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Levitt, Sydney Prewar Life to Airborne Training
[Annotator's Note: A person is seen walking back and forth in the background from time to time throughout this clip]....
Graddy, J. Prewar Life to Army
J. D. Graddy was born in Hopkins County, Kentucky in March 1925. He was the fifth child in a family of 11 siblings. One...
Liston, Earl Prewar Life to Army
Earl Roger Liston was born in October 1923 in Mitchell, South Dakota with four brothers. His father was a farmer who...
Lowder, James Prewar Life to Army
[Annotator's Note: There is white noise throughout this clip.] James L. Lowder was born in Cleveland, Ohio in June 1926...
Rosenberg, George Prewar Life to Army Air Corps
George Henry Rosenberg was born in Chicago, Illinois in June 1922. His father was able to retain a job in the railroad...
Luce, Dwain Prewar Life to Army Commission
[Annotator's Note: The interview begins with a conversation regarding how the interview is going to be accomplished.]...
Fried, J. M. Prewar Life to Army Officer
J.M. "Jimmy" Fried, Jr. was born in December 1919 and grew up in Vicksburg, Mississippi. He had one older brother and...
Acker, Charles Prewar Life to Army to Home
Charles Acker was born in February 1922 in Willow Grove [Annotator's Note: Willow Grove, Pennsylvania]. His father was...
Porter, Allen Prewar Life to Army Training
[Annotator's Note: Coughing can be heard throughout this segment.] Allen Porter was born in Market, Michigan in 1925....
Uchida, Togue Prewar Life to Army Training
Togue Uchida was born in October 1917 in Stoughton, Wisconsin and lived there until he was 12 years old. He moved to...
Allen, Warren "Bill" Prewar Life to Army Training
Warren William "Bill" Allen, Junior was born in January 1924 in Saint Louis, Missouri. He grew up with two younger...
Grugett, George Prewar Life to Aviation Cadet
George Grugett was born in McConnell, Tennessee which no longer exists. His father worked for the railroad. He moved...
McCowen, William Prewar Life to Aviation Cadet Program
William McCowen was born in 1926 in Elmsford, New York. During the Depression [Annotator's Note: the Great Depression...
Brasel, Robert Prewar Life to Basic Training
Robert J. "Bob" Brasel was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma in 1923. They had a side yard and, in the summer of 1936, when it...
Holleman, Louis Prewar Life to Basic Training
[Annotator's Note: There is a lot of background noise throughout this clip.] Malcolm Louis Holleman was born in July...
Neste, Norman A. Prewar Life to Basic Training
Norman Neste was born in August 1923 in Hemet, California. His father was a housing contractor and they did well during...
McGee, George Prewar Life to Basic Training
George Wesley McGee was born in April 1925 in Bridgeport, Nebraska. When McGee was nine years old the family moved to...
Gemperline, Eugene Prewar Life to Basic Training
Eugene J. Gemperline was born in Portsmouth, Ohio in June 1923. [Annotator's Note: A telephone rings in the background...
Wise, Curtis Prewar Life to Basic Training
Curtis Winfred Wise was born in September 1919 in Kannapolis, North Carolina. Growing up there was great. It was a mill...
Bernardi, Joseph Prewar Life to Basic Training
Joseph Richard Bernardi, Senior was born in March 1923 in the Bronx [Annotator's Note: the Bronx is one of the five...
Freeman, Leslie "Vincent" Prewar Life to Basic Training
L. Vinson Freeman, Jr., in his Army records it is Leslie V. Freeman, was born in Saint Louis, Missouri in June 1923. He...
Gagel, Helen "Cosgrove" Prewar Life to Becoming an Army Nurse
Helen Gagel [Annotator’s Note: born Helen Cosgrove] was born in 1915 in Sauk Centre, Minnesota. She had four brothers...
Bielec, William Prewar Life to Being Drafted
William F. Bielec was born in March 1917 [Annotator's Note: in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania]. He was born into a Polish-...
Dunlavy, Jack Prewar Life to Being Drafted
Jack Dunlavy was born In Avery, Mississippi in June 1925. It was a small town. His father was a millwright at the...
Parham, Henry Prewar Life to Being Drafted
[Annotator's Note: There is a very loud humming noise throughout this clip.] Henry Parham was born in November 1921 in...
Hillard, Frank Prewar Life to Bombsight Training
Frank Hilliard was born in May 1923 in Little Rock, Arkansas. He was always an aircraft enthusiast and took his first...
Bache-Wiig, John Prewar Life to Boot Camp
John Bache-Wiig, Jr.'s name is hyphenated because he is Norwegian. Somebody had married and had two children and both...
Johnson, Burton Prewar Life to Boot Camp
Burton "Burt" Johnson was born in December 1925 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. When he was seven, he spent the summer at...
Klimas, Irvin Prewar Life to Boot Camp
Irvin C. Klimas was born in Wheeling, West Virginia in October 1920. [Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks what...
George, Carroll Prewar Life to Coast Guard Academy
Carroll George was born in October 1919 in Atlanta, Georgia. He grew up ten miles from Atlanta out in the country. His...
Ruiz, Manuel Prewar Life to Combat
Manuel Ruiz was born in March 1921 in Dallas, Texas but was raised by foster parents in Minnesota. His foster family...
Willhour, Dick Prewar Life to Deployment
Richard "Dick" Willhour was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma in December 1924. He had a younger brother who served in the Air...
Nesossis, Richard Prewar Life to Deployment
Richard Lamey Nesossis was born in Beaumont, Texas in 1922. His father died two years after Nesossis' birth. Nesossis'...
Yip, Wallace Prewar Life to Drafted
Wallace Yip, Sr. was born in Canton, China and left when he was ten years old. He left his mother and came to the...
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...
Browning, Earl Prewar Life to Drafted
Earl Dean Browning was born in January 1926 in Annawan, Illinois. [Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks Browning what...

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