431st. AAA AW Bn Battery D - Please Help

dave many thanks i do have children and grand children who are computer literate i'll try to get them to come over to my house and show me how to do something. i did find the name of the publisher, who was in bad reichenhall, germany. their web page indicates they are still in business and i asked a friend who lives in saltzburg to try to get in touch with them and see if in their archives t6hey might have some copies of the book they like to donate to us.

you mentioned 300dpi and office max ---i have no idea what these things are. i did mention that i'm not that sharp with computer oriented things.

 

believe it or not , the 431st was converted to infantry when they arrived in Corsica from Sardinia. as soon as we arrived in Corsica our trucks and guns were taken away from us and it was announced that we were to take infantry training . we did train for about two months and then all of a sudden our trucks and guns were returned to us and we were told that we were to join in the invasion of southern France, which we did. your father may have been part of our coversion.
any information that you feel might be helpful to you , if i have it, i'd be happy to share it with you.

greenfrog

 

It would be great if the German publisher had a copy and could scan it as a pdf.

If not, your kids or grandkids would need to get a scanner and scan the pamphlet
in Adobe Acrobat at, ideally, 300 dots per inch. That will produce a very good
digital copy.

By the way, my uncle's 214th AAA was in Corsica for nine months during the war.
They arrived there from Sicily and then went to Southern France in Sept. 1944.


Dave

 

i've gone to Staples and received a cost of $17.10 to print one copy and extra for tax , postage, and a spiral binder. let me know what you discover.

greenfrog

 

this is greenfrog calling again.
i just found out from a Staples store that they will print one copy of the booklet for $17.10. this would be plus sales tax and postage. also if we would want a spiral binder that would be extra. if we wanted more than there would be some kind of a discount.
now i don't know how to handle this. how do i get this info to all that might be interested.?
how to they know what kind of a book i'm talking about. ?
is there a better way to handle this, if so what is a better way ?

you said that you'd help out. boy i sure need help.

if e-mail would be helpful, just let me know and ill give you my address.

 

Is the Staples' quote for:

1. A color copy of the booklet?

2. A B&W copy of the booklet?

Do not get a binder for it.

If the quote is for a color copy, I recommend
you get that.

I'm willing to scan the copy of the booklet and
convert it into an Adobe Acrobat pdf, which can
then be emailed in one or multiple parts.

If you concur, you can send me a PM and I will
provide my address.


Dave

 

thanks for your note i think that the offer i received from Staples for $17.10 plus postage and tax was about as good as ican get but i can't figure out how to find out who might want a copy.

 

we did the same thing Dave. we landed on the southern shore of sicily from tunisia .before that algeria and before that from scotland and before that england. it was a long time. happy thankgiving and God bless.

greenfrog

 

To my surprise, Howard sent me his original copy of his
booklet of the 431st AAA AW Bn (M), which arrived in
the mail today. It is in remarkable condition for its age.

I will be able to scan double pages since the booklet's
dimensions are 5.5" by 7.5". With the two maps, I estimate
33-36 pages as a pdf. I can't predict the file size at this time.
I shall scan the booklet tomorrow.


Dave

 

Profound thanks to Howard, a veteran of the 431st AAA AW Battalion (M),
for providing his copy of the Bn history to the forum to be scanned.

I finished the job a few minutes ago and will mail the booklet back to Howard
next week. I scanned it at 300 dpi. The pdf is 35 pages and 21 megabytes.

Here is a screenshot of pages 42 and 43. Page 43 curiously describes an
incident of 12 (?!) German-flown P-47s attacking Bn HQ at Soultz, France,
on 30 December 1944.



I'll provide the complete file to the Moderators since I've never had any success
attaching a pdf to a post.


Dave

 

My grandfather was in C battery.. My father has wrote down some information before he died. I also have a copy of that book, that i could scan but it looks like somebody already has...
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it looks like i posted on this back in 08 but haven't looked at it since. I dont know if we have any pictures or not but i can find out. i can also get that information my father wrote down for you guys.
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There are some pictures that my grandfather took, I will scan those as well the notebook where my father wrote down that information.

 

Howard,

Did you know Staige Falls? He was a corporal that joined the unit in North Africa. I'm thinking he was in C battery.

 

I also have his pistol and holster that he took from a dead german. The grips are made from the canopy of a fighter they shot down. It's a Sauer 38h and was made some time in 1943. It still shoots and is pretty accurate.



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