• The Ritchie Boys, part of the U.S. Military Intelligence Service (MIS) at the War Department, were an organization of soldiers in World War II with sizable...
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    Fort Ritchie in Cascade, Maryland was a military installation southwest of Blue Ridge Summit, Pennsylvania and southeast of Waynesboro in the area of...
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    Guy Stern (category Ritchie Boys)
    December 7, 2023) was a German-American decorated member of the secret Ritchie Boys World War II military intelligence interrogation team. As the only person...
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    Guy Stuart Ritchie (born 10 September 1968) is an English film director, producer and screenwriter. His work includes British gangster films and the Sherlock...
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    Valenzuela (May 13, 1941 – February 3, 1959), better known by his stage name Ritchie Valens, was an American guitarist, singer and songwriter. A rock and roll...
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    J. D. Salinger (category Ritchie Boys)
    Salinger was assigned to a counter-intelligence unit also known as the Ritchie Boys, in which he used his proficiency in French and German to interrogate...
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    André Kostolany (category Ritchie Boys)
    original (PDF) on 13 May 2021. I met a number of interesting men at Camp Ritchie who would intersect with my life later on: Phillip Johnson, then a junior...
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  • John Kluge (category Ritchie Boys)
    John Werner Kluge (/ˈkluːɡi/; September 21, 1914 – September 7, 2010) was a German-American entrepreneur who became a television industry mogul in the...
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    site for interrogators and psychological warfare experts, known as the Ritchie Boys. After the war, it was used as a communications center by the Army supporting...
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  • Victor Brombert (category Ritchie Boys)
    Camp Ritchie, Maryland, and featured in a documentary film "The Ritchie Boys". On May 9, 2021, Brombert, 97, was one of several surviving Ritchie Boys featured...
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    Melvin Kranzberg (category Ritchie Boys)
    He received his interrogation training at Camp Ritchie in Maryland, making him one of the Ritchie Boys. Kranzberg is known for his laws of technology...
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  • Talcott Williams Seelye (category Ritchie Boys)
    His time training at Camp Ritchie in the Military Intelligence Training Center classifies him among 20,000 other Ritchie Boys. Seelye joined the Foreign...
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    Man Mountain Dean (category Ritchie Boys)
    the First Sergeant of the Military Intelligence Training Center at Camp Ritchie, Md., where he instructed soldiers in hand-to-hand combat. Afterward he...
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    Intelligence Training Center at Camp Ritchie, Maryland, was formed. This group is now widely known as the Ritchie Boys and are credited with gathering over...
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    Ralph H. Baer (category Ritchie Boys)
    Ralph Henry Baer (born Rudolf Heinrich Baer; March 8, 1922 – December 6, 2014) was a German-American inventor, game developer, and engineer. Baer's family...
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  • Gentlemen is a 2019 gangster film written, directed and produced by Guy Ritchie, who developed the story along with Ivan Atkinson and Marn Davies. The...
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    John Chafee (category Ritchie Boys)
    John Lester Hubbard Chafee (/ˈtʃeɪfiː/ CHAY-fee; October 22, 1922 – October 24, 1999) was an American politician and officer in the United States Marine...
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    David Chavchavadze (category Ritchie Boys)
    Union. During his time in WWII, he trained at Camp Ritchie putting him among the ranks of many Ritchie Boys. After the war, he entered Yale University where...
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    William Warfield (category Ritchie Boys)
    hundred African American members of the Ritchie Boys, thousands of soldiers who were trained at Fort Ritchie, Maryland. It was an intelligence center...
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  • Tom Forkner (category Ritchie Boys)
    officer for the Manhattan Project. Forkner trained at Camp Ritchie and is considered to be a Ritchie Boy - a group who was responsible for uncovering two thirds...
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    David Rockefeller (category Ritchie Boys)
    economic intelligence units. He served as a "Ritchie Boy" secret unit specially trained at Fort Ritchie, Maryland. For seven months he served as an assistant...
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  • during World War II and shortly afterwards, was one of the Ritchie Boys. The Ritchie Boys were a unit of the U.S. Army, who were chosen because of their...
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    Philip Johnson (category Ritchie Boys)
    four years as a solo practitioner, Johnson invited Alan Ritchie to join him as a partner. Ritchie had been a partner for many years in the Johnson-Burgee...
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    Archibald Roosevelt (category Ritchie Boys)
    expelled from Groton, Archie continued his education at the Evans School for Boys, and graduated from Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts, in 1913. He...
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    Military Intelligence Division Military Intelligence Service Office of Strategic Services Office of Special Plans Ritchie Boys Strategic Support Branch...
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    Military Intelligence Division Military Intelligence Service Office of Strategic Services Office of Special Plans Ritchie Boys Strategic Support Branch...
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    Military Intelligence Division Military Intelligence Service Office of Strategic Services Office of Special Plans Ritchie Boys Strategic Support Branch...
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    Robert Komer (category Ritchie Boys)
    training at Camp Ritchie and its Military Intelligence Training Center, making Komer one of the Ritchie Boys. Like many Ritchie Boys, he later joined...
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    Military Intelligence Division Military Intelligence Service Office of Strategic Services Office of Special Plans Ritchie Boys Strategic Support Branch...
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    Vernon A. Walters (category Ritchie Boys)
    Walters joined the Army in 1941 and was one of the over 12,000 Ritchie Boys serving at Camp Ritchie. Soon after he was commissioned. He served in Africa and...
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