Sunday, September 3, 2017

" In May 1941 Vanderbilt, an officer in the Naval Reserve, was called to active duty in June 1941 with the rank of lieutenant commander and initially assigned to the Panama Canal Zone.[4] He was promoted to commander on August 15, 1942.[5] In 1942 Vanderbilt was assigned as executive officer of the Special Operations Branch of the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) under General William J. Donovan. In May 1944 he was assigned to the staff of Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, commander in chief of the Pacific Fleet, in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.[6] He was promoted to the rank of captain prior to the end of the war.[7] "




https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Henry_Vanderbilt_III


 http://www.soc.mil/OSS/special-operations.html


 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Jedburgh


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