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Edmonds, Roddie (Roderick Waring), 1919-1985

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Personal name headingEdmonds, Roddie (Roderick Waring), 1919-1985
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Variant(s)Edmonds, Roderick Waring, 1919-1985
Associated placeStalag IXA
Birth date1919-08-20
Death date1985-08-08
Place of birthKnoxville (Tenn.)
AffiliationUnited States. Army. Infantry Regiment, 422nd
Found inNo surrender, 2019: E-CIP data view (Roddie Edmonds) E-CIP chapter 1 (d. August 8, 1985; master sergeant in the 422nd Regiment of the 106th Infantry Division of the US Army; captured during the Battle of Bulge and became a prisoner of war first at Stalag IXB and then at Stalag IXA in Ziegenhain in Germany, January 25-March 30, 1945) E-CIP chapter 4 (Roderick Waring (Roddie) Edmonds; b. August 20, 1919 in Knoxville, TN) E-CIP chapter 25 (Yad Vashem, Israel's national Holocaust memorial, posthumously honors Roddie for extraordinary bravery in saving Jewish GIs during WWII; only four other Americans received this honor; no other U.S. serviceman ever has)