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Cullum: 11988
Class: '40
Cadet Company: I
Date of Birth: June 8, 1918
Date of Death: August 1, 2007 - View or Post a Eulogy
COL Rosen graduated from the United States Military Academy in 1940. He was sent to Manila in January 1941, and fought for nearly four months during the Battle of Bataan. When the peninsula was surrendered April 9, 1942 he became a Japanese Prisioner of War. He survived the horrors of the Bataan Death March, Japanese Hell ships, and imprisonment until he was liberated Sept. 10, 1945, by the Army's 7th Division.
Col. Rosen was awarded the Silver Star, Legion of Merit with Oak Leaf Cluster, Bronze Star Medal, Purple Heart with Oak Leaf Cluster, Army Commendation Medal and numerous other service medals. In 1990, the king of Norway, Olav V, awarded the Saint Olav Medal to Col. Rosen and his wife.
Click here to read his own account of his experience.
He held several positions in the military, including chief plans and policy officer in the Procurement Division of the Army General Staff at the Pentagon. He served in Germany and taught at Fort Leavenworth for four years on the faculty of the Command and General Staff College, and was promoted to Colonel in 1961. He completed a master's degree in international affairs at George Washington University, and spent three years with the Defense Intelligence Agency at Arlington Hall Station.
Read an interview with COL Rosen