Name and Rank, Technician 5th Class Charles Harold Rogers.
Unit/Placed, 508th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 82nd Airborne Division ”All American”.
Charles was born on 1924 in Indiana.
Father, Harold K. Rogers.
Mother, Edith (Phoebus) Rogers.
Charles entered the service from Indiana with service number # 15382512.
Charles was KIA during the Jump of Market Garden at Ooij, Nijmegen, Holland, on Oct. 1, 1944, and he is honored with the Purple Heart, Good Conduct Medal, American Campaign Medal, Army Presidential Unit Citation, European-African-Middle Eastern Campaign Medal, WW II Victory Medal.
Charles is buried at Netherlands American Cemetery and Memorial, Margraten,
Eijsden-Margraten Municipality, Limburg, Netherlands.
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In military organizations, a pathfinder is a specialized soldier inserted or dropped into place in order to set up and operate drop zones, pickup zones, and helicopter landing sites for airborne operations, air resupply operations, or other air operations in support of the ground unit commander. Pathfinders first appeared in World War II and continue to serve an important role in today’s modern military, providing commanders with the option of flexibly employing air assets.
