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Offline HedPE

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Anyone?
« on: August 13, 2008, 08:22:00 AM »
Anyone know where i can go to research things about my grandfather in WW2?
Any websites i can go to?
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Re: Anyone?
« Reply #1 on: August 13, 2008, 09:04:24 AM »
Quote from: HedPE on August 13, 2008, 08:22:00 AM
Anyone know where i can go to research things about my grandfather in WW2?
Any websites i can go to?

to start, try to google his name


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Offline Maverick

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Re: Anyone?
« Reply #2 on: August 13, 2008, 12:36:33 PM »
If you know any of the units he belonged to you can start with their archives.
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« Reply #3 on: August 13, 2008, 01:51:08 PM »
Get his unit and talk to CorkyJr on this forum. He knows a lot about tracing units and people in WWII.

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Re: Anyone?
« Reply #4 on: August 13, 2008, 01:54:31 PM »
A starting place I have used before with mixed results


http://www.archives.gov/research/ww2/index.html

lots of stuff there, poke around


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« Reply #5 on: August 13, 2008, 01:56:20 PM »
I'd personally like to find stuff on my Grandpa. I never knew him as he died a few years before I was born, but he was in WW2 through the whole war. From North Africa to Europe. 45th Infantry Division.

Name is

Rollie 'Buddy' Snell

or just Buddy Snell.  :aok

He was in I think K Company and was in the company that withstood attacks from like 3 or 4 German divisions during Anzio.
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