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Marvin Sussman was born in Chicago, Illinois in August 1923. Other than one trip to see his grandparents in New York,...
Bernard Ellenberg was born in 1921 in Poland and had five brothers and one sister. His father was born in Austria, and...
Joe G. Casillas was born in San Pedro, California in October 1925. He grew up around Pacoima [Annotator's Note: Pacoima...
Leon Dixon was born in June 1918 in Batchelor, in the parish of Pointe Coupee [Annotator's Note: Louisiana]. It was...
Rita Hymel was born in Killona, Louisiana. They had a little schoolhouse and went to school barefoot. They had a pot-...
Arthur Spaulding was born in August 1925 in Oxnard, California. Back then, some women, including his mother were sent...
Vincent DeSalvo was born in September 1920 in Hammond, Louisiana. His family left Hammond when he was five years old....
Harold Roed was born in Detroit, Michigan in 1926. He had an older brother, who was also in the service, and a younger...
Alton Bourg was born in November 1926 in New Orleans, Louisiana. He was one of nine children. His father was a...
Sam V. Abate was born in Saint Rose, Louisiana in November 1920. He lived there for the rest of his life after he came...
Alfred A. Lingo was born in San, Jose, Costa Rica in March 1914. His father was a civilian engineer for United Fruit...
Charles Watkins Adair was born in Dora, Alabama in 1923. His family moved a lot during the Great Depression [Annotator'...
Jackson Davis was born in March 1918 in Lecompte, Louisiana. His parents were country school teachers in Bayou Latania...
Mary R. Stricklan was born in May 1919 in Georgia [Annotator's Note: Gordon County, Georgia]. Growing up there was...
James J. Hill was born in September 1920 in Chicago's [Annotator's Note: Chicago, Illinois] north side. He grew up in a...
Charles R. Brown was born in March 1925 in Port Townsend, Washington as an only child. His parents split when he was...
Kenneth Raymond Goodwin was born in August 1926 in South Berwick, Maine. He is the youngest of seven children. He was...
Russell Van Matre was born in March 1922 in Elsberry, Missouri with two brothers and two sisters. His grandparents were...
John L. Cowan's ancestors came from the western part of Scotland. He was born December 1927 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania...
Battle Malone Barksdale was the youngest of seven children. He was born in February 1916 in Mississippi [Annotator's...
Joseph Massey was born in September 1925 in Argo, Alabama. He had five brothers and he was the youngest. There were...
George Colburn was born in Medford, Massachusetts in March 1926. His sister died as an infant and he grew up alone. His...
George Joseph Sullivan goes by "Joe Sullivan" because he has great relatives who were named Joe Sullivan, all the way...
Daniel Samuelson was born in January 1926 in New Orleans, Louisiana. He had a brother and a sister. His father was a...
David K. Hayward was born in May 1922 in San Francisco, California. When he was three, he moved to Pasadena, California...
Jimmie F. Dyer was born and raised on a farm in Castro County, Texas in April 1926. His dad was a farmer and there were...
Walter Atwood was born Lebanon, Kansas in February 1922. He grew up on a farm. He had to milk cows before and after...
Harold Daniel Snyder was born in October 1925 in Wyckoff, New Jersey. He was an only child. [Annotator's Note: The...
Walter Sapp was born in Jacksonville, Florida in January 1926. His mother was visiting her parents on vacation when he...
Paris Tognoli was born in December 1924 in San Francisco [Annotator's Note: San Francisco, California]. They later...
He walked to school and joined the "Junior Yanks" which was a program for kids run by World War 1 veterans. They met...
Donald Albert Carlson was born in June 1924. [Annotator's Note: Carlson stops to see if he can hear the interviewer...
Rudolph C. Miller was born in 1928 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. His mother took him to Chicago [Annotator's Note:...
Robert Boeke was born in August 1925 in Pasadena, California. Pasadena was a great place with nice people. The weather...
Philemon Andrews Saint Amant was named after his grandfather, Philemon Hawkins Andrews, a descendant of Sir John...
[Annotator's Note: It is very difficult to understand Carleton Cleveland due to sound issues throughout this clip.]...

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