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Bertucci, George Early Life
George Joseph Bertucci was born in July 1925 in New Orleans and was raised there. His mother passed when he was three...
Fricker, Eugene Early Life
Edgar Eugene “Gene” Fricker goes by Gene because he liked being greeted that way. He was born in June 1926 in Cushing,...
Perry, Robert Early Life
Robert Perry was born in Ebenezer, Louisiana, near Crowley [Annotator's Note: Crowley, Louisiana], in November 1926. He...
Brooks, Lawrence Early Life
Lawrence N. Brooks was born in 1909 in Norwood, Louisiana, near Baton Rouge. Most of his youth was spent near...
Linquata, Michael Early Life
Michael Linquata was born in July 1925 in Gloucester, Massachusetts. The community was very poor during the Depression...
Montgomery, Dabney Early LIfe
Dabney N. Montgomery was born in Selma, Alabama on 18 April 1923. He grew up with five of his siblings from his father’...
Carver, Jack Early Life
Jack K. Carver was born in June 1920 in Manhattan, New York City. On Sunday, 7 December [Annotator's Note: 7 December...
Anschau, Martin Early Life
Martin J. Anschau was born in April 1925 in Plainfield Township in Northampton county [Annotator’s Note: Northampton...
Maresca, Frank W. Early Life
Frank Maresca was born in September 1925 in Jersey City. He served in Company F, 289th Infantry Regiment, 75th Infantry...
Towle, John Early Life
John W. Towle was born in June 1921 in Sequoyah Hills. Towle's family moved to a dairy farm in Bearden when he was...
Tsubota, Thomas Early Life
Thomas Kiyoshi Tsubota was born in January 1915 in Honolulu, Hawaii. He had two brothers and one sister. His father was...
Ashton, Harold Early Life
Harold Hall Ashton was born in May 1919 in Shed, Oregon. He grew up in a family with four children. All four siblings,...
Porche, Albert Early Life
Albert Porche was born in Houma, Louisiana in 1922. He has spent his life in Houma except for during the war. Life in...
Kahn, William Early Life
William Kahn was born in August 1925, to immigrant parents. He grew up in Baltimore, Maryland where his father ran a...
Blackwell, David Early Life
David McKinley Blackwell was born in Holden, Louisiana and grew up in Washington Parish. He grew up on a farm where...
Maddox, Claire Early Life
Claire Maddox was born in Pittsburg, Kansas in 1924 [Annotator's Note: April 1924]. He had two older brothers. It was a...
Curl, Robert "Bob" Early Life
Robert Louis Curl was born in 1925 in Warrior, Alabama. He had two brothers and one sister. All his siblings were older...
Drake, Joseph Early Life
Joseph J. Drake was born in October 1924 in Hawley, Pennsylvania. He had three brothers and one sister. His father lost...
Lichtenfeld, Seymour Early Life
Seymour "Sy" Lichtenfeld was born in Gary, Indiana in January 1925. He graduated from high school in Gary. Times during...
Guderian, Emmett Early Life
Emmett Charles Guderian Jr., was born in December 1926 in New Orleans [Annotator's Note: New Orleans, Louisiana]. He...
Frisco, Paul Early Life
Paul J. Frisco was born in May 1925 in Newark, New Jersey. He lived there until he was 15 years old and then moved to...
Brooks, Charles Edward Early Life
Charles Brooks was born in Dallas, Texas. Life in the Great Depression was difficult. His mother had been widowed when...
Celaya, Adolfo Early Life
Adolfo V. Celaya was born in Florence, Arizona in May 1927. He had one brother and two sisters. Celaya was the oldest...
McCool, William Early Life
William McCool was born in Rockledge, Pennsylvania, near Philadelphia, in 1925. His father had difficulty finding...
Siebert, Julian Early Life
Julian Siebert was born in Westmoreland, Kansas in 1923. Growing up during the 1930s, he saw that everyone was hard up...
Currier, Al Early Life
Al Currier was born in what is now Eastpointe, Michigan in October 1923. He grew up there during the Depression [...
Barnes, Alton Early Life
Alton R. Barnes was born in December 1923 in Oxford, Alabama. He grew up in Talladega County where his father was in...
Bale, Edward Early Life
Edward Bale was born in Dallas, Texas in 1920. He was the only child. His father was in the automobile tire business....
Bondola, Thomas Early Life
Thomas Bondola was born in Pottstown, Pennsylvania in July 1923 and has lived in the same neighborhood all his life...
Gillis, Jack Early Life
Jack A. Gillis was born in February 1923 in Mound City, Missouri. He had no brothers or sisters. At age two, Gillis...
Phillips, Cass Early Life
Cass Phillips was born in Pampa, Texas in April 1920. The doctor ran late to his delivery. The family moved off a farm...
Theis, Kenneth Early Life
Kenneth W. Theis was born on 16 February 1923 in East St. Louis, Illinois. The family moved to Amarillo, Texas when he...
Ledesma, Trinidad Early Life
Trinidad Ledesma was born in November 1924 in Downey, California. His parents did not speak English. They only spoke...
Moss, Roy Early Life
Roy Joseph Moss was born in March 1922 in West Point, Utah. His grandparents had crossed the plains in 1847 and settled...
Broll, Walter Early Life
Walter Broll was born in 1925 in Baltimore, Maryland. He grew up and was educated in Baltimore. During the Great...
Friedenberg, Bernard Early Life
Staff Sergeant Bernard I. Friedenberg was with the Medical detachment of the 1st Battalion, 16th Regiment in the 1st...

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