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-'''Rene Albert Dreyfus''' (1905&ndash;1993) was a United States Army Private who trained at [[Camp Ritchie]], Maryland, in [[Class 7]]. Rene enlisted at Newark, New Jersey.
+'''Rene Albert Dreyfus''' (1905–1993) was a Ritchie Boy (from France; Catholic) who trained at Camp Ritchie in class 7.
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 == Biography ==
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+Author Neal Bascomb has written a riveting story about Rene Dreyfus, a French automobile racer during the late 1930's, and his triumph over the Nazi-sponsored racing team of the Silver Arrows. What's fascinating is that on the most important race event, one of the radio listeners was Hans Werner ("John") Weitz, a Jewish youngster living in England who had recently fled Nazi Germany. He later emigrated to the United States, served in the US Army as a Ritchie Boy, and went on to have a distinguished career as a menswear designed!
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 == Technical record ==
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 * NARA World War II Army enlistment records (where a NARA ASN is present)
 * 1940 U.S. Census (where a census match is present)
+* Ritchie Boys of WWII Facebook page, post dated 2022-12-17 (1 post)