Talk:Horace Hahn

Los Angeles High School

The yearbook for the Los Angeles High School class of 1933 is available online at www.e-yearbook.com. Hahn is mentioned on ten pages, as Senior Class President, member of the House of Representatives, member of the Boy's cabinet, and in a full page feature as winner of the Herald Oratorical Contest.Kennethjiles (talk) 15:39, 1 March 2010 (UTC)

UCLA

The yearbooks for UCLA are also available online at www.e-yearbook.com. Hahn's name appears twice in the yearbook for 1936, and twice in 1937, the year he graduated with an A.B. in Political Science.Kennethjiles (talk) 15:39, 1 March 2010 (UTC)

Service in the OSS

I was not able to locate a published source (other than the obituaries) listing Horace Hahn as a member of the OSS. This is not surprising, because to my knowledge no comprehensive list of US Army officers who served in the OSS has ever been published. The circumstantial evidence, however, is compelling. When World War II came to an end the Allies competed for access to top Nazis. SS General Walter Schellenberg was one of the most important (General Schellenberg was Adolf Hitler's last Chief of Foreign Intellegence). Captain Horace Hahn was one of the few Americans allowed to interrogate General Schellenberg. Any American granted access under these circumstances to an intelligence asset as important as General Schellenberg must have been a member of the OSS.Kennethjiles (talk) 15:51, 1 March 2010 (UTC)

Sorry you have to have a source otherwise it is pure OR, the argument here fails WP:SYN. -- PBS (talk) 19:54, 1 March 2010 (UTC)

What you had not said in this section is that you have included a source in the article which records his membership of OSS, "During World War II, he was commissioned as an officer, became a decorated member of the Office of Strategic Services, and was recognized by the Czechoslovakian government-in-exile for capturing a Nazi gauleiter [head of Nazi district]" (Stanford Lawer Summer 2009, obituary page 87 [1]). I think that although another independent source is desirable, that source is good enough to meet the reliable source criteria, and so I am not sure why you need to speculate as above. -- PBS (talk) 20:12, 1 March 2010 (UTC)

I'm not sure where Wikipedia in general stands on using obituaries as sources, because sometimes the papers simply print whatever is handed to them and don't bother to verify anything. But thank you for your comments.Kennethjiles (talk) 20:38, 1 March 2010 (UTC)

Horace Hahn's home in Idyllwild

Horace Hahn's last home in Idyllwild was located at 24700 Pioneer Road. He sold this home in July of 2000.Kennethjiles (talk) 13:43, 4 March 2010 (UTC)

Sergeant Horace Hahn

A New York Times article dated 1917 mentions a Sergeant Horace Hahn at Camp Dix in New Jersey . Any chance they may have been related?Kennethjiles (talk) 21:40, 12 March 2010 (UTC)