OSS Oakes, John Bertram

[John Robertson]

• SURNAME

Oakes ​

• FORENAME

John Bertram ​

• UNIT

OSS Europe ​

• RANK

Major + Lieutenant Colonel ​

• NUMBER

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• AWARD

Bronze Star,Order of the British Empire (GB),Croix de Guerre (Fr),Medaille Reconnaissance (Fr) ​

• PLACE

Europe ​

• ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

born 23.4.1913 Elkins Park,Pennsylvania​

son of George Washington Ochs and Bertie (nee Gans) Oakes​

graduated Princeton University (AB) 1934​

Rhodes Scholar,Queen's College,Oxford 1936​

journalist in civilian life​

US Army 1941 (Private,Infantry)​

commissioned​

OSS in Europe​

journalist postwar​

married Margery Hartman 1945 (4 children)​

died 5.4.2001 New York ​

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