Description: STORAGE 23.1 23.1 14/11 CM COLD WAR ERA DIPLOMATIC INVITE LOTS TO RESEARCH ON PAHL AND HIS DUTIES IN PRAGUE IN THIS MOST ECITING OF THE COLD WAR ERA SPY HUBS This an excerpt from the online site jensancestors Its got loads of copies of cuttings and Pahl was a Cold War player " Like his father, Irving C. Pahl was born in Wisconsin. His mother however, was a Romanian immigrant. Irving’s father moved the family around a lot, probably because of his job (I believe he was a sailor, or worked around boats), so the family wasn’t actually in Wisconsin very long before they left on the first of many moves. It was in Connecticut that the family settled for a short while, and Irving started his formal education. One of the great things about the internet is how it makes it so much easier to find gems, that you wouldn’t otherwise know about. In researching Irving online, I ran across an interview with him, recorded by the Winthrop University, for their oral history program. The main focus of his interview is the 1968 invasion of Czechoslovakia by the Soviets, because he and his family were there when the hammer came down. Finding the interview, seeing his involvement in Czechoslovakia, and his rank when he retired from the Army, I thought that he might have been an interesting cousin to know about, so I did a little more digging. What follows are newspaper clippings that I found regarding Irving’s life in the military. And I was right, it was pretty interesting. This first newspaper article is from 1953 and gives a good overview of his accomplishments and involvement in the service from 1939 up to that time. The rest of the articles are chronologically organized. newpspaper_KentuckyNewEra_06_11_1953p9Kentucky New Era 06/11/1953p9 133153548 copy UntitledPacific Stars and Stripes, vol.11, no. 149, may 30, 195579485056 copy 133746094 copy 147467384983692D_1474620927299CDC copy Screen Shot 2017-11-28 at 10.35.20 AMExcerpt from book published about the Czechoslovakian fight.Untitled 2 Untitled4 Those are the highlights of what appears to be quite an interesting life for himself, and his family. And when Irving retired in Columbia, South Carolina he didn’t actually ‘retire’. He was still very much involved with the community, volunteering and writing letters to the editor. Irving passed way in 1996, leaving a son and a daughter to carry on his legacy. This invite is in the era just prior to Prague Spring ( was a period of political liberalization and mass protest in the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic. It began on 5 January 1968, when reformist Alexander Dubček was elected First Secretary of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia (KSČ), and continued until 21 August 1968, when the Soviet Union and most Warsaw Pact members invaded the country to suppress the reforms.
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PAHL: USAF
Type: Ephemera
USAF: AIR FORCE
COLD WAR: SPY
Era: 1951-Now
Country/Region of Manufacture: United Kingdom
ESPIONAGE: SPY
PRAGUE: SPRING
