World War II.

Biography

Youth and sailing

Hayden was born March 26, 1916, in Upper Montclair, New Jersey, to George Woodruff Walter (1881-1925) and Minnie Frances Walter (née Simonson; 1889-1968), who named him Sterling Relyea Walter. After his father died, Sterling was adopted at age nine by James Hayden and renamed Sterling Walter Hayden. As a child, he lived in coastal towns of New England.

Hayden dropped out of high

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