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Born in the Bronx in 1922, Arthur F. Dorie grew up on Long Island where public schooling, sports, the ocean and inlets, six nearby airfields, and the Great Depression shaped his formative years. Wh...vizualizați mai multeBorn in the Bronx in 1922, Arthur F. Dorie grew up on Long Island where public schooling, sports, the ocean and inlets, six nearby airfields, and the Great Depression shaped his formative years. While still in high school he began military training at Fort Dix through the Army’s Citizens’ Military Training Camps (CMTC) program.
Art attended the Virginia Military Institute and Cornell University before enlisting as a combat infantryman forward observer in the 335th Infantry Regiment. He served in three hard-fought European campaigns and was commissioned in France. After the war, Art, an avid student of history, returned to Cornell. While there in 1947 he was commissioned in the Regular Army and sent to Korea.
During his assignments in the U.S., Europe, and the Far East, Art served in five infantry divisions in twenty-five countries and fought alongside soldiers from four allied nations. Besides his regular duties as a line and staff officer, Art was was a qualified paratrooper and gliderman. He was secretly trained by former OSS officers of the CIA and other specialists and became an expert in guerrilla warfare, assassination, sabotage, and demolitions. During the Korean War, he again distinguished himself as a combat infantryman and company commander in hill fighting before being severely wounded and hospitalized. While recuperating, Art served at the Infantry Center as the Troop Information and Education (TI&E) officer of Fort Benning and later served as a counterintelligence officer in Europe and as an espionage agent behind the Iron Curtain under cover of the State Department and UN.
While assigned as Chief of Intelligence (G-2) of XIII U.S. Army Corps, Art was hospitalized for two years and treated for combat wounds and injuries, and was retired early in his Regular Army rank of major. When his disabilities forced him to decline appointment to the university faculty and fellowships to two think tanks, Art became a stock trader, freelance writer of military and political history, and the writer of ballads that gained him recognition by the National Archives.
Art resided on the Space Coast of Florida with his wife, a retired community college educator, for many years before he passed away on February 28, 2011.vizualizați mai puține