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Quentin Aanenson »
Quentin Aanenson, the fifth of six children, was born on April 21, 1921, on a 160 acre farm five miles from Luverne ... |
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Maurice Bell »
Maurice Bell was born in Mississippi on February 17, 1925, and grew up in the northeast corner of ... |
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Ward Chamberlin »
Ward Chamberlin was born August 4, 1921 and grew up in Norwalk, Connecticut. The son of a successful corporate lawyer ... |
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Walter Ehlers »
Walter Ehlers was born on a farm in Junction City, Kansas on May 7, 1921, and enlisted in the Army in October of 1940 ... |
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Glenn Frazier »
Glenn Dowling Frazier was born December 1, 1923 and grew up in the little farming town of Fort Deposit, Alabama. In the ... |
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Tom Galloway »
Thomas M. Galloway (Tom), an only child, was born December 14, 1923 and grew up in Mobile ... |
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John Gray »
John Gray was born in his grandparents’ home in Chickasaw, Alabama on ... |
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Herndon Inge »
Herndon Inge was born March 4, 1920, and was in the same high school class as Edward Sledge, the older brother of Eugene ... |
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Robert Kashiwagi »
Robert Kashiwagi was born February 11, 1919, in Hayward, California, and grew up 15 miles from Sacramento in Knights ... |
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Ray Leopold »
Ray Leopold was born in Waterbury, Connecticut on December 13, 1914, the son ... |
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Dwain Luce »
Dwain Luce was born April 25 1916, and grew up in Mobile. His father was in the lumber business. Luce graduated ... |
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Joe Medicine Crow »
Joe Medicine Crow was born October 27, 1913 on the Crow Indian reservation near ... |
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William Perkins »
William Perkins was born on July 27, 1920 and grew up in Newport, RI. In 1943, Perkins was married ... |
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Ray Pittman »
Alvy Ray Pittman, the son of a veteran of WWI, was born Dec. 5, 1922 near Columbia, MS. After finishing high school ... |
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Susumu Satow »
Susumu Satow was born in 1923, in Mayhew, California and grew up on his family’s 20-acre farm in Sacramento. One of nine ... |
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Eugene Sledge »
Eugene B. Sledge was born in Mobile November 4, 1923, the grandson of Confederate officers. Bookish and frail as a child, he ... |
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Tim Tokuno »
Tim Tokuno was born and raised on a farm in Palermo, California in the Sacramento Valley. He was one of seven children ... |
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Sascha Weinzheimer »
Sascha Weinzheimer was born Feb. 7, 1933. The daughter and granddaughter of wealthy planters with extensive ... |
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Pete Arias »
Pete Arias was born in 1923, one of nine siblings born to Mexican immigrants. He was raised on a farm in Los Angeles County ... |
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Earl Burke »
Earl Burke was born in Sacramento on August 18, 1923 and graduated from McClatchy High School. His only sibling ... |
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Babe Ciarlo »
Corado “Babe” Ciarlo grew up in Waterbury. He wanted to join the Navy at 18,
but his mother talked him out of it ... |
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James Fahey »
James Fahey grew up in Waltham, Massachusetts, the youngest of four orphaned children. Two of his ... |
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Paul Fussell »
Paul Fussell was born on March 22, l924, in Pasadena, Calif., the son of a successful corporate lawyer. On May 6, 1943 ... |
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Leo Goldberg »
Leo Goldberg, the son of a barber, was born July 25,1919 in Manhattan. His family moved to a secular Jewish neighborhood ... |
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Sam Hynes »
Sam Hynes was born in Chicago on August 29, 1924, and grew up in Minneapolis. He ... |
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Daniel Inouye »
Daniel Inouye, the son of a Japanese immigrant, was born in Hawaii, Sept. 7, 1924. He was a 17 year old high school senior... |
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Bill Lansford »
Bill Lansford, whose mother came to the United States from Juarez, Mexico, grew up in Latino neighborhoods in East L.A. ... |
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Emily Lewis »
Emily Lewis, born in Paducah, Kentucky on April 5th, 1920, grew up in Little Rock ... |
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Charles Mann »
Charles Mann was born on his family’s 400 acre farm, 4 miles northwest of Luverne, on April 26, 1920. He was delivered ... |
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Burnett Miller »
Burnett Miller was born on September 2, 1923 in Sacramento. His father ran ... |
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Sidney Phillips »
Sidney Phillips was born September 2, 1924, the younger brother of Katharine Phillips. His father, a teacher who became ... |
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Willie Rushton »
Willie Rushton was born July 14, 1920 in Nadawah, Alabama, a town so small it is not on most maps. His grandfather ... |
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Harry Schmid »
Harry Schmid was born in 1921, a fifth generation Sacramentan. His father worked for the telephone company and ... |
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Walter Thompson »
Walter “Mac” Thompson was born on September 10th, 1924 in Brownsville, Pennsylvania. While a student at ... |
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Joseph Vaghi »
Joseph Vaghi was born in Bethel, Connecticut on June 27, 1920, one of 9 children born to Italian immigrants. His father owned ... |
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