John Birch

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American military intelligence officer (1918-1945)

United StatesLived 1918 to 1945 · aged 27

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John Morrison Birch was a United States Army Air Forces military intelligence captain, OSS field agent in China during World War II, as well as former Baptist minister and missionary.

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General Wedemeyer arriving in Chongqing, 1944.

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Legionnaire of Legion of Merit

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John Morrison Birch was a United States Army Air Forces military intelligence captain, OSS field agent in China during World War II, as well as former Baptist minister and missionary. He was killed in a confrontation with Chinese Communist soldiers during an assignment he was ordered on by the OSS, ten days after the war ended. Birch was posthumously awarded the Army Distinguished Service Medal.

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United States

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Lived 1918 to 1945 · aged 27

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