- SURNAME
Viertel
- FORENAME
Peter
- UNIT
OSS Special Intelligence Branch,Europe (attached 7th Army)
- RANK
Second Lieutenant
- NUMBER
- AWARD
Bronze Star
- PLACE
Belgium 1945
- ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
born 16.11.1920 Dresden,Germany
son of Berthold and Salka (nee Steuermann) Viertel
family moved to Santa Monica,California 1928
graduated Dartmouth College 1941
entered service July 1942
U.S.M.C. (Private)
Officer Candidate School
commissioned 2Lt,USMCR August 1944
office work,San Diego
OSS SI Branch 1945
author and screenwriter postwar
married Virginia Ray Schulberg (divorced 1958) (1 daughter Christine)
married Deborah Kerr (actress) 23.7.1960 (died 16.10.2007) (2 stepdaughters)
died 4.11.2007 Marbella,Spain
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