Dear List Members: I've looked through quite a few World War 2 sites but nowhere do I find any lists of names of those who fought. In other words if my friend was part of the 1st Infantry and also a part of Hell on Wheels I was hoping to find a list of individual soldiers who served in various platoons. Does such a list exist? Would there be some type of lists somewhere giving the names of each member of a platoon. He was also attached to an armored division. He was an engineer. He told me that during the battle of the bulge he stayed on in the old Third Army front. Patton pulled them out of the line and sent them right back covering a two division front. Patton then sent everything else north to the Bulge. He told me that because of casualties his division was at half strength because they'd been leading the Third Army drive through the Siegfreid. He also took part in the assult on Metz. I was also told that he did his basic training with a "mish mash" engineering batallion. I can't use the word he called it. He said they trained 16-18 hours a day, and had night marches through swamps. I'm filling out a form requesting Military Records but don't have exact dates such as Date Entered and Date Released. I do know that after the war was over he spent an additional 6 months after the war in Berlin as part of the occupying forces and then sent home. Do you think that as far as the dates are concerned I can use 1942-1946? I have his Social Security Number. Will that help? I'd also like to thank those who contacted me after my first query with advice. I'm a novice at military research so I welcome all comments, suggestions, advice. I need all the help I can get. Thank you very much. Adrienne Inman