Perso, James, “Perso, James (Interview transcript and video), 2009,” Digital Collections, accessed April 2, 2025, https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/document/29360.
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Perso, James (Interview transcript and video), 2009
James Perso was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and later moved to Minneapolis, Minnesota where he grew up. After graduating from high school he took classes at the University of Minnesota in mechanical engineering and also went through an ROTC program. After graduating from college he was commissioned and sent to Quantico, Virginia for training in the Marine Corps. James continued after basic training with pre-flight, primary, and advanced flight training before he was stationed in Da Nang, Vietnam. While in Vietnam James flew a total of 203 missions with the 242nd Attack Squadron and was in country for 13 months.