Thank you. I thought that might be it but wanted to be sure. Adrienne

AUS means Army of the United States.

Under Item #4 Arm of/or Service? What would CE stand for? Construction Engineer? Item #5 Component AUS? Meaning? Also, if someone continued the insurance who would have those records? Thank you, Adrienne Inman

Shalori, and ALL. Can you tell me the address / location in Manila where Dr Hawthorne Darby is buried? Her family will be visiting in July and they would like to go view her grave, but no one knows where she was finally laid to rest. Thank you, Sue

Thanks to those who replied. I do appreciate it. Bobbi On 6/7/06, Bobbi <bobbidoll123@gmail.com> wrote: > > I am interested in knowing where the 11th Airborne served from 1940-1947. > > Any information is appreciated. > > Thanks, > > Bobbi >

Fine with me. I do ask everyone to watch the link sites you decide to send to the list. Geocities and Angelfire are both on AOL's spam list. When anyone sends a link with them in the URL to a RootsWeb list all AOL people and many times Yahoo subscribers will bounce. If the link stays in a conversation people will be knocked off the list. There's nothing RootsWeb can do about this. It's the kind of thing AOL people need to talk to AOL about. margy list admin ----- Original Message ----- From: "Delilah" <diamond6468@mindspring.com> To: <WORLDWAR2-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, June 05, 2006 4:38 PM Subject: [WORLD WAR II] items of interest >I 'surf' the internet, (keeps me off the streets) a lot of times I run > across information about certain people,. units, etc that were in WW2, > does > anyone mind if I send these to the list - some have photos or links and > names with other material - there are some good sites about the people and > some have some photos - > > list admin, what do you think? > > delilah > > > ==== WORLDWAR2 Mailing List ==== > Please do not send virus warnings to the list. If you have concerns about > a virus, contact your list admin or join VIRUS-DISCUSSIONS-L@rootsweb.com > subscribe in the subject line. We are an international list. Please > remember to tell us what country your ancestor was from and what country > you are in now if different. This helps us help you. If you give dates > please help us understand the date you are referring to. For example: 4 > Nov 1944 or Nov 4, 1944. > > ============================== > Search Family and Local Histories for stories about your family and the > areas they lived. Over 85 million names added in the last 12 months. > Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13966/rd.ashx > >

http://www.dyess.af.mil/history/7wghstry.htm http://www.7bwb-36assn.org/9bombsquad.html http://www.7bwb-36assn.org/7THGpWghistory.html http://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/agency/28bs.htm ----- Original Message ----- From: <Anettka@aol.com> To: <WORLDWAR2-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, June 08, 2006 10:20 PM Subject: [WORLD WAR II] Re: WORLDWAR2 Bombs |I just found some information on a distant cousin who served in WWII. He | enlisted in 1941, and eventually was part of the 9th Bomb. Sqd, 7th Bomb gp. | Does this make any sense to anyone? Can anyone give me a history, or tell me | anything about it? | | Thanks, | | Anettka | | | ==== WORLDWAR2 Mailing List ==== | Please do not send virus warnings to the list. If you have concerns about a virus, contact your list admin or join VIRUS-DISCUSSIONS-L@rootsweb.com subscribe in the subject line. We are an international list. Please remember to tell us what country your ancestor was from and what country you are in now if different. This helps us help you. If you give dates please help us understand the date you are referring to. For example: 4 Nov 1944 or Nov 4, 1944. | | ============================== | Search the US Census Collection. Over 140 million records added in the | last 12 months. Largest online collection in the world. Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13965/rd.ashx |

I just found some information on a distant cousin who served in WWII. He enlisted in 1941, and eventually was part of the 9th Bomb. Sqd, 7th Bomb gp. Does this make any sense to anyone? Can anyone give me a history, or tell me anything about it? Thanks, Anettka

During WWII what was the makeup of ( men) in a U S Marine Air Wing & a U S Marine Air Squadron..Tom

In a message dated 6/7/2006 10:25:37 PM Eastern Daylight Time, bobbidoll123@gmail.com writes: am interested in knowing where the 11th Airborne served from 1940-1947. Any information is appreciated. Bobbi, Hope the following is helpful. Activated: 25 February 1943. Overseas: 8 May 1944. Campaigns: New Guinea, Southern Philippines, Luzon. Days of combat: 204. Distinguished Unit Citations: 13. Awards: MH-2 ; DSC-9 ; SS-432; LM-10; SM-56 ; BSM-1,515 ; AM-41. Commanders: Maj. Gen. Joseph M. Swing (25 February 1943-February 1946), Brig. Gen. Frank Dorn (February 1946-June 1946), Maj. Gen. Joseph M. Swing (June 1946-January 1948), Maj. Gen. William M. Miley (24 January 1948 to present). Campaign Chronicle The 11th Airborne Division arrived in New Guinea, 25 May 1944, and continued training, leaving for the Philippines 11 November 1944. It landed amphibiously, not by jump, on Leyte, 18 November 1944, between Abuyog and Tarragona, 40 miles south of Tacloban, and pushing inland, cleared the Ormoc-Burauen supply trail, an important Japanese combat lifeline. The 11th's general mission was to seize and secure within its zone all exits from the mountains into. Leyte Valley and to secure the western exits from the mountains into the west coastal corridor to assist the attack of the 7th Division toward Ormoc. On 6 December 1944 the paratroopers of the 11th found themselves fighting Japanese parachutists who had landed near the San Pablo airstrip. The Japanese were wiped out in a 5-day engagement. In a continuous series of combat actions, Japanese resistance was reduced on Leyte by the end of December 1944. Heavy resistance was met at Rock Hill, which finally fell, 18 December; a sleeping enemy was caught off guard at Hacksaw Hill, 23 December, and suffered heavy losses. During January 1945 the Division rested and staged for a landing on Luzon. While other American troops were driving on Manila from the north, the 11th Airborne made an amphibious landing 60 miles south of Manila, 31 January 1945, at Nasugbu, and began to drive north. The first combat jump by an element of the division in the war, that of the 511th Parachute Infantry Regiment on Tagaytay Ridge, 3 February 1945, met no resistance. The 511th crossed the Paranaque River 5 February, and reached Manila, meeting fierce Japanese resistance. Nichols Field was taken, 12 February, and Fort McKinley was flanked, 12-16 February, and finally taken, 17 February. A combined air and sea assault liberated more than 2,000 American and European interned nationals at Los Banos, 23 February 1945. With Manila declared secure, the Division reduced a strong ring of enemy outposts between Lake Taal and Laguna de Bay, and occupied towns along Highway No. 1, cutting off the Bicol Peninsula. In April the 11th took part in clearing out remaining enemy resistance in Batangas Province, and by 1 May, all resistance in southern Luzon had ended. The final operation of the Division was conducted on 23 June 1945, in conjunction with the advance of the 37th Division in northern Luzon. A Task Force was formed and jumped on Camalaniugan Airfield, south of Aparri. The force attacked and made contact with the 37th Infantry Division, 26 June 1945, between Alcala and the Paret River. In July 1945 the Division trained; in August it was transported by air to Honshu, Japan, via Okinawa, for occupation. duty. Nickname: The Angels. Shoulder patch: A red circle on a royal blue shield containing a white numeral "11" ; the circle is bordered in white with white wings raising obliquely from the white periphery; in the top arc, the white letters "Airborne" are alined with shape of arc. Association: 11th Airborne Division Association, Military Service Publishing Co., Harrisburg, Pa. (Meade D. Detweiler, executive secretary). Publications: Angels; by Maj. Edward M. Flanagan, Jr., Unit Historian; The Infantry Journal, Washington 6, D. C.: 1948. - I have this book. If you want a look up let me know. Pictorial Review; by unit members; Albert Love Enterprises, Atlanta 2, Ga.; 1944. 586 [Nota Bene: These combat chronicles, current as of October 1948, are reproduced from The Army Almanac: A Book of Facts Concerning the Army of the United States, U.S. Government Printing Office, 1950, pp. 510-592.] My father Walter KANDRO (KANDRATOWICZ) was in the 188th Parachute infantry regiment. His Military dates: 07 Jul 1942: active service - joined in CT : Basic Training: Ft. Sill Muskoee OK 02 Mar 1943-01 Jan 1943: Camp Mackall Hoffman, NC 02 Jan 1944-20 Apr 1944: Camp Polk LA, 28 Apr 1944: Camp Stoneman, Pittsburg, CA [final preparation for overseas movement-each unit spent about 8 days] 02 May 1944: Camp Stoneman, CA – final units left for San Francisco [POE] 25 May 1945: New Guinea Received Purple Heart and Oak Leaf cluster after being wounded in the battle to retake the Philippines 17 Oct 1945-Honorable Discharge, Private First Class, #31 143 081 Following was in the Bridgeport Post, 1943, Column: Between Ourselves by Edward J. Shugrue "Sergeants All Walter Kandro writes from Camp Hoffman, North Carolina, that along with himself, Billy Carroll and Ed Collins have just been commissioned as staff sergeants in the new glider infantry division. they are taking a 30 week course after which they will become co-pilots." Did you have a relative in the 11th? Laura J. Kandro New Jersey Researching Surnames: AZMAR, BARNETTE, BIGGS, BOHACZ, BRATKOWSKY, CHOPSKY (CZAPSKI), CLIFTON, DEMYEN, FEKETY, GOLINSKY, GRONEMUS, KANDRATOWICZ (KANDRO) (KONDRATOVICH), KUCHINSKI, KUSDIOSKA, MAURO, MURAD, OLIVER, OSTOVERKY, PAWLAK, SMARZIK, WASIL (VASILY) Researching Places: Kupel, Volhynia (Wolyn) Gubernia, Russia (now Ukraine); Rezekne/Rezhitsa, Vitebsk Gubernia, Russia (now Latvia); Bukovina-Podszkle, Arva Megye, Hungary (now Malpolska Province, Poland) Residences: NY: Oswego & Cherry Valley; CT: Bridgeport, Danbury, Stratford & Milford; CA: Los Angeles; PA: Farrell, Hermitage, Sharon, Wilkes-Barre; NC: Washington & Halifax Counties

Bobbi: Stauntons. Order of Battle, WW 2 US Amy says: 11th A/B division activivated 25 Feb 43 Camp Mckall NC.POE 8 May 44 san Francisco seved in New Guineam Luzon, Okiwana and Japan thru 1946 Paul HIkle WW 2 US vet Bobbi <bobbidoll123@gmail.com> wrote: I am interested in knowing where the 11th Airborne served from 1940-1947. Any information is appreciated. Thanks, Bobbi ==== WORLDWAR2 Mailing List ==== Please do not send virus warnings to the list. If you have concerns about a virus, contact your list admin or join VIRUS-DISCUSSIONS-L@rootsweb.com subscribe in the subject line. We are an international list. Please remember to tell us what country your ancestor was from and what country you are in now if different. This helps us help you. If you give dates please help us understand the date you are referring to. For example: 4 Nov 1944 or Nov 4, 1944. ============================== Search the US Census Collection. Over 140 million records added in the last 12 months. Largest online collection in the world. Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13965/rd.ashx Yahoo is my non-personal mail. For personal mail only use <pdhinkle@radiotower.net> __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

I am interested in knowing where the 11th Airborne served from 1940-1947. Any information is appreciated. Thanks, Bobbi

Very poignant Bubbles from Robin Hood Country ----- Original Message ----- From: <Theholigrail@aol.com> To: <WORLDWAR2-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, June 06, 2006 11:23 PM Subject: Re: [WORLD WAR II] June 6, 1944 > And anyone should be humbled to be the presence of a WWII vet today and > everyday for that matter. People should stop and think what this world > could have > been like if it wasn't for the sacrifices of all these men and women. My > heart is heavy today thinking of all the loss of life and pain humanity > suffered > this day. And I am thankful to all of you. Ellis to you and all the other > my > heartfelt thanks. > > In the Eyes of Men > At boot camp they were wild and full of Fun. > Getting ready for job to be done. > > In the Eyes of Men they were just young. > > Crossing the Atlantic, they were sea sick and > raising some hell. > Hoping to come home with wild stories to tell. > > In the Eyes of men they were just kids. > > June 6, the men were made ready, > That puddle jump made it hard to keep their guns steady. > > In the Eyes of Men, we feared for their lives. > > The sounds and the smells, the death and the screams............ > It was nothing you could imagine in your wildest dreams. > > In the Eyes of Men, we saw heart break and anger. > > A different breed of human, this thing we man. > No one does this and gets a slap on the hand. > > In the Eyes of Men, we saw bravery and courage. > > With God on our side, and angels at their heels, > Some were now in heaven getting their meals. > > In the Eyes of Men, we saw sorrow and tears. > > Over that dam wall, and its all for one, > Our boys became men, There's a war to be won. > > In the Eyes of Men, they were All Our Heros. > > Some sixty years later, some tales are still tall, > Unfortunately, the units have now gotten small. > > In the Eyes of Men, we salute to many for the last time each day. > > In the Eyes of Men, May we never Forget > The Greatest Generation We've Ever Met. > > > Jo Ann > > > ==== WORLDWAR2 Mailing List ==== > We are an international list! Please, always tell the list what country > your ancestor is from. This helps all of us, especially you! If you give > dates please help us understand the date you are referring to. For > example: 4 Nov 1944 or Nov 4, 1944. > > ============================== > Census images 1901, 1891, 1881 and 1871, plus so much more. > Ancestry.com's United Kingdom & Ireland Collection. Learn more: > http://www.ancestry.com/s13968/rd.ashx > >

Possibly why the lads won the war, sense of humour. Bubbles from Robin Hood Country ----- Original Message ----- From: "M.G.Fergusson" <fergussons@blueyonder.co.uk> To: <WORLDWAR2-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, June 06, 2006 10:15 PM Subject: RE: [WORLD WAR II] items of interest > Member of the British Parliament called men fighting for their lives in > Italy and Burma etc ' D Day Dodgers ' in other words trying to avoid being > at D Day. In the word of the song > http://www.warlinks.com/jackcull/ddodgers.htm > > Most still lie there. > Aye > MalcolmII > -----Original Message----- > From: Theholigrail@aol.com [mailto:Theholigrail@aol.com] > Sent: 06 June 2006 21:05 > To: WORLDWAR2-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [WORLD WAR II] items of interest > > I may sound stupid. But whats a d-day doger? > Jo Ann > > > ==== WORLDWAR2 Mailing List ==== > We welcome tributes of your World War II ancestors. We are an > international > list. Please remember to tell us what country your ancestor was from and > what country you are in now if different. This helps us help you. If you > give dates please help us understand the date you are referring to. For > example: 4 Nov 1944 or Nov 4, 1944. > > ============================== > Search the US Census Collection. Over 140 million records added in the > last 12 months. Largest online collection in the world. Learn more: > http://www.ancestry.com/s13965/rd.ashx > > > > > > ==== WORLDWAR2 Mailing List ==== > Please do not send virus warnings to the list. If you have concerns about > a virus, contact your list admin or join VIRUS-DISCUSSIONS-L@rootsweb.com > subscribe in the subject line. We are an international list. Please > remember to tell us what country your ancestor was from and what country > you are in now if different. This helps us help you. If you give dates > please help us understand the date you are referring to. For example: 4 > Nov 1944 or Nov 4, 1944. > > ============================== > Find your ancestors in the Birth, Marriage and Death Records. > New content added every business day. Learn more: > http://www.ancestry.com/s13964/rd.ashx > >

I'm sorry but I didn't notice a comma instead of a period in the URL. Here is the corrected one. http://www.geocities.com/united_states_victory

Thanks for catching the comma in the URL. I try to proofread carefully but once I clicked past the URL, the comma looked like a period.

it don't work ----- Original Message ----- From: <DarylAnnsDesk@aol.com> To: <WORLDWAR2-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, June 07, 2006 12:49 PM Subject: [WORLD WAR II] New Website - U.S United States Victory | Dear Listers, | | I have taken the photos and information I have about the United States | Victory and put together a website. I hope the site elicits responses that will | help fill in the gaps about faces, places and itinerary. | | http://www,geocities.com/united_states_victory | | Daryl Ann (daughter of 2nd Lt. George H. Hansen, Acting Transport Surgeon, | MAC) | | | ==== WORLDWAR2 Mailing List ==== | We are an international list! Please, always tell the list what country your ancestor is from. This helps all of us, especially you! If you give dates please help us understand the date you are referring to. For example: 4 Nov 1944 or Nov 4, 1944. | | ============================== | Find your ancestors in the Birth, Marriage and Death Records. | New content added every business day. Learn more: | http://www.ancestry.com/s13964/rd.ashx |

There is a comma after www. Following should work OK: http://www.geocities.com/united_states_victory Best Wishes, David ddorsey@mindspring.com http://freepages.military.rootsweb.com/~ddorsey/ http://freepages.military.rootsweb.com/~ddorsey/orvetta/ ----- Original Message ----- From: "Delilah" <diamond6468@mindspring.com> To: <WORLDWAR2-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, June 07, 2006 4:18 PM Subject: Re: [WORLD WAR II] New Website - U.S United States Victory > it don't work > ----- Original Message ----- > From: <DarylAnnsDesk@aol.com> > To: <WORLDWAR2-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Wednesday, June 07, 2006 12:49 PM > Subject: [WORLD WAR II] New Website - U.S United States Victory > > > | Dear Listers, > | > | I have taken the photos and information I have about the United States > | Victory and put together a website. I hope the site elicits responses > that will > | help fill in the gaps about faces, places and itinerary. > | > | http://www,geocities.com/united_states_victory > | > | Daryl Ann (daughter of 2nd Lt. George H. Hansen, Acting Transport > Surgeon, > | MAC) > | > | > | ==== WORLDWAR2 Mailing List ==== > | We are an international list! Please, always tell the list what country > your ancestor is from. This helps all of us, especially you! If you give > dates please help us understand the date you are referring to. For > example: > 4 Nov 1944 or Nov 4, 1944. > | > | ============================== > | Find your ancestors in the Birth, Marriage and Death Records. > | New content added every business day. Learn more: > | http://www.ancestry.com/s13964/rd.ashx > | > > > > ==== WORLDWAR2 Mailing List ==== > We are an international list! Please, always tell the list what country > your ancestor is from. This helps all of us, especially you! If you give > dates please help us understand the date you are referring to. For > example: 4 Nov 1944 or Nov 4, 1944. > > ============================== > Search the US Census Collection. Over 140 million records added in the > last 12 months. Largest online collection in the world. Learn more: > http://www.ancestry.com/s13965/rd.ashx > >

Dear Listers, I have taken the photos and information I have about the United States Victory and put together a website. I hope the site elicits responses that will help fill in the gaps about faces, places and itinerary. http://www,geocities.com/united_states_victory Daryl Ann (daughter of 2nd Lt. George H. Hansen, Acting Transport Surgeon, MAC)

Following up on a subject raised earlier re US Maritime Marine - a search of the Australian national archive database via the AWM website : http://www.awm.gov.au/database/record_search.htm, found a reference indicating that at least some US merchant ships used as troop transports were, like British ships, given a special prefix - in this specific case the C3 freighter otherwise SS Sea Ray became the USAT Sea Ray: This ship was definitely a troop ship, I was once on it. From http://naa12.naa.gov.au/scripts/ItemDetail.asp?M=0&B=3256916 *Title* Voyage report : U.S.A.T. "Sea Ray" *Barcode* 3256916 *Series number* MP729/8 <http://naa12.naa.gov.au/scripts/SeriesDetail.asp?M=0&B=MP729/8> *Series accession number* MP729/8 *Control symbol* 49/432/59 *Contents date range* 1945 - 1945 *Extent* *Location* Melbourne *Access status* Not yet examined *Reason for restriction* *Date of decision* 4 May 1998 Unfortunately this record has not been released - all are first examined for sensitive information, but it shows the U.S.A.T prefix. The National Archives also have files on specific " passengers", I found stacks of references to personal files of Italian ex POWs being repatriated back to Italy after being in camps here in Oz. Hope this is of some help, Regards, Dave