Bain, Roderick, T/5

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Last Rank
Technician Fifth Grade
Last Service Branch
Infantry
Last Primary MOS
745-Rifleman
Last MOS Group
Infantry
Primary Unit
1942-1945, 745, E Company, 2nd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment (PIR)
Service Years
1942 - 1945
Infantry
Technician Fifth Grade
One Service Stripe
Three Overseas Service Bars

 Official Badges 

Belgian Fourragere Netherlands Orange Lanyard Honorably Discharged WW II Meritorious Unit Commendation

French Fourragere


 Unofficial Badges 

Airborne




 Additional Information
What are you doing now:

Easy Co. 506 P.I.R. 101st Airborne

   
Other Comments:



MOS: 745
ASN: 19114638
1 year of college 
Retail managers 
Single, without dependents 
Enlisted at Tacoma, WA. County Pacific, Infantry
From Oregon

Enlistment for the duration of the War or other emergency, plus six months, subject to the discretion of the President or otherwise according to law 

Army of the United States - includes the following: Voluntary enlistments effective December 8, 1941 and thereafter; One year enlistments of National Guardsman whose State enlistment expires while in the Federal Service; Officers appointed in the Army of the United States under Army Regulations 605-10

   


WWII - European Theater of Operations/Rhineland Campaign (1944-45)/Operation Market Garden
From Month/Year
September / 1944
To Month/Year
September / 1944

Description
"35,000 troops, 11,377 dead, wounded or missing, 6,450 captured. Objective was to secure series of bridges over main rivers of German occupied Netherlands. Strategic purpose was to allow allied crossing of the Rhine River. The last natural barrier
   
My Participation in This Battle or Operation
From Month/Year
September / 1944
To Month/Year
September / 1944
 
Last Updated:
Mar 16, 2020
   
Personal Memories
   
My Photos From This Battle or Operation
No Available Photos

  176 Also There at This Battle:
  • Fulmer, Edward Simons, 2LT, (1941-1945)
  • Galbraith, William P., SGT, (1942-1947)
  • Hatcher, Arvil, S/SGT, (1943-Present)
  • Joint, Edward, PFC, (1942-1945)
  • Knapp, William, 1LT, (1942-1946)
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