Weston497
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Need help piecing my Grandpa's WWII story - 39th Combat Engr

The research from the Maryland National Archives is back at work and responded. There are a couple different available reports listed - histories, O...

7 years ago
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Need help piecing my Grandpa's WWII story - 39th Combat Engr

Thanks again. I reached out to the National Archives in Maryland, but with the emailed reply was they were furloughed as part of the government shut ...

7 years ago
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Need help piecing my Grandpa's WWII story - 39th Combat Engr

Theron, thank you for the explanation. I figured as much about the "good conduct medal". Your comment about that Anzio would have been given separat...

7 years ago
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Need help piecing my Grandpa's WWII story - 39th Combat Engr

My grandpa's separation papers indicate he was discharged from the 643rd Combat Engineers, who were originally the 39th Regiment Combat Engineers 2nd ...

7 years ago
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Need help piecing my Grandpa's WWII story - 39th Combat Engr

I'll take a look at the history section. I missed that and went straight to the forums.

7 years ago
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Need help piecing my Grandpa's WWII story - 39th Combat Engr

The link I referred to in my post was a link to a dropbox location. The researcher indicated these were the morning reports. Snapshot attached. I'm...

7 years ago
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Need help piecing my Grandpa's WWII story - 39th Combat Engr

My researcher got back with me: There are actually three Reports included in the link: images 1-30 are the ‘Battalion-level’ reports. Since we d...

7 years ago
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Need help piecing my Grandpa's WWII story - 39th Combat Engr

I did reach out to the National Archives and received a quote for the unit history for 1943-1944 and the unit journals. I am waiting to see what my r...

7 years ago