Robert Dent Spaur was born on January 16, 1923, in Paris, France. He entered the military service in Kentucky and served in the OSS Operations Group PAT as a Technician 5th Grade during World War II. He was a member of a fifteen-strong American commando unit parachuted into the south Tarn on the night of the 6th of August 1944, as part of an allied plan to disrupt supply lines in southern France prior to D-Day in the South–scheduled for the 15th August. Their section conducted successful raids, but several days after their arrival, when the section ambushed a German motorcycle patrol leading a troop convoy near Le Rialet, T/5 Spaur was killed instantly in the firefight. The surviving Americans and the maquisards subsequently killed all the Germans. T5 Spaur is now buried in the Epinal American Cemetery, Dinozé, France.

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