Great Depression

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Frazier, Glenn Early Life
Glenn Frazier was born in Fort Deposit, Alabama in 1924. He grew up during the Great Depression, but since his family...
Kracov, William Early Life
William Kracov was born in 1924 [Annotator's Note: October 1924] in Chelsea, Massachusetts. He grew up in Brooklyn, New...
Norberg, Willard "Bill" Early Life
Bill Norberg was born in November 1922 in Lemington, Wisconsin. When Norberg was five or six years old, his family...
Harvey, William Early Life
William Harvey grew up in Algiers near New Orleans, Louisiana. His family never went hungry because his father worked...
Brukman, Jack Early LIfe
Jack Brukman was born in 1923 in Los Angeles, California. He experienced small town living near the beach. The weather...
O'Rorke, James Early Life
James Richard O'Rorke was born in Washington, Pennsylvania [Annotator's Note: in September 1922] which is known for...
Hirsch, Leon Early Life
Leon Hirsch was born in July 1927 in the Bronx in New York City [Annotator's Note: New York, New York]. He had one...
Wehner, Elizabeth Early Life
Elizabeth Bedson Wehner was born in Nebraska and then moved to South Dakota and then Iowa. When she was 12 years old,...
Russo, James Early Life
James Russo, Jr. was born in February 1923 in New Orleans, Louisiana. He had a twin brother who he was close to...
Lewis, Noah Early Life
Noah Lewis was born in March 1925 in Lake Charles, Louisiana. He had a normal life growing up. His mother was a house...
David, Chester Early Life
Chester David was born in March 1924 in Lacassine, Louisiana. He was the youngest of one brother and two sisters and...
Niec, Stanley Early Life
Stanley John Niec was born in May 1926 in Chicago [Annotator's Note: Chicago, Illinois] and was raised there. He was...
Field, Edward Early Life
Edward Field was born into a Jewish family in Brooklyn, New York in 1924. He was one of six children born to Eastern...
Spaetgens, William Early Life
William Leo Spaetgens was born on a farm in Roberts Cove near Crowley, Louisiana in 1922. He had eight siblings but one...
Vater, Joseph Early Life
Joseph A. Vater was born in March 1917, in Pittsburgh [Annotator's Note: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania]. He was drafted into...
Bronstein, Isador Early Life
Isadore Bronstein was born in Philadelphia [Annotator's Note: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania] in June 1916. His father was...
Surratt, Carey Early Life
Carey Suratt was born in July 1926 in Dennison, Ohio. His father worked for the Pennsylvania railroad as a fireman. His...
Brooks, Curtis Early Life
Curtis Brooks was born in September 1928 in Manila, Philippines. His father was hired to build power plants in Manila...
Steglich, Lenwood Early Life
Lenwood Steglich was born in September 1922 in Rosenberg, Texas. His father was a farmer and moved to Bartlett, Texas...
DiFulco, Jerome Early Life
Jerome Paul DiFulco was born in New Orleans, Louisiana in March 1921. He grew up there during the hard times of the...
Knapp, William Early Life
William “Bill” Knapp was born in July 1926 in Detroit, Michigan. He moved from there to a farm in Allerton, Iowa when...
League, Ray Early Life
Ray Marvin League was the second of twins born in November 1925. There were 11 boys in the family along with two girls...
Rupp, William Early Life
William J. "Bill" Rupp, Jr. was born in New Orleans, Louisiana in 1927. It was the same year that Babe Ruth hit 60...
Skaggs, Jack Early Life
Jack Skaggs was born in Norman, Oklahoma in 1922. He grew up during the Great Depression. His father was a truck driver...
Marolda, Theodore Early Life
Theodore Marolda was born May 1923 in Winsted, Connecticut. He was born to a family of Italian immigrants and was the...
Levin, Jules Early Life
Jules Levin was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota in 1923. His mother and father were immigrants from the area known today...
Negrotto, Constance Early Life
Constance Negrotto was born on 8 August 1924 to Ralph and Inez Hinkel. When she was five years old, the family moved to...
Dymnicki, Francis Early Life
Francis Dymnicki was born in Yonkers, New York and lived there for ten years during the Depression until his father...
Ussery, Jake Early Life
Jake Ussery was born in Cotton Plant, Arkansas which is a small town north of Little Rock. His mother's parents lived...
Schrader, Ernst Early Life
Ernst Schrader was born on a large estate that his father worked on near Hamburg, Germany in October 1919. Hamburg was...
Finesmith, Max Early Life
Max Finesmith was born in 1920 in Wilmington, Delaware. He grew up during the Depression. His parents emigrated from...
Howland, John Early Life
John Howland was born in Casper, Wyoming in 1920. He can trace his ancestry back to the days of the Pilgrims. After...
Gehrett, John Early LIfe
John Gehrett was born in July 1921 in Huntingdon, Pennsylvania, where grew up and was educated. The family home was on...
Downing, James Early Life
James Willis Downing was born in August 1913 in Missouri. He grew up in a small town where things were somewhat...
Bannai, Paul Early Life
Paul Takeo Bannai was born in July 1920 in Delta, Colorado, to Japanese parents. His grandfather got into the coal...
Wilson, Adolph Early Life
Adolph Wilson was born in Oakdale, Louisiana in 1922. Before the war, his father was in the coffee business. He...

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