Rodriguez, Juan- 422nd

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Rodriguez, Juan G. (Rod), T/Sgt 422, POW

Here's a link to bio outline, contact info, and photo on the ax-pow site: www.axpow.org/rodriguezjuan.htm

also listed in Roster on Indiana Military Site

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Rodriguez, Juan G. (Rod), T/Sgt 422, POW

Mr. Rodriguez passed away on October 28, 2014

Full name listed here is Juan Guadalupe (Lupe) Rodriguez

His obituary can be found here: www.legacy.com/obituaries/santafenewmexican/obituary.aspx?n=juan-guadalupe-rodriguez-lupe&pid=173014785

Of his time in the military, the obituary states:
After graduation from New Mexico State University where he was active in the R.O.T.C., Lupe was inducted into the United States Army in the fall of 1943. He had obtained a civilian pilot's license while in college and initially trained as a pilot intending to join the Army Air Corps. He was then placed into the 422nd Infantry Regiment, 106th Division as a technical sergeant because the US had an increased need for ground forces. He was deployed to Belgium in November 1944 and then wounded and captured at St. Vith by the Germans in the Battle of the Bulge six weeks later. He spent the next 4 months as a prisoner of war in prison camps and being force-marched around Germany by the German army. He was liberated on April 16, 1944 by Allied forces. He returned home to the United States where he received a Purple Heart and an honorable discharge on Dec. 7, 1945.

More on civilian life:
Born and raised in New Mexico, he passed away in Lexington, Kentucky
Lupe attended graduate school at Ohio State University on the GI Bill, where he met his wife, Lorraine Ditzler. While finishing his Ph.D. they married in Wooster, Ohio in April 1948.

He received a teaching and research position at the University of Kentucky in 1949 where he had a long and distinguished career spanning 4 decades. His research centered on the nutritional ecology of insects and mites.

He was active in many professional organizations and received many awards and honors. Among his many awards were the University of Kentucky Alumni Association Distinguished Research Award, the Thomas Poe Cooper Award for Distinguished Achievement in Research, the American Registry of Professional Entomologists' Outstanding Research in Acarology Award, and the Kentucky Academy of Science Distinguished Scientist Award.

He was on the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Acarology, the President of the North Central Branch of the Entomological Society of America, the President of the Kentucky Academy of Sciences, and Chairman of the Centennial Committee of the Entomological Society of America, among many other distinguished offices. He was named a Fellow of three professional societies: the Royal Entomological Society of London, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the Entomological Society of America.

In the 1960's his laboratory housed the first scanning electron microscope on campus where some of the first moon rocks from NASA were inspected. Three newly discovered species of mites were named after him by other acarologists and he received an honorary doctorate from the University of San Carlos in Guatemala. He was active in professional organizations long after he retired. In all, he published 142 articles in refereed journals, contributed to and edited/co-edited 6 books, and held 15 professional offices.