Christopher – or Kit  – Booth was born September 27, 1929 in Plattsburgh, N.Y.  He grew up in upstate New York against the backdrop of the Great Depression and World War Two, where his memories of the attack on Pearl Harbor are vivid.  Kit comes from a family with a military tradition; both his father and brother served, and for Kit the army proved to be a natural fit too.  He attended high school at Northwood School in Lake Placid, and from there he went to Cornell University, where he was heavily involved in ROTC, a pathway that would lead him into the armed forces in 1951.  His first posting was the Company Officers School in Fort Lee, Virginia, and from there he moved onto Fort Drum.  Seattle and a voyage across the Pacific came in short order, and Kit found himself in Incheon, Korea, where the sounds of war could be heard in the distance.  He was assigned to the 55th Quartermaster Supply Depot in Pusan, at the southern tip of Korea.  His job was to maintain the supplies and be involved in the construction of facilities for the GIs.  He also had the opportunity to visit the POW camps in and around the Pusan Perimeter and on one occasion he was able to trade with a Chinese POW to get a pack of Chinese cigarettes!  With the end of the fighting Kit left Korea for Japan and after a few weeks he returned to his wife and young child, leaving the army behind.  Together they fell into the rhythms of postwar war in the 1950s.  Kit Booth was interviewed by Scott Masters and Zach Dunn over zoom in December 2024.