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{{short description|American journalist}}

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|name= Raymond Avolon Cromley
|birth_date= August 23, 1910
|death_date= February 23, 2007
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|rank= [[Colonel]]
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'''Raymond Cromley''' (August 23, 1910 – February 23, 2007) was a [[Colonel]] in the [[United States Army]] and a [[Journalist]].  Prior to the [[Second World War]], Cromley was a [[correspondent]] and journalist in [[Japan]].  Following its outbreak, Cromley joined the American army and served in the [[China Burma India Theater]].  He was a member of the [[Dixie Mission|United States Army Observation Group]] to Yenan, better known as the [[Dixie Mission]].  After the war, he went on to become a writer for ''[[The Wall Street Journal]]''. He is buried in Arlington National Cemetery.

==See also==
*[[Dixie Mission]]

==References==
*Carolle J. Carter, ''Mission to Yenan: American Liaison with the Chinese Communists 1944-1947'' (Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 1997).
*Raymond Cromley, "My Japanese Wife, The Girl I Loved and Left in Tokyo" (The American Magazine, December 1942 Issue)
*Sullivan, Patricia, "Raymond Cromley, columnist covered the Pentagon" Obituatry (Boston Globe, Feb 28, 2007) (Retrieved from www.Boston.com June 28, 2012)

==External links==
*[https://archive.today/20070310184530/http://www.onthemedia.org/transcripts/transcripts_080902_reporter.html 2002 Audio Interview with Cromley with Transcript]

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[[Category:American expatriates in Japan]]
[[Category:American expatriates in China]]


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