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Ciotta, Angelo Early Life
Angelo Ciotta was born in 1925 in Leone, Italy. He came to the United States through Ellis Island, New York, at age...
Yoho, David Early Life
David Yoho was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in August 1928 and grew up in the inner city. He had two sisters....
Odom, James Early Life
James Odom was born in November 1925 in South Palo Pinto County, about 20 miles south of Mineral Wells, Texas. He grew...
Barnes, Jack Early Life
Jack Barnes was born in Cisco, Texas in 1922. Shortly after his birth, his family moved from Cisco because his father...
LaPook, Sidney Early Life
Sidney LaPook was born in Bayonne, New Jersey in September 1918. His father had a store during the Depression. The...
Livaudais, James Early Life
James Livaudais was born in Jefferson Parish in Louisiana. He was one of eight children. There were six boys and two...
Mahoney, Timothy Early Life
Timothy James Mahoney was born in April 1922 in Cambridge, Massachusetts and lived there for a few years. While still a...
Wessen, Theodore Early Life
Theodore Warren Wessen was born in May 1925 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. His father, uncle and two other men ran an...
Simpson, Joseph Early Life
Joseph Simpson was born in West Texas near Anson in 1921. He was delivered by a midwife. His father was a sharecropper...
Segal, Harvey Early Life
Harvey Segal was born in May 1925 in Roxbury, Massachusetts [Annotator's Note: Roxbury is a neighborhood in Boston]....
Peer, Wayne Early Life
Wayne Peer was born in December 1923 in Keenesburg, Colorado and grew up in Keenesburg until his teen years when the...
Braddock, William Early Life
William M. Braddock was born in Monroe, Louisiana in 1922. He was the oldest son in the family. The Braddocks had cows...
VanDuzer, Raymond Early Life
[Annotator's Note: Interview begins with the interviewer and interviewee introducing themselves.] Raymond VanDuzer was...
Derrington, Clarence "Earl" Early Life
Clarence Earl Derrington, Jr. was born in November 1924 in Meridian, Mississippi. His father was in the insurance...
Staymates, Arthur Early Life
Arthur Staymates was born in 1925 in Murrysville, Pennsylvania which is about 20 or 30 miles east of Pittsburgh. He...
Berkman, Harold Early Life
Harold W. Berkman was born in Brooklyn, New York in February 1926. Florida has been his home since 1975. He has...
Witaker, Richard "Dick" Early Life
Richard Witaker was born in March 1926 in Saugertis, New York. Saugertis was a small town about 100 miles north of New...
Saloom, Kaliste Early Life
Kaliste Joseph Saloom, Jr. was born in Lafayette, Louisiana on in May 1919. Prior to the war, Saloom attended college...
Frazier, Glenn Early Life
Glenn Frazier was born in Fort Deposit, Alabama in 1924. He grew up during the Great Depression, but since his family...
Brukman, Jack Early LIfe
Jack Brukman was born in 1923 in Los Angeles, California. He experienced small town living near the beach. The weather...
Lewis, Noah Early Life
Noah Lewis was born in March 1925 in Lake Charles, Louisiana. He had a normal life growing up. His mother was a house...
Spaetgens, William Early Life
William Leo Spaetgens was born on a farm in Roberts Cove near Crowley, Louisiana in 1922. He had eight siblings but one...
Vater, Joseph Early Life
Joseph A. Vater was born in March 1917, in Pittsburgh [Annotator's Note: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania]. He was drafted into...
Lauderdale, Dell Early Life
Dell William Lauderdale was born in 1927 near Ackerly, Texas. Ackerly was a small rural town. He had six brothers and...
League, Ray Early Life
Ray Marvin League was the second of twins born in November 1925. There were 11 boys in the family along with two girls...
Rupp, William Early Life
William J. "Bill" Rupp, Jr. was born in New Orleans, Louisiana in 1927. It was the same year that Babe Ruth hit 60...
Negrotto, Constance Early Life
Constance Negrotto was born on 8 August 1924 to Ralph and Inez Hinkel. When she was five years old, the family moved to...
Arledge, Mahlen Early Life
Mahlen P. Arledge was born in Dixie, Louisiana in 1924. As a young man in the Depression era, his father had oil wells...
Finesmith, Max Early Life
Max Finesmith was born in 1920 in Wilmington, Delaware. He grew up during the Depression. His parents emigrated from...
Dietzel, Paul Early Life
[Annotator's Note: Interview begins with Paul Dietzel and the interviewer talking about LORAN and flying over the vast...
Grahlfs, F. Early Life
F. Lincoln Grahlfs was born in December 1922 in New Haven Connecticut. His father was a World War 1 veteran who had a...
Bannai, Paul Early Life
Paul Takeo Bannai was born in July 1920 in Delta, Colorado, to Japanese parents. His grandfather got into the coal...
Feldman, Henry Early Life
Henry Feldman was born in 1925 and raised in Detroit. He had four siblings. His father was a tailor, and his brother...
Guillory, Lloyd Early Life
Lloyd Guillory was born in Berwick, Louisiana in 1925 and lived there until 1935. He had three older sisters. In 1935,...
Myrick, Thomas Early Life
Thomas Myrick was born in November 1927 in Monroe, Louisiana and lived there on and off during his early childhood. His...
Sciortino, Philip Early Life
Philip James Sciortino, Sr. was born in New Orleans [Annotator's Note: New Orleans, Louisiana] in September 1923. He...

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