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ROY, Utah (AP) Darrel Thorsted, a U.S. soldier in World War II, survived the Bataan Death March but didnt last as a prisoner in the Philippines.
They just starved him to death, said a sister, Margaret Strevay, 79.
His family in Ogden never recovered his body. But they recently received one of Thorsteds dog tags […]
I blogged a few days ago about WWII Ration Books and Illya D’Addezio’s ration book database. Following is an item that Illya just posted on Roots-L.
This week I added 94 images to the Registry of War Ration Books, which include several user contributions. This is a new project involving an interesting source of genealogical information […]
WWII ration books are often found in the family “stuff.” Packed away in shoe boxes, trunks, and attics for the last 60 years, these little pieces of memorabelia often list information that adds to the family history. Granted. They don’t contain vital records, but they do give us your ancestor’s names, place of residence, […]
The following article details a bit of the lives of the descendents of Adolph Hitler’s older half brother, Alois Hitler. It must be something to be unlucky enough to be a nephew of a demented mass murderer.
At the end of the article, I’ve added a couple links dealing with Hitler’s ancestry.
Long island: For the Germans, […]
My friend, Jean Nudd, Archivst at the NARA Northeast Region in Pittsfield, gave me a heads-up on two groups of digital online records for all 50 States that deal with WWII casualties. As I noted in my blog a few days ago, there must be more of the WWII casuaty booklets available. Sure enough, the […]
I just found that there is an has an extensive WWII government document digitizing project going on at Southern Methodist University that includes old books with casualty information for WWII. Currently, they have digitized books dealing with residents of Arkansas (#224), Connecticut (#225) and texas (#226) who were wounded, killed, missing in WWII, died or […]
PEARL HARBOR, Hawaii (NNS) — Experts at the Naval Historical Center in Washington, D.C., have confirmed that a World War II submarine wreck found in the Gulf of Thailand last year is USS Lagarto (SS 371).
Underwater archeologists at the center completed their examination of evidence obtained in June by Navy divers from USS Salvor (ARS […]
As all students of WWII history know, the “mighty British battleship,” the Hood, took on the German battleship, the Bismarck - and very quickly lost the fight. Out of a crew of 1,418 men, only three, Midshipman William Dundas, Able Seaman Robert Tilburn and Signalman Ted Briggs survived. Everyone else was killed. The The H.M.S. […]
The Veteran’s Administration Nationwide Gravesite Locator online database is a wonderful resource for genealogists. With a few keystrokes you can locate graves for all kinds of family members - and now get a cemetery map to go with it. My cousin, Elmore Meitzler, and his wife, Doris, are buried in the Fort Custer National […]