#it wasn't UNCOMMON to send kids to live with relatives esp since his mom was widowed in '24

[meyerlansky]

did a little findagrave/ancestry digging and putting what i found here for my own reference/characterization, but if anyone else finds it useful, have at it:

curt had three younger sisters, and the closest to him in age died at age 2, when he was 3, and a brother five years younger than him; his mom survived him but his father died when he was 11. he's also the oldest of the three flyboys, born in april 1915. i personally am using the nyc adaptational change, but historically he was already out in san francisco by 1928, and the 1930 census lists him living with his aunt and uncle. so that's. interesting. 🤨🤨🤨

bucky had one older sister and one younger sister [*farquadpointing.png* MIDDLE CHILD!!!]; his mom also survived him and his father died in '42. born in sept 1915, so five months younger than curt, three years older than gale.

gale had a younger sister but it's a ten-year gap so imo he was a Functional Only; both his parents were alive through the war, no idea if the abusive-dad stuff is adaptational or based in reality but like it informs the adaptation characterization SO MUCH that one can't really ignore it and therefore it kinda doesn't matter! the babiest, born in dec 1918.