![]() ![]() While at lowry field, he learned how to repair the "sperry Mark 1", a top secret computer. ![]() He was given basic training in mississippi before being sent to Lowry Field in Denver, Colorado, where he trained as a Power Operated and Computing Gunsight specialist due to his mechanical aptitude. Harry Graduated from Froset Hills high School in 1943 and was immediately drafted into the US Army Air Corps for the Second World War, he was aged 18. At the age of 13 Harry discovered Sci Fi fandom and was hooked. In Harry's early years he was not interested in writing but drawing and painting, however he did love to read pulp science fiction magazines and novels from his local library. Harry spent his first 2 years in stanford before his family moved to Brooklyn, then Queens, where he grew up and went to school. Harry was born in Stamford, Connecticut in the USA as Harry Maxwell Dempsey, however his father changed thier name to Harrison soon after Harry's birth. Harry Harrison is a very well known American Science Fiction Author, with the hugely popular Stainless Steel Rat and Bill the Galactic Hero Series. ![]()
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