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By Jewish Review

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A recently received report from the Oregon Air National Guard notes that Brig. Gen. Fred M. Rosenbaum has been honored by the OANG for his many years of service and leadership.

The OANG hangar facility at the Portland Air Base was named in honor of Rosenbaum last October, “in recognition of his life-long leadership and personal concern for the officers, airmen and families of the Oregon National Guard and his selfless service from World War II through the Cold War, tremendously benefitting communities all across Oregon,” according to the bronze plaque installed on the commemorative occasion.

Rosenbaum is a Holocaust refugee. He barely escaped Austria after the Anschluss, making it to England on one of the Kindertransports.

When he was reunited with his family and they immigrated to America, he enlisted in the National Guard at age 16—he misrepresented his age—and eventually served as an enlisted man in the Philippines.

He remained in the Guard after the war, rising to the rank of brigadier general. He served as assistant adjutant general of the OANG from 1980 to 1985.

In Portland he has long operated a successful insurance business.