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McDowell, Bowdre Early Life
Bowdre McDowell was born in October 1923 in Amite County in southwest Mississippi. He grew up on a cotton farm and...
Appel, Jack Early Life
Jack Appel was born in Brooklyn, New York [Annotator's Note: Brooklyn is one of the five boroughs in New York, New York...
Fristoe, Claud Early Life
Claud Neal Fristoe, Jr. was born in December 1923 in Hoxie, Arkansas. His mother was a telephone operator and his...
Malta, Samuel Early Life
Samuel Malta was born in March 1925 at Revere, Massachusetts near Boston. He learned to swim early since it was a...
Blackwell, David Early Life
David McKinley Blackwell was born in Holden, Louisiana and grew up in Washington Parish. He grew up on a farm where...
Celaya, Adolfo Early Life
Adolfo V. Celaya was born in Florence, Arizona in May 1927. He had one brother and two sisters. Celaya was the oldest...
Bondola, Thomas Early Life
Thomas Bondola was born in Pottstown, Pennsylvania in July 1923 and has lived in the same neighborhood all his life...
Moss, Roy Early Life
Roy Joseph Moss was born in March 1922 in West Point, Utah. His grandparents had crossed the plains in 1847 and settled...
Malec, Henry Early Life
Henry Joseph Malec was born in 1926 in Detroit, Michigan. He lost two brothers, Rudolf and Bruno, to the flu epidemic...
McBride, Frank Early Life
Frank Curtis McBride was born in Kingston, New York in August 1920. He grew up in Shreveport [Annotator’s Note:...
Bussel, Norman Early Life
Norman Bussel was born 2 October 1923 in Memphis, Tennessee. His father was in the grocery business. He attended the...
Schmitt, Warren Early Life
Warren R. Schmitt was born in May 1921 in the Irish Channel [Annotator's Note: a neighborhood in New Orleans, Louisiana...
Siracuse, James Early Life
James Siracuse was born in Upper Manhattan [Annotator's Note: New York, New York] in 1920. He was raised there. He...
Bass, Stewart Early Life
Stewart "Stu" Bass was born and raised in Western Montana, about 20 miles outside of Missoula. He was the middle child...
Chandler, Howard Early Life
Howard Chandler was born a Jew in Wierzbnik, Poland [Annotator's Note: now known as Starachowice, Poland] in December...
Uthes, Roy Early LIfe
Roy Uthes was born in June 1923. He had two brothers and two sisters. He grew up in a large home and was the youngest...
Miksa, Robert Early Life
Bob Miksa [Annotator’s Note: Robert Miksa] was born in Chicago, Illinois and grew up in the suburb of Cicero. Right...
Segal, Harvey Early Life
Harvey Segal was born in May 1925 in Roxbury, Massachusetts [Annotator's Note: Roxbury is a neighborhood in Boston]....
Samuelson, Jack Early Life
Jack D. Samuelson is a World War Two veteran. He was interviewed at 88 years of age in a senior citizens’ home. He met...
Linker, George Early Life
George Harrison Linker, Jr. was born in 1926 in Dover, Arkansas. He was the youngest of three siblings. Neither his...
Bassemir, Robert Early Life
Robert Bassemir was born in May 1924 in Ridgewood, New York. He grew up with a brother and a sister. His brother served...
Cook, Harold Early Life
Harold C. Cook grew up in Warren, Ohio. He was the youngest in the family. He had a brother who was popular and active...
Smith, Merlin Early Life
Merlin C. Smith was born in December 1925 in Baker, Louisiana. He had had two brothers and one sister. The family lived...
David, Chester Early Life
Chester David was born in March 1924 in Lacassine, Louisiana. He was the youngest of one brother and two sisters and...
Mesken, Lorraine Early Life
Lorraine Mesken was born in San Francisco, California in March 1928. After the birth of her only sibling in 1932, the...
Marolda, Theodore Early Life
Theodore Marolda was born May 1923 in Winsted, Connecticut. He was born to a family of Italian immigrants and was the...
Dymnicki, Francis Early Life
Francis Dymnicki was born in Yonkers, New York and lived there for ten years during the Depression until his father...
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...
Hopkins, Ralph Early Life
Ralph R. Hopkins was born in 1926 in New Orleans. The Great Depression made times difficult, but growing up was not bad...
Jeffrey, Wallace Early Life
Wallace Jeffery was born on 27 January 1922 in Sioux City, Iowa. He moved many times but by nine years of age, the...
Hartzell, Frank Early Life
Frank Hartzell was born in January 1925 in Buffalo, New York. After six months, his family moved to the Philadelphia...
Boudreaux, Medary Early Life
Medary G. Boudreaux was born in New Orleans, Louisiana in June 1921. Prior to the war, he attended Commercial High...
Garcia, Ray Early Life and Becoming a Pilot
Ray Garcia enlisted in November 1942. He had been tested for the aviation cadet program for the Army Air Force prior to...
Goldberg, Edwin Early Life and Becoming a Pilot
[Annotator's Note: There is a background humming noise throughout this interview.] Edwin “Pete” Goldberg was born in...
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:...
Masket, Betty Early Life and Engineering Courses
Betty Masket was born in Cullowhee, North Carolina in 1923. The Depression did not affect Masket as much as it did...

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