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Article: Oliver Lothrop Jr.: [Age 84] A Westinghouse manager, he spent four months in a German prison camp during World War II.
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- The Baltimore Sun (Baltimore, MD)
- Article date:
- September 12, 2007
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Byline: Jacques Kelly
Sep. 12--Oliver Ames Lothrop Jr., a retired Westinghouse manager who wrote of his four-month confinement in a German World War II camp, died Sept. 4 at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston after suffering a cerebral hemorrhage while vacationing on Nantucket. The Towson resident was 84.
Born in Newton, Mass., he completed his freshman year at Williams College before enlisting in the Army. "I had no desire to become a commissioned officer. ... I wanted to survive without taking the responsibility for others," he wrote in 2004 in an account of his World War II experiences as an infantryman.
Sent to France aboard the Queen ...