OSS Cassady, Thomas Gantz

[John Robertson]

• SURNAME

Cassady ​

• FORENAME

Thomas Gantz ​

• UNIT

USNR OSS Vichy France + Algiers ​

• RANK

Commander ​

• NUMBER

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• AWARD

Legion of Merit ​

• PLACE

WW2 ​

• ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

born 5.1.1896 farm near Spencer,Owen County,Indiana​

student,University of Chicago 1914-16​

US Ambulance Service December 1916-1917​

French Foreign Legion 1917​

French Air Service July 1917 (Sgt)​

Spa 157​

US Army Air Service February 1918 (1st Lt)​

103 Pursuit Squadron​

attached Spa 163,FAS 14.5.1918​

28 Pursuit Squadron 8.9.1918​

Captain March 1919​

achieved 9 victories in WW1​

awards DSC with oak leaf cluster,Legion d'Honneur (Fr),Croix de Guerre with 3 palms and 1 star​

investment business,Chicago between wars​

USNR​

OSS Vichy France (Naval Attache)​

arrested 1942​

released 1944​

OSS Algiers 1944​

Chief Intelligence Officer,Paris after liberation​

employed by investment company Farwell-Chapman and Co.,Chicago​

in charge,American Wringer Co. plant,Waterloo,Iowa 1953​

Chairman,Chamberlain Corp.​

married Elizabeth​

died 9.7.1972 Lake Forest,Illinois ​

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