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Theodore, Theodore Early Life and Entrance Into Service
Theodore Theodore was born in July 1924 in Chicago, Illinois, the middle child of three children in the family. His...
Frothingham, Richard Early Life and Entrance Into Service
Richard Frothingham was born in 1925 in New York City [Annotator's Note: New York, New York]. He spent his early...
Kitowski, Charles Early Life and Entrance Into Service
Charles Kitowski was born in San Antonio, Texas in 1923. He grew up during the Great Depression [Annotator's Note:...
DeMott, Joseph Early Life and Entrance Into Service
Joseph DeMott was born in August 1918 in Big Run, Pennsylvania. He was the only child of a railroad worker and a...
Raby, Glynn Early Life and Entrance Into Service
Glynn G. Raby, Jr. was born in Memphis [Annotator's Note: Memphis, Tennessee] in 1924. His father owned service...
Brannon, Mark Early Life and Entrance Into Service
Mark Brannon was born in January 1917 in Augusta, Kansas, the third of six children in the family of a man who was in...
Dixon, Richard Early Life and Entrance to Service
Richard Tempus Dixon was born in June 1925 in Oakland, California. He was the second of two sons raised by his father...
Pedersen, Allen Early Life and Entry into the Military
Allen Pedersen was born in Valley City, North Dakota in May 1916. His grandfather immigrated from Denmark. He grew up...
Jaccarino, Richard Early Life and Entry into the Service
Richard Jaccarino was born in May 1925 in Brooklyn, New York. When he was still an infant, the family moved to the...
Biestek, Jane "Jane Laird" Early Life and Family
Jane Biestek was born in January 1925 in the Lamport Hotel Bear Creek, Montana. Her mother was working in the hotel and...
Radford, Charles Early Life and Fighting in North Africa
Early life for Charles Radford was tough because of the Great Depression. He grew up in a family of eight including his...
Tanner, Theodore Early Life and Flight School
Theodore Robert Tanner was born in Portland, Oregon in December 1920. He had one younger sister, born two years after...
Amundson, Adolph "A.W. Amundson" Early Life and Flight Training
Adolph William Amundson was born in November 1923 in White Bear Lake, Minnesota. He lived in a small town, but there...
Eleser, Carey Early Life and Joining in the Navy
Carey Eleser was born in August 1924 in Roseville, Louisiana and grew up in Ponchatoula. He was born at a Catholic...
Kinney, Gabriel Early Life and Joining the Army
[Annotator's Note: Interview begins with the interviewer speaking with Gabriel Kinney about his nephew being in jump...
Gulotta, James Early Life and Joining the Army
Judge James Gulotta was born in November 1923 and grew up in New Orleans. He went through the depression years which...
Carlson, Clarence Early Life and Joining the Army Air Forces
Clarence Carlson was born Kittson, Minnesota in June 1921. His family moved to Svea Township where he attended school...
Bailey, Raymond Early Life and Joining the Navy
Raymond Bailey was born and raised in Champaign-Urbana, Illinois. Jobs at the time only paid about one dollar per day....
Marcarelli, Ralph Early Life and Joining the Navy
Ralph G. Marcarelli was born in July 1924 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. His father was a cabinet maker and his mother...
Knutson, Caroll Early Life and Joining the USAAF
Carroll Knutson was born in March 1924 in Santa Monica, California. Both his parents had children from their previous...
Baile, Richard Early Life and Joining the USAAF
Richard Baile was born in December 1920 on a farm in Missouri east of Kansas City near the town of Washburn. They had a...
Reynolds, Florence G. Early Life and Joining the WASPs
Florence G. Shutsy-Reynolds ran stores for almost 14 years. She would make the things people could not find. She was...
McAuliffe, Edwin Early Life and Losing a Brother
[Annotators Note: there is an interruption about 45 seconds into the interview after which the interview is started...
Slay, Charles Early Life and Losing a Friend to the Japanese
Charles Slay was born in December 1921 in Holloway, Louisiana. He was one of the first boys in the area to finish high...
Maxwell, Robert Early Life and Mediterranean Combat
Robert D. Maxwell was born in October 1920 in western Kansas. With the winds blowing the land away, the family headed...
Doolan, Robert Early Life and Meeting His Heroes
Robert Doolan was born in March 1917 in Cincinnati, Ohio. It was wonderful to grow up in Cincinnati and he still loves...
Wells, Raymond Early Life and Military Training
Raymond Wells was born in Eagle, Colorado in April 1922. He was living in Secora, New Mexico and remembers the day the...
Oakes, Robert Early Life and Military Training
Robert Tyler Oakes was born in March 1922 in New Albany, Indiana. He enjoyed his youth participated in plays in high...
Crump, Ralph Early Life and Moving to California
Ralph Crump was born and raised in Council Bluffs, Iowa. The years of the Great Depression were "terrible," Crump said...
Schneider, Irwin Early Life and Naval Commissioning
Irwin R. Schneider was born in August 1921 in Newark, New Jersey. He was raised there. His father was a school teacher...
Holmes, Capers Early Life and Navigation School
Capers Andrews Holmes, Jr. was born in Culloden, Georgia. During the Great Depression [Annotator's Note: The Great...
Bianconi, Anthony Early Life and Navy Entry
Anthony Bianconi was born in September 1920 in Youngstown, Ohio. When he was quite young, his family moved to Mount...
Bartels, Carl Early Life and Navy Entry
Carl C. Bartels, M.D. [Annotator's Note: Doctor of Medicine] was born in Hamilton, Ohio in July 1917. The Great...
Audler, Richard Early Life and Navy Military Training
Richard Audler was born in New Orleans [Annotator's Notes: New Orleans, Louisiana] in December 1925. He had one younger...
Wellford, Harry Early Life and Navy Training
Harry Walker Wellford was born in Memphis, Tennessee on 6 August 1924. He spent his entire life there except for his...
Chinnis, Edward Early Life and Pearl Harbor
Edward Chinnis was born in August 1924 in Ravenel, South Carolina. After graduating high school Chinnis had a...

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