Themes

Themes collects browseable face galleries — short curated sets of soldiers linked by a shared story arc. Each page has a brief intro and portrait cards that link to soldier profiles (and to The Stories essays when one exists). These are not complete rosters; names are added only when sources on this wiki support the connection.

Face galleries

• Nisei and Pacific — Japanese American soldiers and WACs; PACMIRS / Pacific document work
• Nuremberg and postwar justice — interrogators and translators tied to Nuremberg and related missions
• Military governors — occupation / Military Government roles after combat
• Iwo Jima Marines — Marines who fought (and died) on Iwo Jima
• Awards faces — Medal of Honor, DSC, and Silver Star recipients as portrait cards
• Refugees who enlisted — left Nazi-controlled Europe, then enlisted and trained at Camp Ritchie
• Postwar intelligence careers — continued intelligence work after World War II (Army G-2, OSS/CIA, and related service)
• Battle of the Bulge — Faces of the Bulge — Ardennes warnings, combat, and contemporaneous intelligence work (above Dan Gross’s essay)
• Inventors and artists — inventors, designers, writers, photographers, architects, and musicians
• Congressional Gold Medal faces — soldiers tied to the public telling of the Congressional Gold Medal effort (group honor, not a named-recipient list)
• Ritchie WACs — Women’s Army Corps members identified in the roster (portraits scarce so far)

Related directories

• By birth country — full roster browse by country of birth (nativity)
• By specialty — IPW, PI, CI, terrain, SigInt, and language tracks
• Notable Ritchie Boys — selected portraits from Dan Gross’s Notables slides
• The Stories — longer person essays
• Contents — classes, teams, and the full site directory