If you have a Google account, I posted a good number of photos I was given access to on my blog. It was the only way I could figure out how to...
Thanks to John for pointing out some info I had but was overlooking. Bob’s Babe is the gun on display at Fort Sill at the FA museum. also the...
Pilots who trained at Camp Butner NC
Ooops. Not sure if it was wind damaged or a bad landing. May even be the one involved in the fatal crash that killed LTs Anspach and Emberts.
Had the good luck to find an image of one of the A/C assigned to the 270th. Ground recognition number of 62 is a huge find for me. This has been...
I visited the Lane House and Lew Wallace not too long ago, but nothing really came of it. The right person to talk to was not in that day. I have...
Don’t forget about the Eisenhower Library. Visit Us | Eisenhower Presidential Library I was shocked at the information they had on hand.
What’s the odds of Purdue having any information about a WWII Hvy FA Bn commanded by a Crawfordsville native? That’s one place I have not looked...
seems to be common with them. The captured German guns they used were part of the Butner Battery. Camp Butner NC was the place the unit was...
I have amassed 657 names of men who were assigned to the 270th at one time or another. Thru the help of many people, especially John Carlson, I...
Gabriel may have been another howitzer name.
Found some nicknames for a couple of the howitzers too. Bob's Babe and Berlin Bound.
I have had the wonderful good fortune to be contacted by a family member of a 270th veteran and he shared a ton of photos with me. John Carlson...
Any suggestions on how to make an easy to read graph/timeline that shows the Battalions assignments? Being a non-divisional unit, it isn’t as...
I have kinda ran into a lull in finding new information about the fatal crash of the Units L4 observer plane. Waiting on a reply from the AF...
G.C. Marshall would be very high ranked for me. His reputation as a tactical commander is nothing next to Patton or McArthur, but he easily...
I have done a bit of research on the 270th FA Bn. It was a non-divisional 240mm howitzer unit that would occasionally "loan" a battery to a...
If I was a guessing man, I would guess that the unit got some leave on/about June of '44, Oct '44, and March of '45. Those are the months with...
I guess Excel wasn't a thing in 1945 LOL
This was an interesting report
