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World War, 1939-1945 -- Military intelligence -- United States.
Camp Albert C. Ritchie (Md.) -- History.
Camp Albert C. Ritchie (Md.) -- Biography.
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Eddy, Beverley D.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Military intelligence -- United States.
Camp Albert C. Ritchie (Md.) -- History.
Camp Albert C. Ritchie (Md.) -- Biography.
MARC Display
Ritchie
Boy
secrets
:
how
a
force
of
immigrants
and
refugees
helped
win
World
War
II
/ Beverley Driver Eddy.
by
Eddy, Beverley D.
Stackpole Books, 2021.
Call #:
940.548673 E21r
Subjects
World
War
, 1939-1945 -- Military intelligence -- United States.
Camp Albert C.
Ritchie
(Md.) -- History.
Camp Albert C.
Ritchie
(Md.) -- Biography.
ISBN:
9780811769969 (hc)
Description:
viii, 428 p. : black and white ill., black and white map ; 24 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:
"In June 1942, the U.S. Army began recruiting
immigrants
, the children of
immigrants
,
refugees
, and others with language skills and knowledge of enemy lands and cultures for a special military intelligence group being trained in the mountains of northern Maryland and sent into Europe and the Pacific. Ultimately, 15,000 men and some women received this specialized training and went on to make vital contributions to victory in
World
War
II
. This is their story, which Beverley Driver Eddy tells thoroughly and colorfully, drawing heavily on interviews with surviving
Ritchie
Boys. The army recruited not just those fluent in German, French, Italian, and Polish (approximately a fifth were Jewish
refugees
from Europe), but also Arabic, Japanese, Dutch, Greek, Norwegian, Russian, Turkish, and other languages—as well as some 200 Native Americans and 200 WACs. They were trained in photo interpretation, terrain analysis, POW interrogation, counterintelligence, espionage, signal intelligence (including pigeons), mapmaking, intelligence gathering, and close combat. Many landed in France on D-Day. Many more fanned out across Europe and around the
world
completing their missions, often in cooperation with the OSS and Counterintelligence Corps, sometimes on the front lines, often behind the lines. The
Ritchie
Boys’ intelligence proved vital during the liberation of Paris and the Battle of the Bulge. They
helped
craft the print and radio propaganda that wore down German homefront morale. If caught, they could have been executed as spies. After the
war
they translated and interrogated at the Nuremberg trials. One participated in using
war
criminal Klaus Barbie as an anti-communist agent. This is a different kind of
World
War
II
story, and Eddy tells it with conviction, supported by years of research and interviews."--Publisher.
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