European Theater of Operations (ETO)

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Hurley, Wallace Early Life
Wallace G. Hurley was born in Memphis, Tennessee in 1923. His mother and father divorced. His alcoholic father headed...
Underwood, Antoinette Early Life
Antoinette Rinaldi [Annotator’s Note: maiden name] Underwood was born into a large Italian, Catholic family in 1920 in...
Zolkower, Maurice "Murray" Early Life
Maurice Zolkower was born in February 1921 in New York City, New York. It was very nice growing up there. He grew up in...
Ikari, Norman Early Life
Norman Ikari was born in Seattle, Washington on 17 February 1919. His parents were Japanese immigrants. Life was not...
Becker, Irving Early Life
Irving Becker was born in 1921 in Vienna, Austria and grew up there. He was an only child. His father was a shoe...
Olson, David Early Life
David E. Olson was born in 1919 in Alburnett, Iowa. He was of Norwegian ancestry. He was born with a twin brother and...
Schneider, Richard Early Life
Richard "Dick" Schneider was born in Akron, Ohio in March 1923. His family included his parents, one sister, and one...
Rendelman, Ed Early Life
Ed Rendelman was born in 1919 in Detroit, Michigan. His family moved to southern Illinois six weeks after he was born...
Del Monte, Jack Early Life
Jack Albert Del Monte was born in May 1921 in Brooklyn, New York [Annotator's Note: Brooklyn is one of the five...
Baughman, Paul Early Life
Paul Baughman was born in Martinsburg, Pennsylvania in May 1920. He grew up there on a big farm until he was 15 years...
Shawn, Gilbert Early Life
Gilbert S. Shawn was born in 1921 in New York City [Annotator's Note: New York, New York]. He grew up in Manhattan [...
Walker, Mort Early Life
Mort Walker was born in 1923 in El Dorado, Kansas. His father was an architect who built towns in locations where oil...
McLaurine, Luke Early Life
Luke Layton McLaurine, Jr. was born February 1924 in Memphis, Tennessee. His family was in the bakery and restaurant...
Fraser, Rodney Early Life
Rodney Charles Fraser was born in Alameda, California in January 1926. He was an active child who never knew he was...
Strunk, Chester Early Life
Chester Lee Strunk was born in Benton Harbor, Michigan in December 1922. His father was a foundry worker. It was tough...
Jones, James Early Life
James B. Jones was born in March 1922 in Laurel [Annotator's Note: Laurel, Mississippi]. His father worked for a white...
Brannan, Joseph Early Life
Joseph Brannan was born in Gillett, Arkansas in 1922. Raised during the Great Depression, his father had a business in...
Geraci, Dominic Early Life
Dominic Geraci was born 5 August 1923 in Chicago [Annotator’s Note: Illinois]. He and his two sisters grew up in the...
Quinn, Harry Early Life
Harry C. Quinn, Jr. was born in 1925 near Brookhaven, Mississippi in Lincoln County. He grew up on a farm during the...
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...
Stovroff, Irwin Early Life
Irwin Stovroff was born in Buffalo, New York in August 1922 and remained in Buffalo until he went to college. It was a...
Bell, Cecil Early Life
Cecil K. Bell was born in February 1922 and grew up in Hugo, Oklahoma. He had four sisters and two brothers. His father...
Terrebonne, Leo Early Life
Leo Terrebonne was born in Westwego, Louisiana in 1923, the third of three children. Both of his parents were Cajuns. [...
Grapes, Opal Early LIfe
Opal James Grapes was born in Franklin County, Virginia in the heart of the Blue Ridge Mountains. She grew up on a farm...
Mullen, Wesley Early Life
Wesley S. Mullen was born in March 1925 in southwest Philadelphia [Annotator's Note: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania] and...
Baranek, Martin Early Life
Martin Baranek was born in August 1930 in Wierzbnik, Poland, the older of the two sons of his Jewish family. He...
Sanders, Jack Early Life
Jack C. Sanders was born in 1921 in Tulsa, Oklahoma. When he had to leave his hometown because of his work or service...
Anschau, Martin Early Life
Martin J. Anschau was born in April 1925 in Plainfield Township in Northampton county [Annotator’s Note: Northampton...
Maresca, Frank W. Early Life
Frank Maresca was born in September 1925 in Jersey City. He served in Company F, 289th Infantry Regiment, 75th Infantry...
Towle, John Early Life
John W. Towle was born in June 1921 in Sequoyah Hills. Towle's family moved to a dairy farm in Bearden when he was...
Ruck, Elmore Early Life
Elmore Fredrick Ruck was born in New Orleans, Louisiana in February 1922. His father worked as a public service...
Jindra, Leonard Early Life
Leonard Jindra was born near Prague, Czechoslovakia in June 1921. He had two brothers and an adopted sister. He was...
Drake, Joseph Early Life
Joseph J. Drake was born in October 1924 in Hawley, Pennsylvania. He had three brothers and one sister. His father lost...
Lichtenfeld, Seymour Early Life
Seymour "Sy" Lichtenfeld was born in Gary, Indiana in January 1925. He graduated from high school in Gary. Times during...
McCool, William Early Life
William McCool was born in Rockledge, Pennsylvania, near Philadelphia, in 1925. His father had difficulty finding...
Siebert, Julian Early Life
Julian Siebert was born in Westmoreland, Kansas in 1923. Growing up during the 1930s, he saw that everyone was hard up...

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