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Bishop, Charles Segment 1
Charles Bishop was born in New Haven, Connecticut in November of 1920. The depression years were sketchy. His mother...
Monpat, Raymond Segment 1
Monpat was born and raised in New Orleans, Louisiana. He went to E.D. White High School for one year then quit and went...
Barnes, William Segment 1
William Barnes was born and raised in Clarksdale, Mississippi. After high school he attended Bowling Green Business...
Mack, Frank Segment 1
Mack was born in his grandparent’s home. He lived there as an infant. When he got a little older his parents moved to a...
Dupuy, Marsden "Pic" Segment 1
Dupuy remembers times being hard during the Depression. They always had food to eat, but there were certain things that...
Wahlen, George Segment 1
Wahlen was born in a farmhouse near Ogden, Utah. Soon after he was born his family moved to Ogden where they stayed...
Woods, Edward Segment 1
Woods and the interviewer discuss the format for the interview.Edward Thomas Woods was born in 1927 in Manhattan, New...
Karr, Robert Segment 1
Karr grew up in West Virginia in a little town called Mannington. His father and his relatives worked in the oil fields...
Greer, Richard Segment 1
[Annotators note: Interview starts off in mid conversation about the format of the interview.] Richard Greer was born...
Delewski, Lawrence Segment 1
The Laffey [Annotator's Note: US Navy destroyer USS Laffey, DD-724] had new radar and sonar equipment and that put the...
Ward, Harold Segment 1
Harold Ward was born in Atlantic City, New Jersey in April 1921. Ward had the life of a bastard growing up as he was...
Myers, Leroy Segment 1
Myers didn't lock his doors when he was growing up. If strangers came by, you would share food with them. People came...
Crain, Joe Segment 1
Alex Vraciu was on a mission with a flight of 12 aircraft when he noticed five Zeros [Annotators Note: Mitsubishi A6M...
James, C.W. "Tex" Segment 1
James was born in North Texas in Aberdene. The town is no longer there. He lived there until he was 10 years old. His...
Thatcher, David "Dave" Segment 1
At 19 Thatcher finished high school and enlisted in the US Army Air Corps on December 3rd, 1940. Thatcher was sworn in...
Vejtasa, Stanley Segment 1
Vejtasa and the interviewer are getting acquainted and set out how the interview will be conducted. The interviewer...
Crain, Joe Segment 1
Crain was born in northern Louisiana. He grew up on a farm. During the depression everyone in his family had to work in...
Jones, David "Davey" Segment 1
Jones was born in Oregon. When he was 10 years old, 1 of his sisters contracted tuberculosis so his mother elected to...
Akins, Robert Segment 1
Robert Akins discusses how the heroes were the ones who gave their lives 10,000 miles from home. Of the 120 men in his...
Perrett, Marvin Segment 1
Marvin Perrett was born in September 1925 in New Orleans, Louisiana. He was on his way home from church with his...
Hilliard, Madlyn and Paul Segment 1
Paul Hilliard believes the SBD Dauntless is much underrated and unfortunately much unrecognized. WWII books sometimes...
Bacon, Giles Segment 1
Giles Bacon served with an MP [Annotator’s Note: military police] battalion on Ford Island at Pearl Harbor. He was born...
Wicker, Benjamin Segment 1
Wicker was born in Scotlandville, Louisiana in 1923. He had a good life growing up, his father worked for the railroad...
Hopkins, Lewis Segment 1
Hopkins grew up on a small farm in Georgia. It was a tenant farm. Hopkins father was farming a piece of property that...
Feightner, Edward "Whitey" Segment 1
Feightner was in VF-3 [Annotator's Note: Fighter Squadron 3] with Butch O'Hare [Annotator's Note: Edward Henry “Butch”...
Hanna, Homer H. Segment 1
Hannas family was living in Texas when he joined the Army in July 1938 in Lubbock. He took his basic training at Ft....
Baptiste, Wallace Segment 1
Baptiste was born in Saint James Parish, Louisiana on 4 November 1916. He is in town [Annotator's Note: New Orleans]...
Starnes, James Segment 1
Starnes grew up in Decatur, Georgia. His father was a travelling salesman. By the time he started school he was living...
Wiley, Delmar Segment 1
Wiley grew up during the Great Depression and he joined the Navy in 1940 just shortly after he graduated from high...
Bailey, Herman Segment 1
Bailey was born in Lancaster County, South Carolina on 12 September 1921.During the Great Depression Bailey's clothes...
Deen, Braswell Segment 1
Deen was born in McCray, Georgia. His father was the president of South Methodist College. He was one of three kids....
Crump, Ralph Segment 1
Ralph Crump [Annotators Note: For the first 22:26 of this interview the interviewer and interviewee chat about family...
Earnest, Albert J. Segment 1
Earnest was born in Richmond, Virginia. He was born on April 1st, 1917. HIs father was in the Light Infantry Blue,...
Cole, Richard Segment 1
Richard Cole was born in Dayton, Ohio in 1915. After graduating from high school he went to work on a farm for 75...
Childers, Lloyd Segment 1
Childers was born in Sherman, California. When he was young, his parents move the family to the Oklahoma.When he was...

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