Huston, Jay, “Huston, Jay (Interview outline and video), 2009,” Digital Collections, accessed February 15, 2025, https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/document/29031.
Jay Huston was born in Erie Pennsylvania on August 25, 1925. He graduated in 1943 and then enlisted in the Navy to avoid being drafted into the Army. Jay went through basic training at Great Lakes in Chicago and went through advanced training there to be a hospital corpsman. He was then stationed in London and preparing a hospital for the incoming patients after the D Day invasion. After working in Europe, Jay also worked in hospitals in the Pacific, including on Okinawa, during the war with Japan.