Early Life
Born and raised in Racine, Wisconsin, Jerstad was the oldest of two children of Art and Alice Jerstad. His sister Mary was four years his junior. Jerstad attended Washington Park High School and, after graduating in 1936, went on to Northwestern University, earning a degree there in 1940. He participated in Boy Scouts and Sea Scouts, and while in college he returned to Racine during the summers to run a children's day camp. He taught school for a year in La Due, Missouri, before enlisting in the United States Army Air Forces in July 1941.
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