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PRIVATE
BERNARD B. ROSE was the son of Frank and Yetta Rose, and was born in
Pennsylvania in 1920. Mr. and Mrs. Rose were both Jewish immigrants
from what was then Russia, and now present-day Lithuania. The elder Rose
was a salesman in a grocery store. By 1925 the Rose family had moved to
901 Walnut Street in Camden NJ. Bernard Rose graduated from Woodrow
Wilson High School in Camden NJ in 1938, where he played soccer and
baseball. He was a member of the Psi Alpha Pi fraternity, along with
graduating class mate Leonard
Auslander. In 1930 the family included older sister Anna, and younger
sister Marcella C. Rose and brother Solomon Rose.
After
completing his education Bernard Rose found work at the RCA-Victor plant
in Camden. He had married Thelma Supnick. Bernard and Thelma Rose made
their home at 207 Morse
Street in East Camden. He was inducted into the United States Army
on March 27, 1944, and was sent overseas in September of that
year.
Private
Rose was assigned to the 120th Infantry Regiment, 30th Infantry
Division, as a replacement. The the 2nd Battalion of the 120th had been
surrounded at Mortain in August, and had suffered many casualties before
being relieved by elements of the 35th Infantry Division.
Private
Rose took part in the 30th Infantry Division's September 1944 offensive
near Tournai and Brussels, Belgium. In mid-September after the Albert
Canal and the Meuse River were crossed, the 30th took objectives near
Horbach, Germany and completed plans for the assault on the Siegfried
Line. This attack opened on October 2, 1944 and a breach was made the
following day. Contact with the 1st Infantry Division was made on
October 16, 1944, and encirclement of Aachen was completed. The 30th
then continued on their offensive into Germany. It was in Germany where
Private Bernard Rose was
killed during this action on December 15, 1944, while serving with the
120th Infantry Regiment, 30th Infantry Division. He was 24 years
old.
Private
Rose was brought home after the was and was buried at Crescent Burial
Park in Pennsauken NJ in the spring of 1949. Woodrow Wilson High School
and the Pi Alpha Psi fraternity sponsored an oratorical contest in honor
of Bernard Rose and Leonard
Auslander, who also died while serving in the Army during World War
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