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Appel, Jack Early Life
Jack Appel was born in Brooklyn, New York [Annotator's Note: Brooklyn is one of the five boroughs in New York, New York...
Spera, George Early Life
George Spera was born in 1924 in Mays Landing, New Jersey. He had no siblings. His father was a bricklayer and cement...
Perry, Robert Early Life
Robert Perry was born in Ebenezer, Louisiana, near Crowley [Annotator's Note: Crowley, Louisiana], in November 1926. He...
Brooks, Lawrence Early Life
Lawrence N. Brooks was born in 1909 in Norwood, Louisiana, near Baton Rouge. Most of his youth was spent near...
Malta, Samuel Early Life
Samuel Malta was born in March 1925 at Revere, Massachusetts near Boston. He learned to swim early since it was a...
Poliseno, Dominick Early Life
Dominick Frank Poliseno was born in 1918 in Pennsylvania [Annotator's Note: Sharpsville, Pennsylvania]. His father was...
Tsubota, Thomas Early Life
Thomas Kiyoshi Tsubota was born in January 1915 in Honolulu, Hawaii. He had two brothers and one sister. His father was...
Blackwell, David Early Life
David McKinley Blackwell was born in Holden, Louisiana and grew up in Washington Parish. He grew up on a farm where...
Fitzgerald, Ray Early Life
Ray Fitzgerald was born in March 1922 in Union County in North Mississippi. He grew up there in a rural home. The draft...
Maddox, Claire Early Life
Claire Maddox was born in Pittsburg, Kansas in 1924 [Annotator's Note: April 1924]. He had two older brothers. It was a...
Drake, Joseph Early Life
Joseph J. Drake was born in October 1924 in Hawley, Pennsylvania. He had three brothers and one sister. His father lost...
Celaya, Adolfo Early Life
Adolfo V. Celaya was born in Florence, Arizona in May 1927. He had one brother and two sisters. Celaya was the oldest...
Currier, Al Early Life
Al Currier was born in what is now Eastpointe, Michigan in October 1923. He grew up there during the Depression [...
Knudson, Robert Early Life
Robert Knudson was born in January 1925 in Mason City, Iowa. His father was a successful greenhouse owner, and even...
Bondola, Thomas Early Life
Thomas Bondola was born in Pottstown, Pennsylvania in July 1923 and has lived in the same neighborhood all his life...
Gillis, Jack Early Life
Jack A. Gillis was born in February 1923 in Mound City, Missouri. He had no brothers or sisters. At age two, Gillis...
Riggsby, Norman Early Life
Norman Riggsby was born on 9 June 1925 in Chicago, Illinois. He grew up in a small town in Michigan near Detroit. It...
Moss, Roy Early Life
Roy Joseph Moss was born in March 1922 in West Point, Utah. His grandparents had crossed the plains in 1847 and settled...
Memory, Frank Early Life
Frank George Memory was born in Slaterville, Utah in July 1923. He had one brother and a sister and was the middle...
Bertino, Donald Early Life
Donald W. Bertino was born in September 1924 in a coal mining town in Pennsylvania. The coal company was named after...
Hammer, Richard Early Life
[Annotator's Note: Richard Antoine Hammer, Sr. and the interviewer informally chat for a few minutes prior to the start...
Milkis, Abe Early Life
Abe Milkis was born in 15 January 1924 in Philadelphia. He had one brother and one sister. His brother, Harry, was a...
Maki, Howard Early Life
Howard T. Maki was born in May 1925 and grew up in Sault Sainte Marie, Michigan. His parents were from Finland. Maki...
Moret, Calvin Early Life
Calvin Moret was born in New Orleans, Louisiana on 15 August 1925. His parents, Adolph, Sr. and Georgette had five boys...
Hughes, William Early Life
William B. Hughes was born in April 1927 in Nashville, Tennessee. Nashville was a country town at that time. His father...
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...
von Frisch, Alvin Early Life
Alvin von Frisch was born in Giessen, Germany in 1920. He began his education there but he, his mother, two sisters,...
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...
Hollingsworth, Chester Early Life
Chester Hollingsworth was born on a farm in October 1917 near Greenville, Texas. He had two brothers and two sisters....
Ginrich, Ralph Early Life
Ralph “Bud” Ginrich was born in July 1919 in Emigsville [Annotator’s Note: Emigsville, Pennsylvania]. His father died...
Barnes, William Early Life
William Lee Barnes was born in December 1926 in Cottondale, Florida. He started school in Saint Andrews, Florida but...
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...
Ward, George Early Life
George C. Ward was born in Erlanger, Kentucky in January 1926. He was raised in Florence, Kentucky. He had one brother...

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