To state the obvious. Make sure you look at the casualty list on February 8^th. Your father-in-law Ed Marconi , is listed also as WIA.

 Chris Lindner

The Wilhoit-Crawford story gets little bit cooler. Jeff Wilhoit and my Brother Larry Crawford both joined the service in 1967-68 time frame. (Navy…I know dad told all of us boys to go NAVY….at least you would have a bed to sleep in. J )  Both ended up as Corpsmen. So much for the bed.  Larry Crawford served in Vietnam and Great Lakes Navy Hospital and Jeff got the best draw and served at Bethesda Medical Hospital where he met President Nixon. The best part of this is that they both survived another very tough war.

For me, I was drafted in January 1972 but I was later sent a letter signed by President Nixon that said he was ending the war and I was classified as 1H for “Holding”. The letter actually said “Don’t call us we’ll call you”.  They never called and I ended up going to Purdue. (Right near where the Wilhoit family lived…but never knew it until now.  My dad and Bill Wilhoit were in the same town together many times and never saw each other since Feb 8^th, 1945. 

Jeff and I have already planned lunch to talk about how cool you guys are. J

 Bob Barrett ,

Hey Bob, I noticed that casualty list is Page 1 of 2…do we know if page 2 had anything on it?  I noticed Ed Marconi was WIA.

  Ted Crawford son of Bob Crawford A Company

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Mail Call No, 864

Rubin Duran

 

Hello Ben, sorry for the confusion please allow me to clarify our e-mail addresses  rtduran@aol.com is Ruben Duran son of Elbert Duran of A co. Lynzoot@aol.com is the granddaughter of Elbert Duran A co azyaquijre@aol.com is Ray Estrella the son in law of Elbert Duran A co. We all read your e-mails and forward them to Elbert who does not have a computer. Just recently thanks to you we were able to put him in contact with the family of Harold C. Daniels who is buried at Henri-Chapelle. He has been looking for them for 60 years. Surprisingly he has a sister that lives maybe 15 miles from his home. It was like a dream come true to talk to them for Harold was his best friend and died next to him. Thank you for your dedication to this web site, hope to see you in Palm Springs.  Ruben Duran

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Mike Kane

 

Hi Ben. 

The website mentions that casualty reports are from Army microfilm records.  Other than at the National Archives, are they kept anywhere else?  Are they accessible other than by going to DC?

 

Thanks and Happy New Year.

 

Mike Kane Jr.

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These reports, containing KIA/WIA/MIA* records, were transcribed by Clark Archer from microfilm copies of the U.S. Army's records, such as the "Morning Reports", which are submitted by each platoon leader every morning during the war. Even these "official" records are not 100% complete, as they were done by hand, and, as Clark reminds us, it was wartime.

Here is a sample of a Morning Report from January 1945 

Clark was able to transcribe casualty reports from morning reports which were on microfilm which were not too clear, as shown on sample morning report. He manage to send us most of 1st Bn. and a few others before his health deteriorated.  Someone may be able to get morning reports and complete the job. I'll try to find out how.  I talk to Clark  or his wife about once  a week . He is not well.

Ben

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Tom McAvoy

I hate to beat a dead horse Ben  were any of these medics KIA  Italy??
Tom McAvoy
                                                   

******** I don't  believe so. I do know the Art Graham and Maurice White returned to the states.-Ben

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Matt and Delores Greene

Dear Ben, We received the Mail Call with the message from Darrell Egner.
Thank you Darrell, that is just beautiful !! We are sending it to  our
friends & relation. Matt & Delores Greene. G. Co.

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Michael Arterburn

 

 

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http://www.military.com/MilitaryReport/0,12914,84631,00.html?ESRC=vr.nl



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