thanks for your reply, i'll have to check out the find a graves and see where that leads, i do have names of men who would of served with my...
just taking your advice about keeping this active, hopefully someone will recognize the name. thanks again
thanks thanks for the tips, I do have it set for email alerts. I did obtain the morning reports of my fathers last 30 days before being wounded...
thanks for the link, but am I looking for something specific in it or is this just some general information, thanks again.
Not sure if this is in the right thread but I'm looking for family or friends that may of knew Capt. Dean E. Irvin, he was a captain in the 2nd...
thanks for the info, this is one of the questions I had and my father doesn't recall, where he did his training, he thinks it was around virginia...
ok thanks,
thanks for the info learn something new every day,
interesting, to tell you the truth I never new the difference, I was just reading about it, I always thought great Britain was the same as the...
very possible, he did say he remembers riding trains over there, but the way I understood him it was while he was in germany, he said they would...
I did search news paper archives a little bit, will have to search more, he said he enlisted in wilkes barre pa which is about 40 miles from his...
I talked to my father again and asked if his basic training was in pa, he said no he thinks it might of been in Virginia or a little south of...
thanks, I am going to see him tonight, I will ask him again and mention some of the names maybe that will trigger something.
makes sense, thanks
i'm not sure when he joined the 23rd, out of basic or like you said a replacement depot, he doesn't seem to remember, I know he arrived in Europe...
he is from archbald pa, he enlisted in wilkes barre pa, he was assigned to 2nd division 23rd inf. k company
ok thanks everyone, I did send a email to a researcher to see what the cost would be for a detailed report on k company. But I will keep searching...
do you know if weser river heights is an actual town or is it just an area( like what we call counties or parishes.
my mother has that I would have too ask, I know he was discharged dec. 14th 1945, and that k/23rd was the only unit he served with other then that...
ok thanks again for the info