OSS Rabassa, Gregory J.

[John Robertson]

• SURNAME

Rabassa ​

• FORENAME

Gregory J. ​

• UNIT

OSS Cryptography Section ​

• RANK

Technician Third Class ​

• NUMBER

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• AWARD

War Merit Cross (Italy) ​

• PLACE

Italy ​

• ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

born 9.3.1922 Yonkers,New York​

Cuban father,American mother​

grew up New Hampshire​

OSS cryptographer​

OSS North Africa and Italy​

graduated Dartmouth College 1947​

graduated Columbia University 1954 (Ph.D.)​

Professor,Columbia University​

Distinguished Professor,Queens College,City University of New York​

literary translator from Spanish and Portuguese into English​

awarded National Medal of Arts 2006 ​

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