Wentworth (18 October 1909 – 17 February 1991), was an American professor of sociology specializing in urban planning who also served as an American spy during World War II, where he helped divert Nazi attention from the pending invasion of Normandy ("Operation Overlord").

[2] In 1942, Eldredge joined the United States Air Force where he remained to the end of World War II.

He then became an intelligence officer and helped deceive the Nazis by diverting their attention away from the pending invasion of Normadny ("Operation Overlord").

[2] The National Park Service of the United States Department of the Interior has received an application to put the Wentworth and Diana Eldredge House (AKA Tarn House) in Windsor County, Vermont, on the National Register of Historic Places.

[3] Eldrege and his wife donated the painting "Mother and Son" by Haitian painter Roland Dorcely (1930-2017) to Dartmouth College's Hood Museum of Art.