After graduating from Cornell University, Barber Conable, who was born in Warsaw, New York in 1922, fought as a Marines during the Battle of Iwo Jima in World War II.
He graduated from Cornell University in 1942, where he was president of the Quill and Dagger society and a member of the Phi Delta Theta fraternity. Conable was born in Warsaw, New York on November 2, 1922. He then enlisted in the Marines and was sent to the Pacific front in World War II, where he learned to speak Japanese and fought in the Battle of Iwo Jima. The Battle of Iwo Jima (19 February  26 March 1945) was a major battle in which the United States Marine Corps and Navy landed on and eventually captured the island of Iwo Jima from the Imperial Japanese Army (IJA) during World War II. 
