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| == Biography == | | == Biography == |
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| The timeline research also records 1941 Graduated City College. Berenson (became Director, United Nations Radio Service), Morris (Morey) Pierce (CBS), (English Lord) D’Arcy and other civilians who were part of OWI or were news reporters or commentators. In Normandy, worked out of 2 large trailers. Collette (died in war), Leveille, and Edelson (1912).
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| * 2/22/1920 Born Philip Pinkofsky in New York.
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| * 2/19/1944 Assigned to 2nd MRBC and sent to Camp Sharpe for training (approx. 6 weeks).
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| * Remembers being interviewed twice while overseas: once by a UN War Correspondent, which was broadcast back to the states (Bill Downs of CBS) and once by Lt. Raymond Fuller (from 2nd MRBC). In Normandy, worked out of 2 large trailers. There is a photo taken on 1 January 1945 in the Netherlands and shows Lt. Muhlbauer, T/5 Phil Pines and BBC Correspondent....
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| * Served in 2nd MRBC under its Commanding Officer, Lt (later Capt) Arthur Jaffe. Also remembers Lt. Gordon Frick, Lt. Louis Muhlbauer, Lt. Raymond Fuller, Robert Mussell, Lt. Collette (died in war), Leveille, and Edelson (1912). Also recalls Ayoub, Brooks, Groetzinger, Henig, Sancho-Bonet and Wigler (members of 2nd MRBC) plus Lt. Agard and McCoy (not....
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| * Unit to which attached possessed two trailer trucks equipped with transmitter.
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| * Worked at St. Lo, then Rennes, Radio Bretagne, Verdun, Spa, Bastogne, 9th Army, Maastricht, Liege; in May, war ended, went to Bremen, didn’t want to stop at Bergen Belsen. Later, assigned to Wiesbaden.
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| == Sources == | | == Sources == |
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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) |
| * Dan Gross, ''Timeline of Philip Pines for Camp Ritchie'' (private research document; 1 source documents reviewed)
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| * Dan Gross, ''Timeline of Pines, Philip for Camp Ritchie'' (private research files; selected non-private narrative findings; 1 source files: PHILIP PINES.doc)
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