Prewar life

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Del Monte, Jack Early Life
Jack Albert Del Monte was born in May 1921 in Brooklyn, New York [Annotator's Note: Brooklyn is one of the five...
Baughman, Paul Early Life
Paul Baughman was born in Martinsburg, Pennsylvania in May 1920. He grew up there on a big farm until he was 15 years...
Fisher, Clayton Early Life
Clayton Fisher has a friend named Roy Russell who served in the same bomb group, Bombing Squadron 8 (VB-8), who is...
Greer, William Early Life
William Siebert Greer was born in 1921 in Poplar Bluff, Missouri. His father provided for his family by farming. It...
Shawn, Gilbert Early Life
Gilbert S. Shawn was born in 1921 in New York City [Annotator's Note: New York, New York]. He grew up in Manhattan [...
McLaurine, Luke Early Life
Luke Layton McLaurine, Jr. was born February 1924 in Memphis, Tennessee. His family was in the bakery and restaurant...
Rougas, Beverly Early Life
Beverly Coleman Oates Rougas was born in New Orleans, Louisiana in February 1924. Life in New Orleans was wet and rainy...
McKay, Wallace Early Life
Wallace McKay was born in May 1925 on a snowy morning in Brainerd, Minnesota. He grew up on a farm outside the city as...
Robinson, Theodore "Ted" Early Life
Theodore M. "Ted" Robinson was born in April 1919. He was called "Little Robbie" on his PT Boat [Annotator's Note:...
Sawada, Lily Early Life
Lily Myoko [Annotator’s Note: her maiden name was given but was not audible] Sawada was born on 28 September 1927 in...
Strunk, Chester Early Life
Chester Lee Strunk was born in Benton Harbor, Michigan in December 1922. His father was a foundry worker. It was tough...
Jones, James Early Life
James B. Jones was born in March 1922 in Laurel [Annotator's Note: Laurel, Mississippi]. His father worked for a white...
Gwin, Norris Early Life
Norris Elwyn Gwin was born in June 1925 in Cleveland, Ohio. He was an only child. His father was a veteran of World War...
Burnett, Marshall Early Life
Marshall Burnett was born in Meridian, Mississippi in November 1925. He attended Marion Park Elementary School, Kate...
Rinas, Bruno Early Life
Bruno S. Rinas was born in Towner County, North Dakota, in January 1919. He had 12 siblings, but two died in infancy,...
Viani, Bruno Early Life
Bruno Viani was born in Greenwich Village in New York City in 1921. He grew up on a crowded street that was primarily...
Fristoe, Claud Early Life
Claud Neal Fristoe, Jr. was born in December 1923 in Hoxie, Arkansas. His mother was a telephone operator and his...
Linquata, Michael Early Life
Michael Linquata was born in July 1925 in Gloucester, Massachusetts. The community was very poor during the Depression...
Baranek, Martin Early Life
Martin Baranek was born in August 1930 in Wierzbnik, Poland, the older of the two sons of his Jewish family. He...
Montgomery, Dabney Early LIfe
Dabney N. Montgomery was born in Selma, Alabama on 18 April 1923. He grew up with five of his siblings from his father’...
Malta, Samuel Early Life
Samuel Malta was born in March 1925 at Revere, Massachusetts near Boston. He learned to swim early since it was a...
Poliseno, Dominick Early Life
Dominick Frank Poliseno was born in 1918 in Pennsylvania [Annotator's Note: Sharpsville, Pennsylvania]. His father was...
Tsubota, Thomas Early Life
Thomas Kiyoshi Tsubota was born in January 1915 in Honolulu, Hawaii. He had two brothers and one sister. His father was...
Ruck, Elmore Early Life
Elmore Fredrick Ruck was born in New Orleans, Louisiana in February 1922. His father worked as a public service...
Fitzgerald, Ray Early Life
Ray Fitzgerald was born in March 1922 in Union County in North Mississippi. He grew up there in a rural home. The draft...
Jindra, Leonard Early Life
Leonard Jindra was born near Prague, Czechoslovakia in June 1921. He had two brothers and an adopted sister. He was...
Lichtenfeld, Seymour Early Life
Seymour "Sy" Lichtenfeld was born in Gary, Indiana in January 1925. He graduated from high school in Gary. Times during...
McCool, William Early Life
William McCool was born in Rockledge, Pennsylvania, near Philadelphia, in 1925. His father had difficulty finding...
Rodrigues, Alfred Early Life
Alfred Rodrigues was born on the island of Kauai in Hawaii in October 1922. His mother died early in his life and his...
Wheeler, Berle Early Life
Berle Wheeler was a veteran of the China-Burma-India Theater as a member of the 967th Engineers [Annotator's Note:...
Gillis, Jack Early Life
Jack A. Gillis was born in February 1923 in Mound City, Missouri. He had no brothers or sisters. At age two, Gillis...
Theis, Kenneth Early Life
Kenneth W. Theis was born on 16 February 1923 in East St. Louis, Illinois. The family moved to Amarillo, Texas when he...
McConn, John "Jack" Early Life
John McConn was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma in 1923. Raised during the Great Depression, McConn's father was an accountant...
Moss, Roy Early Life
Roy Joseph Moss was born in March 1922 in West Point, Utah. His grandparents had crossed the plains in 1847 and settled...
Addison, Robert Early Life
Robert A. Addison was born in Akron, Ohio on 7 December 1922. The family moved several times but settled down in...
Cohn, Major Early Life
Major L. Cohn was born in Manhattan, New York in October 1927. He grew up in Brooklyn during the difficult times of the...

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