WWII U.S. Army Air Corps Veteran (Sergeant) with Top-Secret Clearance
and Secret-Service Duty
“I didn’t feel old ’til I was 96,” he says
WWII U.S. Army Air Corps Veteran (Sergeant) with Top-Secret Clearance
and Secret-Service Duty
Radar and Radar-Countermeasures Instructor
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Certified Gemologist, Professional Numismatist
Diamond Setter and Jewelry Designer
Business Owner (115 employees)
Holder of Five Patents
Husband, Father, Grandfather, Great Grandfather
Philanthropist
Irving Korwin is the son of eastern European immigrants who arrived in the United States through Ellis Island. Born in August, 1920 in the Bronx, New York, he was raised during the Great Depression and entered World War II as an enlisted soldier right after he heard the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor. His is a rags-to-riches tale emblematic of America and The Greatest Generation.
Here is the first-hand story of a 97-year-old survivor of that piece of history, his world travels, the jewelry business he built and the personal reminiscences he managed to capture in this, his first book. Includes a 52-page photo section.
The Autobiography of Irving Korwin
WWII Veteran with Top Secret Clearance
ISBN: 978-1-889632-44-5 • $19.95 • 198 pgs.
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Korwin served with top-secret clearance, training pilots and military VIPs at a discreet Army Air Force base in Florida in the use of RADAR and RADAR countermeasures. The project was so hush-hush at the time that the word RADAR couldn’t be mentioned publicly. In both European and Pacific theaters, RADAR was credited with serving a pivotal role in the success of the allied forces. It allowed us to see the enemy over the horizon, a view they didn’t even know we had. Here is the first-hand story of a 97-year-old survivor of that piece of history, his world travels, the jewelry business he built and the personal reminiscences he managed to capture in this, his first book.
Includes an extensive photo section of his days during the depression, his time during the war here and abroad, the business he built beginning in a shop he described as “medieval,” (with a photo), his extended family as a record dating back c. 1900, right up to a heart-warming image of him, at 97, holding his fourth great grandchild less than one day old. There is nothing else like this.
The Autobiography of Irving Korwin
WWII Veteran with Top Secret Clearance
ISBN: 978-1-889632-44-5 • $19.95 • 198 pgs.
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* Alan says: “I promised myself I would not write Dad’s book (a constant temptation), just help him get it finished and produced, and I kept that promise. He basically objected, which is his style anyway, to suggestions if they had a material effect, even down to the cover design (though he did yield there some, so it would look nice, I think I won that one, do you?). We went from verbal files typed up by his friend in Florida -- in all capitals -- in rough sequence, to a reasonably organized, missing-pieces added, coherent and revealing story of a long life, the depression, his role in World War II, later entrepreneurial success and perspective on life after all that. The project took more than two years to complete.”
The Autobiography of Irving Korwin
WWII Veteran with Top Secret Clearance
ISBN: 978-1-889632-44-5 • $19.95 • 198 pgs.
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