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Gilmore, Wayne Early Life and Enlistment
Wayne McKinnon Gilmore was born in Mount Hope, Kansas in November 1921. His family moved to Opelousas [Annotator's Note...
Foy, John Early Life and Enlistment
John Foy was born in October 1925 in Rochester, New York, one of the ten children of a plumbing contractor. He came up...
Milan, Ira Early Life and Enlistment
Ira Milan was born in November 1922 in New Orleans, Louisiana. He grew up during the Great Depression, which was very...
Carroll, Wesley Early Life and Entrance Into Service
Wesley Carroll was born in Slidell, Louisiana in 1922. He grew up there, and graduated from high school in 1939, after...
Freeman, Bradford Early Life and Entrance Into Service
Bradford Clark Freeman was born in Lowndes County [Annotator's Note: Lowndes County, Mississippi], and attended school...
Tanner, Theodore Early Life and Flight School
Theodore Robert Tanner was born in Portland, Oregon in December 1920. He had one younger sister, born two years after...
Powers, Robert Early Life and Joining the Marine Corps
Robert Powers was born in June 1924 in St. Paul, Minnesota, but grew up in Hopkins, Minnesota. Growing up, he lived...
Marcarelli, Ralph Early Life and Joining the Navy
Ralph G. Marcarelli was born in July 1924 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. His father was a cabinet maker and his mother...
McGee, Joseph Early Life and Military Training
Joseph F. McGee Junior was born in Utah, Alabama on 6 March 1924. He was standing in front of his town's post office...
Bartels, Carl Early Life and Navy Entry
Carl C. Bartels, M.D. [Annotator's Note: Doctor of Medicine] was born in Hamilton, Ohio in July 1917. The Great...
Moshovitis, James Early Life and the Draft
James Moshovitis was born in March 1925 in Washington, D.C., the only son of three children born to Greek immigrants....
Higgins, Gordon Early Life and the Draft
Gordon Higgins was born in February 1924 in New Haven, Connecticut, one of two sons who lived with their mother and...
Ingram, Ruth Early Life and Wartime
Ruth Ingram was born in Scarsdale, New York in November 1928. Ingram was 13 years old when the war broke out and has...
Carroll, Orville Early Life through Deployment
Orville Carroll was born in Bend, Oregon in December 1924. He grew up in Sisters, Oregon, graduated from high school...
Phillips, James Early Life to Army Life
James W. Phillips was born in August 1921 in Middletown, Pennsylvania. He was the oldest of four, and his father was a...
Sutcliffe, Albert Early Life to Deployment
Albert G. Sutcliffe was born 12 May 1925 in Bisbee, Arizona. When he was about two years old his family moved to Los...
Baughman, Harry Early Life to Deployment
Harry Baughman was born in Findlay, Ohio. He grew up there during the Great Depression, when "things were tough." When...
Sniff, Alvin Early Life to Ship Life
Alvin Sniff was born in March 1925 in New Orleans, Louisiana. When the war started, he quit school and went to work in...
Smith, John Early Life, and Enlistment
John E. Smith was born in June 1922 in Magnolia, Arkansas. His father was an Army sergeant and the family moved around...
Siebert, Herbert Early Life, Being Drafted and Military Training
Herbert Siebert was born in April 1925 in Saint Louis County, Missouri. He was one of five siblings; his father died...
Keller, Fred Early Life, Drafted into the Navy, and Deployment
Fred L. Keller Jr. was born Algiers, Louisiana in January 1924. After he graduated high school, he got a job working at...
Griffith, Ralph Early Life, Enlistment and Deployment
Ralph Griffith was born in March 1923 in Hannibal, Missouri, one of four children. His father was an iron worker with...
Payn, Thomas Early Life, Enlistment and Training
Thomas Payn was born in June 1925 in Boston, Massachusetts, the only child of his Canadian parents. The family moved to...
Rees, Holly Early Life, Enlistment and Training
Holly Rees was born in January 1926 in Prescott, Arizona. Although he grew up during the Great Depression, his father...
Sivak, Steve Early Life, Enlistment, and Training
Steve Sivak was born in February 1922 in Morgantown, West Virginia. He had one older sister. His parents raised him in...
Green, Arthur Early Life, Enlistment, and Military Training
Arthur George Green was born in Rock Port, Missouri in April 1926. His family moved to Wilsey, Kansas when he was about...
Chauncey, Charles Early Life, Enlistment, and Military Training
Charles Graves Chauncey was born in April 1923 in Chanute, Kansas. He went through the school system, went to Kansas...
Istre, Adam Early Life, Enlistments and Assignment
Adam Istre was born in 1927 in Lake Arthur, Louisiana, but the family moved to a farm outside of Gueydan, Louisiana...
Courtney, Melbourne Early Life, Entrance Into Service and Overseas Deployment
Melbourne Sanford Courtney was born near Cynthiana, Kentucky in 1925. He lived on a family farm, and his memory of...
Snyder, Harry Early Life, the Draft and Training
Harry Snyder was born in August 1921 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He was an only child who lived with his mother and...
Lovell, James Earning His Wings
When James Lovell was a flying midshipman in Pensacola, he spent some time in ground school learning about aerodynamics...
Boyles, Edward Earning Respect from Platoon
After graduating from Officer Candidate School, Edward E. Boyles arrived on Adak, Aleutian Islands waiting for his...
Baughman, Harry Earning the Nickname "Blue Devils"
The 88th Infantry Division made it into the port at Naples, and Harry Boughman moved through and crossed the Volturno...
Irvine, Elizabeth "Elizabeth Lautzenheiser" Education and Her Grandmother
Elizabeth Lautzenheiser Irvine began attending school in the internment camp [Annotator's Note: the Santo Tomas...
Kleindienst, Alfons "Al" Education and Hitler Youth
Alfons Robert Kleindienst and his family moved to Germany after World War 2 began [Annotator's Note: his father, Alfons...
Brooks, Leonard Eight Months in Los Baños
They [Annotator's Note: Leonard Brooks, his family, and the 600 other missionaries] arrived at Santo Tomas and spent...

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