Prewar life

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Reluga, Matthew Prewar Life to Drafted
Matthew A. Reluga was playing football and got the notice that Pearl Harbor was attacked [Annotator's Note: the...
Baxter, Lionel Prewar Life to Drafted
Lionel Baxter served in the 941st Field Artillery in Battery A [Annotator's Note: Battery A, 941st Field Artillery...
Howard, William Prewar Life to Drafted
William Edwin Howard was born in Grand Island, Florida on his grandfather's farm in July 1924. He fished there on Lake...
Forcinella, Frank Prewar Life to Drafted
Frank Forcinella was born in February 1925 in Rensselaer, New York. His childhood was good. They had hard times and...
Gierka, Eugene Prewar Life to Drafted
Eugene Henry Gierka was born in August 1924 in Albany, New York. His parents came from Poland. His father ran a butcher...
Rooney, Andrew Prewar Life to Drafted
[Annotator's Note: The interview starts with the set up and with Andrew A. Rooney looking through a book while talking...
Rugeley, Robert Prewar Life to Drafted
Robert S. Rugeley was born in January 1925 in Dallas, Texas. He was raised in Wichita Falls, Texas. His father was the...
Guitard, Robert Prewar Life to Drafted
Robert Guitard was born in January 1927 in Westbrook, Maine, the home of Rudy Vallée [Annotator's Note: Hubert Prior...
Alspaugh, James Prewar Life to Drafted
James Alspaugh was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma in January 1925. His parents came to Oklahoma when it was still Indian...
Levit, Sydney Prewar Life to Drafted
Sydney Levit was born in Philadelphia [Annotator's Note: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania] in July 1924. He grew up in a...
Mason, Leslie Prewar Life to Drafted
Leslie B. Mason, Junior was born in 1926 in Montevideo, Minnesota. He did not stay there long. His father worked as a...
Tallon, Donald Prewar Life to Drafted
Don Tallon was born in Trenton, New Jersey in August 1924. His family was quite poor. The neighborhood was segmented...
Whaley, Ellis Prewar Life to Drafted
Ellis Whaley was born in Lumberport, West Virginia in December 1923. He grew up in Columbus, Ohio. He went to high...
Larson, William Prewar Life to Engineer
William H. Larson was born in December 1917 in Fremont, Nebraska. His parents were second-generation Scandinavians. His...
Landrum, Thomas Prewar Life to England
Thomas Landrum was born in April 1919 in Shreveport, Louisiana. His father was a painter and paper hanger. He was sick...
Bowling, Don Prewar Life to England
Don Bowling was born in Penoke, near Princeton, West Virginia in July 1925. His father was superintendent of mines and...
Keller, Jack Prewar Life to England
Jack Keller was born in June 1924 in Cincinnati [Annotator's Note: Cincinnati, Ohio]. His parents and brother were...
London, James Prewar Life to England
James Harvard London was born in Cordell, Oklahoma in June 1925. London does not remember growing up. His father worked...
Lomax, Charles "Charlie" Prewar Life to England
Charlie Lomax was born in January 1921 in East Spencer, North Carolina. He graduated from Wake Forest University [...
Parker, William Prewar Life to England
William "Bill" Parker was born in November 1924 in Torrance, California. Parker grew up in Tulsa, Oklahoma. In his...
Beard, Oral Prewar Life to Enlistment
[Annotator's Note: Throughout this clip, a person off-camera answers a lot of the interviewer's questions or gives...
Castellano, Nancy Prewar Life to Enlistment
Nancy Lynch Castellano was born in January 1924 in Belleville, New Jersey, with three siblings. Her father worked for...
Evans, Donald Prewar Life to Enlistment
Donald Evans was born August 1923 in Phoenixville, Pennsylvania. He had three brothers and a sister who was the oldest...
Bebko, Robert Prewar Life to Enlistment
Robert Stephen Bebko was born in Erie, Pennsylvania in October 1925. There were three girls and five boys in his family...
Bueker, Robert Prewar Life to Enlistment
Robert Bueker was born in July 1924 in Omaha, Nebraska. He finished high school in 1942. [Annotator's Note: The...
Nacey, Ed Prewar Life to Enlistment
[Annotator's Note: The audio for this interview is very low.] Edward Nacey was born in September 1922 in Duluth,...
Raner, Norman Prewar Life to Enlistment
Norman Raner was born in November 1917 near Guthrie Center, Iowa. He went to high school and then worked in a CC Camp [...
Jagers, Robert Prewar Life to Enlistment
Robert Jagers was born in Chicago, Illinois in July 1922. His father passed away when he was 11 and he and his mother...
Hoff, Donald Prewar Life to Enlistment
[Annotator's Note: The interview begins with Donald Hoff already in conversation with the interviewer.] Hoff [Annotator...
Jordan, James Prewar Life to Enlistment
James Jordan was born in Scranton, Pennsylvania in February 1927. He went to a military academy at 15. He had no...
Raquepau, John Prewar Life to Enlistment
John "Jack" Raquepau grew up on a farm in Michigan in the Saginaw Valley. The area is noted for navy beans [Annotator's...
Galbraith, Wendell Prewar Life to Enlistment
Wendell Galbraith was born in Detroit [Annotator's Note: Detroit, Michigan] in January 1925. He had two sisters and one...
Davis, Jack Prewar Life to Enlistment
[Annotator's Note: Conversation between some people off-camera can be heard throughout this clip.] Jack Davis...
O'Connor, Robert Prewar Life to Enlistment
Robert W. "Bob" O'Connor was born in Carey, Ohio in 1923. He went into the service in Indianapolis [Annotator's Note:...
Baum, Irving Prewar Life to Enlistment
Irving Baum was born in September 1923 in Monticello, New York. [Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks Baum to...
Dorsey, Mason Prewar Life to Enlistment
Mason Dorsey was born in July 1925 in Chester, South Carolina. He grew up during the Depression [Annotator's Note: The...

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