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ROCKWELL, Thomas Lloyd - Date of
birth
14 May 1923 -
Age
21 -
Place of birth
Wellsboro, Tioga County, Pennsylvania -
Hometown
Wellsboro, Tioga County, Pennsylvania
Personal info
Military service
- Service
number
O1325618 -
Rank
Second Lieutenant -
Function
unknown -
Unit
B Company,
1st Battalion,
508th Parachute Infantry Regiment
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Awards
Purple Heart
Death
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Status
Killed in Action - Date of
death
24 December 1944 - Place of
death
Belgium
Grave
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Cemetery
American War Cemetery Henri-Chapelle
| Plot | Row | Grave |
|---|---|---|
| H | 14 | 61 |
Immediate family
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Members
Emory B. Rockwell (father)
Mildred (Lloyd) Rockwell (mother)
Priscilla Rockwell (sister)
More information
2nd Lt Thomas L. Rockwellgraduated from Wellsboro High School and attended Colgate University at Hamilton, N.Y. and Dickinson College at Carlisle. He had been employed at Steelton before he entered the service.He volunteered for service as a flying cadet in the Air Corps of the Army of the United States on 26 April 1942 and trained at Kelly Field and Goodfellow Field in Texas. After an officers' training course in the Infantry at Fort Benning, Georgia, he was commissioned and acted as instructor. Later he took a three months course in signal communications there, and then was sent as an instructor in tactics to Fort McClellan, Alabama. After serving in this capacity for three months, he volunteered to become a paratrooper. He was sent overseas early in September 1944.
Source of information: Tjarco Schuurman, Terry Hirsch, WW2Memorial, www.ancestry.com - Veteran Compensation Application File, http://chronicles.dickinson.edu - Dickinson College, www.newspaperarchive.com - Wellsboro Gazette
Photo source: Peter Schouteten, www.findagrave.com