Brooke Dolan II
American explorer (1908-1945) · United States · Historical Figures · Died at 36
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Something wrong?Brooke Dolan II was an American adventurer, intelligence officer, and naturalist in the 1930s and 1940s. His father was a wealthy American industrialist in Philadelphia. During World War II, he served as a lieutenant and captain.
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Brooke Dolan in 1942 near Lhasa before meeting with Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama of Tibet
Brooke Dolan (second from left) and Ilya Tolstoy (right) with their monk-interpreter, Kusho Yonton Singhe, standing in front of a traditional Tibetan tent set up outside Lhasa for the expedition's official greeting ceremonyAbout this person
Brooke Dolan II was an American adventurer, intelligence officer, and naturalist in the 1930s and 1940s. His father was a wealthy American industrialist in Philadelphia. During World War II, he served as a lieutenant and captain. He travelled three times to Tibet, first in 1931 and the second in 1934, collecting a large number of bird and mammal specimens for the Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences. As a member of the Office of Strategic Services, he was sent to Lhasa in 1942 along with Ilya Tolstoy to examine supply routes for the Allies in China and were the first Americans to meet the 14th Dalai Lama, then aged seven.
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