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146th Infantry regiment

Discussion in 'Land Warfare in the Pacific' started by DannyM, May 27, 2010.

  1. DannyM

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    Hello all, I am new to this forum and I thought some of you maight be able to help me. My father was in the Army 146th Infantry regiment from 1941-1945. My family was able to get some stories from him before his death last year but he didn't talk about the war much. I have some keepsakes from his time in the Army including some sketches of two Japanese prisoners from Iwo Jima that one of his buddies drew on US Army Stationery. I am just curious as to how much my father saw and experienced during the war. There is a wealth of information on the Marines during the war but I haven't had much luck finding Army info. If any of you could shed some light on the 146th Infantry regiment I would appreciate it.

    Thanks in advance
     
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    TD-Tommy776 Man of Constant Sorrow

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    I was going to start a new thread, but then I found this one in a web search and figured I'd bump it. This thread may be better suited for the Infomation Request forum section.

    I am pretty much stumped on this one. I cannot find any information on the 146th Infantry Regiment during WWII. I have been able to find references:

    Unithistories.com - listed but no link

    Pacificwrecks.com - briefly mentioned in a bio:

    I have not yet tried contacting the person in the bio, but may yet do so.

    If anyone has any info on the 146th, please chime in.
     
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    TD-Tommy776 Man of Constant Sorrow

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    That's pretty much what I found -- nothing. The reason I started looking in the first place was that I came across a couple grave markers referencing the 146th. I was pretty sure that they are mistakes as one also referenced the 37th Division and another the 36th Division. However, when I did a quick search, I found this thread and the other websites I listed above. In rereading the quote from the Pacific Wrecks website, I think that was also a typo. It was probably supposed to be the 147th Infantry, in which his father served. Also, it is clear that Tom Mcleod did write a history of the 147th Infantry.

    I hope that DannyM finds his way back here. I hate to think that his search might have been stymied by starting out with wrong info.
     
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    Peter,

    Danny was actually asking about the 146th, not the 164th. However, you're bumping this thread got me to do another Google search and I found a Battle of Iwo Jima summary on The Navy Department Library website that addresses something that puzzled me:


    If Danny's father was in the 147th Infantry, his reference to the "sketches of two Japanese prisoners from Iwo Jima..." begins to make sense.
     

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