On December 21, 1922, John Gifford Adamson was born in Englewood, Colorado. He was the son of Gifford Fred Adamson and Gertrude Minor. He lived his early childhood in Englewood, surrounded by his younger sister and parents during the Great Depression. By the time John was finishing high school, the United States was deeply entrenched in the Second World War. In 1942, John attended Otero Junior College and had just finished his football season when he received a draft notice.
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