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Robert Garland Colodny (August 5, 1915 – March 21, 1997) was an American professor, historian, and anti-fascist. He was one of nearly 3,000 American volunteers who joined the Abraham Lincoln Brigade and fought in the Spanish Civil War. He was severely wounded in action in the summer of 1937, and returned to the United States. He later joined the US Army in 1941 and was stationed in the Aleutian Islands in Alaska, along with novelist Dashiell Hammett, where together they wrote and published a newspaper for US troops, The Adakian. In 1943, he co-authored The Battle of the Aleutians with Hammett, under the direction of an infantry intelligence officer, Major Henry W. Hall.