Soft launch: Soldier biographies and research notes vary in completeness. Prefer class-roster, NARA, newspapers, and other cited sources for contested facts — treat Research notes as leads, not settled history. Anyone can correct a page; contact us with questions.
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
- 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
- Notable Ritchie Boys — selected portraits from Dan Gross’s Notables slides
- The Stories — longer person essays
- Contents — classes, teams, and the full site directory