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Floyd P. Marquart graduated from Port Arthur High School in 1929 and attended college for two years.

He enlisted in Houston, Texas on 27 August 1942.

He was awarded the Silver Star Medal for gallantry in action. He had broken his leg on his jump into Normandy on 6 June 1944 but crawled to another soldier who also had broken his leg and set it.

He was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross posthumously. The citation cited: for extraordinary heroism in connection with military operations against an armed enemy while serving as a Medical Aidman with Company C, 1st Battalion, 502d Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division, in action against enemy forces in Belgium, on 29 December 1944. On that date, near Longchamps, Belgium, an attacking soldier of the 502d Parachute Infantry was struck in the throat by a shell fragment and was near death from suffocation. Without hesitation, Pfc Marquart made his way through intense enemy fire to where the wounded soldier lay and there under fire, in a few critical seconds, calmly performed a delicate surgical operation, cutting the man's throat with his belt knife and ingeniously inserting a piece of his thermometer case in the opening to permit breathing. Then, still under fire he dragged the wounded man seventy-five yards across an open field to a position from which he could be evacuated. Pfc Marquart was killed in later action while giving aid to another wounded soldier on the battlefield but his heroism lives on as a constant inspiration to his comrades. Pfc Marquart's skill and courageous and supreme devotion to duty exemplify the highest traditions of the military forces of the United States and reflect great credit upon himself, the 101st Airborne Division, and the United States Army.

Pfc Marquart was first buried at the Temporary American Military Cemetery of Grand Failly, France.