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Roderick W. Edmonds (August 20, 1919 – August 8, 1985) [1] was a master sergeant of the 106th Infantry Division, 422nd Infantry Regiment in the United States Army during World War II, who was captured and became the ranking U.S. non-commissioned officer at the Stalag IX-A prisoner-of-war camp in Germany, where—at the risk of his life—he saved an...
Master Sergeant Roddie Edmonds (b. 1919) of Knoxville, Tennessee, served in the US Army during World War II. He participated in the landing of the American forces in Europe and was taken prisoner by the Germans. Together with other American POWs, including Jews, he was taken to Stalag IXA, a camp near Ziegenhain, Germany.
Aug 19, 2023 · Roderick Edmonds, a twenty-four-year-old non-commissioned officer from Tennessee, is one of just five Americans recognized by the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial in Israel for his heroics in saving...
Roddie Edmonds is an unsung hero of WWII. His decisions and commands as ranking officer in Stalag IXA saved the lives of more than two hundred Jewish American POWs.
Aug 16, 2023 · While imprisoned at a German prisoner of war (POW) camp, the noncomissioned officer defiantly ignored the orders of a German commandant, subsequently saving the lives of hundreds of his Jewish-American comrades.
Jul 15, 2024 · Roddie Edmonds became the senior ranking noncommissioned officer at Stalag IX-A and was put in charge of the camp's 1,275 American prisoners of war.
He worked as a salesman, selling mobile homes and cable television subscriptions, and even did a stint with the Knoxville Journal. He was just a regular Southern American family man. Except for the extraordinary secret he managed to take with him to the grave. Roddie was a WWII and Korean war veteran.
