Jerome David Salinger was born in New York City New York the first day of 1919. He grew up as a troubled youth that was expelled from three boarding schools. The young trouble maker was finally sent in 1934 to Valley Forge Military Academy (VFMA) outside of Philadelphia Pennsylvania. Founded in 1928 the military boarding school was known as the "Little West Point".

Valley Forge educated many importance personages such as the former child Tsar Simeon II of Bulgaria and trained such famous warriors as H. Norman Schwarzkopf of Desert Storm fame, and the current US Navy's CNO Admiral Gary Roughead. It was at VFMA that Salinger edited the school's yearbook and penned a few short stories. He graduated from VFMA in 1936. Salinger spent the next several years spread from New York to Vienna studying, attending and withdrawing from colleges, doing his first serious writing and working for and with his Jewish father who was a meat importer.

US Army Signal and Counter Intelligence Corps WWII

In April 1942 Salinger was drafted under Selective Service and assigned to the Army. Since he had attended some college scored well on intelligence tests he was sent to the Signal Corps where he attended instructor school and helped train Army Air Corps Cadets. In October 1943 he attended training for counter intelligence at Ft Holabird, Maryland. Assigned to the intelligence section of the 12th Infantry Regiment, 4th ID he waded under German machine guns ashore on Utah Beach on D-Day with a typewriter in his pack.

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