Prewar life

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Tubach, James Early Life and Becoming a Soldier
James "Jim" Tubach was born in April 1926 in Fall City, Nebraska. He grew up there on a dairy farm with ten brothers...
Gallichant, Normand Early Life and Becoming a Soldier
Normand F. Gallichant was born in March 1921 in Danielson, Connecticut. He had four brothers. His father was a mechanic...
Fulco, Joseph Early Life and Becoming a Soldier
Joseph P. Fulco was born in December 1925, in New Orleans [Annotator's Note: New Orleans, Louisiana]. His father ran a...
Benson, Norman Early Life and Becoming a Soldier
Norman Gustaf Benson's family was Swedish. His father was born in Sweden and immigrated to the United States at an...
Slomka, Edwin Early Life and Becoming a Soldier
Edwin Slomka was born in New York City [Annotator's Note: New York, New York] in January 1926. He grew up with an older...
Reed, Carlos Early Life and Becoming a Soldier
Carlos V. Reed was born in December 1923 in Los Angeles, California. He was an only child. Before he was one year old,...
Frey, Robert Early Life and Becoming a Soldier
Robert G. Frey was born in August 1924 in Bethlehem and ended up in Bath [Annotator's Note: Bethlehem and Bath,...
Haggerty, June Early Life and Becoming a WAVE
June Catherine Elliott Haggerty was born in New Orleans [Annotator's Note: New Orleans, Louisiana]. She grew up in Pass...
Glass, Helen Early Life and Becoming a WAVE
Helen Anderson Glass was born in March 1923 in North Walpole, New Hampshire but was raised in New Jersey. Even though...
Warren, Ennis Early Life and Becoming an Airman
Ennis C. Warren was born in Wilmer, Alabama in September 1923. His mother died when he was born. He was raised by his...
Grubb, Paul Early Life and Becoming an Airman
Paul James Grubb was born in September 1920 in Riverside, California. His mother died when he was six months old....
Gerrits, Edward Early Life and Becoming an Airman
Edward Gerrits was born in Racine, Wisconsin, but was raised in Miami, Florida. He enjoyed going to the Florida...
Grimes, Vernon Early Life and Becoming an Airman
Vernon Grimes was born in May 1921 in Wichita [Annotator's Note: Wichita, Kansas]. He grew up with a sister in various...
Fitch, Mason Early Life and Becoming an Airman
Mason Brownell Fitch was born in September 1925 in Rochester, New York. He graduated high school in 1943 and took the...
Blackwood, William Early Life and Becoming an Army Officer
William Blackwood was born in March 1921 in Lancaster, Ohio. He was an only child, and lived in a small community near...
Harkness, Henrietta Early Life and Becoming and Becoming an Army Nurse
Henrietta Harkness was born in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania in October 1918. Her father was a foreman at the Bethlehem Steel...
Sklar, Martin "Marty" Early Life and Being Recruited by Walt Disney
Martin Sklar was born in New Brunswick, New Jersey. His father was a high school. His aunt and uncle had moved to...
Finklang, Frank Early Life and Bombardier School
Frank Finklang was born in April 1924 in Saint Louis [Annotator's Note: Saint Louis, Missouri]. He served with the...
Knight, Edwin Early Life and College
Edwin Knight was born in 1923 in Washita, Arkansas. He grew up on a small farm there during the Great Depression....
Boehm, Robert Early Life and Current Family
Robert Kenneth “Bob” Boehm was born in August 1925 in St. Louis, Missouri. He grew up there until he enlisted in the...
Mosher, Alfred Early Life and Deployment to Guam
Alfred Raymond Mosher was born in December 1921 in Adrian, Missouri. He recalled the Great Depression and how lots of...
Shaw, Claude Early Life and Education
Claude Bufford Shaw grew up around Carson Lake [Annotator's Note: Carson Lake, Arkansas] until he was about 11 years...
Linkous, Melvin Early Life and Education
Melvin Linkous grew up with his parents and brother on a farm in Virginia. Both boys served in Europe during the war....
Notebaert, Richard Early Life and Enlistment
Richard Notebaert was born in January 1920 in Rochester, New York. He was youngest of the four children of a bridge and...
Lalande, Edward Early Life and Enlistment
Edward Lalande was born in Moreauville, Louisiana in March 1919. He had three brothers and three sisters. He had a good...
Lee, Lewis Early Life and Enlistment
Lewis M. Lee, Sr. was born in June 1919 in Weston, Texas. He was the fifth of five sons whose mother died in childbirth...
Reese, Lloyd Early Life and Enlistment
Lloyd William (Bill) Reese was born in Milton Center, Ohio. His father was a superintendent of schools. They moved to...
Lovell, James Early Life and Enlistment
James Lovell was born in March 1928 in Cleveland, Ohio, but as a young child his father's profession in the heating...
Neiman, Leon Early Life and Enlistment
Leon J. Neiman was born on 20 December 1924 in Reading, Pennsylvania. Neiman and his siblings were all born in the same...
Borne, Edwin Early Life and Enlistment
Edwin Joseph Borne, Jr. was born in New Orleans, Louisiana. His father was an engine operator who was on the ground...
Gilmore, Wayne Early Life and Enlistment
Wayne McKinnon Gilmore was born in Mount Hope, Kansas in November 1921. His family moved to Opelousas [Annotator's Note...
Verlander, David Early Life and Enlistment
David E. Verlander, Jr. was born in New Orleans, Louisiana in 1923, the youngest of four children. His father was a...
Kight, Otis Early Life and Enlistment
Otis Kight grew up near Atlanta [Annotator's Note: Atlanta, Georgia] and nearby Stone Mountain [Annotator's Note: Stone...
Foy, John Early Life and Enlistment
John Foy was born in October 1925 in Rochester, New York, one of the ten children of a plumbing contractor. He came up...
Moore, Frederick Early Life and Enlistment
Frederick Moore was born in December 1924 in Cambridge, Massachusetts and grew up in Arlington, Massachusetts during...
Fogg, Floyd Early Life and Enlistment
Floyd Fogg was born in April 1926 in Lacombe, Louisiana. When he was three years old, his family moved to Slidell,...

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