Oliver James "Jim" Barr papers, 1994-2004 [manuscript].
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Oliver James "Jim" Barr III was born in Norwood, Mass. on May 24, 1920. In 1938, Barr graduated from Loomis School (now Loomis Chaffee), a college preparatory school in Windsor, Connecticut. He later attended the Amos Tuck School of Business Administration at Dartmouth College, where he became an avid skier and graduated cum laude in May 1942. Barr enlisted in the U.S. Army on June 9, 1942. He joined the 87th Mountain Infantry Regiment at Fort Lewis, Wash., where he was assigned to Company E. On...
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