John E. Dolibois

John E. Dolibois
Personal details
Birth name	Jean Ernst Dolibois
Born	4 December 1918 Luxembourg
Died	2 May 2014 Cincinnati, Ohio, U.S.
Nativity	Luxembourg
Religion	Catholic
Known for	Diplomat, College Administrator
Military service
Allegiance	United States
Branch	United States Army
Arm / service	Cavalry
ASN	01018596
Rank	Second Lieutenant
Camp Ritchie	Class 18 (13 April – 10 June 1944)
Section	5D

Interview Watch John E. Dolibois on Public Library of Cincinnati.

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John E. Dolibois (1918–2014) was a Ritchie Boy (from Lux; Catholic) who trained at Camp Ritchie in class 18.

Biography

Annie Jacobsen's book, OPERATION PAPERCLIP, includes many references to interrogations of high level German scientists, medical officials, engineers, etc., by US Army personnel to establish whether they could be eligible to be brought to the United States under a secret program to assist the US Government on Cold War projects. I found two references to Ritchie Boys who conducted interrogations. One was Second Lieutenant Walter Jessel of the Forty-Fourth Division Counter Intelligence Corps, who interrogated Wernher von Braun. The second was John Dolibois, an officer with Army Intelligence, G-2, the Collecting and Disseminating Division. There might be others.

Goering was interrogated by Ritchie Boy John E.

John Dolibois was a Ritchie Boy. We have made a few posts about him in the past, including when he passed away on on May 2, 2014. The following article was from "The American Israelite" dated November 16, 1995.

Research notes

• OSS
• Ambassador
• https://player.fm/series/veterans-chronicles-1399437

Gallery

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  Thanks to Professor Beverley Eddy, author of the soon-to-be available book, Ritchie Boy Secrets, for sharing this photo of Nazi leader Hermann Goering in the Nuremberg prison awaiting trial.
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Technical record

Field	Imported value
Approx Age at Death	96
Class_ASN	18596
Class_Name	DOLIBOIS, John E.
match_method	asn_partial_name_exact
row_source	both

Sources

• Wikipedia: John E. Dolibois
• Camp Ritchie class roster (classes 1–31), merged research file
• 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 2019-08-02 (1 post)
• Ritchie Boys of WWII Facebook page, post dated 2021-06-03 (1 post)
• Ritchie Boys of WWII Facebook page, post dated 2023-01-15 (1 post)