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West, Gerald L. Early Life and Pearl Harbor
Gerald V. West was born in Glens Falls, New York in October 1919. His family owned a farm of about 140 acres and West's...
Burns, Lloyd Early Life and Pilot Training
Lloyd Burns was born in Bossier, Louisiana but grew up in Shreveport, Louisiana during the Great Depression. He had ten...
Templet, Robert Paul Early Life and Prewar Service in the Navy
Robert Templet was born in New Orleans, Louisiana in September 1920. At the age of five years old, his family moved to...
Kynett, Gerald Early Life and Reaction to Pearl Harbor
Gerald Kynett was born in December 1925 in Media, Pennsylvania. He grew up in Wallingford, Pennsylvania, right outside...
Whitaker, Harold Early Life and Reuniting with Family
[Annotator's Note: Interview begins with the interviewer introducing himself.] Harold Whitaker was born in Henrietta,...
Lanzetta, Frank Early Life and Service on the USS Hill (DE-141)
Frank Dominic Lanzetta was born in August 1925 in New Orleans [Annotator's Note: New Orleans, Louisiana]. He had six...
Maiten, Sidney Early Life and Serving on the USS Catoctin (AGC-5)
Sidney Maiten was born in September 1925 in Brooklyn, New York. He enjoyed his early life there. He delivered...
Dugas, Sr., Maurice Early Life and Testing Atomic Bombs at Bikini Atoll
Maurice Joseph Dugas, Sr. was born in September 1928 in New Orleans, Louisiana. His father worked at the Roosevelt...
Allen, George Early Life and the Attack on Pearl Harbor
George Allen was born in September 1925 in Alexandria, Louisiana. He had two sisters growing up there with him. His...
Baham, Marietta Early Life and the Attack on Pearl Harbor
Marietta Estopinal Baham was born in Arabi, Louisiana. The depression [Annotator's Note: Great Depression] was very sad...
Rose, Olaf "Olly" Early Life and the Draft
Olaf Rose was born in August 1921 in Pontiac, Michigan, and was the oldest of four children. His father was in the...
Moshovitis, James Early Life and the Draft
James Moshovitis was born in March 1925 in Washington, D.C., the only son of three children born to Greek immigrants....
Patti, Frank Early Life and the Draft
Frank Patti was born in December 1924 in Hammond, Louisiana and grew up on a produce farm where his parents shared the...
Fruge, Weldon Early Life and the Draft
Weldon Fruge was born in January 1925 in Eunice, Louisiana. His parents were sharecroppers, moving from farm to farm...
Sgobbo, Dominick Early Life and the Draft
Dominick Sgobbo was born in October 1924 in East Harlem, New York City, New York. The fifth of eight children of...
Mermelstein, Seymour "Cy" Early Life and the Draft
Seymour Mermelstein was born October 1924 in Newark, New Jersey. He was the oldest of three children born to Jewish...
Bederson, Benjamin Early Life and the Draft
Benjamin Bederson was born in New York, New York, the son of Russian immigrants. He grew up in The Bronx and Brooklyn...
Breen, Vernon Early Life and the Family Business
Vernon Breen was born in Chicago [Annotator's Note: Chicago, Illinois] in March 1925. He grew up in River Forest,...
Reissig, Floyd J. Early Life and the Navy
Floyd James Reissig, known as Buddy, was born in Travis County, outside of Austin, Texas in March 1919. His father was...
Goyette, Donald Early Life and the U.S. Entrance Into War
[Annotator's Note: The interview begins with a conversation between the interviewer and Donald F. Goyette who goes off...
Wofford, Jesse L. Early Life and Training
Dr. Jesse L. Wofford was born in the small, working community of Drew, Mississippi, where his family was in the farming...
Ingram, Ruth Early Life and Wartime
Ruth Ingram was born in Scarsdale, New York in November 1928. Ingram was 13 years old when the war broke out and has...
Stern, Herbert Early Life and West Point
Herbert Stern was born in December 1918 in Baltimore, Maryland. He left at age six for Rockville, Maryland, where he...
Weber, Norman Early Life Before the War
Norman Weber was born in August 1935 in New York City [Annotator’s Note: New York City, New York]. His father was from...
Oka, Walter Early Life in Hawaii
Walter Oka was born in May 1928 in a hospital in Ewa, but spent his young childhood in the town of Waianae, Oahu,...
Achee, Lorraine Early Life in New Orleans
Lorraine Achee was born in September 1924 in New Orleans, Louisiana. She grew up in the Carrollton neighborhood which...
Easterling, Lewis "Tom" Early Life to Army Air Force Training
Lewis Thomas Easterling was born in January 1924 in Ellerbe, North Carolina and grew up in Rockingham [Annotator's...
Whelan, Robert Early Life to Army Life
Robert Whelan was born in Buffalo, New York in May 1925 at Millard Fillmore Hospital and grew up in nearby Snyder [...
Phillips, James Early Life to Army Life
James W. Phillips was born in August 1921 in Middletown, Pennsylvania. He was the oldest of four, and his father was a...
Watson, Donald Early Life to Basic Training
Donald G. Watson was born in 1922 in New London, Connecticut. His father owned one of the first radio stores in the...
Muller, Henry Early Life to Commission
Henry J. Muller, Jr. born 7 April 1917 just one day after the US entered World War One. He was brought up on the...
Baughman, Harry Early Life to Deployment
Harry Baughman was born in Findlay, Ohio. He grew up there during the Great Depression, when "things were tough." When...
Venverloh, Joseph Early Life to Draft to Overseas
Joseph Venerloh was born in 1923 in Saint Louis, Missouri. He was one of seven siblings. His dad worked in the office...
Skare, Theodore Early Life to Drafted
Theodore Skare was born in April 1924 in Two Harbors, Minnesota. His family moved to Chicago, Illinois when he was baby...
Hissey, Paul Early Life to Enlistment in the Army Air Corps
Paul Hissey was born in 1922 in Chelsea, Massachusetts. His father was a Navy man who served in World War 1. His family...
Born, James Early Life to Iwo Jima
James Born was born in 1922 in Denver, Colorado. His father was a railroad man so his family was living in Denver or...

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