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Notable Ritchie Boys
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These short portraits come from Dan Gross’s Notable Ritchie Boys Google Slides (both decks), adapted here as a single gallery. Where a roster page exists, the name links to that soldier article.
- Instructor; manual combat specialist
- Author, "Kill or Be Killed"
- Editor, New Yorker
- Author, "Life of Privilege, Mostly"
Class 18
- “Cholly Knickerbocker” columnist for Hearst newspapers
- Slide photo: Igor (left) with brother Oleg
Class 23
- USMC officer; Okinawa, Korea
- Governor and Senator, Rhode Island; Secretary of the Navy
Class 10
- Romanov prince
- Author, "Crowns and Trenchcoats: A Russian Prince in the CIA"
Class 15
- Idaho Senator; opposed Vietnam War
- Church Committee (Intelligence)
- 1st Mobile Radio Broadcasting Company
- OSS/CIA intelligence officer; Fodor’s travel guides
- President, Princeton University; Ambassador to India
- Notable Ritchie Boys slide lists Class 15 (roster currently shows Class 5)
- 1st Mobile Radio Broadcasting Company
- Editor; author, "A Thousand Shall Fall"
- First Sergeant; known as “Man Mountain Dean”
Class 29
- Professor Emeritus, Princeton; Marxist historian
- Author, "Why Did the Heavens Not Darken?"
- CIC Short Course
- Novelist, "The Catcher in the Rye"
Class 17
- Assistant Secretary of State
- Ambassador and Representative to the United Nations
- Entertainment Director
- Bass-baritone; "Porgy and Bess"







































