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title: "Roy E. Pickel"
description: "D-Day, Normandy and Beyond veteran Roy E. Pickel  shares his memories of WW2."
url: "https://www.normandy1944.info/stories/roy-e-pickel"
date: "2026-08-21T10:08:16+00:00"
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![Roy Emerson Pickel](https://www.normandy1944.info/media/yootheme/cache/1a/roy_pickel_01-1aec2f5b.jpg?src=images/veterans/americans/roy_pickel/roy_pickel_01.jpg&thumbnail=240,300,&hash=8b2e6c6f)

#  WW2 veteran Roy Emerson Pickel

- American
- Staff Sergeant
- 2nd Battalion - Easy Company - 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment
- Normandy to Germany
- 1943 - 1945
- Survived? Yes

 ![101st Airborne Division](https://www.normandy1944.info/media/yootheme/cache/6b/101st-airborne-patch-6b9f0bc2.png?src=images/patches/101st-airborne-patch.png&thumbnail=228,300,&hash=3bdfccab)

####  101st Airborne Division

##  Memories of yesterdays...

I was born May 22nd 1922 in Rocksborough, Pennsylvania and raised in Philadelphia. I enlisted as a paratrooper at the age of 20 in May, 1943. Prior to WWII, I worked for Bendix Aviation (4700 Wissahickon Avenue, Philadelphia, PA 19144). Bendix made Aircraft instruments for the US Army (later the Air Force) and had it's headquarters in Los Angeles, CA. The site of the old Bendix plant, if now home to a multi-use office complex using the old Bendix building. I lived 2.8 miles from the plant at 2400 N Broad St, Philadelphia, PA 19132, with my mother Mary Smith. After WW2 I stayed in the military until 1966 when I retired from active duty.

######  Veteran's personal file

 ![](https://www.normandy1944.info/media/yootheme/cache/ca/506th-parachute-infantry-regiment-ca07ba3d.png?src=images/patches/506th-parachute-infantry-regiment.png&thumbnail=250,250,&hash=cca6c36a)

"Currahee"

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####  Veteran's death record

- Friday 08 February 2008
- Arlington National Cemetery Columbarium, Virginia
- Sec: 7-BB ROW 17, Site: 2

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######  Roy E. Pickel's personal photographs

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 [ ![](https://www.normandy1944.info/images/patches/101st-airborne-patch.png) ](https://www.normandy1944.info/images/patches/101st-airborne-patch.png)

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 Roy E. Pickel's personal medals

 ![Purple Heart](https://www.normandy1944.info/media/yootheme/cache/6b/Puruple-heart-6bf16084.png?src=images/medals/american/Puruple-heart.png&thumbnail=185,257,&hash=1b155726)Purple Heart

 ![Victory Medal](https://www.normandy1944.info/media/yootheme/cache/a8/us-victory-medal-a8bd8130.png?src=images/medals/american/us-victory-medal.png&thumbnail=185,257,&hash=e031acc7)Victory Medal

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