TX. At the age of 18 he hitchhiked to California to enlist in the Navy. He was a poor boy by his own admission. a son of German immigrants. who spoke German in the home until well into his teens. For his contribution to the war effort. he served as a machinists aid in the Aleutian Islands. At the conclusion of World War II. like a whole generation of new Californians who had come to that State to participate in the war in the Pacific Theater. he took advantage of the G.I. bill and enrolled as an undergraduate at the University of Southern California.
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