Fantastic! Look at all these great images from the war. Loved your, "...believe it or not Packmule training!!". Yes, it does seem a bit far-fetched doesn't it, but it did occur!

I love these personal pictures. You end up seeing so many of the same pictures from World War II even though there must be thousands upon thousands. Personal photos, however, are always new.

fin the picture with the farm house, my father is on the left and Ballard on the right, there is no name for the person in the center. i

in the first pic Pearson is on the left Hunsaker center and Ballard on the right picture 2 is Ballard pic 3 is schneidler #4 is Schneidler and #5 is MacLean and Schneidler

These are all in Italy, however no names or locations were on the photo

These are great! Thank you so much for sharing and you will really make someone's day when they start researching the unit and stumble across these! Too many great photos are stuck in boxes in attics somewhere.

Indeed!

Really love that last pic with the woman. That is so precious.

Marion. I tried to post my dads diary but the pages are to big to download if you or another member has an ancestry membership or starts a free trial, you can run a search ffor Russell A Caulkins born 1907 Knoxville Iowa the diary and pictures a posted there under public access. Tom

Can you post a direct link if possible? Or you can email me the doc and I can upload it the server.

Can you post a direct link if possible? Or you can email me the doc and I can upload it the server.

Hi marion where did you post the diary pictures? Thanks Tom

Sorry, was away for eight or nine days...

I have downloaded all the photos you sent and will convert to PDF, however, the names associated with the files are not sequential, so I have no idea on how to put them back together. For instance, one is named scan 8, another is named Sugar.... and the rest are named combat, followed by a number. However, it gets confusing, for one is named combat 000, combat 00, etc. I really need your help with this. Sigh!

I am trying to go back to the original emails you sent (still have them) and will try and match them up. I will let you know.