I hadn't known of the paperclip until recently. My hometown is just seven miles from Westover Air Force Base (Chicopee Ma)--and my childhood ears heard the Sonic Boom with frequency (along with the explosions breaking up the rock to build the Ma. Turnpike). In my first grade class--but not after that year ('56-57) --was a boy with unusua…
I hadn't known of the paperclip until recently. My hometown is just seven miles from Westover Air Force Base (Chicopee Ma)--and my childhood ears heard the Sonic Boom with frequency (along with the explosions breaking up the rock to build the Ma. Turnpike). In my first grade class--but not after that year ('56-57) --was a boy with unusual name: my little ears heard it as "Yurgen Eagle". I knew he was from Germany, supposed him to be a D.P. I do not have a memory of his speaking differently from the rest of us, only that his name was different. Now, having learned of Op. Paperclip, I wonder whether his father was assigned to Westover, and whether Jurgen had actually been in the U.S. for years, such that his English would be close-to-native.
"I wonder whether his father was assigned to Westover, and whether Jurgen had actually been in the U.S. for years, such that his English would be close-to-native."
I came to the US as a ten year old in July of '67. By Christmas that year nobody could hear that I was born in a non-English speaking country.
I hadn't known of the paperclip until recently. My hometown is just seven miles from Westover Air Force Base (Chicopee Ma)--and my childhood ears heard the Sonic Boom with frequency (along with the explosions breaking up the rock to build the Ma. Turnpike). In my first grade class--but not after that year ('56-57) --was a boy with unusual name: my little ears heard it as "Yurgen Eagle". I knew he was from Germany, supposed him to be a D.P. I do not have a memory of his speaking differently from the rest of us, only that his name was different. Now, having learned of Op. Paperclip, I wonder whether his father was assigned to Westover, and whether Jurgen had actually been in the U.S. for years, such that his English would be close-to-native.
"I wonder whether his father was assigned to Westover, and whether Jurgen had actually been in the U.S. for years, such that his English would be close-to-native."
I came to the US as a ten year old in July of '67. By Christmas that year nobody could hear that I was born in a non-English speaking country.