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/Central Europe Campaign (1945)
From Month/Year
March / 1945
To Month/Year
May / 1945

Description
(Central Europe Campaign 22 March to 11 May 1945) Following the Battle of the Bulge the Allies had pushed through to the Rhine. On 22 March 1945 they began their assault across the river, and by I April the Ruhr was encircled. Armored columns raced across Germany and into Austria and Czechoslovakia. On 25 April, the day American and Russian forces met on the Elbe, strategic bombing operations came to an end. Germany surrendered on 7 May 1945 and operations officially came to an end the following day, although sporadic actions continued on the European front until 11 May.
   
My Participation in This Battle or Operation
From Month/Year
March / 1945
To Month/Year
May / 1945
 
Last Updated:
Mar 16, 2020
   
Personal Memories
   
Units Participated in Operation

A Battery, 559th Anti-Aircraft Artillery Battalion

HHC, 899th Tank Destroyer Battalion

1st Battalion, 18th Infantry Regiment

630th Military Police Company

3rd Military Police Company, 3rd Infantry Division

3rd Infantry Division

230th Military Police Company

504th Military Police Battalion

218th Military Police Company

401st Military Police Company

11th Military Police Battalion (CID)

92nd Military Police Company

972nd Military Police Company, 211th Military Police Battalion

759th Military Police Battalion

142nd Military Police Company

94th Military Police Company

4th Battalion, 42nd Field Artillery

518th Military Police Battalion

A Battery, 26th Field Artillery

508th Military Police Battalion

67th Military Police Company

595th Military Police Company

795th Military Police Battalion

44th Military Police Detachment (CID)

6th Military Police Detachment

4th Infantry Division

101st Airborne Division

503rd Military Police Battalion (Airborne)

761st Tank Battalion

10th Military Police Battalion (CID)

 
My Photos From This Battle or Operation
No Available Photos

  911 Also There at This Battle:
  • Allison, William H., SGT, (1944-1946)
  • Angileri, Joseph, T/SGT, (1942-1946)
  • Bolio, Robert, Cpl, (1943-1945)
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