- SURNAME
Rodriguez
- FORENAME
Gerard
- UNIT
3 Bn (HQ Company)
- RANK
Technician Fifth Grade
- NUMBER
06999119
- AWARD
Bronze Star
- PLACE
Burma 1944
- ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
from Kings County,New York
born 19.12.1920 Andorra (Europe)
to USA as ship's cabin boy
enlisted 22.6.1940 (Coast Artillery Corps)
3rd Cavalry
Marauders
475 Infantry Regiment (HQ Company,3 Bn) 1944-45
served in Korea and Vietnam
award Purple Heart (date/conflict ?)
Army National Guard
Army Reserve
Special Forces
US Bicentennial Color Guard (Master Sergeant)
5048 US Army Reserve NCO Academy
retired 1981 as Command Sergeant Major
moved to Wichita,Kansas postwar
last residence Beaumont,Kansas
died 8.9.2003
Walnut Valley Memorial Park,El Dorado,Butler County,Kansas
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