Army Ranger WWII Roy Huereque
Ranger Who Landed at Normandy and Inspired Generations Dies Before D-Day Anniversary
Vets
By Hannah Ray Lambert | June 05, 2021
Rudolph “Roy” Huereque, an Army Ranger who helped liberate French villages and concentration camps in World War II, died May 22, just two weeks before the 77th anniversary of D-Day.
As a member of the 5th Ranger Battalion, Huereque was part of a wave of forces that landed on Normandy’s blood-soaked beaches June 7, 1944, at Le Havre. He celebrated his 95th birthday in April but contracted pneumonia not long after. He died from complications of the illness.
Coffee or Die Magazine executive editor Marty Skovlund Jr., a former Ranger who served in the 75th Ranger Regiment in Iraq and Afghanistan, met Huereque two years ago in France to commemorate the 75th D-Day anniversary. Huereque made the 2019 trip to Normandy with the Best Defense Foundation, which has taken more than 100 World War II veterans on battlefield-return programs to remember the fallen. At 93, Huereque looked more the age of a Vietnam veteran to Skovlund, he said.
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