Yes my grandfather enlisted in Buffalo! Also, it seems to make sense that he took a commission to stay in the army. My mom thinks that would be...
Ok, thanks so much for the info! Just an update to everyone who posed in this thread, my mom has been digging through anything that could be...
Thanks for the insight Brad! That is really interesting about the top picture possibly being Dachau. I have a feeling that the picture with the...
Ah right, my mistake. Thanks for the clarification!
Thanks so much to everyone that has responded. To respond to Slipdigit's post my mom found these muskets at home. She has been looking through...
So does that mean that he was in a different unit until he joined up with the 36th? Or do they assign reinforcements to that division before...
Wow, thanks for the info about the bars on his sleeves! I was wondering what that meant... He probably did come over at that time (1944), since...
Thanks for the response! Well, that makes sense about what he did after the end of the war in Germany. The one thing we knew was that the German...
His name is on that plaque. And it seems like that is the best guess for what patch is on his shoulder.
Its really hard to say... I was looking through all of the shoulder insignias to see which ones seemed like a match, and that's the only one I...
Hello all, This is my first post here, and I was inspired by my mother wondering about her father's service in WW2. We have photos of him in...
