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Wieland, Kenneth Prewar Life to Drafted
Kenneth Wieland was born in Fisher, Minnesota September 1926. He grew up there. [Annotator's Note: Someone enters the...
Little, Henry Prewar Life to Drafted
Henry Floyd Little was born Kemper County, Mississippi near DeKalb. He lived in the country and his family raised their...
Squire, Vernon Prewar Life to Drafted
Vernon Squire was born in a farming community that was a very small town [Annotator's Note: Orland, California]. Being...
Hackman, Delbert Prewar Life to Drafted
Delbert Franklin Hackman was born on a farm near Havana, Illinois in September 1919. He grew up on a farm and worked...
Loidolt, Raymond Prewar Life to Drafted
Raymond Loidolt was born in 1924 on a farm east of Pierz, Minnesota. The farm kept the six of them busy. He went to...
Reluga, Matthew Prewar Life to Drafted
Matthew A. Reluga was playing football and got the notice that Pearl Harbor was attacked [Annotator's Note: the...
Baxter, Lionel Prewar Life to Drafted
Lionel Baxter served in the 941st Field Artillery in Battery A [Annotator's Note: Battery A, 941st Field Artillery...
Howard, William Prewar Life to Drafted
William Edwin Howard was born in Grand Island, Florida on his grandfather's farm in July 1924. He fished there on Lake...
Forcinella, Frank Prewar Life to Drafted
Frank Forcinella was born in February 1925 in Rensselaer, New York. His childhood was good. They had hard times and...
Guitard, Robert Prewar Life to Drafted
Robert Guitard was born in January 1927 in Westbrook, Maine, the home of Rudy Vallée [Annotator's Note: Hubert Prior...
Alspaugh, James Prewar Life to Drafted
James Alspaugh was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma in January 1925. His parents came to Oklahoma when it was still Indian...
Levit, Sydney Prewar Life to Drafted
Sydney Levit was born in Philadelphia [Annotator's Note: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania] in July 1924. He grew up in a...
Tallon, Donald Prewar Life to Drafted
Don Tallon was born in Trenton, New Jersey in August 1924. His family was quite poor. The neighborhood was segmented...
Whaley, Ellis Prewar Life to Drafted
Ellis Whaley was born in Lumberport, West Virginia in December 1923. He grew up in Columbus, Ohio. He went to high...
Larson, William Prewar Life to Engineer
William H. Larson was born in December 1917 in Fremont, Nebraska. His parents were second-generation Scandinavians. His...
Landrum, Thomas Prewar Life to England
Thomas Landrum was born in April 1919 in Shreveport, Louisiana. His father was a painter and paper hanger. He was sick...
Keller, Jack Prewar Life to England
Jack Keller was born in June 1924 in Cincinnati [Annotator's Note: Cincinnati, Ohio]. His parents and brother were...
Lomax, Charles "Charlie" Prewar Life to England
Charlie Lomax was born in January 1921 in East Spencer, North Carolina. He graduated from Wake Forest University [...
Parker, William Prewar Life to England
William "Bill" Parker was born in November 1924 in Torrance, California. Parker grew up in Tulsa, Oklahoma. In his...
Beard, Oral Prewar Life to Enlistment
[Annotator's Note: Throughout this clip, a person off-camera answers a lot of the interviewer's questions or gives...
Castellano, Nancy Prewar Life to Enlistment
Nancy Lynch Castellano was born in January 1924 in Belleville, New Jersey, with three siblings. Her father worked for...
Evans, Donald Prewar Life to Enlistment
Donald Evans was born August 1923 in Phoenixville, Pennsylvania. He had three brothers and a sister who was the oldest...
Bebko, Robert Prewar Life to Enlistment
Robert Stephen Bebko was born in Erie, Pennsylvania in October 1925. There were three girls and five boys in his family...
Bueker, Robert Prewar Life to Enlistment
Robert Bueker was born in July 1924 in Omaha, Nebraska. He finished high school in 1942. [Annotator's Note: The...
Nacey, Ed Prewar Life to Enlistment
[Annotator's Note: The audio for this interview is very low.] Edward Nacey was born in September 1922 in Duluth,...
Jagers, Robert Prewar Life to Enlistment
Robert Jagers was born in Chicago, Illinois in July 1922. His father passed away when he was 11 and he and his mother...
Jordan, James Prewar Life to Enlistment
James Jordan was born in Scranton, Pennsylvania in February 1927. He went to a military academy at 15. He had no...
Davis, Jack Prewar Life to Enlistment
[Annotator's Note: Conversation between some people off-camera can be heard throughout this clip.] Jack Davis...
O'Connor, Robert Prewar Life to Enlistment
Robert W. "Bob" O'Connor was born in Carey, Ohio in 1923. He went into the service in Indianapolis [Annotator's Note:...
Baum, Irving Prewar Life to Enlistment
Irving Baum was born in September 1923 in Monticello, New York. [Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks Baum to...
Dorsey, Mason Prewar Life to Enlistment
Mason Dorsey was born in July 1925 in Chester, South Carolina. He grew up during the Depression [Annotator's Note: The...
Eakes, Thomas Prewar Life to Enlistment
Thomas Eakes was born in November 1922 in Beaumont [Annotator's Note: Beaumont, Texas]. He had one older brother. His...
Fallon, John Prewar Life to Enlistment
John T. Fallon was born in March 1922 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He had one older sister and three younger brothers...
Aldous, Robert Prewar Life to Enlistment
Robert G. Aldous was sometimes called "Bob". He was born in July 1925 in Ogden, Utah and grew up in Huntsville, Utah....
Morgan, Dorothy "Dorothy Wuestner" Prewar Life to Enlistment
Dorothy Wuestner Morgan was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in September 1922. It was very rural there at that time...
Stix, Charles Prewar Life to Enlistment
Charles Stix was born in March 1925. His great-grandfather came to Cincinnati [Annotator's Note: Cincinnati, Ohio] from...

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