Jacob Rosenfeld

* In uniform
* Out of uniform

> "That's a lot of boats! I think I'd rather be up here. Some Kraut bomb spots them all squeezed together like that, take out 20 at a time. Tougher to shoot down a plane."
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> *Rosenfeld to Tibbet and Boyce after seeing the entire Allied fleet from the C-47.*

**Julian "Jacob" Rosenfeld** is a supporting character in the 2018 film Overlord. Rosenfeld is a paratrooper in the 101st Airborne Division assigned to destroy the Nazi jamming tower CielBlanc. After his unit’s plane was shot down Rosenfeld with immediately captured and taken to CielBlanc Church. Dr. Schmidt proceeded to use Rosenfeld as a test subject injecting him with tar in order to refine it into his serum. Rosenfeld was eventually saved by smokejumper Edward Boyce. He participated in one of the raid to destroy the CielBlanc Church.

## Biography

Rosenfeld was born in Chicago, Illinois on January 31, 1924 to Jewish parents. At a young age, Rosenfeld has a huge love of baseball and became a Chicago Cubs fan to represent his home state. Before World War II broke out, Rosenfeld had a relationship with a unknown girl. When the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, Rosenfeld was drafted in the United States Army in 1942 where he volunteered to join the Airborne unit because he wanted to be with the best of the best when they get to Berlin when they win the war and will make fifty dollars a month. At this time he befriended Virgil Nez, a Native American soldier and Lyle Tibbet, a cocky prick soldier. They were one of the original members of the 101st that trained two years for the invasion of Normandy, but everything changed in April 1944, when the men of 101st Airborne Division learn about the Allies Forces were losing the war to the advanced Nazi forces, President Franklin D. Roosevelt desegregated the United States Armed Forces in a will of manpower. So the black paratroopers of 555th Parachute Infantry Battalion (also known as the “Triple Nickels”) were folded to the 82nd and 101st airborne (Becoming the first desegregated unit) to help participate for the D-Day invasion.

When the men of the 555th folded into the 82nd and 101st airborne Divisions, Tibbet, Rosenfeld, and Nez met two smokejumpers Private First Classes Charlie Dawson and Edward Boyce, Nez and Rosenfeld welcomed them with opened arms as for Tibbet on other hand, despised them because of their skin. But decided to put his racial bias aside because he has a war to win so he has no choice but to work the smokejumpers.

## Taking a ride

On June 5th, 1944, the Allied forces launched their forces to prepare for Operation Overlord also known as D-Day, however Boyce along with this squad of 18 paratroopers are given a secret mission to take out a radio jamming tower located at the town center of the French village of CielBlanc. As the men prepare to jump behind enemy lines, Boyce scans to see the men, some of them that he used to be smokejumpers with and has been through so much to this point about proving the white man wrong. He also spotted Lewis Ford, a paratrooper that transferred to the 82nd Airborne and is an explosive expert for their mission. Then he sees Rosenfeld looking at entire Allied Navy fleet and stated to Tibbet and Boyce that he rather in the plane than any of the ships. Tibbet corrects him that more GIs get in airplanes than on ships before Nez playfully tosses a wet glob of chewed gum at Tibbet and tells Rosenfeld to not listen to him and he's full of shit. As the men talking to each other about what they are going to do when they get to Berlin before Sgt. Rensin shows up to remind them what the mission is and says there are gonna be a hundred and twenty Allied troops fighting on their way to the beaches but they can't without air support if the radio tower isn't by 06:00 am.

## Fear

*"We must be getting close. Hope nothing goes wrong. We miss our drop and land in the middle of a German squad or something...Because we both know what the Nazis are gonna do to a guy named Rosenfeld."*—Rosenfeld to Boyce what Nazis do to someone who has the same name as him.

By midnight the C-47 started to rumble, the paratroopers heard deep thuds and the crackle of tracer fire and the plane was heaving back and forth tossing the soldiers around. Rosenfeld noticed that they are getting close and worries that they will be landing at a German squad and knowing that the Nazis do to a guy who has the same name as him. Boyce assures him that nothing is gonna go wrong. Rensin comes out of the cockpit of the C-47 and tells the men that it is just a "Kraut Hello" and tells them to sit tight until the light tells them to jump. The Navigator of the plane tells Rensin that they are taking too much flak but with quick thinking, Rensin tells them to break formation so they won't get hit by flak knowing that the paratroopers while a couple clicks south of their target. The C-47 suddenly descends 100 feet flak erupting all around as it yokes hard to the left into the clouds. This formation saved the men as the flak destroyed a plane beside them. He took the time to remark to his white paratroopers who had doubted him since day one that he was going to show them a good time. Dawson, unable to hold his dinner, threw up on the floor of the fuselage before bullets from the AA guns piece the floor of the C-47 and tore some men up like butter. This horrifies the men including Rensin and Ford because before the operation, this small group of paratroopers was giving more information about General Wilhelm Strasse although some men heard that the man was so intelligent that he upgraded the German Army weapons vehicles to be inferior to the Allies. This myth became a reality and everybody except Rensin and Ford started to panic, paratrooper Murphy (A paratrooper who is younger than Rosenfeld or the other paratroopers on the plane) was so scared that got out of his seat before he was pulverized, he was dead before he hit the floor.

Medic Grunauer rushes to Murphy's lifeless body with his med-kit but finds no vitals, Ford tells him that the young man is dead and orders Grunauer to sit down before the right of the C-47's propellers exploded causing some of the debris to destroy the right of the plane killing three paratroopers. Rensin continues to tell everyone to sit down and tells them this is why they were given this mission. The red jump light above the cargo door pops on and that is when Rensin orders the men to stand up and hook up. As Boyce and the men scramble to their feet and hook their chute lines to the anchor cable running along the ceiling of the fuselage. Boyce is fifth from the door (Rosenfeld is fourth, Dawson, sixth, and Tibbet, second). Rosenfeld turns his head to Boyce and tells him that he will see on the ground but he tells him that he will be right behind him. As the light flashes green, the plane catches fire and then a huge eruption blows the cockpit door away sending it to a paratrooper head decapitating him. The front of the C-47 is gone is nothing but a gutted, flaming mass of shredded steel, and half of the roof about the men is now a gaping hole. The anchor line renders useless. Some men fatally fall toward the back, burning themselves to death. In a desperate attempt to save what's left of his men, Rensin tells everybody to manually deploy, Ford quickly unhooks from the jump line and helps Rensin push paratroopers, Grunauer, then Tibbet, some of the surviving paratroopers manage to jump out of the aircraft after the signal goes green, Rosenfeld stumbles. Boyce crouches to help, but Ford is already rolling Rosenfeld out the door.

## Being Captured

*"Krauts grabbed me as soon as I hit the ground. Woke up with all kinds of shit stuck in me."*—Rosenfeld to Ford explained how he got captured and being taken to the CielBlanc Church

After managing to manually deploy and hit the ground safely, Rosenfeld met up with Grunauer and Nez to see if any of other paratroopers from their squad that survived the plane crash, however, they were ambushed by SS patrols. Rosenfeld gets knocked down on consciences, Nez gets wounded legs and Grunauer manages to escape to attack, leaving both men captured and taken to the CielBlanc Church not knowing that they are getting experimented on. Then as Rosenfeld gains conscience, he realizes not only that he is tied up and has a big syringe inside of his abdomen but realize that he's inside of the church but also that's experimentation going on. He sees a human and creature hybrid wrapped in cocoons and even sees Nez in pieces, disembodied head, and arm attached to half a torso, heart, and leg. No blood, and paraffin gauze dressing covers the incisions clinical.

The body parts suspended by rods and tubes connected to the autoinjector that are somehow impossible to keep him alive. This is possibly happened from this red tar that is center of the church. Boyce (Who managed to stealthily arrives at an underground section of the church, which looks like a prison. He hears muffled noises of people bound in small cells and hides as two inspectors arrive. Curious about the eerie sound coming from the cell, he peeks at it and sees the exact same hybrids. Boyce goes further into the experiment labs to get more answers about the questionable creatures. A body bag moves right above him, so he opens it and sees a person drenched in serum, who is barely alive. He then sees syringes laid on a table and gets one to bring a sample to the group and before Boyce encounters the dismembered Nez and a headless woman. He stumbles bawarded in shock before he leaves and discovers that Rosenfeld is bound to a bed, which he tries to free but gets interrupted once German doctors arrive. He sees a dead soldier being injected with the serum, but it is ineffective, so they dispose of his body. Boyce pulls a massive needle out of Rosenfeld to save and free him. Both of them utilize a tomb to find their way out of the church, which they are successful at.

## Returning

When Boyce gets back to Chloe's house with Rosenfeld from the church, Chloe Laurent and photographer Morton Chase aids the wounded paratrooper where Boyce finally breaks down after holding his emotions inside the church. He, along with Rosenfeld, explained there was more going on than just a radio tower and tell them the fate of Nez and possibly other allied soldiers that were captured and experimented on. Ford struggles to understand the words he is saying and realizes that Boyce has shifted his attention from the mission to the experiments. He shows Ford the serum, and they ask the captured Captain Franz Wafner about it, but he does not disclose any helpful information, even as Ford and Tibbet torture him.

## Finding out the serum

> *"Oh MY GOD!!"*—Rosenfeld (Who was precociously experimented on by the Nazis) being the first to realized to see what the tar serum does to the dead as seen Chase being mutant by it.
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Chase being mutant by it.

As the squad prepares to attack the church, Ford orders Chase to get Wafner ready to travel so they use him for a diversion to help take the radio tower. Ford asked Chloe if her family has a car and she said her father kept one in a garage down the street. Ford and Tibbet start to follow Chloe. Boyce follows to but Ford stops him saying that he has done enough running for one night and orders him to stay with Chase and Rosenfeld; while he and Tibbet go find the car along with Chloe. As Chase checks on Wafner, who attempts to escape and fatally shoots him after acting unconscious. Still, with a sack over his head, he blindly shoots around, but he is stopped after the group comes up. Boyce isn't holding his own gun, can only charge Wafner, tackling to the floor punching that hood off his head, then wrestling away before Tibbet managed to help him to subdued Wafner. Before losing his final breath, Chase asks for his camera, and all of them dramatically witness his death.

Boyce gets into the idea of injecting the serum into Chase, thinking that it would save him. In a matter of minutes, Chase gets up and is in prime condition. He even pokes his bullet wounds and is numb from the pain. Additionally, he gets stronger after the injection, which confuses everyone in the room. After some time, Chase mutates; his body slowly disfigures, and he turns violent. His eyes turn red as if he is about to transfer into something before Ford shoots him several times. Wafner then reveals that he and his men's mission was in order to advance their Nazi empire, they were sent to Cielblanc by Deathshead to develop a virus that can bring people back from the dead and turn them into some short undead shambler fighters. As they discuss this, Chase gets up; before he could attack anyone, Boyce knocks him to the ground and pounds his head to death. The commotion makes the perfect time for Wafner to escape unnoticed. He comes down from the attic and grabs Paul upon his exit. A group of SS soldiers comes to his rescue and takes Paul hostage.

As they discuss this, Chase gets up; before he could attack anyone, Boyce knocks him to the ground and pounds his head to death. This left Tibbet surprised because he never realized how brutal Boyce can never want to piss him off again. The commotion makes the perfect time for Wafner to escape unnoticed. He comes down from the attic and grabs Paul upon his exit. A group of SS soldiers comes to his rescue and takes Paul hostage. Chloe helplessly chases the army vehicle but is unable to, so she runs to Boyce for some help. Willing to help Chloe get her brother back, he angrily refuses to follow orders from Ford and reminds him that saying that their mission is more than just burning the church tower but also putting an end to the human experiments. The two have an argument, Boyce along with Rosenfeld proposes infiltrating the base and destroying the tower from the inside, which would also destroy the laboratory. The others support him, and Tibbet convinces Ford that they can grab Paul as a bonus and Ford grudgingly agrees.

## Payback time

*" Yeah, I can cover him while Boyce sneaks you in...Can let you have all the fun"*—Rosenfeld taking part of the last assault of destroying the CielBlnac Church.
In the last digit attempt to destroy the radio, the remaining group splits up, Boyce wishes Rosenfeld and Tibbet good luck. Tibbet and Boyce finally put aside their differences and reconcile and the two men shake hands. Tibbet replies that he will make a helluva chapter in Dawson's book. To initiate it, Chloe shows herself to the German soldiers, who chase her across town. They attempt to shoot her, but she successfully runs through the forest, pursued by one soldier to a nearby bridge. Scherzer (Wafner's second in command), thinking that he has cornered Chloe, gets off his bike to physically attack and force himself on her. However, upon being beaten down to the ground, Chloe lets out a laugh, then Ford knocks the soldier down. Next, they use the soldier that they strapped with explosives to make their way into the Church. After the explosion injures several other soldiers, an SS Officer begins to yell out; never finished before that sidecar erupts in a massive ball of flames, sending bodies flying and starting a chain reaction of explosions with that Jeep and Truck in flames, bodies, and twisted steel everywhere tearing the gate apart. On the church roof, German soldiers manning buzzsaw Machine guns, start ripping about eighteen hundred rounds. Rosenfeld rips off a the manning MG-34 to use it against the SS soldiers .

The two paratroopers launch a frontal assault as a distraction, while Ford, Boyce, and Chloe enter the base using the sewers. Boyce and Ford plant the explosives, while Chloe looks for Paul. Chloe finds Paul, sends him back to the village, and successfully kills a mutated test subject. The two fall back to the town. As they made it back to the village, they went back to laying down fire on the front of the church. Then a whistle blasted behind them and turned to see old Mrs. Lesner halfway up the loft steps, pumping everything she has into her whistle. Tibbet tries to tell the lady that they are trying to help but she just keeps screaming and blowing until Rosenfeld hurries up, knocks her out with his STG44 rifle and continues to fight. Suddenly a little boy is run into the firefight, the paratroopers recognized as Paul.

Tibbet after getting Paul out of the middle of the crossfire and tells Rosenfeld to cover him so he starts rapid firing the SS with everything that he has. Chloe suddenly returns to the village after successfully killing a mutated test subject who corners her. Tibbet and Rosenfeld have been pursued and pinned down by the base's defenders. The shootout lasts for some time until Paul runs into the middle of the battlegrounds. Out of concern for the young boy's safety, Tibbet is wounded while shielding Paul from gunfire. Finally, he safely brings Paul back to a shielded area, as Chloe ambushes and kills the remaining Germans and treats Tibbet's wounds.

## Surviving

The rest of the villagers gather outside as the radio announces the allied managed to get victory in most beach sectors, it ultimately failed with 156,000 Allied soldiers died during the attempted invasion of Normandy, as compared to only 89 Germans. Boyce reunites with Tibbet (Who is being stitched by Chloe), Rosenfeld, Chloe, and Paul in the village and sadly informs them that Ford did not make it. In his report, Boyce credits Ford for the decision to plant the bombs inside the church. The commanding officer questions Boyce regarding rumors of an underground lab under the church. Boyce, sharing Ford's view, denies seeing anything worth digging up. He now believes that the zombies and the human experiments should be kept unknown, or else more people will suffer the same fate as failed test subjects. The officer seemingly accepts his story, and informs him that they will be reassigned to C Company as the conflict continues. Rosenfeld tells Tibbet and Boyce that he has to convince somebody how he helped save the war, but Tibbet remarks that all he saw was him missing a bunch of Germans with a machine gun. At some point, Tibbet recovered from his shoulder wound and rejoined Boyce and Rosenfeld and the three never split ever since.

## The Battle of Deathshead's Compounds

    Two years after Clieblanc, and the Axis powers found the Da'at Yichud technology and were on the brink of winning World War II.  In July 1946, OSA agent and US Army Rangers Captain William J. Blazokwics managed to obtain the folder that will lead the Allies to the location of Deathshead's compound, and to turn the tide of the war, Blazkowicz gets knocked out by falling rubble and is saved by Fergus Reid along with Boyce, Rosenfeld, and Tibbet. While leaving, Blazkowicz observes whoever he had saved being extracted by other airborne troopers before leaving the town of Wulfburg. The scene sees with Reid, Blazkowicz, Boyce, and Rosenfeld on a truck headed to RAF Kinloss at the northern tip of Scotland as they make final preparations for the assault on Deathshead's Compound. During the assault on Deathshead's compound, Boyce, Rosenfeld, and Tibbet were on board the allied condor 9, where the three meet privates Wyatt, Gates, and Prendergast.  As the Allied Forces launch an assault against Deathshead. B.J. is knocked unconscious countless times during the fight but is revived by Fergus and keeps going for the visions he sees of a safer, happier life. After gunning down multiple Nazi aircraft, one of them crashed lands into the turret area destroying it. Fergus is radioed by Condor 9 to investigate issues with their fuel tank, with the fuselage hit and leaking. Condor 9 thanks Fergus before a piece of shrapnel kills the pilot. Wyatt takes the wheel of the condor and is instructed by Fergus on how to stop the transport from nose diving into the water. The situation is handled, with Fergus boarding the plane, abandoning his own. B.J. just barely makes it before the plane crashes and cuts into the transport. Fergus takes control of the transport, and B.J. is able to calm Wyatt's nerves. This doesn't last long though, as Fergus makes a crash landing on the beach. As most of the soldiers including Blazokwics, Reid, and Boyce land in the water, but some men were either get shot by Nazi machine guns or get eaten alive by Panzerhunds if they ever reached the surface. Boyce along with Fergus and Wyatt rendezvoused with Reid who had Prendergast (being shot to his left eye), Rosenfeld, Tibbet, and Gates along with a few American paratroopers and British soldiers who are members of the Parachute Regiment but they were surrounded by two Panzerhunds. Blazkowicz contacts Fergus via the phone inside a damaged condor, Wyatt flashes his light to give B.J. their location which attracts a Panzerhund to them. In order to save them, B.J. is instructed to push to a nearby turret. B.J. narrowly avoids a Panzerhund as he swims through the water, eventually destroying the Panzerhunds and pestering his squad. Another problem stands in their way, the small group of paratroopers can't make progress with the Automated Machine Guns keeping watch over their position, and B.J. is sent straight down the middle into the enemy trenches in order to eliminate the pillboxes lining the perimeter and his team to follow him after giving him covering fire to take the machine guns charged straight to the trenches. However, Boyce, Rosenfeld and a few paratroopers got separated from the rest of the group before getting ambushed by a Baltisches Auge along with German reinforcements before Boyce gets shot in the shoulder and Rosenfeld's legs are torn by a few packs of Kampfhunds. With no way out, the paratroopers had no choice but to surrender to be prisoners.

## Being liberated

Boyce, Tibbet, Rosenfeld, and other allied soldiers had been prisoners to Deathshead for the past 14 years, at this point, they were being put to hard labor. Strasse performs the most inhumane advanced experiments. It is fully equipped with automated incineration systems to clean up any organic tissue left by the test subjects. By November 15, 1960, the Kreisau Circle mounted another assault on the refitted Compound using *Eva's Hammer*. Boyce and Rosenfeld and the POWs encountered resistance fighters Anya Oliwa, Bombate, Set Roth and in a desperate attempt to get out of this compound, the prisoner decided to help them. B. J. Blazkowicz and a rescue party infiltrating the base. Taking them to the elevator, B.J. is separated from Anya and the group as she states that the two can live far away from the Nazis, B.J. agrees, but states that it's not for them. Anya takes the resistance to the helicopter, Boyce courageously provides the prisoners covering fire to get to the helicopter while  B.J. battles Wilhelm Strasse and is injured in the process.

## Events of the New Colossus

Months after the destruction of the Deathshead compound, Frau Engel and her death squad attack Eva's Hammer to kill BJ. Despite the valiant resistance from the Kreisau circle, the entire submarine was overwhelmed and BJ was captured just after he woke up and fought his way through the Nazis. Irene Engel kills Caroline Becker, but is stopped by Sigrun Engel from executing Fergus/Wyatt, with the duo, alongside Sigrun, escaping from Engel's gasp and drives the Nazi out of Eva's Hammer. After regrouping with his comrades, he manages to get to the US and begins to launch a Second American Revolution with the American Resistance. Boyce and Rosenfeld decided to help the resistance by taking part in operations of taking parts of the back from the Nazis. It is unknown what happened to them during the Second American Revolution but it's possible that they survived.

## Personality and trait

Rosenfeld like Boyce is a meek, polite, strong, brave, intelligent, and compassionate soldier who is willing to protect the innocent and the weak. However despite being Jewish, Rosenfeld feared being captured by the Nazis. This was shown before the squad jump behind enemy lines, he tells Boyce he hopes they don't drop in the midst of a German patrol, because he is a Jew and afraid of what they might do to him. This was later find out that the Germans did indeed capture him, but brought him back to the village alive for use as a live test subject. Fortunately, Boyce saves him.

## Skills and abilities

**Weapon Proficiency**: Rosenfeld is skilled in the use of multiple types of weaponry. He can operate a captured MG-34 and a German assault rifle in a few minutes. He can somehow even aim accurately while shooting full auto at his enemies at long range. He even knows how the German weapons operate when fires a captured MG-34 when he and Tibbet launch a frontal assault as a distraction, though their accuracy and rate of fire leaves much to be desired, and they must clear jams frequently. When Tibbet criticizes his shooting, Rosenfeld correctly point out that the MG-34 is supposed to be crewed by *two* soldiers, one to aim and shoot, with the other to reload, ensure the rounds feed correctly, and change the barrel when it overheats.

## Ranks

Rosenfeld's rank at the time of Overlord (Along with most of the characters in the film) and prologue of The New Order. It was unclear if he rose up the ranks after D-Day and prior to the Battle of Deathshead's Compound.