Peter Dewey person
also: Lieutenant Colonel Peter Dewey, Dewey
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the OSS officers. This apparent U.S. recognition of Ho Chi Minh and Vietnamese independence further inflamed the French, whose opinion, as most colonials had expected, the Americans to refuse to deal with this upstart government and help Fr…
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also angered the French. Although the Viet Minh in the South did not enjoy the same level of control as they did in the North, they were every bit as concerned with making a positive impression on the Americans. Dewey, like Patty, was royal…
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In their last transmission to the OSS headquarters in autumn of 1945, Captain Peter Dewey reflected this sentiment. China is burning. The French and British are finished here, and we ought to clear out of Southeast Asia. On the day of his s…
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who may have mistaken him for a Frenchman, thus becoming the first American casualty in Vietnam in the post-war period. In the decades to come, however, many more would die. So there is some discussion about that. Actually, him being shot w…