Talk:Frederick Kroesen

A fact from Frederick Kroesen appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 17 February 2007. The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that retired Seventh United States Army General Frederick Kroesen survived an RPG-7 anti-tank rocket attack by the Red Army Faction?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2007/February.

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WWII details

Kroesen spoke at a seminar this past weekend and their hand-out added the following to his bio:

General Kloesen fought in WWII with the 254th Infantry Regiment of the 63rd Infantry Division. He was a company grade officer, serving as platoon leader and company commander, in the fighting in the Colmar Pocket and into Germany. He participated in the particularly tough fighting in Jebsheim.

I'll keep my eyes out for a citation on this. --Habap (talk) 16:11, 6 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Found it in the 82nd Airborne book via google books. --Habap (talk) 17:16, 6 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Good Conduct Medal

How did he get the Good Conduct Medal? I thought that was only for enlisted personnel? Was he a mustang or was there some special awarding to him? Gecko G (talk) 22:25, 31 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

General Koresen was in ROTC at Rutgers beginning in 1940. He enlisted in the Army as a reservist in 1942 and went on active duty in 1943. He received his commission after completing Officer Candidate School in 1944. I found the details in the transcript of his oral history at Rutgers, the bio details in Steven J. Mrozek's history of the 82nd Airborne Division, and the book "Four-star Leadership for Leaders" by Charles E. Jones and R. Manning Ancell.

Billmckern (talk) 23:22, 31 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

@Billmckern: - good find! A mention to that effect should probably be included in the article. I don't see where it specifically says such in the Mrozek source, so it would need to be quoted from one or both of the other two, which I don't have access to. Gecko G (talk) 22:35, 8 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]