The creator and publisher of Playboy magazine enlisted in the Army
as an infantry clerk in World War II after he graduated from high
school in 1944. During basic combat training he won a sharpshooter badge for
firing the M1 and made it through Killer College, in which troops went
through maneuvers while throwing real grenades. Posted at Camp Adair in
Salem, Oregon, and Camp Pickett in Virginia, Hefner contributed
cartoons for Army newspapers.
