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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: Masherbrum on November 21, 2006, 05:17:22 PM
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I am trying to acquire a picture of my Grandfather (USMC in WWII)
I call Parris Island and speak to a lady.
I provide her with:
Name: Charles A. Freuchtel
Service #: 1000557
Platoon: 494
6th Battlion
3 Drill Instructors
Now she needs to know the Month, Day and year he graduated boot camp?!
My grandmother is 85 (the memory TENDS to slip after a awhile), and says he went to Guam from Boot Camp (July 21st, 1944 was the landing).
Can ANYONE help me? I feel as if she didn't want to do anything to help me.
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Not much help here except my Father-in-law was a Marine in that same landing. He was wounded on Guam.
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Karaya , try this site
http://www.archives.gov/research/ww2/index.html
it might give you a starting place. may also be someone there that can help with the search.
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on the same site, search archive enlistment records
Electronic Army Serial Number Merged File, ca. 1938 - 1946 (Enlistment Records)
World War II Army Enlistment Records, created, 6/1/2002 - 9/30/2002, documenting the period ca. 1938 - 1946
http://aad.archives.gov/aad/series-description.jsp?s=3360&cat=all&bc=sl
using this I was able to find enlistment records for one of my grandfather's brothers and a cousin, but not his