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|birth_year=1919
|birth_year=1919
|death_year=1964
|death_year=1964
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|birth_date=11 August 1919
|death_date=25 March 1964
|birth_place=Cloud Chief, Oklahoma
|arm_or_service=Infantry
|death_place=Yuba City, California
|rank_final=Major
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'''[[Janzen, Henry R. (01016309)|Henry R. Janzen]]''' (1919–1964) was a Ritchie Boy (from United States; Catholic) who trained at Camp Ritchie in class 14.
'''[[Janzen, Henry R. (01016309)|Henry Raymond Janzen]]''' (11 August 1919 – 25 March 1964) was an Oklahoma-born Ritchie Boy (Class 14) who served as an interpreter with Fifth Army in Italy.
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== Biography ==
== Biography ==
Henry Raymond Janzen was a Ritchie Boy. Henry Raymond Janzen was born August 11, 1919 in Cloud Chief, Oklahoma. Janzen received his commission at Fort Knox.
Henry Raymond Janzen was born on 11 August 1919 in Cloud Chief, Oklahoma. He married Viola Walters of Dinuba, California. Janzen received his commission at Fort Knox, Kentucky, in February 1943, then served with an armored unit at Camp Polk, Louisiana, and trained at Camp Barkeley, Texas, before military-intelligence instruction in Washington, D.C.


Janzen spent in New York, he was shipped overseas in March 1944. Serving with the Fifth Army in Italy, Janzen was promoted to First Lieutenant in August 1944. A month later, word was received that Lt Janzen and a fellow interpreter succeeded in capturing a German 30 miles behind the Fifth Army's front lines in Italy.
Assigned to Camp Ritchie (Class 14), he graduated on 31 January 1944. After a brief New York furlough he shipped overseas in March 1944 and served with Fifth Army in Italy, where he was promoted to first lieutenant in August 1944. With Sergeant Eric A. Hurst of Jersey City he captured a German soldier who had been masquerading as an Italian hitchhiker about thirty miles behind American lines.


Henry Raymond Janzen passed away on March 25, 1964 at the age of 44. He was then assigned to duty in a tank division in the armor corps at Camp Polk, Louisiana.
His headstone records later promotion to major and the Bronze Star and Army Commendation Medal. Janzen died on 25 March 1964 in Yuba City, California, and is buried at Smith Mountain Cemetery in Dinuba.


Next he went to Camp Barkeley, Texas, for six weeks training. From there he went to Washington, D. C., for military Intelligence instruction.
== Research notes ==


Reporting to Washington, he was assigned to Camp Ritchie for further instruction and graduated Jan. After a ten-day furlough which he and Mrs. J., the Dinuban picked up a hitch-hiking stranger dressed in green cotton trousers and khaki shirt carrying an American rifle.


After they led their captive to the nearest Military Police station, the hitchhiker admitted he was a German and had been masquerading as an Italian for ten days after being stranded 30 miles behind American lines. His headstone indicates he was promoted to Major, and earned a Bronze Star Medal as well as a Army Commendation Medal.
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Janzen_Henry_R_01016309_portrait.jpg|Henry Raymond Janzen portrait (RB Archive)
Janzen_Henry_R_01016309_wartime_clipping.jpg|Wartime newspaper clipping on Lt. Henry Raymond Janzen (RB Archive)
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== Technical record ==
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== Timeline ==
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* 11 August 1919 — Born in Cloud Chief, Oklahoma.
* February 1943 — Commissioned at Fort Knox; armored training at Camp Polk and Camp Barkeley.
* 31 January 1944 — Graduated Camp Ritchie (Class 14).
* March 1944 — Shipped overseas; Fifth Army, Italy.
* August 1944 — Promoted first lieutenant; with Sgt. Eric A. Hurst captured a German behind the lines.
* 25 March 1964 — Died in Yuba City, California; buried Dinuba.
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== Sources ==
== Sources ==
* Camp Ritchie class roster (classes 1–31), merged research file
* [[:File:Janzen_Henry_R_01016309_wartime_clipping.jpg|Wartime newspaper clipping on Lt. Henry Raymond Janzen (RB Archive)]]
* [[:File:Janzen_Henry_R_01016309_portrait.jpg|Henry Raymond Janzen portrait (RB Archive)]]
* RB Archive wartime clipping / OCR (Dinuba area press; Camp Ritchie graduation and Italy capture story)
* [https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/52403857/henry-raymond-janzen Find a Grave — Henry Raymond Janzen]
* Camp Ritchie Museum, Inc. (The Ritchie History Museum), Classes 1–31 roster data
* Dan Gross research spreadsheets, including original Excel timeline/roster work, combined with other research and records
* NARA World War II Army enlistment records (where a NARA ASN is present)
* NARA World War II Army enlistment records (where a NARA ASN is present)
* 1940 U.S. Census (where a census match is present)
* 1940 U.S. Census (where a census match is present)
* Ritchie Boys of WWII Facebook page, post dated 2022-12-22 (1 post)
* Ritchie Boys of WWII Facebook page, post dated 2022-12-22 (1 post)
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