Two weeks after graduation, Bob was drafted into the U.S. Army in the midst of WW2.

Bob served with the 705th Military Police Detachment, first in the European-African-Middle Eastern theater campaign and later in the Asiatic-Pacific theater campaign. Bob was honorably discharged in 1946 at the rank of SGT. After the war, Bob wen

t on to receive a degree in accounting from Stone Business College in New Haven, CT.