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Parks, Floyd, LTG USA(Ret).
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Contact Info
Date of Passing Mar 10, 1959
Location of Interment Arlington National Cemetery (VLM) - Arlington, Virginia
Elected to the US army Public Affairs Hall of Fame, Class of 2000 with the recognition as "the father of modern Army public affairs".
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
