Seymour Nussenbaum PVT in 603rd Engineer Camouflage Bn : HQ & Service Co
Seymour Nussenbaum was born on May 22, 1923, in New York City. Both of his parents were born in Romania, and he was the oldest of four children.
After he graduated from DeWitt Clinton High School in 1939, his family moved from the Bronx to Brooklyn and he attended night classes at the Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music and Art and Performing Arts and at the Pratt Institute.
Seymour registered for the draft in December, 1942 and, knowing that he would be going into the service, took a course in camouflage offered by the Army at Pratt. He enlisted on February 23, 1943.
During the war, as a member of the Ghost Army, he was part of the team that made counterfeit patches. He wrote home regularly, sending sketches and mementos, and when he was discharged, in November, 1945, he went to work creating two detailed scrapbooks of his sketches and memorabilia. He says that he had some downtime while waiting for the spring 1946 semester at Pratt to begin, and that seemed a perfect time to complete that project.
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Today is 101 years old. 