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Personal info

Full name
BOLTE, Rudolph Eugene "Rudy"
Date of birth
17 June 1911
Age
33
Place of birth
Madison, Dane County, Wisconsin
Hometown
Greene County, Iowa

Military service

Service number
O-1308589
Rank
First Lieutenant
Function
unknown
Unit
H Company,
3rd Battalion,
506th Parachute Infantry Regiment,
101st Airborne Division
Awards
Bronze Star,
Purple Heart with Oak Leaf Cluster

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
18 September 1944
Place of death
Eindhoven, The Netherlands

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Margraten
Plot Row Grave
E 4 26

Immediate family

Members
Rudolph E. Bolte (father)
Edna F. (Farber) Bolte (mother)
Edward Pester (stepfather)
Erma (Walson) Bolte (wife)
Karen L. Bolte (daughter)
Suzanne Bolte (daughter)
Rudolph E. Bolte Jr. (son)

More information

Rudolph E. Bolte graduated from Davenport High School and the University of Iowa. He was a lawyer.

He enlisted at Fort Des Moines, Iowa on 22 June 1942. He was selected for officers training which he took at Fort Benning, Georgia and volunteered for the paratroopers. He was sent overseas in September 1943.

Lt Bolte participated in the D-Day invasion.

According to eyewitnesses, Lt Bolte was shot in the head as he tried to climb over a barbed wire.

His name is mentioned on the Airborne Monument at the Airbornelaan in Eindhoven.

Source of information: Raf Dyckmans, www.marketgarden.com, www.ancestry.com - Iowa Marriage Record,
http://www.ww2-airborne.us, The Jefferson Herald, Deliver Us From Darkness - courtesy of Joek Hulsmann

Photo source: FOHF, Merrick O'Connell, The Jefferson Herald, www.findagrave.com, www.tracesofwar.com