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Olin Tisdale was born in April 1925 in Bluff Springs, Florida. Although his father had a farm and ran a grocery store...
John Kerner was born in February 1919 in San Francisco, California. His family moved to Boston, Massachusetts for a...
Bryon Carl Oliver was born in July 1922 in Buffalo, New York. As a child, he played sports including skiing, baseball...
Ennis C. Warren was born in Wilmer, Alabama in September 1923. His mother died when he was born. He was raised by his...
Vernon Grimes was born in May 1921 in Wichita [Annotator's Note: Wichita, Kansas]. He grew up with a sister in various...
Mason Brownell Fitch was born in September 1925 in Rochester, New York. He graduated high school in 1943 and took the...
James Lovell was born in March 1928 in Cleveland, Ohio, but as a young child his father's profession in the heating...
Ogden Saik was born in September 1926 in New Orleans, Louisiana. He lived with his family in the New Orleans...
Charles Kitowski was born in San Antonio, Texas in 1923. He grew up during the Great Depression [Annotator's Note:...
John Holton Ford was born in October 1921 in Hamilton, Ohio. He was also raised there. After the war, the family moved...
Ralph Crump was born and raised in Council Bluffs, Iowa. The years of the Great Depression were "terrible," Crump said...
Oran Harris was born in Hartford, Tennessee in September 1924. His childhood home was near the Smoky Mountains, about...
Maurice Joseph Dugas, Sr. was born in September 1928 in New Orleans, Louisiana. His father worked at the Roosevelt...
Vernon Breen was born in Chicago [Annotator's Note: Chicago, Illinois] in March 1925. He grew up in River Forest,...
Donald Popham was born in Alvadore, Oregon. When he was three years old, his parents moved the family to Emmett, Idaho...
James Muri joined the Army so that he could become a pilot. Growing up in Montana Muri did not see many airplanes. He...
Daniel Chester was born in February 1925 in Lakewood, Ohio, went through grammar and high school there, and lived in a...
Harry Baughman was born in Findlay, Ohio. He grew up there during the Great Depression, when "things were tough." When...
John E. Smith was born in June 1922 in Magnolia, Arkansas. His father was an Army sergeant and the family moved around...
Fred Gordon was born in 1918 in Emerson, Nebraska. He was one of nine children and his father was a teacher during the...
Howard Fox was born in Albany, New York in 1925. He grew up during the Great Depression, and lost his mother when he...
Donald Strait was born in April 1918 in East Orange, New Jersey, and spent his first five years in Montclair, New...
David Flynn was born in November 1919 in Collegeville, Minnesota, where his father was the athletic director at St....
Edwin Sved was born in February 1924 in New York, New York and grew up through difficult times in a caring family. He...
Blanche Marie (Gregory) Barnes Gangwere was born in 1918 in Kansas City, Missouri. She grew up near Northeast High...
When James Lovell was a flying midshipman in Pensacola, he spent some time in ground school learning about aerodynamics...
For Frank Mancuso, the war took away four years of his youth and there were many things he did not get a chance to do....
By 21 March [Annotator's Note: 21 March 1945], the American forces were getting close so John Mock and his fellow...
Following his assignment as wing maintenance commander at SAC [Annotator's Note: Strategic Air Command] headquarters...
[Annotator's Note: William Smith was flying out of Charters Towers, Australia]. They were shipped from Port Moresby to...
At Ormoc Bay, John E. Johnson drove his LCVP [Annotator's Note: Landing Craft Vehicle, Personnel also referred to as...
When he was still 100 miles out from his carrier [Annotator's Note: USS Enterprise (CV-6)], the primitive radar in...
As they advanced from Aachen to the Rhine River, Guy Leefe, Jr. and his fellow pilots would conduct regular patrols. On...
When the war in Europe was winding down, Leo Praetorius was brought back to the United States on standby, pending...
[Annotator's Note: Jack Glass served in the Navy aboard the USS Enterprise (CV-6) as an aviation radioman in Fighting...
In April 1945, President Roosevelt [Annotator's Note: Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 32nd President of the United States]...

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