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Spielberg, Arnold Early Life and Becoming a Soldier
[Annotator's Note: The interview begins with the interviewer and Arnold Spielberg mid-conversation]. Spielberg was in...
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...
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...
Cowart, Thomas Early Life and Becoming a Soldier
Thomas Cowart was born in November 1925 in Mobile, Alabama. He grew up there in a poor family. He had three brothers...
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...
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,...
Grubb, Paul Early Life and Becoming an Airman
Paul James Grubb was born in September 1920 in Riverside, California. His mother died when he was six months old....
Finklang, Frank Early Life and Bombardier School
Frank Finklang was born in April 1924 in Saint Louis [Annotator's Note: Saint Louis, Missouri]. He served with the...
Debrick, Arnold Early Life and Enlisting
Arnold Debrick was born on a farm in Paolo, Kansas in March 1925. He attended a one room school in town. In second...
Johnsen, Erik Early Life and Enlistment
Erik Frithjof Johnsen was born in New Orleans, Louisiana in August 1925 and had one brother who had been born in 1922....
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...
Haines, George Early Life and Enlistment
George Haines was born in April 1925 in Rochester, New York. His father worked at the YMCA [Annotator's Note: Young Men...
Mabarac, Raymond Early Life and Entrance Into Service
Raymond Mabarac was born in January 1922 and grew up in Detroit, Michigan. He was the second of four sons. His father...
Eshbach, Robert Early Life and Entrance Into Service
Robert Eshback was born in 1924 in Beckersville, Pennsylvania. He was one of two sons of a foundryman. Eshback went to...
Biestek, Jane "Jane Laird" Early Life and Family
Jane Biestek was born in January 1925 in the Lamport Hotel Bear Creek, Montana. Her mother was working in the hotel and...
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...
Polito, Felix Early Life and Military Service Overview
Felix J. Polito was born in Franklin, Louisiana in 1922. He lived there until he was 19 years old. In January 1942, he...
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...
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...
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...
Holmes, Capers Early Life and Navigation School
Capers Andrews Holmes, Jr. was born in Culloden, Georgia. During the Great Depression [Annotator's Note: The Great...
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...
Maiten, Sidney Early Life and Serving on the USS Catoctin (AGC-5)
Sidney Maiten was born in September 1925 in Brooklyn, New York. He enjoyed his early life there. He delivered...
Brandes, Rita Early Life in Wartime Germany
Rita Brandes was born in July 1939 in Bremen [Annotator's Note: Bremen, Germany]. As a young child, she knew only the...
Sutcliffe, Albert Early Life to Deployment
Albert G. Sutcliffe was born 12 May 1925 in Bisbee, Arizona. When he was about two years old his family moved to Los...
Baughman, Harry Early Life to Deployment
Harry Baughman was born in Findlay, Ohio. He grew up there during the Great Depression, when "things were tough." When...
Losada, Vincent Early Life to Military Training
Vincent Losada was born in Cleveland, Ohio in May 1925. His parents were both immigrants from Spain. His father was a...
Moran, John "Jack" Early Life to Tiger Tanks
John Moran was born in Superior, Wisconsin. He had a great youth and enlisted in the Army at 17. He was then sent to...
Scholl, Richard Early Life, Enlisting and Freezing in Texas
Richard Scholl was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin in 1920. His father worked for Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance...
Long, Thomas Early Life, Enlistment and Overseas Deployment
Thomas Long was born in January 1926 in Saint Louis, Missouri. His father died when he was only three years old,...
Abbenhaus, Gerald Early Life, Enlistment and Training
Gerald Abbenhaus was born in January 1920 on a farm in northeast Nebraska. He went to Bloomfield High [Annotator's Note...
Rees, Holly Early Life, Enlistment and Training
Holly Rees was born in January 1926 in Prescott, Arizona. Although he grew up during the Great Depression, his father...
Sved, Edwin Early Life, Enlistment and Training
Edwin Sved was born in February 1924 in New York, New York and grew up through difficult times in a caring family. He...
Gibbens, Elizabeth Early Life, Enlistment and Training
Elizabeth Gibbens was born in January 1920 in Corning, New York. Her father, a schoolteacher at the time, moved the...

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