 in White Bear Lake, Minnesota. He lived in a small town, but there...
Fronk, Wesley Early Life and Friends
Wesley Fronk had one sister and grew up in a lot of different places. He never had any problems making friends. Moving...
Sakato, George Early Life and Joining the 442nd Regimental Combat Team
George Sakato was born in Colton, California at a Union Pacific and Southern Pacific hub for the Railroad company. His...
Griffenhagen, George Early life and joining the Army
George Bernard Griffenhagen was in Plzen, Czechoslovakia on VE-Day [Annotator's Note: Victory in Europe Day], 8 May...
Kinney, Gabriel Early Life and Joining the Army
[Annotator's Note: Interview begins with the interviewer speaking with Gabriel Kinney about his nephew being in jump...
Powers, Robert Early Life and Joining the Marine Corps
Robert Powers was born in June 1924 in St. Paul, Minnesota, but grew up in Hopkins, Minnesota. Growing up, he lived...
Oral history interview with Ray Felts on 15 September 2016 Early Life and Joining the Navy
Ray Felts was born in Cameron, Oklahoma in September 1926, the eldest of three children. He was 15, and on a double-...
Blackwell, Astley Early Life and Joining the Navy
Astley Blackwell, Jr. was born in Birmingham, Alabama in April 1925. During the depression his family lived with his...
Marcarelli, Ralph Early Life and Joining the Navy
Ralph G. Marcarelli was born in July 1924 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. His father was a cabinet maker and his mother...
Davis, Arthur Early Life and Joining the Navy
Arthur Q. Davis was born in March 1920 in New Orleans, Louisiana. His family lived on a rice plantation in Pointe a la...
Butler, Barbara Early Life and Joining the Red Cross
Barbara Butler was born in Syracuse, New York in 1921. Her father was a salesman so they moved around a lot when she...
Knutson, Caroll Early Life and Joining the USAAF
Carroll Knutson was born in March 1924 in Santa Monica, California. Both his parents had children from their previous...
Baile, Richard Early Life and Joining the USAAF
Richard Baile was born in December 1920 on a farm in Missouri east of Kansas City near the town of Washburn. They had a...
Freligh, Robert Early life and meeting his brother on Saipan
Robert Freligh’s father died when he was two and a half years old. His mother worked full time as a pharmacist but was...
Wells, Raymond Early Life and Military Training
Raymond Wells was born in Eagle, Colorado in April 1922. He was living in Secora, New Mexico and remembers the day the...
Oakes, Robert Early Life and Military Training
Robert Tyler Oakes was born in March 1922 in New Albany, Indiana. He enjoyed his youth participated in plays in high...
Van der Pool, Ivan Early Life and Military Training
Ivan Van der Pool was born and raised in New York [Annotator's Note: New York, New York]. He had a normal childhood...
Stein, Murray Early Life and Military Training
Murray Stein was born on 23 September 1925 and grew up in Brooklyn, New York. He played football and graduated from...
McGee, Joseph Early Life and Military Training
Joseph F. McGee Junior was born in Utah, Alabama on 6 March 1924. He was standing in front of his town's post office...
Crump, Ralph Early Life and Moving to California
Ralph Crump was born and raised in Council Bluffs, Iowa. The years of the Great Depression were "terrible," Crump said...
Schneider, Irwin Early Life and Naval Commissioning
Irwin R. Schneider was born in August 1921 in Newark, New Jersey. He was raised there. His father was a school teacher...
Bianconi, Anthony Early Life and Navy Entry
Anthony Bianconi was born in September 1920 in Youngstown, Ohio. When he was quite young, his family moved to Mount...
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...
Smith, Perry Early Life and Pearl Harbor
Perry Smith was born at West Point, New York in 1934 while his father was serving as an instructor at the US Military...

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