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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,
82nd Airborne Division
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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. Rockwell was a graduate of the 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 on April 26, 1942 and trained at Kelly Field and Goodfellow Field in Texas. After an officers' training course in the Infantry at Fort Benning, Ga., 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, Ala. After serving in this capacity for three months, Lt Rockwell went to a parachute school at Fort Benning. He left for overseas early in September, 1944 and remained in England. His outfit was dropped behind German lines on Christmas Eve.
He was killed at the Battle of the Bulge.
Source of information: Tjarco Schuurman, Astrid van Erp, 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