| Martin S Goldberg his military career | ||||
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| Goldbergs crew first row second from left | Heading for the target | Goldberg in the turret | ||
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| Martin S.Goldberg enlisted in the Air
Corp in September of 1942 just 18 years old. He reported for basic
training and shortly thereafter he was sent as a cadet to Santa Anna
California for pre-flight training and then to Thunderbird for primary
flight training. At Thunderbird he was reclassified from pilot training
and sent to Radio/Gunnery school where he graduated as a radio gunner.
He was sent on to B24 transition training at Tonopah Nevada. It was there
that he was the first selected by a pilot for a crew that was made up of
10 men and they trained together ate together and partied together and
became a perfect flight team. Then another radio gunner on a crew ready
to leave for combat got ill and Sgt. Goldberg was asked to fill in on that
crew. He tried in every way to get back to his own crew but was forced
to go over seas with the assigned crew and as it turned out he gained
the greatest respect for his new pilot. The irony of it all was that the
gunner assigned to his old crew was in a ship that shot down in combat.
The B24 combat crew that Sgt. Goldberg went overseas with flew from Tonopah to A base bear Sacramento then on to Hawaii at Hickam field where they stayed for two months before Flying to their combat base at Saipan. They flew missions from there until the B29 s took over the base and they moved to Guam.AN IRONY HERE WAS THE SGT. GOLDBERG WAS BORN ON 7/11/1924 AND HE FLEW WITH THE 7TH AIR FORCE, THE 11TH BOMB GROUP IN B24S . 7/11/24 The missions they flew were 10 to 12 hours long at 20 to 24 thousand feet and primary targets were enemy ships ,airfields, fuel storage ammo dumps enemy combat troupes by Bombing and strafing He flew a total of 39 missions and earned the DFC on a mission where amongst other duties he shot down an enemy aircraft that was very likely to have shot them down. After his missions he was in the hospital for a couple of months with a combat zone illness and then after a weeks rest leave he got his orders to go home. He was discharged from the service in October of 1945
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| Martin S Goldberg his life after the service | ||||
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| Martin and Donna retired and their collie | Martin as the arbitrator | Martin with some celebrity friends | ||
| After the service Martin S. Goldberg when to college at Ohio State University earring two degrees. One in Business Administration and the other in Law.. After being admitted to the bar he went to work for a Law firm in Ohio. After a while he felt they were moving him along to slowly so he left the Law firm and went to New York to work for an Ad Agency. A short time after that he went back to Youngstown ,Ohio and put out his shingle as a lawyer. He began specializing in malpractice law . For the first few years things were slow but he kept his nose to the legal grindstone working 70 hour weeks. His law business finally flourished and he became one of the leading Medical malpractice lawyers in the country He still gets called to be the arbitrator on difficult cases | ||||
| Martin S Goldberg his family | ||||
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| The Goldbergs son Jeffery and family | Martin Goldberg and his wife Donna | Daughter Jeralyn now a lawyer | ||
| Martin S. Goldberg had a son and a daughter by his first wife Both of them are Lawyers .The son Jeffery is a lawyer in Kingman Arizona and has a son Brian The daughter Jeralyn is a Lawyer in Youngstown Ohio and has a son Albin Crawford. Donna is Martins' second wife and they have been married now for 44 years She has two sons named Keith Kosola and Ken Kosola The Goldbergs now retired enjoy visits from their family at their estate home in Palm Desert California where they have a spa and an olympic size swimming pool ,where Martin likes to swim a football field and one half distance. | ||||
| Martin S Goldberg the Traveler | ||||
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| Goldbergs on one of their trips | Goldbergs with C47 pilot friend | Goldbergs in Jamaca | ||
| Martin S. Goldberg and his wife Donna are world travelers. They have been to Europe several times . They have been to Hong Kong. They have been to Singapore They have been ti Jamaca several times one of their favorites. Of all their travels they still like their trips to Alaska the best | ||||
| Martin S Goldberg the Novelist | ||||
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| It seems strange that a lifelong Trial Lawyer would become an Novelist Author but Martin S. Goldberg is an exception and he has written two novels and has an agent for the first one which he hopes will be published in the very near future | ||||
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