OSS Truex, Ralph Joseph

[John Robertson]

• SURNAME

Truex ​

• FORENAME

Ralph Joseph ​

• UNIT

OSS Detachment 101 ​

• RANK

First Lieutenant ​

• NUMBER

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• AWARD

Bronze Star,Purple Heart ​

• PLACE

Burma 1945 ​

• ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

from Norfolk,Nebraska​

born 18.12.1917​

graduated USMA,West Point January 1943​

Coast Artillery (A-A unit) (2Lt)​

OSS Det 101​

WIA Burma​

Coast Artillery postwar​

served Korean War​

graduated New York University​

Ordnance Corps 1954​

graduated Command and General Staff College,Fort Leavenworth,Kansas 1956​

Office of Chief of Ordnance,Pentagon 1956-60​

posted to Germany​

operation for removal of brain tumour April 1961 Landstuhl,Germany​

married Ovidia E. Webb 1943 Teaneck,New Jersey​

died 24.1.1962 San Francisco,California (as Lt Colonel)​

Golden Gate National Cemetery,San Bruno,California Section T Site 207 ​

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