Rodgers, Curtis Charles

Rodgers was awarded the Légion d'Honneur (Chevalier degree) posthumously on November 11, 2011.

Curtis Rodgers died in Cairo on May 1, 1943. He had served in the Western Desert for a year, and had then left to join the faculty of Cairo University. All who have read the AFS Letters will have become familiar with his drawings and have understood his hate of war as well as his determination to serve and resolution not to stand aside. Because of this resolution he had decided to rejoin the AFS where he felt he could serve more fully. He, too, gave his life to a cause in which he believed.

__ AFS Letters No. 13

On 1 May 1943, Curtis Charles Rodgers died in Cairo. After serving in Syria and the Western Desert for a year, he had joined the faculty of the Cairo University. The many excerpts from his pen printed in AFS Letters showed him---as his many friends knew---to be someone who, while hating war, was determined not to stand aside. Resolved to serve as fully as he could, Rodgers had just decided to rejoin the AFS. He, too, gave his life to a cause in which he believed.

__ George Rock. Chapter 5. "Middle East 3. El Alamein to Tunis (October 1942 to May 1943)" History of the American Field Service, 1920-1955. New York 1956.