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Heneghan, James Prewar Life to Pearl Harbor
Doctor James B. Heneghan grew up in Chicago [Annotator's Note: Chicago, Illinois]. He was born in La Porte, Indiana in...
Soskin, Betty Prewar Life to Pearl Harbor
Betty Soskin was born in September 1921 in Detroit, Michigan. She was invited to be a panelist at The National WWII...
Francis, Norman Prewar Life to Pearl Harbor
Dr. Norman Francis was born in March 1931 in Lafayette, Louisiana. It was a poor country town just coming out of the...
Liparoto, Mildred "Jean" Prewar Life to Pearl Harbor Attack
Mildred "Jean" Liparoto was born in Vincennes, Indiana in 1919. Her mother was 19 and her father was a widower with two...
Winnier, Lawrence Prewar Life to Pearl Harbor Bombing
[Annotator's Note: This clip begins with Lawrence Winnier in conversation with the interviewer.] Lawrence Winnier was...
Riggs, Clarence Prewar Life to Pilot
Clarence Edward "Ed" Riggs, Jr. was born in Burns, Kansas. His father was a rural mail carrier to support his family...
Race, John "Jack Race" Prewar Life to Pilot
John T. "Jack" Race was born Crystal Lake, Pennsylvania in May 1921. He grew up there. His father was a carpenter and a...
Asbury, Richard Prewar Life to Pilot Training
Richard Asbury was born in Maryland [Annotator's Note: Prince Frederick, Maryland in September 1920] and had a good...
Dearman, Alfred Prewar Life to Postwar Enlistment
Alfred Dearman was born in June 1930 in Abilene, Texas. He was an orphan who was adopted at three days old by an older...
Twigger, William Prewar Life to Postwar Life
William J. Twigger was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and lived his entire life there. He was the eldest of four...
Winslow, Lawson Prewar Life to Postwar Navy Life
Lawson T. Winslow, Junior was born February 1926 in Hardin, Montana in Little Bighorn County, where Custer [Annotator's...
Becker, Clarence Prewar Life to Reconnaissance Pilot
Clarence Becker was born in Rochester, New York one week after World War 1 ended, 18 November 1918. He was the fifth of...
Albright, William Prewar Life to Reported as Missing In Action
William Albright's father was a mailman. Albright was born in May 1923 in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. In 1960, he worked...
Light, Carl Prewar Life to Rifleman
Carl Light was born in a small town in southern Missouri and was inducted at Fort Leonard Wood [Annotator's Note: Fort...
Eads, Arthur Prewar Life to Seabee Training
Arthur L. Eads was born in Plainville, Kansas [Annotator's Note: in August 1920]. His father was a farmer, but then...
Levee, Harris Prewar Life to Secret Life
Harris H. Levee was born in August 1919 in Sheepshead Bay in Brooklyn, New York [Annotator's Note: Brooklyn is one of...
Currier, William Prewar Life to Service
William Currier was born in Westbrook, Maine in 1926. He grew up with two brothers and was raised by his parents....
Cohen, Benjamin Prewar Life to Soldier
Benjamin Wolf Cohen got his legal middle name after he contracted Polio as a young child. He was cured miraculously...
Wombacher, Delbert Prewar Life to the 4th Cavalry Regiment
Delbert Frank Wombacher was born in Lawrence, Nebraska on a farm [Annotator's Note: in October 1918]. He grew during...
Alter, Joseph Prewar Life to the Army
Joseph Alter was born in New York City [Annotator's Note: New York, New York] in May 1923. His father kept his job as a...
Dillon, Gerard Prewar Life to the Draft
Gerard Dillon was born in New Orleans [Annotator's Note: New Orleans, Louisiana] in January 1920. His mother was a...
Yackel, Eugene Prewar Life to the Draft
Eugene Yackel was born in March 1925 in Sanborn, Minnesota. He was raised on a farm. He spent the first ten or 12 years...
Stiles, John Prewar Life to the Marine Corps
John Stiles was born in September 1924 in Wadestown, West Virginia. He grew up there. He was the second of seven...
Stevens, Kenneth Prewar Life to the Marines
Kenneth E. Stevens was born in July 1924 in Todd County [Annotator's Note: in Long Prairie, Minnesota]. He attended...
Brown, Jules Prewar Life to the Navy
Jules Desloge Brown was born in 1923 at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. His father was a colonel in the cavalry of the Army....
Connelly, James Prewar Life to the Navy
James T. Connelly was born in June 1922 in Dorange, South Carolina on a farm. His father had to hunt for a job. His...
Sturman, William Prewar Life to the Navy
William Helm Sturman was born in April 1924 in Elida, New Mexico. He had two brothers and two sisters. During the...
Harvey, David Prewar Life to the Pacific
David Harvey was born in September 1926. [Annotator's Note: Harvey says he was born "around here" but the town name is...
Hyland, Everett Prewar Life to the Pennsy
Everett Hyland was born in Stamford, Connecticut in March 1923. His father died when he was one year old. He had one...
Fayerman, Severin Prewar Life to the Reich
Severin Fayerman was born shortly after World War 1 in an area that had been under German occupation for several...
Cummings, Mary Prewar Life to the WAVES
Mary Cummings was born in Dunkirk, New York in April 1921. It was the Depression [Annotator's Note: the Great...
Henry, Frederick Prewar Life to Tuskegee Institute
Frederick Henry was born in January 1923 in Chattanooga, Tennessee and raised in Detroit [Annotator's Note: Detroit,...
Daniel, Lora Prewar Life to Union Carbide
Lora E. Daniel was born August 1917 in Florence, Alabama. She was the youngest of five children. They farmed and she...
Trahan, Horace Prewar Life to US Navy
Horace Trahan was born in January 1927 in Maurice, Louisiana. He had one brother and two sisters. His father owned a...
Carruth, John Prewar Life to VE-Day
John Carruth was born in February 1927 in Jefferson, Georgia. He was raised on a farm. As soon as the school bus...
Tennant, Harry Prewar Life to War's End
[Annotator's Note: The interviewer has Harry Tennant answer questions written to him.] Harry Tennant was born in...

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