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Bouck, Lyle Segment 1
Lyle Bouck joined the National Guard [Annotator's Note: Missouri National Guard] at the age of 14. Growing up during...
Luckadoo, John Segment 1
John Luckadoo, known as Lucky, was born in March 1922 in Chattanooga, Tennessee. He grew up in Chattanooga. It was a...
Phillips, Henry Segment 1
[Annotators Note: Segment begins with a female telling Phillips that she is going to the grocery store and will be...
Inouye, Daniel Segment 1
Interview begins with the interviewer stating that Senator Inouye is and always will be the most influential Japanese-...
Ford, Richard Segment 1
Richard Ford was born in Erie, Pennsylvania on the Great Lakes. He had two sisters and was the youngest one in the...
Ferrier, Harry Segment 1
Ferrier was born and raised in Springfield, Massachusetts. His father died and was buried on his 13th birthday. His...
Flournoy, Maxine Segment 1
Flournoy was born in Wheaton, Missouri on March 30th, 1921. The Depression affected her family but as a kid she did not...
Tyler, Kermit Segment 1
Tyler was working in the information center receiving radar reports on the morning of the Pearl Harbor attack [...
Duchossois, Richard Segment 1
Richard Duchossois was born in October of 1921 in Chicago. His whole family lived, and still lives, in Chicago....
Rogers, Ernest Segment 1
Rogers was born in Saltville, Virginia on 1 January 1915.He graduated from high school in 1932 during the middle of the...
LaPorta, Edward Segment 1
Edward LaPorta was born in Italy in 1917. He grew up and was educated in Italy as well. His dream was to be a...
Brooks, Howard Segment 1
Brooks was born on 30 October of 1919 in Greeneville, Tennessee. He recalls his childhood during the Great Depression....
Yellin, Jerome "Jerry" Segment 1
Jerry Yellin was born on February 15th, 1924 in Newark, New Jersey. He graduated from Hillside High School in June of...
Rankin, Robert "Shorty" Segment 1
Rankin did not shoot down Gunther Rall [Annotator's Note: Luftwaffe/West German Air Force Ace Lt. Gen. Gunther Rall]...
Gravois, Francois "F.D." Segment 1
Gravois was born in Saint Gabriel, Louisiana and grew up in Edgard, Louisiana until he was 17.Pearl Harbor was on 7...
Sherman, Richard Segment 1
Sherman was born and raised near Toledo, Ohio. He attended school in Toledo. He was fortunate enough to take classes at...
Church, Ray Segment 1
Church was born in Henryville, Utah. After high school he ended up going to Dixie College in St. George. He knew that...
Bell, Bryan Segment 1
Bell was born in New Orleans, Louisiana on December 15th, 1918. Before the war, Bell had a business manufacturing...
Schmedemann, Keith Segment 1
Schmedemann was born in Junction City, Kansas where he grew up and attended high school. He went to Kansas State...
De Mers, William Segment 1
DeMers was born in Rice Lake, Wisconsin on March 3rd, 1915. He had 6 brothers and 6 sisters. All 13 lived to be to...
Vessey, John "Jack" Segment 1
John Vessey goes by Jack. His father was John and his son is named John and his grandson is named Jack. They all...
Monpat, Raymond Segment 1
Monpat was born and raised in New Orleans, Louisiana. He went to E.D. White High School for one year then quit and went...
Barnes, William Segment 1
William Barnes was born and raised in Clarksdale, Mississippi. After high school he attended Bowling Green Business...
Doi, Michael Segment 1
Michael J. Doi was born in California. On 19 January 1942 Doi was inducted into the US Army at the age of 21. The army...
Dupuy, Marsden "Pic" Segment 1
Dupuy remembers times being hard during the Depression. They always had food to eat, but there were certain things that...
Spivey, Leonard Segment 1
Leonard Spivey was born on a farm five or six miles north of Artesia, New Mexico. At a very young age Spivey was on the...
Greer, Richard Segment 1
[Annotators note: Interview starts off in mid conversation about the format of the interview.] Richard Greer was born...
McNeil, Esther Segment 1
Esther McNeil grew up on a farm in western Pennsylvania. She was the sixth of eight children.After going into nursing...
Noack, John Segment 1
John Noack lived in Port Arthur, Texas before the war. Once in a while a barnstormer would come through with a plane...
Baynham, James Segment 1
Baynham grew up during the Great Depression but doesn't recall life being too bad. After graduating from high school he...
Thatcher, David "Dave" Segment 1
At 19 Thatcher finished high school and enlisted in the US Army Air Corps on December 3rd, 1940. Thatcher was sworn in...
Vejtasa, Stanley Segment 1
Vejtasa and the interviewer are getting acquainted and set out how the interview will be conducted. The interviewer...
Crain, Joe Segment 1
Crain was born in northern Louisiana. He grew up on a farm. During the depression everyone in his family had to work in...
Jones, David "Davey" Segment 1
Jones was born in Oregon. When he was 10 years old, 1 of his sisters contracted tuberculosis so his mother elected to...
Weinart, John Segment 1
John Weinart had a house robbery a few years prior to this interview and his weapons were stolen. He had brought back...
Van Kirk,Theodore "Dutch" Segment 1
Theodore Van Kirk, known as Dutch, was born in Pennsylvania. He grew up in a very small town and he described himself...

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