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<blockquote data-quote="Joe Connelly" data-source="post: 27862" data-attributes="member: 4519"><p><strong>Gerard F. Connelly</strong></p><p></p><p>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</p><p>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</p><p>May God rest my dads soul, I never really knew him and wished I did</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Joe Connelly, post: 27862, member: 4519"] [b]Gerard F. Connelly[/b] 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 [/QUOTE]
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