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<blockquote data-quote="John Robertson" data-source="post: 29803" data-attributes="member: 1"><p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>SURNAME</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Merrill </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>FORENAME</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Frank Dow </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>UNIT</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>HQ Detachment (Commanding Officer) </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>RANK</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Brigadier General </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>NUMBER</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>0-17638 </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>AWARD</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Legion of Merit,Bronze Star </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>PLACE</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Burma 1944 </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>ADDITIONAL INFORMATION</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>born 4.12.1903 Hopkinton,Massachusetts</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>grew up in Amesbury,Massachusetts</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>graduated Amesbury High School</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>enlisted 1922</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>11th Engineers (Company A) (Staff Sergeant)</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>graduated USMA,West Point 1925-29</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>graduated Massachusetts Institute of Technology 1932 (B.S.)</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Military Attache,Tokyo 1938</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Staff of General Douglas MacArthur (intelligence officer) (Colonel) 1941</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Brigadier General November 1943</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Merrills Marauders 1943-44</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Major General September 1944</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>served in Philippines 1945</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>HQ 6 Army 1946</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>reduced to Brigadier General 1.6.1946</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>retired 30.6.1948 as Brigadier General</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>awards D.S.M.,Legion of Honor,Bronze Star,Purple Heart</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Commissioner of Highways,New Hampshire </em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>married Lucy Wright (1906-2006)</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>died 11.12.1955 Fernandina Beach,Florida</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>U.S. Military Academy Post Cemetery,West Point,Orange County,New York Section 2 Row B Grave 37</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><strong>IMAGES:</strong></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><a href="http://www.specialforcesroh.com/index.php?media/f-merrill.29211/" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.specialforcesroh.com/data/xfmg/thumbnail/29/29211-5dfbe7f7bb97febb83a0f7209e927651.jpg?1591434296" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a> <a href="http://www.specialforcesroh.com/index.php?media/f-merrill.29212/" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.specialforcesroh.com/data/xfmg/thumbnail/29/29212-897566035db00caa297d98409a936fd6.jpg?1591434296" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a> <a href="http://www.specialforcesroh.com/index.php?media/f-merrill.29213/" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.specialforcesroh.com/data/xfmg/thumbnail/29/29213-88352f7cd86824c12658ec8e61b70fb1.jpg?1591434297" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a></p></blockquote><p></p>
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