Prewar life

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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...
Maddox, Claire Early Life
Claire Maddox was born in Pittsburg, Kansas in 1924 [Annotator's Note: April 1924]. He had two older brothers. It was a...
Drake, Joseph Early Life
Joseph J. Drake was born in October 1924 in Hawley, Pennsylvania. He had three brothers and one sister. His father lost...
Lichtenfeld, Seymour Early Life
Seymour "Sy" Lichtenfeld was born in Gary, Indiana in January 1925. He graduated from high school in Gary. Times during...
Celaya, Adolfo Early Life
Adolfo V. Celaya was born in Florence, Arizona in May 1927. He had one brother and two sisters. Celaya was the oldest...
McCool, William Early Life
William McCool was born in Rockledge, Pennsylvania, near Philadelphia, in 1925. His father had difficulty finding...
Bondola, Thomas Early Life
Thomas Bondola was born in Pottstown, Pennsylvania in July 1923 and has lived in the same neighborhood all his life...
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...
Phillips, Cass Early Life
Cass Phillips was born in Pampa, Texas in April 1920. The doctor ran late to his delivery. The family moved off a farm...
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...
Memory, Frank Early Life
Frank George Memory was born in Slaterville, Utah in July 1923. He had one brother and a sister and was the middle...
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...
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...
Maki, Howard Early Life
Howard T. Maki was born in May 1925 and grew up in Sault Sainte Marie, Michigan. His parents were from Finland. Maki...
Jackson, Wilbur Early Life
Wilbur Lee Jackson was born in Temple, Texas in December 1919. Life was great for him prior to the war. He played golf...
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...
McBride, Frank Early Life
Frank Curtis McBride was born in Kingston, New York in August 1920. He grew up in Shreveport [Annotator’s Note:...
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...
Kellogg, Fermer Early Life
Fermer Kellogg was born in April 1925. He was born, raised and resides in Burbank, California. His family made...
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...
von Frisch, Alvin Early Life
Alvin von Frisch was born in Giessen, Germany in 1920. He began his education there but he, his mother, two sisters,...

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