Wow, how cool. Did you get that on Ebay? For a friend of mine told me about an auction, and I wanted it so badly, but the price was way too high. ...

Contining to monitor this with great interest. The letter from your dad was simply amazing.

So far I'm finding the same thing. The 1040th were at Naples/Salerno, and then were part of the Southern France Invasion.

Yes and you will want to talk to Mari. I will send you her email address in private. She is plays a huge part in running the reunions for the 297th. ...

Got an answer everyone!!!! YEAH! This was emailed to me by Bob and Kathy Miller: Marion-Got this response from my brother, hope it helps....

What a shame they got his unit wrong on his grave marker, but as Larry stated, you can write to them to rectify this. Thanks for all your input, Larry...

Marion, I decided it was time to update the Siegburg site but thought I would take a quick look at what you had been up to. This is truly amazi...

Heather, like many others whom I've encountered, many are mistaken that NARA in St Louis is the only place you can obtain discharge papers; this is no...

Okay here are some posts on the site containing info on the 1051st: Looks like this unit was directly inv...

Ah, that explains why I had not heard of them either. I did a really quick Google perusal (it was during the football games), and there was nothing. I...

Wow, can't believe I had never read that one before. The title however, did sound familiar. I wonder if I had filed that away with the many docs I hav...

I just sent him a note. We correspond all the time, but I haven't heard from him in a couple of weeks.