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Block, Louis Prewar Life
Louis Block graduated from high school in June 1944. They discussed the war, but not at length. They were more focused...
Prince, Robert Prewar Life
Robert Prince was born in Seattle, Washington in November 1919. He was the second of four boys. All of them served in...
Redmond, Leroy Prewar Life
Leroy Redmond was born in June 1922 in Newark, New Jersey. It was a nice town. He was the third son. The Great...
Jones, Harold Prewar Life and Airborne Training
Harold Jones was born in February 1924 in Mead, Colorado and grew up in Greeley, Colorado. He was a Depression [...
Ratliff, Rob Roy Prewar Life and Basic Training
Rob Roy Ratliff was born in 1923 in Webb City, Missouri. He recalled playing in the fields near the old mines as a boy...
Waldman, Norman Prewar Life and Becoming a Paratrooper
Norman William Waldman was born in December 1924 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He served as a machine gunner in the...
Cristiano, Nick Prewar Life and Being of Italian Descent
Nick Cristiano was born in July 1925. He grew up in the Bronx, New York. There were great schools. His father owned a...
Kern, Frank Prewar Life and Boot Camp
Frank Kern served as a corporal in A Battery, 1st Battalion, 10th Marines [Annotator's Note: 10th Marine Regiment, 2nd...
Bird, Henry Prewar Life and Boot Camp
Henry James Bird served with F Company, 2nd Battalion, 18th Regiment, 2nd Marine Division [Annotator's Note: Company F...
Poston, Charles Prewar Life and College
Charles Poston was born in October 1921 in Austin, Arkansas but was raised in Many, Louisiana with two younger brothers...
Floravante, Emile Prewar Life and D-Day
Alfred Anthony Alvarez was born in Boston, Massachusetts to parents with Irish ancestry in April 1924. He joined the...
St. Julian, James Prewar Life and Deployment to the Philippines
James Anthony Saint Julien, Senior was born in January 1923 in New Orleans [Annotator's Note: New Orleans, Louisiana]....
Thomas, A.C. Prewar Life and Draft
A.C. Thomas remembers they came out of their pup tent [Annotator's Note: small sleep tents often shared by two soldiers...
Mayne, Colin Prewar Life and Draft
Colin Joseph Mayne was born in March 1925 in New Orleans [Annotator's Note: New Orleans, Louisiana], where he also grew...
Kitts, James Prewar Life and Drafted
James Albert Kitts was born in August 1925 in Phoenix, Arizona. He is the oldest child with two brothers and four...
Whitworth, Vaughan Prewar Life and Drafted
Vaughan Whitworth was born in April 1925 in Virginia. He grew up in Beaufort, North Carolina where his parents owned a...
Sacks, Abraham Prewar Life and Drafted
Abraham Sacks was born in September 1919 in London, England with one younger sister. He arrived in New York [Annotator'...
Burrus, William Prewar Life and Drafted
William E. Burrus was born in Birmingham, Alabama in February 1926. He had one brother and two sisters. His father...
Stoops, Robert Prewar Life and Drafted
Robert Stoops was born in May 1919 in New Orleans, Louisiana. He moved around to several military installations until...
Steeg, Moise Prewar Life and Drafted
Moise S. Steeg, Jr. has a Biblical first name; in French it means Moses. His family left Spain during the Inquisition [...
Wayne, William Prewar Life and Drafted
[Annotator's Note: The tape begins with the interviewee describing an attack on Mount Suribachi, Iwo Jima, Japan, by...
Bellecci, John Prewar Life and Early Military Training
John Bellecci was born in September 1923 in Martinez, California. He grew up there and was the student body president...
Hendrick, Robert Prewar Life and Education
Robert Erskine Hendrick was born in Norfolk, Virginia in 1920. He had one younger sister. His father served 30 years in...
Roxandich, George Prewar Life and Education
George H. Roxandich was born in August 1925 in Lansford, Pennsylvania and attended Lansford High School. His father was...
Grimes, James Prewar Life and Enlisting in the Navy
James William Grimes was born in November 1925 in Cleveland, Ohio. Everything was okay during the 1920s, but the 1930s...
Bosworth, Paul Prewar Life and Enlistment
Paul Bosworth was born in November 1925 in Chicago, Illinois. [Annotator's Note: Sound cuts in and out.] He was in high...
Wainwright, James Prewar Life and Enlistment
James Eyre Wainwright was born in May 1925 in Whittier, California with one twin brother and two younger brothers. They...
Rhoads, Benjamin "Dusty" Prewar Life and Enlistment
Benjamin "Dusty" Rhoads was born in Clovis, New Mexico in March 1922 and moved to Farmington, New Mexico shortly after...
Keller, Richard Prewar Life and Enlistment
Richard Keller grew up in Hahnville [Annotator's Note: Hahnville, Louisiana]. He started in the first grade the year...
Hecht, Lester Prewar Life and Enlistment
[Annotator's Note: The video starts with a long conversation before the interview actually starts.] Lester Hecht was...
Buckner, Jack Prewar Life and Enlistment
Jack Buckner was born in Florida but when he was one he moved near Atlanta [Annotator's Note: Atlanta, Georgia] where...
Hutcherson, Kenneth Prewar Life and Enlistment
Albion Kenneth Hutcherson was born in Pennsylvania County, Virginia in September 1923. His family moved a lot. His...
Conklin, Earl Prewar Life and Entrance Into Service
Earl Conklin was born in September 1921 in Saint Louis, Missouri. He was a "depression boy" whose father worked for the...
Morehead, James B. Prewar Life and Entrance Into Service
James Morehead was born in August 1916 in Peoli, Oklahoma, the youngest of four children in a family that worked a farm...
Cole, John Prewar Life and Entrance to Service
John H. Cole was born in January 1922 in Greene County, Arkansas, in a little community named Epsby [Annotator's Note:...
Gibson, Robert "Doby" Prewar Life and Entrance to Service
Robert W. "Doby" Gibson was born in Utica, Mississippi in August 1924. He was nicknamed, "Doby", after a professional...

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