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Owen-Denis Johnson Paul

Monuments

Resistance Memorial

 

Name:
Paul Owen-Denis Johnson
Rank:
Captain
Serial Number:
Unit:
OSS
Date of Death:
0000-00-00
State:
Massachusetts
Cemetery:
Town cemetery Chatillon-sur-Chalarome
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The first American OSS serviceman to join the French Resistance. Born in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, educated at Yale and Sciences-Po in Paris, reporter for Time magazine in Morocco. Recruited into OSS in April 42. Dropped Pont de Veux and spent the rest of the war behind enemy lines. Settled in France after the war. Died in 1993.