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Surratt, Carey Early Life
Carey Suratt was born in July 1926 in Dennison, Ohio. His father worked for the Pennsylvania railroad as a fireman. His...
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...
Steglich, Lenwood Early Life
Lenwood Steglich was born in September 1922 in Rosenberg, Texas. His father was a farmer and moved to Bartlett, Texas...
DiFulco, Jerome Early Life
Jerome Paul DiFulco was born in New Orleans, Louisiana in March 1921. He grew up there during the hard times of the...
Knapp, William Early Life
William “Bill” Knapp was born in July 1926 in Detroit, Michigan. He moved from there to a farm in Allerton, Iowa when...
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...
Skaggs, Jack Early Life
Jack Skaggs was born in Norman, Oklahoma in 1922. He grew up during the Great Depression. His father was a truck driver...
Marolda, Theodore Early Life
Theodore Marolda was born May 1923 in Winsted, Connecticut. He was born to a family of Italian immigrants and was the...
Gerhard, Winnecken Early Life
Winnecken Gerhard joined the German Army in October 1942. His camp was at Verdun near Metz. Verdun was a walled city...
Ussery, Jake Early Life
Jake Ussery was born in Cotton Plant, Arkansas which is a small town north of Little Rock. His mother's parents lived...
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...
Hirschmann, Peter Early Life
Peter Hirschmann was born in December 1924 in Nuremberg, Germany. He was raised there as the son of a patriotic World...
Clark, Russell Early Life
Russell E. Clark was born in Carlisle, Pennsylvania in 1925. He was an only child. His father was a salesman all his...
Gehrett, John Early LIfe
John Gehrett was born in July 1921 in Huntingdon, Pennsylvania, where grew up and was educated. The family home was on...
Tweed, Earl Early Life
Earl Tweed was born in Fort Benning, Georgia in 1922. He attended grade school there then went to high school in...
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...
Joy, Carrol Early Life
Carrol Joy was born in Morris County about 25 miles south of Manhattan, Kansas in 1920. He had one brother and one...
Ryan, Richard Early Life
Richard Ryan was born in New Orleans, Louisiana in March 1921. His father worked for the Ford factory making...
Arst, Paul Early Life
Paul Arst was born in Memphis, Tennessee in February, 1921, but grew up in Drew, Mississippi. There were not many...
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,...
St. Germain, John Early Life
John St. Germain was born in Saint John, North Dakota in September 1926. He had four brothers and two sisters. Two...
Jackson, William Early Life
William Jackson was born in April 1923 in El Paso, Texas. He lived there until he was 16 years old. He moved to...
Dahlberg, Melvin Early Life
Melvin Dahlberg was born in August 1924 in St. Paul, Minnesota, just days after his parents had moved there from Sweden...
Moxon, Milton Early Life
Milton Moxon was born in Sparta, Michigan in March 1925 and grew up in Grand Rapids. He was the fifth of seven children...
Jeffrey, Wallace Early Life
Wallace Jeffery was born on 27 January 1922 in Sioux City, Iowa. He moved many times but by nine years of age, the...
Strait, Perry Early Life
Perry Strait was born in Ocean Springs, Mississippi in April 1923. He grew up in a rural setting where his father was a...
Rosenzweig, Rollins Early Life
Rollins Rosenzweig was born in 1924 in Vicksburg, Mississippi. His father was a prosperous man who had a grocery store...
Carmody, Martin "Red" Early Life
Martin Carmody was raised in California and was a senior at San Jose State University. His family had lived there for...
McGuire, Joseph Early Life
Joseph McGuire was born in 1919 and the first few years of his life were lived in abject poverty. He used a local creek...
Rothenheber, Paul Early Life
Paul Rothenheber was born in September 1925 in Lorsch, Germany. He left Germany when he was two years old. His parents...
Pierce, William "Bill" Early Life
William Pierce was born in Queens Village Long Island, New York in January 1925. He grew up in Queens and attended...
Villars, Robert Early Life
Robert Villars was born in New Orleans, Louisiana in January 1925. His father held his job as a clerk throughout the...
Taylor, Claude Early Life
Claude Larry Taylor was born in November 1926 in Sorrento, Louisiana. His father worked for the lumber industry moving...
Ross, George Early Life
George Vincent Ross was born in September 1926 in Albany, New York. He grew up there. He had one brother, Edward, and...
Alexander, Vernon Early Life
Vernon Alexander was born in Memphis, Tennessee in 1924 and lived there for the first five years of his life. His dad...

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