OSS Taylor, Walter Willard,Jr

[John Robertson]

• SURNAME

Taylor ​

• FORENAME

Walter Willard,Jr ​

• UNIT

OSS Italy ​

• RANK

Second Lieutenant ​

• NUMBER

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• AWARD

Bronze Star ​

• PLACE

Italy 1944 ​

• ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

born 1913 Chicago,Illinois​

moved to Greenwich,Connecticut​

graduated Yale University 1935 (AB)​

graduated Harvard University 1942 (PhD)​

anthropologist​

U.S.M.C.R. (Private) 1942​

commissioned U.S.M.C.R. 1943​

OSS Algiers 1943-44​

OSS Corsica March 1944​

WIA and POW June 1944 Italy​

resigned commission 1955 (Captain)​

anthropologist postwar​

married Lyda (3 children)​

died 14.4.1997 Rockaway Beach,Oregon ​

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