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posted by DVanderlinde at 5:20 pm (EST) on Oct 19, 2009
I have uploaded a cover for The Certain Trumpet: Maxwell Taylor and the American Experience in Vietnam by Douglas Kinnard.
posted by DVanderlinde at 2:00 pm (EST) on Jun 26, 2009
I have uploaded a cover for Upton and the Army by Stephen E. Ambrose. This is from the 1964 Louisiana State University Press hardcover edition.
posted by DVanderlinde at 1:16 pm (EST) on May 16, 2009
I have uploaded a cover for Memoirs of My Services in the World War, 1917–1918 by George C. Marshall.
posted by DVanderlinde at 12:35 am (EST) on Apr 26, 2009
I have uploaded a cover for The War to End All Wars: The The American Military Experience in World War I by Edward M. Coffman. This is from the 1968 Oxford University Press hardcover edition.
posted by DVanderlinde at 4:32 pm (EST) on Apr 25, 2009
Thank you, so much. I'd genuinely appreciate the help.
My dad died in early-1981. He was through talking about his war experience
by the mid-fifties, when I was six or seven years-old. So, I have no
reliable secondhand memory of his story. I'm constructing as good a picture
as I can from his military records and what I can find to read.
My son (who's 34, now) asked me, several years ago, what I knew of his
granddad's war experience. And, I realized I didn't know much of anything
about it. That's what set me off on this venture. One o' these days, I'm
going to assemble what I know (including my dad's medals) so my son and
granddaughter can know and appreciate what my dad did.
He served with the 209th Engineer Combat Battalion, Company B. I have a
pretty good picture of his unit's having been pressed into unanticipated
service to hold the Myitkyina Air Strip, contain and eventually take the
town of Myitkyina. Just tonight, I got a link to this website:
http://ledoroad.home.comcast.net/
... which led me to confirm the 209th's involvement in the battles (around
Bhamo) which completed the link of the Ledo Road to the Burma Road. I
recall my dad talking about action around Bhamo ... but, this is just
beginning to come together for me.
I do appreciate your help.
Joe
Joe A. Watson
joeawatson@gmail.com
Houston, TX
(I tried your email address, but my message bounced back. I must have misapplied the address, some way. Feel free to email me directly, at my gmail address.)
posted by UncleVerbal at 8:52 pm (EST) on Jun 28, 2006
posted by UncleVerbal at 2:37 pm (EST) on Jun 28, 2006