Prewar life

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Smithson, Jack Early Life and Entrance Into Service
Jack A. Smithson was born in Malvern, Arkansas in 1923. As a kid, he worked in the sawmill there. At about 15, Smithson...
Guisewite, Myron Early Life and Entrance Into Service
Myron L. Guisewhite was born in 1921 in Avis, Pennsylvania, one of the five children of a New York Central Railroad...
Theodore, Theodore Early Life and Entrance Into Service
Theodore Theodore was born in July 1924 in Chicago, Illinois, the middle child of three children in the family. His...
Frothingham, Richard Early Life and Entrance Into Service
Richard Frothingham was born in 1925 in New York City [Annotator's Note: New York, New York]. He spent his early...
Kitowski, Charles Early Life and Entrance Into Service
Charles Kitowski was born in San Antonio, Texas in 1923. He grew up during the Great Depression [Annotator's Note:...
DeMott, Joseph Early Life and Entrance Into Service
Joseph DeMott was born in August 1918 in Big Run, Pennsylvania. He was the only child of a railroad worker and a...
Raby, Glynn Early Life and Entrance Into Service
Glynn G. Raby, Jr. was born in Memphis [Annotator's Note: Memphis, Tennessee] in 1924. His father owned service...
Brannon, Mark Early Life and Entrance Into Service
Mark Brannon was born in January 1917 in Augusta, Kansas, the third of six children in the family of a man who was in...
Dixon, Richard Early Life and Entrance to Service
Richard Tempus Dixon was born in June 1925 in Oakland, California. He was the second of two sons raised by his father...
Willette, Edward Early Life and Entrance to Service
Edward G. Willette was born in August 1924 in Chicago, Illinois. He and his sister, the children of a milk salesman,...
Pedersen, Allen Early Life and Entry into the Military
Allen Pedersen was born in Valley City, North Dakota in May 1916. His grandfather immigrated from Denmark. He grew up...
Lombardo, Frank Early Life and Entry into the Military
Frank L. Lombardo was born in January 1920 in New Orleans, Louisiana. He attended a boarding school in Covington,...
Jaccarino, Richard Early Life and Entry into the Service
Richard Jaccarino was born in May 1925 in Brooklyn, New York. When he was still an infant, the family moved to the...
O'Leary, Frank Early Life and Family
Frank H. O’Leary was born in June 1921 in Boston [Annotator's Note: Boston, Massachusetts]. He had two older brothers....
Thompson, Willie Early Life and Family
Willie Wesley Thompson was born in April 1918 in Modeste, Louisiana. His paternal grandparents were former slaves and...
Tanner, Theodore Early Life and Flight School
Theodore Robert Tanner was born in Portland, Oregon in December 1920. He had one younger sister, born two years after...
Amundson, Adolph "A.W. Amundson" Early Life and Flight Training
Adolph William Amundson was born in November 1923 in White Bear Lake, Minnesota. He lived in a small town, but there...
Fronk, Wesley Early Life and Friends
Wesley Fronk had one sister and grew up in a lot of different places. He never had any problems making friends. Moving...
Eleser, Carey Early Life and Joining in the Navy
Carey Eleser was born in August 1924 in Roseville, Louisiana and grew up in Ponchatoula. He was born at a Catholic...
Carlson, Clarence Early Life and Joining the Army Air Forces
Clarence Carlson was born Kittson, Minnesota in June 1921. His family moved to Svea Township where he attended school...
Whitten, Sumner Early Life and Joining the Marine Corps
Sumner Whitten was born in Newton, Massachusetts. After high school he went to Amherst College. In college he was in...
Higgins, Richard Early Life and Joining the Marines
Richard Higgins was born in Arlington, Massachusetts in Sims Hospital. Higgins moved to Harrison, Maine when he was...
Marcarelli, Ralph Early Life and Joining the Navy
Ralph G. Marcarelli was born in July 1924 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. His father was a cabinet maker and his mother...
Davis, Arthur Early Life and Joining the Navy
Arthur Q. Davis was born in March 1920 in New Orleans, Louisiana. His family lived on a rice plantation in Pointe a la...
Reynolds, Florence G. Early Life and Joining the WASPs
Florence G. Shutsy-Reynolds ran stores for almost 14 years. She would make the things people could not find. She was...
Slay, Charles Early Life and Losing a Friend to the Japanese
Charles Slay was born in December 1921 in Holloway, Louisiana. He was one of the first boys in the area to finish high...
Maxwell, Robert Early Life and Mediterranean Combat
Robert D. Maxwell was born in October 1920 in western Kansas. With the winds blowing the land away, the family headed...
Doolan, Robert Early Life and Meeting His Heroes
Robert Doolan was born in March 1917 in Cincinnati, Ohio. It was wonderful to grow up in Cincinnati and he still loves...
McGee, Joseph Early Life and Military Training
Joseph F. McGee Junior was born in Utah, Alabama on 6 March 1924. He was standing in front of his town's post office...
Crump, Ralph Early Life and Moving to California
Ralph Crump was born and raised in Council Bluffs, Iowa. The years of the Great Depression were "terrible," Crump said...
Schneider, Irwin Early Life and Naval Commissioning
Irwin R. Schneider was born in August 1921 in Newark, New Jersey. He was raised there. His father was a school teacher...
Holmes, Capers Early Life and Navigation School
Capers Andrews Holmes, Jr. was born in Culloden, Georgia. During the Great Depression [Annotator's Note: The Great...
Bianconi, Anthony Early Life and Navy Entry
Anthony Bianconi was born in September 1920 in Youngstown, Ohio. When he was quite young, his family moved to Mount...
Carraway, Myron Early Life and Navy Entry
Myron J. Carraway was born in Idaho [Annotator’s Note: in Jackson, Idaho in March 1922] and grew up there. He graduated...
Audler, Richard Early Life and Navy Military Training
Richard Audler was born in New Orleans [Annotator's Notes: New Orleans, Louisiana] in December 1925. He had one younger...
McNeely, Marigold Early Life and Onset of War
Marigold "Margot" McNeely was born in London, England in 1926. She moved from London to a small seaside resort called...

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