Editing Forrest J Ackerman (section)

==Early years==
Ackerman was born '''Forrest James Ackerman''' (though he would refer to himself from the early 1930s on as "Forrest J Ackerman" with no period after the middle initial), on November 24, 1916,<ref name="CBGXtra">[http://cbgxtra.com/comics-news-and-notes/todays-comics-guide-november-24-2011 "Today's Comics Guide: November 24, 2011: Today's Birthdays"]({{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151017200217/http://www.cbgxtra.com/comics-news-and-notes/todays-comics-guide-november-24-2011 |date=October 17, 2015 }}). [[CBGXtra]]. November 24, 2011</ref> in [[Los Angeles]], to Carroll Cridland (née Wyman; 1883–1977) and William Schilling Ackerman (1892–1951).<ref name="vampire">{{Cite web |title=Forrest James Ackerman (1916–present) |url=http://www.everythingvampire.zoomshare.com/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090125234236/http://www.everythingvampire.zoomshare.com/ |archive-date=January 25, 2009 |access-date=December 9, 2008 |publisher=Everythingvampire}}</ref>

His father, William, chief statistician and assistant to the vice-president in charge of transportation for the [[Associated Oil Company]]<ref>''Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature'', vol. 2, R. Reginald, 1979, p. 789</ref> was from New York and his mother (the daughter of architect [[George Wyman]]) was from Ohio; she was nine years older than her husband.{{citation needed|date=September 2022}}

Ackerman attended the [[University of California, Berkeley]], during the 1934–1935 academic year; thereafter, he worked as a film [[projectionist]] and at odd jobs with fan friends. On August 15, 1942, he enlisted in the [[U.S. Army]],<ref name=vampire/><ref>U.S. World War II Army Enlistment Records, 1938–1946</ref> where he rose to the rank of [[staff sergeant]] before being honorably discharged in 1945. He passed his entire time in service at [[Fort MacArthur]] in the [[San Pedro, Los Angeles|San Pedro]] neighborhood of Los Angeles, ultimately serving as editor of the base newspaper.