US PARAS Connelly, Gerard F.

[John Robertson]

• SURNAME

Connelly ​

• FORENAME

Gerard F. ​

• UNIT

511 Parachute Infantry Regiment (Company C) ​

• RANK

Private First Class ​

• NUMBER

6877571 ​

• DATE OF DEATH

27th April 1945 ​

• AGE

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• GRAVESITE

Long Island National Cemetery,Farmingdale,New York Section J Site 14099 ​

• ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

from Kings County,New York​

award Silver Star,Bronze Star​

KIA Los Banos,Luzon,Philippines ​

 

[Joe Connelly]

Gerard F. Connelly

My dad enlisted with 4 children and a wife at home to serve in the US Army, 511th paratrooper infantry regiment, comppany c he was KIA at 27 years of age in San Benito, Luzon Phillippines taking on a machine gun nest and saving his squad. Killed by a sniper at the end of the conflict. There is a VFW Post named after him in Bklyn NY #9485
Roddy was loved by all his children Linda, Gerard, Joseph, Irene, wife Elsie, family, friends never forgot him. I am his son Joseph and want to know everything possible about him and will go to the spot he was killed 1945
May God rest my dads soul, I never really knew him and wished I did