OSS White, John Augustine

[John Robertson]

• SURNAME

White ​

• FORENAME

John Augustine ​

• UNIT

OSS Jedburgh Team Alec ​

• RANK

First Sergeant ​

• NUMBER

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• AWARD

Bronze Star,Croix de Guerre with silver star (France) ​

• PLACE

France 1944 ​

• ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

born 13.7.1923​

raised Cambridge,Massachusetts​

son of Joseph and Dorothy (nee Alyward) White​

attended Cambridge High and Latin School​

US Army​

Signal Corps​

OSS​

radio operator​

Jedburgh Team Alec​

codename Colorado​

graduated M.I.T. postwar​

graduated Suffolk University Law School​

spent time as Trappist Monk,St Joseph's Abbey (Benedictine monastery),Spencer,​

Massachusetts​

Member,Massachusetts Bar Association​

Member,Massachusetts Nurseryman's Association​

married Mary Bernadette Houston (7 children)​

died 12.1.2010 ​

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