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I have uploaded a cover for The Sword of the Republic: The United States Army on the Frontier, 1783–1846 by Francis Paul Prucha. This is from the 1969 Macmillan hardcover edition.

posted by DVanderlinde at 5:20 pm (EST) on Oct 19, 2009

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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

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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

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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

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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

Hello, Michael.

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

My late dad served with the 209th Combat Engineers in the China-Burma-India theater, October 1943 - August 1945. His unit served under Col. Lewis A. Pick in construction of the Ledo (aka Stilwell, aka Burma) Road. General Stilwell deployed this unit from road-building directly into combat at the Myitkyina Air Strip and for the last three months of siege at the town of Myitkyina. I'm seeking to meet those who may have information about my dad's unit or the Myitkyina battles. Can you help?

posted by UncleVerbal at 2:37 pm (EST) on Jun 28, 2006