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Mosher, Alfred Early Life and Deployment to Guam
Alfred Raymond Mosher was born in December 1921 in Adrian, Missouri. He recalled the Great Depression and how lots of...
Notebaert, Richard Early Life and Enlistment
Richard Notebaert was born in January 1920 in Rochester, New York. He was youngest of the four children of a bridge and...
Lee, Lewis Early Life and Enlistment
Lewis M. Lee, Sr. was born in June 1919 in Weston, Texas. He was the fifth of five sons whose mother died in childbirth...
Reese, Lloyd Early Life and Enlistment
Lloyd William (Bill) Reese was born in Milton Center, Ohio. His father was a superintendent of schools. They moved to...
Lovell, James Early Life and Enlistment
James Lovell was born in March 1928 in Cleveland, Ohio, but as a young child his father's profession in the heating...
Gilmore, Wayne Early Life and Enlistment
Wayne McKinnon Gilmore was born in Mount Hope, Kansas in November 1921. His family moved to Opelousas [Annotator's Note...
Verlander, David Early Life and Enlistment
David E. Verlander, Jr. was born in New Orleans, Louisiana in 1923, the youngest of four children. His father was a...
Foy, John Early Life and Enlistment
John Foy was born in October 1925 in Rochester, New York, one of the ten children of a plumbing contractor. He came up...
Moore, Frederick Early Life and Enlistment
Frederick Moore was born in December 1924 in Cambridge, Massachusetts and grew up in Arlington, Massachusetts during...
Fogg, Floyd Early Life and Enlistment
Floyd Fogg was born in April 1926 in Lacombe, Louisiana. When he was three years old, his family moved to Slidell,...
Walsh, Violet Early Life and Enlistment
Violet Walsh was born in 1920 in L'anse Au Tigres, or Tiger's Cove, a small settlement between Eunice and Basile in...
Laster, John Thomas Early Life and Enlistment
John Laster was born in April 1924 in Louisville, Kentucky. He started school in Dalton, Georgia, but when he was in...
Hackler, Maurice "Hack" Early Life and Enlistment
Maurice Hackler was born in 1922, the second of two sons, in Cherryville, Kansas where his parents owned and operated a...
Kubiak, Frank Early Life and Enlistment
Frank H. Kubiak was born in West Allis, Wisconsin in November 1924. His father emigrated from Prussia but was of Polish...
Mc Murray, Steve Early Life and Enlistment
Steve McMurray was born in June 1925 in New Orleans, Louisiana. His father worked as an accountant for a realty company...
Giroir, J. Early Life and Enlistment
J. L. Giroir was born in November 1911 in Gibson, Louisiana. His family moved between there and Morgan City, Louisiana...
Marcantel, Bernard Early Life and Enlistment
Bernard Norman Marcantel was born in July 1923 in Oberlin, Louisiana, the youngest of four sons. The children of their...
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...
Langrall, Clarke Early Life and Entrance into Service
Clarke Langrall was born in December 1924 in Baltimore, Maryland. Growing up during the Great Depression, things were...
Welty, Orrin Early Life and Entrance Into Service
Orrin Welty was born in December 1922 in Lima, Ohio. He grew up during the Great Depression and spent summers working...
Labat, Ubert Early Life and Entrance Into Service
Ubert Labat was born in May 1924 in Luling, Louisiana and was raised in New Orleans, Louisiana. He was one of seven...
Gresham, Ray Early Life and Entrance Into Service
Ray Gene Gresham was born in July 1927 in Lawrence County, Illinois, the last of the six children of a farmer. After...
Lee, Edward Early Life and Entrance Into Service
Edward Lee Allesandro was born in April 1923 in Denver, Colorado, and grew up mostly in Pueblo, Colorado. He left high...
Stent, Frederick Early Life and Entrance Into Service
Frederick Stent was born in August 1923 in Charleston, South Carolina. He did a lot of traveling around the large...
Madison, Robert Early Life and Entrance Into Service
Robert Madison was born in Cleveland, Ohio in July 1923, one of four sons of an educated black man, who held "all sorts...
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...
Faust, Virgil Early Life and Entrance Into Service
Virgil Faust was born in 1921 in Windber, Pennsylvania. His father was a carpenter by trade, and maintained housing for...
Amore, Frederick Early Life and Entrance Into Service
Frederick Amore was born in 1924 in Bay Ridge, New York and lived there until age 17 when he moved to Rome, New York....
Lee, Arthur Early Life and Entrance Into Service
Arthur Lee was born in June 1921 in Abbeville, Louisiana, the second of five children. When he was two years old, the...
Bayuk, Rose Early Life and Entrance Into Service
Rose Bayuk was born in 1915 on a plantation in northern Minnesota. The fourth of five children, she lived the greater...
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...

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