Huntingdon Pike Stretch To Be Named For Military Hero

ROCKLEDGE BOROUGH — A section of Huntingdon Pike will be dedicated to hometown military hero Helmut Manfred Boehm on Wednesday.

State Rep. Ben Sanchez said the stretch of Huntingdon Pike that runs through the borough will become the "PFC Helmut Boehm Memorial Highway" during a formal ceremony at 10 a.m. on Wednesday. See the flyer below

Boehm was grand marshal for the 2022 Fourth of July parade.

The Rockledge resident since 1957, Boehm served as an Ambulance Orderly in the 479th Motor Ambulance Company of the U.S. Army during World War II.

Deployed less than a month after D-Day 1944, Boehm began his service during the heavy fighting through the Hedgerows of Normandy, France.

In driving an ambulance into combat areas, Boehm continually transported the wounded from the battlefield to field hospitals, providing emergency treatments, administering necessary injections, blood plasma and medications, and applying bandages until the wounded were successfully evacuated to safety.

He continued these mission-critical duties until liberating a Concentration Camp near the end of the war. He saw action in Northern France, the Rhineland, the Ardennes (Battle of the Bulge), and Germany; awarded the Bronze Star for his participation in a mission to evacuate the wounded behind enemy lines in the Hurtgen Forest in November 1944.

He returned to his family on Christmas Eve, 1945.