Prewar life

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Addison, Arnold "A.C." Early Life and Enlistment
Arnold Addison was born in February 1922 in Lake Charles, Louisiana. He was the sixth of nine children, and although...
Saik, Ogden Early Life and Enlistment
Ogden Saik was born in September 1926 in New Orleans, Louisiana. He lived with his family in the New Orleans...
McCauley, Harry Early Life and Enlsitment
Harry McCauley was born in October 1926 in Eunice, Louisiana. His family was poor and worked a small farm during the...
Carter, Paul Early Life and Entrance Into Service
Paul Carter was born in Febuary 1922 in Davidson County [Annotator's Note: Davidson County, North Carolina], the son of...
Boyer, Robert Early Life and Entrance into Service
Robert Boyer was born in June 1925 in Hanover, Pennsylvania, the older of the two children in his family. He grew up...
Epstein, Ben Early Life and Entrance Into Service
Ben Epstein was born in April 1921 in Brooklyn, New York, the youngest of four sons of Russian immigrants. His father...
McGlohon, John Early Life and Entrance Into Service
John McGlohon was born in June 1923 in Guilford County, North Carolina where he lived for the first six months of his...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Lanzetta, Frank Early Life and Service on the USS Hill (DE-141)
Frank Dominic Lanzetta was born in August 1925 in New Orleans [Annotator's Note: New Orleans, Louisiana]. He had six...
Maiten, Sidney Early Life and Serving on the USS Catoctin (AGC-5)
Sidney Maiten was born in September 1925 in Brooklyn, New York. He enjoyed his early life there. He delivered...
Dugas, Sr., Maurice Early Life and Testing Atomic Bombs at Bikini Atoll
Maurice Joseph Dugas, Sr. was born in September 1928 in New Orleans, Louisiana. His father worked at the Roosevelt...
Allen, George Early Life and the Attack on Pearl Harbor
George Allen was born in September 1925 in Alexandria, Louisiana. He had two sisters growing up there with him. His...
Baham, Marietta Early Life and the Attack on Pearl Harbor
Marietta Estopinal Baham was born in Arabi, Louisiana. The depression [Annotator's Note: Great Depression] was very sad...
Higgins, Gordon Early Life and the Draft
Gordon Higgins was born in February 1924 in New Haven, Connecticut, one of two sons who lived with their mother and...
Bederson, Benjamin Early Life and the Draft
Benjamin Bederson was born in New York, New York, the son of Russian immigrants. He grew up in The Bronx and Brooklyn...
Martello, Dominic Early Life and the Invasion of North Africa
Dominic Martello served with the Service Company [Annotator's Note: early Cannon Company, before they established them...
de Marcken, Christian Early Life in Belgium
Christian W. de Marcken was born in January 1928 in Brussels, Belgium. He was the oldest of nine children, and he and...

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