Chayes, Aaron, H.

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Aaron Herbert Chayes was born on March 21, 1915, in New York to Hilda Gretchen Hoffman, age 28, and Nathan Chayes, age 38. He was raised and educated in New Rochelle, NY. In Rye his family lived at 59 Central Avenue.

Aaron enlisted in 1943 and served in the U.S. Navy during World War II. He served three years in the China-Burma-India area with the
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China Burma India Theater (CBI) was the United States military designation during World War II for the China and Southeast Asian or India–Burma (IBT) theaters. Operational command of Allied forces (including U.S. forces) in the CBI was officially the responsibility of the Supreme Commanders for South East Asia or China. In practice, U.S. forces were usually overseen by General Joseph Stilwell, the Deputy Allied Commander in China; the term “CBI” was significant in logistical, material and personnel matters; it was and is commonly used within the US for these theaters.

U.S. and Chinese fighting forces in the CBI included the Chinese Expeditionary Force, the Flying Tigers, transport and bomber units flying the Hump, including the Tenth Air Force, the 1st Air Commando Group, the engineers who built the Ledo Road, the 5307th Composite Unit (Provisional), popularly known as “Merrill’s Marauders”, and the 5332d Brigade, Provisional or ‘Mars Task Force’, which assumed the Marauders’ mission.

Miss Alice Walton Bride Of Aaron Herbert Chayes

After the war, Aaron married Martha Alice Walton on November 1, 1947, in Rye, New York. They had one child during their marriage.

Aaron was vice president, later president of the Chayes Dental Instrument Corporation.

Aaron Herbert Chayes died on July 30, 1983, in Ridgefield, Connecticut, at the age of 68.

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