George Phippen was born July 11, 1915 in Iowa. His family moved from Iowa to Emmett (near St. Mary’s, Kansas) in 1919. In 1933, at the age of 18, Phippen joined the Civilian Conservation Corps working first in Minnesota and then in Washington. Left the Corps in 1939 to return to Kansas for a year and then went back to Washington and California before settling in Tucson, AZ in 1940.
During World War II, he wanted to be a combat artists for the Army, but was station (showing 500 of 4697 characters). |
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