Adelbert Francis "Bert" Waldron III (March 14, 1933 – October 18, 1995) was a United States Army sniper who served during the Vietnam War with the 9th Infantry Division.
[1][2] Adelbert was born March 14, 1933, to Adelbert Francis Waldron Jr. (1910–1966), a parking lot operator, detective agency employee, fireman and school bus driver, and Virginia M. Searle (1914–1979), in Syracuse.
[3] Prior to his time in the Army, Waldron spent 12 years in the US Navy.
After leaving Vietnam he was assigned as a marksmanship instructor at Ft. Benning, GA but left the Army in 1970.
Waldron was one of the few two-time recipients of the Distinguished Service Cross, both awarded for separate actions in 1969.