- SURNAME
Wittman
- FORENAME
Otto,Jr
- UNIT
OSS Art Looting Investigation Unit
- RANK
Major
- NUMBER
- AWARD
Army Commendation Ribbon,Officier de la Legion dHonneur (Fr),Order of Orange-Nassau (Neth),Commander of the Order of Merit (Italy)
- PLACE
Europe
- ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
born 1911 Kansas City,Missouri
son of Otto and Beatrice Knox (nee Billingsley) Wittman
attended a private school,Kansas City,Missouri
educated Harvard University 1929 (graduated 1933)
Curator of Prints,William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art,Kansas City,Missouri
instructor of art history,Skidmore College,Saratoga Springs,New York
entered service 1941
US Army (interviewing incoming draftees)
granted reserve for several months
Assistant Director,Portland Art Museum
Officers' Training School,Miami Beach,Florida 1942
USAAF Air Transport Command December 1942
OSS ALIU
discharged 1946
Associate Director,Toledo Museum of Art,Ohio 1946
Director,Toledo Museum of Art,Ohio 1959
died 2001 age 89 Montecito,California
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