Hi Ellis: Well, don't say there isn't a God. I just got off the phone with the archivist at Carnegie and we had a long conversation and this is what she gave me over the phone! I told her I didn't need his transcripts what I really needed was a timeline. Pete was drafted March 27, 1943. He entered Carnegie on 8-2-1943. He was there for one semester - 8-9-43 to 1-29-44 when they received a letter of separation to them from the Army. I forgot to ask her if it actually gave the name of the camp from which he was sent when he first entered Carnegie. And maybe she'll tell me what his rank (should be Pvt. & maybe Division). I'll give it a try anyway. Can't hurt. Now according to Pete after he left what we now know is Carnegie he had approximately six months of basic training and was sent to England. If indeed it was six months he would have gone to England sometime at the end of June or July. Right now the reference librarian at my library is struggling to get the microfilm from the Aurora Beacon newspaper from the Abraham Lincoln Library in Springfield. Seems the Lincoln library has someone who pulls the microfilm (and their regular person quit) and then it is sent to the other side of the library where it is boxed and mailed. I am going to call the reference librarian at the Aurora Library back to see where we are with what she was sending me and also ask her if she has a 1942 telephone book. That would give me Pete's address. Even though he was in college (local) I'm sure that the draft notice would have been sent to his parents' home and from previous conversations with him sometime betweeen the 1930 census and 1940 census his parents moved to the other side of town. At least I feel that I'm making some progress with the timeline. Thanks for posting the ASTP url address. I'd already looked through it and it's quite interesting and I read some of the messages. I'm sure that lots of other people are going to take a look through it now that you posted. All my best, Adrienne