Pacific Theater of Operations (PTO)

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Tanenbaum, Melvin Prewar Life
Melvin S. Tanenbaum was born in 1923 in Queens, New York [Annotator's Note: Queens is one of the five boroughs in New...
Bowie, James Prewar Life
James Bowie was born in September 1925 in Mississippi. Bowie had two sisters and one brother. He was the youngest. His...
Quirk, Clint Prewar Life
Clint Quirk was born in December 1923 in Butte, Montana and grew up in Anaconda, Montana. He had one sister. His father...
Chartier, Charles Prewar Life
Charles Chartier was born in Applegate, Michigan in February 1927. He had one brother and one sister. He was the...
Lents, Robert Prewar Life
Robert Lents was born in October 1921 on a farm in South Creston, Iowa where he grew up and worked on a big farm his...
Lutz, William Prewar Life
William Lutz was born in March 1920 and raised in Reading [Annotator’s Note: Reading, Pennsylvania]. He had a good life...
Ruess, Richard Prewar Life
Richard R. Ruess was born in Los Angeles, California in August 1918. His parents had two daughters that were killed in...
Groth, Walter Prewar Life
Walter Groth was born in Louisiana in July 1924. He was born and raised on a beef cattle farm in Elton, Louisiana. His...
Guyote, Walter Prewar Life
Walter John Guyote was born in St. Mary Parish [Annotator’s Note: St. Mary Parish, Louisiana] in July 1925. He had...
McWilliams, Donald Prewar Life
Donald G. "Mac" McWilliams was born in Ballinger, Texas in May 1925. In the 1920s, his parents owned a ranch. Because...
Williams, Earl Prewar Life
Earl Williams was born in New Orleans [Annotator's Note: New Orleans, Louisiana] in April 1923. He remembers being...
Lawrence, Paul Prewar Life
Paul Lawrence was born Rochelle, Illinois but lived in Ionia, Michigan. He moved to Grand Rapids [Annotator's Note:...
Riedl, Edward Prewar Life
Edward Riedl was born in November 1920 in New Orleans [Annotator's Note: New Orleans, Louisiana] and grew up there. He...
Patterson, James Prewar Life
James Patterson was born in 1921 in Portland, Tennessee. He has one brother and one sister. He is the oldest child. His...
Burch, Ralph Prewar Life
Ralph Burch was born in August 1923 in Port Arthur [Annotator’s Note: Port Arthur, Texas]. He lived close to the canals...
Bost, Ben Prewar Life
Ben Ray Bost is the only veteran left alive of the men on his ship [Annotator's Note: the USS LSM-316]. He was born in...
Stewart, William Prewar Life
William Stewart is 88 years old. He was born in April 1929 in Glendale, California. He has one brother. His father...
Hayes, Raymond Prewar Life
Raymond Vincent Hayes was born in Providence, Rhode Island in July 1926. He had three brothers but his sister died in...
Burr, John Prewar Life
John Burr was born in Massachusetts in 1919. His family was in banking and brokerage. He lived in nice circumstances....
Bath, Garland Prewar Life
Garland Bath was born in January 1925 in Evans County, Georgia in a log cabin. He attended school there. He got his...
LeBlanc, Andrew Prewar Life
Andrew Leblanc, Junior was born in July 1926 in McCall [Annotator's Note: McCall, Louisiana]. He had seven sisters and...
Hall, Clayton Prewar Life
Clayton Hall was born in Harvey County on a farm near Newton [Annotator's Note: Newton, Kansas]. His father was in...
Ream, John Prewar Life
John Ream was born in November 1934 in the Philippine islands. His father was raised on a ranch in Idaho. He went to...
Wicklund, John Prewar Life
When John Wicklund went for classification at Keesler Field [Annotator's Note: now Keesler Air Force Base in Biloxi,...
Curley, Walter Prewar Life
Walter Joseph Patrick Curley Junior was born near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1922. Curley's father owned a railway...
Gibbs, Robert Prewar Life
Robert S. Gibbs was born in December 1923 in Cedarhurst, New York. He had one sister who was older than him. His family...
Maziarczyk, Michael Prewar Life
Michael Maziarczyk was born in July 1922. He was raised on a farm in Cameron, Pennsylvania. His mother had 14 children...
Annas, Floyd Prewar Life
Floyd Annas was born in March 1925 in Granite Falls, North Carolina. He moved to a farm when he was 12 years old. Annas...
McCormick, Bruce Prewar life
Bruce McCormick was born in Altoona, Pennsylvania and lived there until 1939 when they moved to Chesapeake, Virginia....
Caudle, John Prewar Life
John Caudle was born in January 1926 in a farmhouse in Farmington [Annotator's Note: Farmington, North Carolina]. It...
Eshelman, Raymond Prewar Life
Ray Eshelman was born in Dayton, Ohio, in July 1925. He grew up there and attended school. He graduated [Annotator's...
Cole, Wendell Prewar Life
[Annotator's Note: Wendell Delavan Cole suffers from Parkinson's disease and needs the assistance of his son to...
Tso, Samuel Prewar Life
[Annotator's Note: This interview is conducted with a group of Navajo veterans present, many of whom can be heard off-...
Cowell, Ernest Prewar Life
Ernest Cowell was born in January 1927 in Los Angeles, Hollywood [Annotator's Note: Los Angeles, California]. His...
Carman, Victor Prewar life
Victor K. Carman was born in April 1927 in Woodmere, New York on Long Island. His parents divorced when he was three...
Stewart, Roy Prewar Life
[Annotator's Note: The interview begins with the interviewer explaining to Roy Stewart how the interview process works...

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