Roderick Strohl
| Roderick G. Strohl | |
|---|---|
| Nickname(s) | Rod |
| Born |
June 24, 1922 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
| Allegiance |
 United States
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| Service/branch |
 United States Army
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| Years of service | 1942-1945 |
| Rank |
 Staff Sergeant
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| Unit |
 Easy Company, 2nd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division
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| Battles/wars | |
Staff Sergeant Roderick Strohl (born June 24, 1922) was a non-commissioned officer with Easy Company, 2nd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, in the 101st Airborne Division of the United States Army during World War II. Strohl was one of the 140 original Toccoa men of Easy Company.
Strohl was a son of a car dealer and grew up in Philadelphia.
Strohl enlisted and volunteered for the paratroopers with two of his friends, fellow German Americans and Pennsylvanian Dutch speakers Forrest Guth and Carl Fenstermaker, in Philadelphia in 1942. They were assigned to Easy Company and became three of the 140 original Toccoa men of the unit. All of them survived the war. Strohl had a camera with him in Europe and his comrades Forrest Guth and Walter Gordon would share it during the war.
Strohl's first combat jump was on D-Day. He was so overloaded that he could not put on a reserve 'chute. His plane was hit and Strohl saw the pilots coming out with the paratroopers. Strohl linked up with fellow Easy Company members "Shifty" Powers, "Buck" Taylor and Bill Kiehn upon landing, and the group joined with their own unit a few days later. During the Battle of Bloody Gulch outside Carentan, Strohl was wounded and was sent to Utah Beach, where his .45 and boots were stolen.
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