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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...
Peterson, Carl Early Life
Carl Peterson was born in Foraker, Oklahoma. He had three brothers and a sister and when his mother remarried he got...
East, Clyde Early Life
Clyde East was born in 1921 on a Virginia tobacco farm. He had eight brothers and sisters. His father was a share...
Ciotta, Angelo Early Life
Angelo Ciotta was born in 1925 in Leone, Italy. He came to the United States through Ellis Island, New York, at age...
Hollingsworth, Chester Early Life
Chester Hollingsworth was born on a farm in October 1917 near Greenville, Texas. He had two brothers and two sisters....
Neher, Lisle Early Life
Lisle Neher was born in Oshkosh, Wisconsin in August 1924. Life in Oshkosh was wonderful. There was a lot to do and...
Bollich, James Early Life
James Joseph Bollich was born in August 1921 south of Eunice [Annotator's Note: Eunice, Louisiana]. Before the war, he...
Singlaub, John Early Life
General John Singlaub was born in 1921 in the Owens Valley of the Eastern Sierra Range of California. His grandfather...
Perino, Salvador Early Life
Salvador Perino was born in March 1924. He grew up in the Irish Channel, New Orleans [Annotator's Note: New Orleans,...
Braddock, William Early Life
William M. Braddock was born in Monroe, Louisiana in 1922. He was the oldest son in the family. The Braddocks had cows...
Arceneaux, Arthur Early Life
Arthur Joseph Arceneaux Junior was born in Gramercy, Louisiana in September 1923. He attended Lutcher High School in...
Derrington, Clarence "Earl" Early Life
Clarence Earl Derrington, Jr. was born in November 1924 in Meridian, Mississippi. His father was in the insurance...
Staymates, Arthur Early Life
Arthur Staymates was born in 1925 in Murrysville, Pennsylvania which is about 20 or 30 miles east of Pittsburgh. He...
Marshall, Kenneth Early Life
Kenneth Marshall was born in December 1926 in Grand Island, Nebraska, one of four siblings. His father, a hardworking...
Samuelson, Jack Early Life
Jack D. Samuelson is a World War Two veteran. He was interviewed at 88 years of age in a senior citizens’ home. He met...
Kracov, William Early Life
William Kracov was born in 1924 [Annotator's Note: October 1924] in Chelsea, Massachusetts. He grew up in Brooklyn, New...
Harvey, William Early Life
William Harvey grew up in Algiers near New Orleans, Louisiana. His family never went hungry because his father worked...
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...
Russell, Patrick Early Life
Patrick Russell was born in Minneapolis in 1919. His wife was born there as well. He attended 14 different schools...
Gurr, Robert Early Life
Robert Gurr was born in Los Angeles, California in 1931. The family moved to Glendale, California near a busy airport...
Tweed, Earl Early Life
Earl Tweed was born in Fort Benning, Georgia in 1922. He attended grade school there then went to high school in...
Ryan, Richard Early Life
Richard Ryan was born in New Orleans, Louisiana in March 1921. His father worked for the Ford factory making...
Cresswell, Robert Early Life
Robert Nichols Cresswell was born in Wilkinsburg, Pennsylvania in April 1924. He grew up in Swissvale, Pennsylvania....
Arst, Paul Early Life
Paul Arst was born in Memphis, Tennessee in February, 1921, but grew up in Drew, Mississippi. There were not many...
Sciortino, Philip Early Life
Philip James Sciortino, Sr. was born in New Orleans [Annotator's Note: New Orleans, Louisiana] in September 1923. He...
Collie, C. Early Life
C. Charles Collie, Jr. was born in Little Rock, Arkansas in 1922 and grew up there. He left in 1940 to enroll in the...
McGuire, Joseph Early Life
Joseph McGuire was born in 1919 and the first few years of his life were lived in abject poverty. He used a local creek...
Gaterman, Walter Early Life
Walter N. Gaterman was born in Saint Louis in December 1921. He was in the printing trade before the war. He heard...
McPhail, Joe Early Life
Joe K. McPhail was born in Carthage, Mississippi and grew up there. He joined the CCC [Annotator's Note: Civilian...
Alexander, Vernon Early Life
Vernon Alexander was born in Memphis, Tennessee in 1924 and lived there for the first five years of his life. His dad...
Ashton, Jackson Early Life
Jackson Augustus "Jack" Ashton, Senior was born in February 1925 in Brewton, Alabama. He had a brother and sister....
Tizzard, Thomas Early Life , Working for Higgins, Enlistment and Deployment to New Caledonia
Thomas A. Tizzard Jr. was born in July 1924 in Echo, Louisiana. His family owned a farm and in 1938 they moved to New...
Halvorsen, Gail Early Life and Air Force Career
Gail Halvorsen was born in October 1920 in Salt Lake City, Utah. He and his family moved to Garland, Utah. He competed...
Bowsher, Walter Early Life and Army Service
Walter Alan Bowsher, Jr. was born in Fort Riley, Kansas. His father was in the Army chasing Poncho Villa at the time....
Curtis, William W. Early Life and Basic Training
William Curtis was born in 1921 in a shack five miles outside of Hazlehurst, Mississippi in the Martinville Community....
Kerner, John Early Life and Basic Training
John Kerner was born in February 1919 in San Francisco, California. His family moved to Boston, Massachusetts for a...

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