Bailey, George T (32891255)

George T Bailey
Personal details
Birth name	Theodore
Born	1919 Chicago
Died	2001
Nativity	United States
Religion	Protestant
Military service
Allegiance	United States
Branch	United States Army
ASN	32891255
Rank	Private
Camp Ritchie	Class 9 (21 June – 18 August 1943)
Section	5D
Enlisted	New York City, New York

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George T Bailey (1919–2001) was a United States Army Private who trained at Camp Ritchie, Maryland, in Class 9. George enlisted at New York City, New York.

Biography

On 1 November 1943, he Graduated. George attended Columbia University AB in Modern Languages.

Bailey was an award-winning journalist for Max Ascoli's The Reporter and in 1968 served as its last editor before Ascoli closed the magazine, disappointed that Lyndon Johnson declined to run again. From 1982 to 1985, he worked as a director of Radio Liberty. He was retired in 1985, after a campaign of rather absurd vilification in the then-East German press that coincided with criticism of his broadcasting Aleksander Solzhenitsyn by American journalists including James M.

He had been a soldier, author, journalist, linguist, expatriate and a leading expert on Germany and Russia. He worked as a author of “Germans: The Biography of an Obsession”. He worked as a co-author of book “Battleground Berlin” (re Cold War).

His books included his memoir Germans, Galileo's Children (about Andrei Sakharov), Battleground Berlin (with David Murphy and Sergei Kondrachev) and The Experts (with Seymour Frieden). He both Bailey and Solzhenitsyn married partly Jewish women. Braley was a foreign correspondent for the New York Daily News covering Eastern Europe and author of Bad News: The Foreign Policy of the New York Times.

He was Radio Liberty director in the Reagan Administration when it was most effective in helping the collapse of the Soviet Union. Lived and worked in Germany after World War II. Was journalist and served as editor of Max Ascoli’s ‘The Reporter’.

Bailey was fluent in several languages, and served as translator for General Eisenhower at the Rheims, France, surrender ceremonies. French, Italian, Hungarian, Modern Greek) and served as.

George Bailey, a former director of Radio Liberty, died in Munich September 12 after heart surgery.

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Technical record

Field	Imported value
Approx Age at Death	82
Nara ASN	32891255
Nara Name	BAILEY GEORGE T
Nara State	23
Nara County	61
Nara POE	2364
Nara DOE	170443
Nara Grade Alpha	PVT
Nara Grade Code	8
Nara Branch Alpha	NO
Nara Branch Code	2
Branch	No branch assignment
Nara Term or Enlistment	5
Term of enlistment	Enlistment for the duration of the War or other emergency, plus six months, subject to the discretion of the President or otherwise according to law
Defer. Date	0
Nara Source	0
Nara Nativity	61
Nativity.1	ILLINOIS
Nara Year of Birth	19
Nara Race	1
Nara Race Description	White citizen
Nara Education	6
Nara Civilian Occupation	992
Nara Marital Status	6
Nara Height (inches)	68
Nara Weight (lbs)	132
Class_ASN	32891255
Class_Name	BAILEY, George T.
match_method	asn_exact_name_exact
row_source	both

Research notes

• Also Class 6 OB
• Author of
• Ob 9

Timeline

• Born 28 November 1919 in Chicago (Episcopalian).
• 18 August 1943 — Graduated Class 9 as Pvt.
• 18 November 1943 — Alerted. Assigned to Company “K”.
• May 1943 — Basic training with 708th M.P. Battalion.
• The author, who married a Jewish Austrian, claims that "it was not the Austrians who took Hitler seriously." He describes the Nuremberg trials as "Kafkaesque" and vengeful, and argues that "Hitler did not invent the fuhrer principle; he merely filled the bill." First published in 1972 and out of print since 1986, this edition has a new closing chapter.
• Assigned to OB Team 9 attached to 90th Infantry Division.
• Both Bailey and Solzhenitsyn married partly Jewish women.
• George Bailey, a former director of Radio Liberty, died in Munich September 12 after heart surgery.
• Served with 3rd Armored Division (with Gen. Maurice Rose).
• Served with OMGUS ?.

Sources

• 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)
• 1940 U.S. Census (where a census match is present)
• Dan Gross, Timeline of George T Bailey for Camp Ritchie (private research document; 3 source documents reviewed)
• Dan Gross, Timeline of Bailey, George T for Camp Ritchie (private research files; selected non-private narrative findings; 3 source files: GEORGE BAILEY - Notes.doc, GEORGE BAILEY - Timeline 2020.doc, GEORGE BAILEY - Timeline.doc)