Seen this story about a recently found stash of books belonging to Heinrich Himmler.
That man is so creepy! I have a lot of other adjectives for him too.
Marion J Chard
Proud Daughter of Walter 'Monday' Poniedzialek
540th Combat Engineer - H&S Company
Found this story on another forum.
https://ww2thebigone.com/2016/05/17/returning-part-of-a-soldiers-history/
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Now that is simply fantastic. What a great story with a happy ending!
Marion J Chard
Proud Daughter of Walter 'Monday' Poniedzialek
540th Combat Engineer - H&S Company
Seen this story in the St. Louis Post Dispatch, about Marine Private Palmer S. Haraldson whose remains were recently identified and are to be buried today in his home town in Iowa.
Welcome home Pvt. Haraldson 
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Just read this obituary online about Holocaust survivor Joseph Harmatz. Don't believe I have ever heard of the incident that is described in his bio. He was part of a group that tried to poison thousands of Nazis in a P.O.W. camp shortly after the end of the war in Europe. Most interesting.
R.I.P. Mr. Harmatz
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Will read that later. Getting ready to eat dinner. But neither Colin Hotham or I had heard about that. He is here with me in Maryland, for we just finished our WWII reunion and are now vacationing with two other attendees. Thanks for the interesting post!
Marion J Chard
Proud Daughter of Walter 'Monday' Poniedzialek
540th Combat Engineer - H&S Company
Will read that later. Getting ready to eat dinner. But neither Colin Hotham or I had heard about that. He is here with me in Maryland, for we just finished our WWII reunion and are now vacationing with two other attendees. Thanks for the interesting post!
Hope you,Colin, and the gang are having a wonderful time,enjoy!
Randy
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There is an effort underway to award former OSS agents the Congressional Gold Medal, let's hope they get it.
Randy
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It's never too late to do the right thing.
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Unfortunately when I went to the site, it was filled with tons of ads and all the lines of the article were grayed out.
Marion J Chard
Proud Daughter of Walter 'Monday' Poniedzialek
540th Combat Engineer - H&S Company
Wow, now this is out there!
Colorado woman's remains found under grave of WWII veteran
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By THOMAS PEIPERT Associated Press
DENVER (AP) — A Colorado man who pleaded guilty Friday to killing his estranged wife more than two decades ago recently led authorities to her body, which was buried under the grave of a World War II veteran.
John Sandoval, 52, pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and was sentenced to 25 years in prison for the 1995 death of Kristina Tournai-Sandoval.
As part of a plea deal, he told investigators March 22 the remains were buried at a Greeley cemetery.
Sandoval found an open gravesite early in the morning on Oct. 20, 1995, that was scheduled for a burial that afternoon. Prosecutors say he dug about 2 feet (0.61 meters) below the grave and buried Tournai-Sandoval's body, which was wrapped in several layers of industrial-grade plastic.
Cemetery workers then unknowingly buried the veteran over her remains.
That day, detectives found a wet and muddy shovel in Sandoval's car and muddy clothes inside his home. After he was arrested, investigators noticed scratch marks on his face, neck and chest.
Charges were not filed at the time because authorities could not find the body, any witnesses or a crime scene.
"For 7,826 days, 3 hours and 22 minutes, the location of Tina's remains has been a mystery," Weld County District Attorney Michael Rourke said in a news release Friday. "Over the course of the last week, we have finally been able to give her family what they so desperately wanted."
Sandoval was convicted in 2010 of first-degree murder and sentenced to life in prison. But an appeals court overturned his conviction last year, ruling a judge wrongfully allowed evidence that Sandoval stalked other women, as well as expert testimony correlating stalkers with murderers.
Prosecutors had been preparing for a new trial when Sandoval acknowledged knowing the location of his wife's body.
Court records show Sandoval had met with his wife to settle a debt before finalizing their divorce. Before the meeting, she warned family members that if anything happened to her, her husband was responsible. She also arranged to talk with her sister by phone after the meeting.
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What a strange story! I would be very upset if I were the family of the WWII Vet!
Maj Todd O. USMC, Retired
Grandson of LTC John O'Brien
Just love these kind of stories!
ID bracelet lost by US soldier during WWII found in France
SYRACUSE, N.Y. (AP) — An identification bracelet lost by a soldier from central New York more than 70 years ago has been found near the beaches of Normandy.
WSTM-TV in Syracuse reports ( http://bit.ly/2nHyhUy ) Army Sgt. John Hill, of Syracuse, landed in France on June 7, 1944, a day after the Allied invasion began.
Somewhere along the way, he lost the ID bracelet given to him by his mother. During World War II it was common for service members to be given the bracelets by loved-ones before being sent overseas.
In February, Matthieu Delamontte found a bracelet with Hill's name and serial number while using a metal detector in a field near Normandy. He tracked down the 93-year-old veteran with the help of a Syracuse librarian.
The two men recently met on Skype. Delamontte will be sending the bracelet to Hill soon.
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