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<blockquote data-quote="John Robertson" data-source="post: 372" data-attributes="member: 1"><p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>SURNAME</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Birch </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>FORENAME</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>John Morrison </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>UNIT</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>U.S.A.A.F. OSS Mission,China </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>RANK</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Captain </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>NUMBER</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>0-889028 </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>DATE OF DEATH</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>25th August 1945 </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>AGE</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>27 </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>GRAVESITE</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Arlington National Cemetery,Virginia </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>ADDITIONAL INFORMATION</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>from Macon,Bibb County,Georgia</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>born 25.8.1918 Landour,India</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>son of George Snider,Jr and Ethel Mae (nee Ellis) Birch</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>family moved to New Jersey 1920</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>raised Macon,Georgia</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>graduated Lanier High School for Boys</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>graduated Mercer University,Macon,Georgia 1939</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Baptist priest</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Missionary to China 1939</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>went underground December 1941</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>14th USAAF (Lt) 1942</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>organised intelligence services and downed pilot rescue</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>award Legion of Merit</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>promoted Captain</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>murdered by communists Suchow,China</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>awarded D.S.M. posthumously</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>not on OSS Memorial</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><a href="https://www.specialforcesroh.com/index.php?media/j-birch.34088/" target="_blank"><img src="https://www.specialforcesroh.com/data/xfmg/thumbnail/34/34088-8a9288e1b1b037f043a2a370b05a46dc.jpg?1602766879" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a> <a href="https://www.specialforcesroh.com/index.php?media/j-birch.11368/" target="_blank"><img src="https://www.specialforcesroh.com/data/xfmg/thumbnail/11/11368-f19ea4a57cfcd2d0d206efed739ed58c.jpg?1591390074" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a></p></blockquote><p></p>
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