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About Robert Alton Sears
Robert Alton Sears was born in Swampscott, MA, October 25, 1916, the 2nd child and only son of Alton Ellis Sears and Grace Lavinia Trafton. At 5 years old he was hit by an automobile near his home and remained in a coma for 6 months following the accident, but eventually recovered. As a teenager he was a member of the Boy Scouts of America and received a BSA Life Saver's Medal in 1929 for rescuing a fellow Scout from drowning. He later joined the Sea Scouts and the Massachusetts National Guard. Prior to the United States entering WWII, he was a member of a classified counter espionage unit headquartered in Boston, MA and participated in operations to foil Nazi German espionage and infiltration activities along the New England Coast from Long Island Sound to the Northern Coast of Maine. When the War began, after tours at Camp Edwards, Bivouacs in Maine, and training in Baltimore and South Carolina where he married his 1st wife, he was deployed to Great Britain with the 26th "Yankee" Division and participated in the Normandy Invasion, Patton's Ghost Army and the Battle of the Bulge. In late 1945 after a long-distance divorce, he returned home to civilian life from Czechoslovakia. He married Virginia Hatch on September 8th 1946. During the Korean War, he was re-activated and sent to Fort Clayton, Panama as an Army Drill Instructor and Military Policeman. He served throughout the 1950's and 1960's as the Chief of Police for Danville, NH. He was an avid sportsman and received a number of awards for marksmanship with cap-and-ball pistols.
He passed away after a long battle with heart disease in December 1982.
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Robert Alton Sears's Timeline
| 1916 |
October 25, 1916
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Swampscott, Essex County, Massachusetts, United States
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| 1982 |
December 24, 1982
Age 66
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Danville, Rockingham County, New Hampshire, United States
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