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'''[[Fuller, Douglas T. (32758166)|Douglas Theodore Fuller]]''' (1908–1976) was a Ritchie Boy (Class 24) trained in photo intelligence who served with the 101st Airborne Division in France and Germany in 1945. | '''[[Fuller, Douglas T. (32758166)|Douglas Theodore Fuller]]''' (1908–1976) was a Ritchie Boy ([[:Category:Class 24|Class 24]]) trained in photo intelligence who served with the 101st Airborne Division in France and Germany in 1945. | ||
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Douglas Theodore Fuller was born in 1908. Before and after the war he worked in insurance adjustment; a postwar biographical note places him as a branch manager for General Adjustment Bureau in Huntington, West Virginia. He married Kathryn Rinard; their daughter Ruth was born in 1948. | Douglas Theodore Fuller was born in 1908. Before and after the war he worked in insurance adjustment; a postwar biographical note places him as a branch manager for General Adjustment Bureau in Huntington, West Virginia. He married Kathryn Rinard; their daughter Ruth was born in 1948. | ||
During the war Fuller spent about nine months studying Swedish language and customs at the University of Minnesota, then trained in photo intelligence at Camp Ritchie (Class 24). In May–September 1945 he served in France and Germany with the 101st Airborne Division after Bastogne; he wrote that he was not present for the Battle of the Bulge itself. | During the war Fuller spent about nine months studying Swedish language and customs at the University of Minnesota, then trained in photo intelligence at Camp Ritchie ([[:Category:Class 24|Class 24]]). In May–September 1945 he served in France and Germany with the 101st Airborne Division after Bastogne; he wrote that he was not present for the Battle of the Bulge itself. | ||
He died in 1976. | He died in 1976. | ||