Irving Goff
Military Person
1900 – 1989
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Who was Irving Goff?
Irving Goff was a member of the Communist Party USA and the Abraham Lincoln Battalion, a unit that volunteered to fight during the Spanish Civil War for the Popular Front. During World War II, he was a member of the American Office of Strategic Services, and was instrumental in setting up guerrilla units working behind enemy lines in North Africa and Italy. His exploits as a guerrilla in Spain are considered to be the inspiration for Ernest Hemingway's novel For Whom the Bell Tolls.
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- Born
- 1900
New York - Died
- May 17, 1989
Los Angeles - Resting place
- Arlington National Cemetery
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on July 23, 2013
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