Ib Melchior

Ib Melchior was a Danish-American novelist, short-story writer, film producer, director and screenwriter of low-budget American science fiction movies, most of them released by American International Pictures. Melchior also served in the U.S. Army's Counterintelligence Corps during World War II, getting his training at Camp Ritchie in Maryland classifying him as one of the Ritchie Boys. He also participated in the liberation of Flossenbürg concentration camp as well as the discovery of stolen currency, gold and art at Merkers-Kieselbach Cavern, and the capture of a Werwolf unit in 1945, for which he was awarded the Bronze Star.