A. Peter Dewey
| A. Peter Dewey | |
|---|---|
| Born |
October 8, 1916 Chicago, Illinois |
| Died | September 26, 1945 (aged 28) Saigon, Vietnam |
| Years of service | Army of Poland, 1940; U.S. Army, 1942–1945 |
| Rank | Lt. Col. |
| Unit | Special Operations Branch |
| Battles/wars |
World War II Battle of France (with the Polish Army) Operation Dragoon |
| Awards |
Silver Star Legion of Merit Croix de Guerre avec Palmes Chevalier de la Légion d'honneur Croix du Combattant Order of Polonia Restituta Tunisian Order of Glory |
Albert Peter Dewey (October 8, 1916 – September 26, 1945), shot to death in a case of mistaken identity by Viet Minh troops on September 26, 1945. Dewey was the first American fatality in French Indochina, killed during the 1945 Vietnamese uprising.
The younger son of Congressman Charles S. Dewey and his wife, Marie Suzette de Marigny Hall Dewey, and also a distant relative of New York Governor Thomas E. Dewey, Dewey was born in Chicago. He was educated in Switzerland at Institut Le Rosey, before attending at St. Paul's School (Concord, New Hampshire). He graduated from Yale University, where he studied French history and was a member of the Berzelius Secret Society along with friends such as William Warren Scranton. Later, Dewey also attended the University of Virginia School of Law.
After his graduation from Yale in 1939, Dewey worked as a journalist for the Chicago Daily News in its Paris bureau.
Dewey later worked for family friend Nelson Rockefeller and his Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs. Rockefeller once sent him to France to meet secretly with General Charles de Gaulle.
While reporting on the German invasion of France for the Daily News, Dewey became more directly involved in the war.
In May 1940, during the Battle of France, Dewey enlisted as a lieutenant in the Polish Military Ambulance Corps with the Polish Army fighting in France. Following the defeat of the French army, Dewey escaped through Spain to Portugal, where he was interned for a short time.
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