Norman Lear

Norman Milton Lear (born July 27 1922 in New Haven, Connecticut) is an American television writer and producer who produced such popular sitcoms as All in the Family, Sanford and Son, One Day at a Time, The Jeffersons, Good Times and Maude. Norman Lear was born in New Haven, Connecticut and went to high school in Hartford, Connecticut. He attended Emerson College in Boston, but dropped out in 1942 to join the United States Army Air Forces. During World War II, he served as a radio operator on a Boeing B17 Flying Fortress bomber with the 772nd Bombardment Squadron, 463rd Bombardment Group (Heavy) of the Fifteenth Air Force. He flew 52 combat missions, receiving the Air Medal with four oak leaf clusters for his wartime accomplishments before leaving the military in 1945. Lear and fellow crew-members during WWII are featured in the book "Crew Umbriago" by Daniel P.Carroll (tailgunner) and also in another book, 772nd Bomb Squadron: The Men, The Memories by Turner Publishing Company. In... full article at wikipedia