Background
RODRIGUES, Franklin Emilio was born on July 22, 1886 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
RODRIGUES, Franklin Emilio was born on July 22, 1886 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Educated Escola Militar, 1906-1907, Escola de Guerra, 1907-1910, Escola de Engenharia Militar, 1913-1917, Escola Técnica do Exército, 1936-1939.
Head of military group, cartridge factory, 1920-1922. Captain, 1923; official, bureau of war materiel, 1930-1931. Head of inspection commission, Madson armament factory, Copenhagen, Denmak, 1933-1936.
Major, 1933; It. colonel, 1937. Head, 4th division of war materiel, 1939. Colonel, 1940; brigadier general, 1944.
Officer, Mérito Militar, Brazil. Knight, Danebrog, Denmark.
Member Brazilian military commission to United States, 1917-1920, and various missions to France, Belgium, Germany, Czechoslovakia, Italy, Hungary, 1922-1930.