Background
Arnold Spielberg is the son of Rebecca (Chechick) and Samuel Spielberg, who were both born in Ukraine, and immigrated to the United States. They met and married in Cincinnati, where Arnold was born.
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Arnold Spielberg
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University of Cincinnati.
Career
From the age of 9, he began building radios. He scrounged parts from garbage cans to assemble a first crystal set. "At 15, Arnold became a ham radio operator, building his own transmitter, a skill that proved fortuitous when he enlisted in the United States. Army in January 1942, one month after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, and joined the Signal Corps." After training as a radio-gunner for the Air Corps his skills in the design of new airplane antennas elevated him to Communications Chief of a B-25 Squadron in India.
Leah Posner, a talented concert pianist, married Spielberg in January 1945.
After graduating from the University of Cincinnati with a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering, he joined Radio Corporation of America Advanced Development Department in 1949 where he did early work on servo and guidance systems
