European Theater of Operations (ETO)

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Dorsey, Mason Prewar Life to Enlistment
Mason Dorsey was born in July 1925 in Chester, South Carolina. He grew up during the Depression [Annotator's Note: The...
Eakes, Thomas Prewar Life to Enlistment
Thomas Eakes was born in November 1922 in Beaumont [Annotator's Note: Beaumont, Texas]. He had one older brother. His...
Fallon, John Prewar Life to Enlistment
John T. Fallon was born in March 1922 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He had one older sister and three younger brothers...
Dietrick, Alfred Prewar Life to Enlistment
Alfred Dietrick was born in December 1921 in San Antonio, Texas. His life was happy. His father was a carpenter when he...
Walker, Charles Prewar Life to Enlistment
Charles Walker was born on a farm near Sumner, Georgia. When you live on a farm family, everybody works. He did not...
Lederer, Henry Prewar Life to Enlistment
Henry Lederer was born in Bridgeport, Connecticut in March 1920. His father was a watchmaker and jeweler who came to...
Kennedy, Irvin F. Prewar Life to Enlistment
Irvin Kennedy was born and raised in Algiers [Annotator's Note: Algiers neighborhood in New Orleans, Louisiana] and...
Tyler, Vernon Prewar Life to Enlistment
Vernon Leo Tyler was born in August 1923 in Los Angeles, California. There was no work [Annotator's Note: during The...
Smith, Charles Prewar Life to Enlistment
Charles R. Smith was born in Chicago, Illinois in June 1924. His father was a window washer. His mother was a housewife...
Bluestein, Bernard "Bernie" Prewar Life to Enlistment
[Annotator's Note: There is a loud hissing noise throughout this clip.] Bernard B. "Bernie" Bluestein was born in...
Rozett, Walter Prewar Life to Enlistment
Walter Rozett was born in the Bronx, New York [Annotator's Note: the Bronx is one of the five boroughs in New York, New...
Cole, Harold Prewar Life to Enlistment
Harold Stanford Cole was born in New York in 1924. He grew up in a poor family. He loved the 1920s and 1930s. They had...
Berman, Stanley Prewar Life to Enlistment
Stanley Berman was born in September 1920 in Columbus, Ohio, moved to Cleveland, Ohio, and finally to Cincinnati [...
Kofsky, Bernard Prewar Life to Enlistment
[Annotator's Note: Video glitches several times throughout this segment.] Bernard Kofsky was born in Brooklyn, New York...
King, William Prewar Life to Enlistment
William King was born October 1925 in Brooklyn, New York. It was a nice community that was rather mixed, Italians and...
Lochra, Albert Prewar Life to Enlistment
Albert Pultz Lochra, Jr. was born in Uniontown, Pennsylvania in August 1925. They lived in a coaling town named Amend [...
Coop, Willard Prewar Life to Enlistment
Willard Haul "Jack" Coop was born in April 1924 in Sulphur, Kentucky. He grew up with two younger sisters. His family...
Stachel, Robert Prewar Life to Enlistment
Robert A. Stachel was born in June 1924 in Hamtramck, Michigan. Growing up during the Depression [Annotator's Note: the...
Langrehr, Henry Prewar Life to Enlistment
Henry Langrehr grew up during the Great Depression in Clinton [Annotator's Note: Clinton, Iowa]. It was a hard time....
Gabour, James Prewar Life to Enlistment
James Anthony Gabour was born in October 1913 in Texarkana, Texas. He grew up with five brothers and four sisters. His...
Lesniewski, Joseph Prewar Life to Enlistment
Joseph Lesniewski was born in Erie, Pennsylvania in August 1920. He had one brother and three sisters growing up. He...
McKay, Edgar Prewar Life to Enlistment
Edgar L. McKay was born on 2 January 1925 in Gulfport [Annotator's Note: Gulfport, Mississippi]. He had four sisters...
Monteyne, Joseph Prewar Life to Enlistment
Joseph Monteyne was a navigator with the RCAF [Annotator's Note: Royal Canadian Air Force] 425 Squadron, also known as...
Inge, Herndon Prewar Life to Europe
Herndon Inge, Junior was born in Chickasaw, Alabama. His father had worked there in the shipyards in World War 1. Inge...
McDermott, James Prewar Life to FLying Anti-Submarine Patrols
James J. McDermott was born in Clearfield, Pennsylvania in October 1920. He worked for a brick manufacturing plant and...
Colson, Earl Prewar Life to France
Earl Colson was born in Lancaster, Pennsylvania in November 1924. He had two brothers. His dad was a caretaker at the...
Magnifico, Charles Prewar Life to France
Charles Magnifico was born in 1923 in Jersey City, New Jersey during the Depression [Annotator's Note: The Great...
Bouton, Helen Prewar Life to German Invasion
Helene Bouton was born in Irshava, Czechoslovakia [Annotator's Note: now Irshava, Ukraine] in December 1925. Her father...
Geiger, Aase Prewar Life to German Occupation
Aase Geiger was born in October 1934 in Ordrup, Denmark [Annotator's Note: now part of Gentofte Municipality,...
O'Donnell, Joseph Prewar Life to Gunnery
[Annotator's Note: This clip starts midsentence.] Joseph O'Donnell and some others were told that they will get them...
Wold, Vernon Prewar Life to Infantry Training
Vernon Wold was born in January 1926 in Fargo, North Dakota. He grew up on a farm with an aunt after his parents died...
Brewer, Chester Prewar Life to Joining the Army Air Corps
Chester Brewer was born in Sewickley, Pennsylvania in 1922. When the Great Depression struck, his parents lost their...
Blakey, Thomas Prewar Life to Jump School
Thomas J. Blakey was born in Nacogdoches, Texas in 1920. [Annotator's Note: An interviewer asks Blakey where he was...
Dunne, Edward Prewar Life to Liberated France
Edward Dunne was born in October 1924 in Winsted, Connecticut. He got remarried after his first wife died and he moved...
Bailey, Kenneth Prewar Life to Meeting Russians
Kenneth H. Bailey was born in Albany, New York in February 1922. He grew up and went to school in Delmar [Annotator's...
Smith, Carl Prewar Life to Military Service
Carl Smith was born in January 1928 in Pittsburg, Georgia. It was a coal mining town. He had three sisters and four...

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