Gerald E. Catherwood

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Military Service
War: WWII
Branch: U.S. Army
Rank: Pfc

Personal Details
Born: 30 September 1936
Died: 27 August 1973
Parents: Michael and Sylvia (Senenfelder) Catherwood

Buried: Sacred Heart Catholic Cemetery
Grundy Center, Iowa

Gerald E. Catherwood Stationed in Germany

Army PFC Gerald E. Catherwood, 24, son of Mrs. Sylvia Catherwood, Grundy Center, participated with other personnel from the 485th Medical Company in Exercise Winter Shield II at the Grafenwohr-Hohenfels training area in Germany. The exercise ended Feb. 8.

Winter Shield, an annual Seventh U.S. Army winter field training maneuver, involved 60,000 U.S. Army, German and French troops and marked the highpoint of a year's training for units in NATO's "Pyramid of Power."

The maneuver provided training under simulated combat conditions for the individual soldier and leaders at all command levels, and included intensive training in the employment of advanced weapons.

Catherwood, a preventative-medicine technician with the 458th in Stuttgart, entered the Army in July 1959 and completed basic training in Fort Hood, Tex., before arriving overseas the following December.

He attended Grundy Center high school and was employed by the Don Find Construction Co. prior to entering the Army.

--The Grundy Register (Grundy Center, Iowa), 23 February 1961, sec 2, pg 1