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== Biography ==

Paul A. Eisler was born Paul Robert Alfred Maximilian Eisler in Vienna on 16 May 1921. He was Jewish, though the Army recorded him as Protestant. He attended elementary school and the Realgymnasium in Vienna and, according to Army records, received infantry cadet training. After the Anschluss he fled in October 1938 through Paris to Britain, where he spent a year at school in Winscombe, England. In December 1939 he emigrated from Southampton to the United States; after a short stay in New York City he lived in San Francisco from January 1940, working as a bank clerk and bookkeeper and taking part in Jewish clubs such as the Hakoah sports club.

Paul Alfred Eisler was born Paul Robert Alfred Maximilian Eisler in Vienna on 16 May 1921. He was Jewish, though the Army recorded him as Protestant. He attended elementary school and the Realgymnasium in Vienna and, according to Army records, received infantry cadet training. After the Anschluss he fled in October 1938 through Paris to Britain, where he spent a year at school in Winscombe, England. In December 1939 he emigrated from Southampton to the United States; after a short stay in New York City he lived in San Francisco from January 1940, working as a bank clerk and bookkeeper and taking part in Jewish clubs such as the Hakoah sports club.

Eisler entered the Army at San Francisco on 29 March 1943 and went through the Reception Center at the Presidio of Monterey to basic training at Army Air Forces Basic Training Center No. 8 in Fresno, California. In June 1943 he was sent to the Army Specialized Training Program at the University of Illinois in Champaign, where from September he took the Foreign Areas and Languages course. In January 1944 he was transferred to the Military Intelligence Training Center at Camp Ritchie and assigned directly to the combat propaganda unit of the 2nd Mobile Radio Broadcasting Company, and in February to the 3rd MRBC; he trained as a translator, took a psychological warfare course at Camp Sharpe, Pennsylvania, and became a United States citizen.

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 == Biography ==
-Paul A. Eisler was born Paul Robert Alfred Maximilian Eisler in Vienna on 16 May 1921. He was Jewish, though the Army recorded him as Protestant. He attended elementary school and the Realgymnasium in Vienna and, according to Army records, received infantry cadet training. After the Anschluss he fled in October 1938 through Paris to Britain, where he spent a year at school in Winscombe, England. In December 1939 he emigrated from Southampton to the United States; after a short stay in New York City he lived in San Francisco from January 1940, working as a bank clerk and bookkeeper and taking part in Jewish clubs such as the Hakoah sports club.
+Paul Alfred Eisler was born Paul Robert Alfred Maximilian Eisler in Vienna on 16 May 1921. He was Jewish, though the Army recorded him as Protestant. He attended elementary school and the Realgymnasium in Vienna and, according to Army records, received infantry cadet training. After the Anschluss he fled in October 1938 through Paris to Britain, where he spent a year at school in Winscombe, England. In December 1939 he emigrated from Southampton to the United States; after a short stay in New York City he lived in San Francisco from January 1940, working as a bank clerk and bookkeeper and taking part in Jewish clubs such as the Hakoah sports club.
 Eisler entered the Army at San Francisco on 29 March 1943 and went through the Reception Center at the Presidio of Monterey to basic training at Army Air Forces Basic Training Center No. 8 in Fresno, California. In June 1943 he was sent to the Army Specialized Training Program at the University of Illinois in Champaign, where from September he took the Foreign Areas and Languages course. In January 1944 he was transferred to the Military Intelligence Training Center at Camp Ritchie and assigned directly to the combat propaganda unit of the 2nd Mobile Radio Broadcasting Company, and in February to the 3rd MRBC; he trained as a translator, took a psychological warfare course at Camp Sharpe, Pennsylvania, and became a United States citizen.