Alexander Standish |
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Alexander Standish [ca. 1944] | World War II, 1939-1946
Army
G-2 (Intelligence) Section, 12th Army Group
England; Northern France; Normandy; Germany
Colonel
Boston, MA
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Alexander Standish was old enough to be the father of many GIs he served with-he was 42 when the U.S. entered the war-but his experience and poise proved invaluable in intelligence work. He worked with Generals Eisenhower and Bradley in planning the D-Day invasion and subsequent strategy for taking back Europe from the Nazis. British intelligence was able to decode German messages, whose contents were often passed directly to Standish to relay to Bradley.
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