Prewar life

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Bertino, Donald Early Life
Donald W. Bertino was born in September 1924 in a coal mining town in Pennsylvania. The coal company was named after...
Peters, Madeleine Early Life
Madeleine Vignier Peters was born in the little village of [Annotator's Note: town name not discernible] in France. She...
Goodkin, Vera Early Life
Vera Goodkin [Annotator's Note: née Herman] was born in a small town of Uzhgorod, Czechoslovakia [Annotator's Note: now...
Hammer, Richard Early Life
[Annotator's Note: Richard Antoine Hammer, Sr. and the interviewer informally chat for a few minutes prior to the start...
Frongello, Arthur Early Life
Arthur J. Frongello was born in July 1925 in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He grew up in a poor family, but felt rich...
Peterson, Carl Early Life
Carl Peterson was born in Foraker, Oklahoma. He had three brothers and a sister and when his mother remarried he got...
Cahoon, Robert Early Life
Robert Hilton Cahoon was born in Chunky, Mississippi in October 1921. Cahoon liked school, but school was only for...
Cassidy, John Early Life
John Cassidy was born in June 1915 in Bridgeport, Connecticut, the son of a 17 year old girl who couldn't support a...
Hughes, William Early Life
William B. Hughes was born in April 1927 in Nashville, Tennessee. Nashville was a country town at that time. His father...
Suter, Martin Early Life
Martin L. Suter was born in January 1921, in Rochester, New York. He had a brother and sister growing up, but he was...
Somogyi, Peter Early Life
Peter Somogyi was born in Pécs, Hungary in April 1933. His father had a nice business. The family had a comfortable...
Franklin, Ralph Early Life
Ralph C. Franklin was born in Cincinnati, Ohio in 13 July 1920. Life was wonderful during his youth. Raised in a middle...
Hall, William Early Life
William Hall was born in Denver, Colorado in July 1920. His family soon moved to Green River, Wyoming where his father...
Bussel, Norman Early Life
Norman Bussel was born 2 October 1923 in Memphis, Tennessee. His father was in the grocery business. He attended the...
Mahoney, Timothy Early Life
Timothy James Mahoney was born in April 1922 in Cambridge, Massachusetts and lived there for a few years. While still a...
Landry, Marian Early Life
Jean "Marian" Alva Yancey Landry has nearly always been known as Marian Y. Landry with the Y representing her maiden...
Joyce, Josefine Early Life
Josefine "Piepsi" Joyce was born in Vienna, Austria in December 1925. She had strict parents but her childhood was very...
Siracuse, James Early Life
James Siracuse was born in Upper Manhattan [Annotator's Note: New York, New York] in 1920. He was raised there. He...
Matsumoto, Roy Early Life
Roy H. Matsumoto was born near Los Angeles [Annotator's Note: Los Angeles, California] in May 1913. He had four...
Fontana, Frank Early Life
Frank Fontana was born in St. Louis, Missouri in August 1922. He grew up in St. Louis. He had one brother who was two...
Whitman, Melvin Early Life
Melvin C. Whitman was born and raised in New Orleans [Annotator's Note: New Orleans, Louisiana]. In high school, his...
Long, Catherine Early Life
Catherine Long was born in 1924 in Dayton, Ohio. That was the home of her mother’s family. She soon moved to Pittsburgh...
Walter, Louis Early Life
Louis John Walter was born in August 1923 in Sheldon, Iowa. He experienced no problems during the Great Depression. His...
Schultz, Philip Early Life
Philip Schultz was born in April 1919 in a tiny village near Minsk, Belarus. His father had previously immigrated to...
Chandler, Howard Early Life
Howard Chandler was born a Jew in Wierzbnik, Poland [Annotator's Note: now known as Starachowice, Poland] in December...
Heinecke, Gustave Early Life
Gustave Heinecke, known as G. Edward, Ed, Eddie, and Hink, was born in October 1922, in Belleville, Illinois, the...
Cummings, Vernon Early Life
Vernon Cummings was born in Mimico, Canada in March 1926. He was born an American citizen because his father was...
Peer, Wayne Early Life
Wayne Peer was born in December 1923 in Keenesburg, Colorado and grew up in Keenesburg until his teen years when the...
Godbold, Bryghte Early Life
Bryghte Davis Godbold was born in Alabama in 1914. Times during the Great Depression were not good for his poor family...
Derrington, Clarence "Earl" Early Life
Clarence Earl Derrington, Jr. was born in November 1924 in Meridian, Mississippi. His father was in the insurance...
Draxler, Donald Early Life
Donald Draxler was born in Glenwood City, Wisconsin in July 1923. His home town was near the "Twin Cities" [Annotator’s...
Reitman, Seymour Early Life
Seymour Reitman was born in 1925 in Philadelphia [Annotator's Note: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania], but moved to Atlantic...
Graff, Richard Early Life
Richard Graff was born in August 1924 on a farm outside of Popejoy, Iowa. His parents were German immigrants born in...
Berkman, Harold Early Life
Harold W. Berkman was born in Brooklyn, New York in February 1926. Florida has been his home since 1975. He has...
Lejeune, Lawrence Early Life
Lawrence John Lejeune was born in June 1926 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. His father worked for Exxon and the family had...

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