KINGSTON – The Main Kingston Post Office will be dedicated to former
resident and World War II Congressional Medal of Honor awardee U.S. Army
Staff Sergeant Robert Dietz. A formal ceremony will be held on Saturday,
April 2.
The legislation, signed by President Obama on November 5, 2015, was introduced in the House of Representatives by Christopher Gibson and in the Senate by Charles Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand.
A Kingston native, Dietz was 24 when he was killed in World War II by enemy fire in Kirchain, Germany on March 29, 1945. He was a squad leader in the Army’s 38th Armored Infantry Battalion, 7th Armored Division.
He was posthumously awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor for braving enemy fire to dismantle explosives on a bridge, opening the way for American troops to get into Kirchain.
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