MERRILL'S MARAUDERS Chamales, Theodore Thomas

John Robertson

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Staff member
  • SURNAME
Chamales
  • FORENAME
Theodore Thomas (Tom)
  • UNIT

  • RANK
Captain
  • NUMBER
0-5101157
  • AWARD
Bronze Star,Purple Heart
  • PLACE
Burma 1944
  • ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
born 8.8.1924 Chicago,Illinois
son of Thomas and Helene Chamales
graduated St John's Northwestern Military Academy,Delafield,Wisconsin 1942
graduated OCS,Fort Benning,Georgia (2Lt) (service number 0-512157 in one source)
Merrills Marauders
Det 101 OSS
discharged December 1945
worked at Commercial Hotel,Yakima,Washington (purchased by his father)
novelist
married Constance (divorced 1957) (2 sons Thomas and Gerald)
married Helen O'Connell 9.5.1957 (separated 1959) (1 daughter Helen Maria)
died 20.3.1960 Beverly Hills,California
buried in one of the Forest Lawn Cemeteries,Los Angeles County,California
 
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