Woodland, Bernard Tecumseh
- Date of birth:
- August 20th, 1920 (Baltimore, Maryland, the United States of America)
- Date of death:
- September 24th, 1944 (Military hospital in Belgium)
- Buried on:
- American War Cemetery Henri-Chapelle
Plot: H. Row: 2. Grave: 63. - Service number:
- 33207878
- Nationality:
- American
Biography
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Purple Heart
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Rank:
- Corporal
- Unit:
- Company C, 307th Airborne Engineer Battalion, 82nd Airborne Division "All American", U.S. Army
- Awarded for:
- Operation Shingle
awarded for injuries received near Anzio in early 1944
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Rank:
- Corporal
- Unit:
- C Company, 1st Battalion, 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 82nd Airborne Division 'All American' US Army
- Awarded for:
- Operation Market Garden
awarded as Oak Leaf Cluster
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Rank:
- Corporal
- Unit:
- C Company, 1st Battalion, 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 82nd Airborne Division 'All American' US Army
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Rank:
- Corporal
- Unit:
- C Company, 1st Battalion, 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 82nd Airborne Division 'All American' US Army
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Rank:
- Corporal
- Unit:
- C Company, 1st Battalion, 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 82nd Airborne Division 'All American' US Army
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Rank:
- Corporal
- Unit:
- C Company, 1st Battalion, 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 82nd Airborne Division 'All American' US Army
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Rank:
- Corporal
- Unit:
- C Company, 1st Battalion, 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 82nd Airborne Division 'All American' US Army
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Rank:
- Corporal
- Unit:
- C Company, 1st Battalion, 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 82nd Airborne Division 'All American' US Army
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Rank:
- Corporal
- Unit:
- C Company, 1st Battalion, 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 82nd Airborne Division 'All American' US Army
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Rank:
- Corporal
- Unit:
- C Company, 1st Battalion, 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 82nd Airborne Division 'All American' US Army
Sources
- Photo 1: Findagrave.com by Anonymous
- Photo 2: Findagrave.com by Dominique Potier
- - LUNTEREN, F. VAN, The Battle of the Bridges, Casemate, 2017.
- NORDYKE, P., All American All the Way, Zenith Press, St. Paul, United States, 2005.
- STEENBERGER, D. e.a., De Oversteek, De Gelderlander, Nijmegen, 2013.
- http://www.facesbeyondthegraves.com/woodland.html
- https://www.uswarmemorials.org/html/people_details.php?PeopleID=31603
- https://www.oorlogsdodennijmegen.nl/persoon/woodland/a9405822-3f78-4eaf-b80b-af3c218910de
- https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/56286853/bernard-tecumseh-woodland
- https://www.abmc.gov/news-events/news/sacrifice-made-truth-discovered/
- https://www.ww2marketgarden.com/cplbernardtwoodland.html
- https://www.honorstates.org/profiles/57289/
- https://www.fieldsofhonor-database.com/index.php/en/american-war-cemetery-henri-chapelle-w/45344-woodland-bernard-t
- https://www.ww2-airborne.us/units/504/504_trp.html#btwoodland
- https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/person/tree/34844476/person/20488080391/
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