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Block, Louis Prewar Life
Louis Block graduated from high school in June 1944. They discussed the war, but not at length. They were more focused...
Prince, Robert Prewar Life
Robert Prince was born in Seattle, Washington in November 1919. He was the second of four boys. All of them served in...
Rosenbloom, Myers Prewar Life
Myers Bernard Rosenbloom’s mother worked by having boarders. His mother was able to buy two houses with the money she...
Curran, Philip Prewar Life
Philip Curran was born in May 1927 on Orrs Island, Maine. He had two brothers and one sister. His father was a mate on...
Jones, Harold Prewar Life and Airborne Training
Harold Jones was born in February 1924 in Mead, Colorado and grew up in Greeley, Colorado. He was a Depression [...
Kelley, Archie Prewar Life and Annapolis
Archie Kelley was born in the Naval gun factory in Washington, D.C. [Annotator's Note: Washington Navy Yard in...
Ratliff, Rob Roy Prewar Life and Basic Training
Rob Roy Ratliff was born in 1923 in Webb City, Missouri. He recalled playing in the fields near the old mines as a boy...
Votrobek, Jr., John Prewar Life and Becoming a Submarine Sailor
John Robert Votrobeck Jr. was born in July 1924 in Omaha, Nebraska. He went to school in Omaha and graduated high...
Westbrook, James Prewar Life and Beginning of War
James Roland Westbrook was born in November 1923 in Birmingham, Alabama, where his father was studying accounting. They...
Cristiano, Nick Prewar Life and Being of Italian Descent
Nick Cristiano was born in July 1925. He grew up in the Bronx, New York. There were great schools. His father owned a...
Kern, Frank Prewar Life and Boot Camp
Frank Kern served as a corporal in A Battery, 1st Battalion, 10th Marines [Annotator's Note: 10th Marine Regiment, 2nd...
Bird, Henry Prewar Life and Boot Camp
Henry James Bird served with F Company, 2nd Battalion, 18th Regiment, 2nd Marine Division [Annotator's Note: Company F...
Ronson, Harold Prewar Life and Brothers at War
Harold Ronson was born in Brooklyn, New York [Annotator's Note: Brooklyn is one of the five boroughs in New York, New...
Hammond, Jr., Robert C. Prewar Life and Commission
[Annotator’s Note: Video skips throughout the segment and the sound does not sync with video.] Robert C. Hammond Jr....
Floravante, Emile Prewar Life and D-Day
Alfred Anthony Alvarez was born in Boston, Massachusetts to parents with Irish ancestry in April 1924. He joined the...
St. Julian, James Prewar Life and Deployment to the Philippines
James Anthony Saint Julien, Senior was born in January 1923 in New Orleans [Annotator's Note: New Orleans, Louisiana]....
Barnhart, Clyde Prewar Life and Draft
Clyde Barnhart was born in July 1923 in Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania. He served in the Army Air Corps [Annotator's Note...
Whitworth, Vaughan Prewar Life and Drafted
Vaughan Whitworth was born in April 1925 in Virginia. He grew up in Beaufort, North Carolina where his parents owned a...
Sacks, Abraham Prewar Life and Drafted
Abraham Sacks was born in September 1919 in London, England with one younger sister. He arrived in New York [Annotator'...
Wayne, William Prewar Life and Drafted
[Annotator's Note: The tape begins with the interviewee describing an attack on Mount Suribachi, Iwo Jima, Japan, by...
Hendrick, Robert Prewar Life and Education
Robert Erskine Hendrick was born in Norfolk, Virginia in 1920. He had one younger sister. His father served 30 years in...
Reed, Robert Prewar Life and Enlisting
Robert Frederick Reed was born in January 1921 on a farm near Rochester, Indiana where he lived for his first 18 years...
Elliott, Norman Prewar Life and Enlisting
Norman Elliott was born in November 1926 and raised in East Hartford, Connecticut. He had an older brother. Their...
Grimes, James Prewar Life and Enlisting in the Navy
James William Grimes was born in November 1925 in Cleveland, Ohio. Everything was okay during the 1920s, but the 1930s...
Keller, Richard Prewar Life and Enlistment
Richard Keller grew up in Hahnville [Annotator's Note: Hahnville, Louisiana]. He started in the first grade the year...
Roslensky, Marvin Prewar Life and Enlistment
Marvin A. Roslansky was born in Lakefield, Minnesota in November 1922. His family went through the Great Depression [...
Hecht, Lester Prewar Life and Enlistment
[Annotator's Note: The video starts with a long conversation before the interview actually starts.] Lester Hecht was...
Rieman, Carl Prewar Life and Entrance Into Service
Carl Rieman was born in Washington D.C., the only boy of the three children in the family. He lived in the suburbs of...
Conklin, Earl Prewar Life and Entrance Into Service
Earl Conklin was born in September 1921 in Saint Louis, Missouri. He was a "depression boy" whose father worked for the...
Morehead, James B. Prewar Life and Entrance Into Service
James Morehead was born in August 1916 in Peoli, Oklahoma, the youngest of four children in a family that worked a farm...
Driscoll, Edward Prewar Life and Entrance Into Service
Edward Driscoll was born in January 1924 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the sixth of 13 children. His father was a city...
Cole, John Prewar Life and Entrance to Service
John H. Cole was born in January 1922 in Greene County, Arkansas, in a little community named Epsby [Annotator's Note:...
Damonte, Emmanuel Prewar Life and Entrance to Service
Emmanuel Nazarro Damonte [Annotator's Note: phonetic spelling on middle name] was born in San Francisco [Annotator's...
Scherer, Monroe Prewar Life and Extended Family
Monroe Scherer was born in Brooklyn [Annotator's Note: Brooklyn, New York] in March 1926. He lived in Manhattan [...
Cohn, Marthe Prewar Life and Fleeing Metz
[Annotator's Note: The interviewer tells Marthe Cohn that she is going to switch to asking the American Spirit Award...
Schneider, Tony Prewar Life and Initial Training
Tony Schneider was from Hillsboro, Missouri, and he attended college at Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri. He...

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