World War II Honoree
World War II Veteran
Rodney Keith Hickenbottom
Branch of Service
U.S. Army
Hometown
Somerton, Ohio
Honored By
Dover City School
He served in Company D, 501st Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division as a squad leader of a light machine gun crew in the European Theater of Operations in Normandy, Rhineland, Ardennes, and Central Europe. He was awarded four Bronze Stars for valor, one with an Oak leaf cluster.