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'''Paul Lihani''' (1922&ndash;2008) was a United States Army soldier associated with Camp Ritchie, Maryland. Paul enlisted at Ft Benjamin Harrison, Indiana.
'''Paul Lihani''' (1922–2008) was a Ritchie Boy (from Czechoslovakia) who trained at Camp Ritchie.
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== Biography ==
== Biography ==
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Ritchie Boy Paul (Pavel) Lihani attended Special Session 32 for five weeks at Camp Ritchie as a Photo Interpreter. I believe Paul was born in Czechoslovakia. After WWII, he graduated from the Cleveland Institute of Art and was a talented artist as evidenced by this 9 3/4 x 8 5/8 piece that I found on EBay. It appears to be a German soldier descending from a rock formation. In the lower left hand corner it reads MITC CAMP RITCHIE, MD. In the lower right hand corner it reads CPL PAUL LIHANI CO 26 MI SPEC SERV


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== Technical record ==
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* 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 2015-12-24 (1 post)