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 | "Tell Me About My Boy"
This brochure was compiled and distributed by the Technical Information Branch of the U.S. Army Quartermaster General and later by the American Graves Registration Service. It offered guidance to the next of kin of servicemen killed during WWII on how their kin's remains would be repatriated. By convention, all service deaths overseas during the war were interred in a temporary grave - immaculately laid out. After the war the next of kin were canvased about their wishes for final burial. They had four options:
1. In a private cemetery in the United States.
2. In a private cemetery in a foreign county.
3. In a permanent United States cemetery overseas.
4. In an permanent National cemetery in the United States .
The next of kin were established methodically if the deceased was not married:
1. Surviving spouse.
2. Son, if over 21 years if the spouse had remarried.
3. Father, if no son was over 21 years.
4. Mother.
5. Eldest brother over 21 years.
6. Eldest sister over 21 years.
4. Other relatives in the (unspecified) order of their relationship.
The pamphlet is linked on this website to 37 individuals (as of 28 OCT 2022) who were documented as KIA/DOW or otherwise died overseas during WWII and whose bodies were recovered. Relatives of personnel listed as MIA were not included in the distribution nor in the procedures.
[The library staff at the University of Wisconsin (Madison) graciously rendered the full document into PDF version at my request on 18 OCT 2022.]
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| "TEXAS RANGER INDIAN WAR PENSIONS" abstracted by Robert W. Stephens
Attached as reference for Reuben Davis Ross's Indian War Pension.
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 | 1945 Allied Victory Pattern in the Pacific (World War II)
The caption reads: "The map above details the major phases of the Allied ground, sea and air campaigns to defeat Japan. The Tokyo Radio Saturday expressed a willingness of the Japanese government to accept the Potsdam ultimatum if the emperor may be retained. (AP Wirephoto Map).
The map, printed in the Shreveport Times on Monday, 13 August 1945, was in the collection of Sergeant James Elvie Pate's niece. She so very kindly shared it with the site's webmaster. Servicemen known to have served in the Pacific Theater during WWII linked to it on this site. If others should be linked, please advise.
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 | At least one living or private individual is linked to this item - Details withheld.
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| 31st Infantry Regiment (Philippines Division) 7 Dec 1941 - 9 Apr 1942
Operations and Movement. This reference is added for those interested in learning of the wartime experience of PFC Harvey Lee McKee.
This document is a monograph written by Major Everett V. Mead while he was a student in Class #2 of the Advanced Infantry Officers Course at Ft. Benning, GA in 1947-1948. It discusses the movements of the 31st Inf. Regt. (US) from December 7, 1941 - April 9, 1942. The original document included six maps that could not be located. Readers can refer to the maps in "The Fall of the Philippines" by Louis Morton to find the location of the 31st Inf. Regt. (US) - click on http://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/USA/USA-P-PI/ and scroll down to the list of maps.
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 | 34th Infantry Division 1945 - Trail of Red Bull
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 | 44th Infantry Division attack of the Voyages Winter Line 1944 Map 2
Division operations in the vicinity of Foret de Parroy.
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| 680th Glider Field Artillery Battalion - Battery A History
A Short History of Battery "A"
Complied, written, edited, and illustrated by four soldiers of the battery under the supervision of the battery commander before the unit was deactivated in September 1945.
Commanded by Captain John Henry Featherston, Jr. until he was killed in action.
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| 680th Glider Field Artillery Battalion - 1945 - Operation Varsity After Action Report
Captain John Henry FEATHERSTON, Jr., a January 1943 graduate of West Point, was commander of Battery B, 680th FA BN during Operation Varsity. He was killed by small arms fire as he led an assault against a German stronghold that threatened the establishment of a firing position for the battery. The battery history added that after "clearing the houses, [they] discovered the sniper to have been a twelve year old German boy - who will never shoot another American soldier." Captain Featherston was posthumously awarded the Silver Star Medal for his actions. The linked document conveys the wide dispersal of gliders during the assault, the aircraft damage incurred, casualties taken, and the fierce defense made by the Germans who occupied the area of the landing zone. General Eisenhower was able to observe the landings from a vantage on the west side of the Rhine River.
After the war the battalion was awarded the Presidential Unit Citation. It read:
The citation reads as follow :
The 680th Glider Field Artillery Battalion is cited for extraordinary heroism, efficiency, and achievement in action against the enemy during the assault crossing of the Rhine River near Wesel, Germany, on 24 March 1945. Coming in by glider through the heaviest concentration of antiaircraft fire yet experienced in an airborne operation, the 680th Glider Field Artillery Battalion landed widely dispersed in open fields covered by enemy artillery, automatic weapons, and small arms fire, under direct observation from enemy strong points throughout the area. With complete disregard for their personal safety, the members of this field artillery battalion unloaded their gliders under a withering cross-fire, assembled in small groups, and fought their way through occupied enemy strong points and field fortifications to the assembly area, using howitzers, bazookas, grenades and carbines to reduce enemy position. During the assembly, this field artillery battalion captured and destroyed an enemy 105-mm. artillery battery and a 155-mm. artillery battery and captured 150 enemy soldiers. With 19 killed, including both howitzer battery commanders, and 56 wounded during the assembly, the aggressive action of all members of this battalion enabled both howitzer batteries to occupy position and the battalion to assume its artillery mission within 1 hour of the initial landing. One hour later, this battalion had completed its survey and had established complete wire communication within the battalion. Within 5 hours after the initial landing, 9 howitzers were in position and 900 rounds of ammunition had been assembled at the position area. The efficiency and aggressive action of the 680th Glider Field Artillery Battalion in the face of great odds and a defensively prepared enemy, cleared a large portion of the division area and resulted in the provision of adequate artillery support, which assisted materially in the ultimate success of the operation and subsequent exploitation of the gains achieved.
By Order of the Secretary of War
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Chief of Staff
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 | 702 Ordnance Company, Second Infantry Division (2ID) (June 1942 - May 1945)
The document lists the bivouac sites occupied by the 702nd Ordnance Company during WWII beginning on 09 June 1944 at Saint-Laurent-sur-Mer, France just inland from Omaha Beach, to 08 May 1945 at Plzen in the present day Czech Republic - a straight-line distance of 1232 kilometers. The eastward journey would be made in 36 segments; as short as 3km and as long as 701km. It does not include the return legs used to reach the French port (Le Havre) from which the 2ID would return to the USA. Those legs would not have included T-SGT John Edgar Scott. He was reassigned to the 799th Ordnance Light Maintenance Company in June 1945 and almost immediately began his redeployment to the USA - an indication of how quickly the Army was redirecting its operations towards Japan - even though some units remained as occupation forces in Germany. Regardless, how T-SGT Scott traveled back to the USA is not certain since the National Archives advised that the shipping records for all unit re-deployments were intentionally destroyed in about 1951.
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 | A Short History of the Kelly Family (author & date unknown)
The author of this document is not unknown. A copy was received from Ann, Thomas Kelly O'Malley's wife Ann HUTAFF, although numerous copies are attached to Ancestry.com trees - none found with attribution.
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| At least one living or private individual is linked to this item - Details withheld.
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 | Aaroe, Nora (Hayes): 1978 Obituary
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| Abanathy, Carl E: 1956 Veteran Headstone Application
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 | Abanathy, Carl: 1942 Headstone Application
KIA
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 | Abanathy, Carl: 1942 WWII Draft Card
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 | Abanathy, Carl: 1942 WWII Draft Card
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 | Abanathy, Carl: 1942 WWII Draft Card (back)
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 | Abanathy, Cecil: 1942 WWII Draft Card
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 | Abanathy, Cecil: 1942 WWII Draft Card back
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 | Abanathy, Jesse Marion: 1993 Obituary
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 | Abanathy, John L: 1918 WWI Draft Card
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 | Abanathy, Thomas: 1942 WWII Draft Card
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 | Abanathy, Thomas: 1942 WWII Draft Card back
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 | Abels, Ann Austin (Staudinger): 2001 Obituary
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