- SURNAME
Mills
- FORENAME
Francis Byron
- UNIT
OSS Chief of Special Operations Branch,China
- RANK
Lieutenant Colonel
- NUMBER
- AWARD
Bronze Star
- PLACE
WW2
- ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
from Mangum, Oklahoma
born 10.10.1914
graduated University of Oklahoma late 1930s
entered Army Reserve
Regular Army 1941
80th Artillery Division 1941
OSS 1943
OSS London 1944
Special Forces Det. 10 (1st Army) 1944 (Normandy)
OSS China 1944-45
US War Office, London 1946-47
11th Airborne Division
82nd Airborne Division
served Korean War
Special Forces, Fort Bragg
Army War College, Carlisle, Pennsylvania
1952-1953 CIA Station Chief, Hawaii
C.O. 1st Special Forces Group 1960
retired from Army 1967
award 2 x Legion of Merit (China WW2, Ft. Bragg 61-63) unit/date ?)
US Agency for International Development (i/c Police Training Academy, Da Lat,Vietnam)
Director of postal Services Management Institute 1969
retired 1984, rank Colonel
resided Mantua Section, Fairfax County 1967-2003
moved to Virginia Beach 2003
married Virginia 1940 (2 children)
died 27.9.2005 Virginia Beach, Virginia
Arlington National Cemetery, Virginia Section 64 Site 4046
Author - Oss Special Operations in China
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