Great Depression

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Smith, Louis Early Life and Enlistment
Louis Smith was born in April 1925 in Newport, Kentucky. He grew up during the Great Depression, when jobs were scarce...
Moore, Frederick Early Life and Enlistment
Frederick Moore was born in December 1924 in Cambridge, Massachusetts and grew up in Arlington, Massachusetts during...
Walsh, Violet Early Life and Enlistment
Violet Walsh was born in 1920 in L'anse Au Tigres, or Tiger's Cove, a small settlement between Eunice and Basile in...
Galella, Armando Early Life and Enlistment
Armando Galella was born in January 1921 in New York, New York. When he was around four years old, he moved with his...
Hendren, William Early Life and Enlistment
William Hendren was born in February 1926 in New Orleans, Louisiana. He spent his early childhood there before...
Jordan, Bryce Early Life and Enlistment
Bryce Jordan was born in November 1924 in Stanley, Wisconsin. He grew up on a dairy farm outside of Stanley and he says...
Hackler, Maurice "Hack" Early Life and Enlistment
Maurice Hackler was born in 1922, the second of two sons, in Cherryville, Kansas where his parents owned and operated a...
Bonelli, William Early Life and Enlistment
William Patrick Bonelli was born in March 1921 in Indiana, Pennsylvania. He grew up with an older brother. He credits...
Kubiak, Frank Early Life and Enlistment
Frank H. Kubiak was born in West Allis, Wisconsin in November 1924. His father emigrated from Prussia but was of Polish...
Carlson, Harry Early Life and Enlistment
Harry Carlson was born in October 1924 in Springfield, Pennsylvania. He grew up there as a single child. His father...
Haines, George Early Life and Enlistment
George Haines was born in April 1925 in Rochester, New York. His father worked at the YMCA [Annotator's Note: Young Men...
Giroir, J. Early Life and Enlistment
J. L. Giroir was born in November 1911 in Gibson, Louisiana. His family moved between there and Morgan City, Louisiana...
Marcantel, Bernard Early Life and Enlistment
Bernard Norman Marcantel was born in July 1923 in Oberlin, Louisiana, the youngest of four sons. The children of their...
Savage, Frank Early Life and Enlistment
Frank N. Savage was born in June 1921 in Lawrenceburg, Indiana. His parents had a difficult time during the depression...
McEwen, Richard Early Life and Enlistment
Richard McEwen was born in Silver Creek, New York, and lived there with his parents and two siblings until he was eight...
Saik, Ogden Early Life and Enlistment
Ogden Saik was born in September 1926 in New Orleans, Louisiana. He lived with his family in the New Orleans...
Elliott, John Early Life and Enlistment
John Elliott was born in 1919 in Greeley, Colorado, the eldest of two children. His parents had driven west in a...
McCauley, Harry Early Life and Enlsitment
Harry McCauley was born in October 1926 in Eunice, Louisiana. His family was poor and worked a small farm during the...
Marr, John W Early Life and Entering Service
John W. Marr was born in Johnson County, Missouri in May 1918. He grew up on a farm and moved farms twice during his...
Boyer, Robert Early Life and Entrance into Service
Robert Boyer was born in June 1925 in Hanover, Pennsylvania, the older of the two children in his family. He grew up...
Vanderpool, Mildred Early Life and Entrance Into Service
Mildred Loscalzo Vanderpool was born in July 1920 in Queens County, New York. She went to Connecticut College [...
Langrall, Clarke Early Life and Entrance into Service
Clarke Langrall was born in December 1924 in Baltimore, Maryland. Growing up during the Great Depression, things were...
Gust, Darrell Early Life and Entrance Into Service
Darrel D. Gust was born in Eau Claire, Wisconsin in November 1921. His mother died when he was 11 years old, and, at...
Welty, Orrin Early Life and Entrance Into Service
Orrin Welty was born in December 1922 in Lima, Ohio. He grew up during the Great Depression and spent summers working...
Gresham, Ray Early Life and Entrance Into Service
Ray Gene Gresham was born in July 1927 in Lawrence County, Illinois, the last of the six children of a farmer. After...
Mabarac, Raymond Early Life and Entrance Into Service
Raymond Mabarac was born in January 1922 and grew up in Detroit, Michigan. He was the second of four sons. His father...
Madison, Robert Early Life and Entrance Into Service
Robert Madison was born in Cleveland, Ohio in July 1923, one of four sons of an educated black man, who held "all sorts...
Epstein, Ben Early Life and Entrance Into Service
Ben Epstein was born in April 1921 in Brooklyn, New York, the youngest of four sons of Russian immigrants. His father...
Lippman, Robert Early Life and Entrance Into Service
Robert Lippman was born in Rome, New York in September 1923, in a small town surrounded by farmland. His father had a...
Faust, Virgil Early Life and Entrance Into Service
Virgil Faust was born in 1921 in Windber, Pennsylvania. His father was a carpenter by trade, and maintained housing for...
Zuras, Nicholas Early Life and Entrance Into Service
Nicholas J. Zuras was born in Washington D.C. in July 1918. He grew up during the Great Depression [Annotator's Note:...
Amore, Frederick Early Life and Entrance Into Service
Frederick Amore was born in 1924 in Bay Ridge, New York and lived there until age 17 when he moved to Rome, New York....
Andrus, Ernest Early Life and Entrance Into Service
Ernest "Ernie" Andrus was born in 1923 near Severance, Kansas, the younger of two sons in a farming family. During the...
Lee, Arthur Early Life and Entrance Into Service
Arthur Lee was born in June 1921 in Abbeville, Louisiana, the second of five children. When he was two years old, the...
McGlohon, John Early Life and Entrance Into Service
John McGlohon was born in June 1923 in Guilford County, North Carolina where he lived for the first six months of his...
Smithson, Jack Early Life and Entrance Into Service
Jack A. Smithson was born in Malvern, Arkansas in 1923. As a kid, he worked in the sawmill there. At about 15, Smithson...

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