At 19, Jack left @dartmouth to join @USArmy where he was assigned to the Military Police & attended Officer’s Candidate School. His prior readings & knowledge of military helped him graduate in top 10% of his class.
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Once, after an exhausting day of marching & desperate for nourishment, Jack found a small stream. He decided to try & catch a fish with his bare hands. He was successful in grabbing a seven inch trout. He & 2 others ate well that night.
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After 10 days of marching nearly 12 miles a day they arrived in Stalag VII-A. April 29, 1945: the POW camp was liberated & Jack linked up w former
#OSS colleagues. They hitched a ride to@USArmy HQ where they checked in w OSS.pic.twitter.com/RMM3gz5unM
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Jack was given priority status to London, where he was debriefed by X2, OSS’s counterintel section. After reporting to
#OSS HQ in DC, he was given 2 months of leave & nearly 9 months of back pay. When war started, Jack weighed around 210lbs. He now weighed under 140.Show this thread -
#OSS described Jack as resourceful, courageous, & self-assured enough to be an excellent ops officer. But, his new assignment to carry out secret missions in Far East was canceled @ end of#WWII & he was made commanding officer @ German POW camp at Camp (now Fort) Pickett, VA.pic.twitter.com/ra4ax5z0G5
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Jack received Croix de Guerre from the French for his wartime service & was awarded the Bronze Star Medal from
@USARMY Commander for meritorious service in direct support of combat operations.pic.twitter.com/u5LOGvw20t
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Jack was released from
@USArmy in November 1945. He flew to Cuba to visit his father, then to Utah to ski w Gary Cooper & Clark Gable. He enrolled@umontana, although he never graduated. But while in Missoula, he decided one day he would settle down in the mountains out west.pic.twitter.com/rwq4KYkRh7
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Jack married Byra Whittlesey in Paris, France on June 25, 1949. Julia Child, another
#OSS veteran (http://1.usa.gov/1gqDnkN ), was maid-of-honor. They had 3 children. Jack worked as a stockbroker & then as a fishing supply salesman.pic.twitter.com/ypoj5b1AJw
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In 1967, Jack retired & moved to Ketchum, Idaho, his father's last home & burial place. There he taught languages, pursued his passion for fly fishing, & wrote two autobiographical books. Jack died on December 1, 2000, at age 77. http://bit.ly/2B1OwEm
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