Morning reports for 513th PIR, 334th Infantry, or 432nd AAA?
February 9, 2018 10:23 AM Subscribe
Does anyone know of a source forWWII morning reports, other than going to the National Archives in Suitland, MD? I am looking for:
- 513th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 1945 before April
- Company K (King) of the 334th Infantry, 84th Division, any time
- 42nd Coast ArtilleryBattalion, later the 432nd antiaircraft artillery (AAA), any time
Also, rosters to further narrow down their assignments (ie., company or even platoon) would be very valuable.
SO MANY THANKS.
I am researching three great uncles, whose units are listed above. Two were mustered out at war's end, and the third died in Operation Varsity.
While I wait for the MPRC in St. Louis to reject my first request for their records by telling me once again their favorite bedtime story ("Once upon a time there was a terrrrible fire..."), I was hoping to find some morning reports to see when they joined or left these units.
I have at least one confirmation for each of the above, so I am pretty confident. I have been able to spend a full five minutes using an Ancestry.com account to search their digitized collections, and wish I could do more. I did go through the Electronic Army Serial Number Merged File online, and I was verrrry interested in Ancestry's index of "Headstone Applications for Military Veterans, 1925-1963" request cards.
The site fultonhistory.com has some of the 513th's morning reports, but they are for January (and I can't find him) or April, which is after great-uncle Galen died, jumping into Wesel, Germany.
Thank you for any suggestions!
I am researching three great uncles, whose units are listed above. Two were mustered out at war's end, and the third died in Operation Varsity.
While I wait for the MPRC in St. Louis to reject my first request for their records by telling me once again their favorite bedtime story ("Once upon a time there was a terrrrible fire..."), I was hoping to find some morning reports to see when they joined or left these units.
I have at least one confirmation for each of the above, so I am pretty confident. I have been able to spend a full five minutes using an Ancestry.com account to search their digitized collections, and wish I could do more. I did go through the Electronic Army Serial Number Merged File online, and I was verrrry interested in Ancestry's index of "Headstone Applications for Military Veterans, 1925-1963" request cards.
The site fultonhistory.com has some of the 513th's morning reports, but they are for January (and I can't find him) or April, which is after great-uncle Galen died, jumping into Wesel, Germany.
Thank you for any suggestions!
Response by poster: (My town library does indeed have a subscription, but you have to be in the physical library to use it -- and when I tried it last week, it set a five-minute timer. WTH, library? I thought we were pals!)
posted by wenestvedt at 1:14 PM on February 9, 2018
posted by wenestvedt at 1:14 PM on February 9, 2018
Golden Arrow Research will get these reports for you, for a price (which you'd need to contact them to learn, unfortunately). There are examples on their site, along with the initial inquiry form. Found via the resource links on this blog.
(Bummer! Is it possible you were visiting the library at a very busy time, and the timer is only in use then? That if you made a research appointment, or spoke with a librarian, the timer could be disengaged for a longer session?)
posted by Iris Gambol at 1:45 PM on February 9, 2018 [1 favorite]
(Bummer! Is it possible you were visiting the library at a very busy time, and the timer is only in use then? That if you made a research appointment, or spoke with a librarian, the timer could be disengaged for a longer session?)
posted by Iris Gambol at 1:45 PM on February 9, 2018 [1 favorite]
Just want to note that the fire really was a big deal.
A long time ago, on visits to my grandfather's house, I would leaf through his VFW magazines and read the section at the end where vets would write in ask their fellow vets for info much like what you are asking here, mostly for corroboration of health problems for the VA. Everything from Agent Orange exposure in Vietnam to fallout exposure from nuclear testing to "hey, does anyone remember me falling and needing evac?" Most if not all of these questions started with the mention that the vets' service records had been destroyed in the fire...
If you search at Wikipedia, the article for the MPRC at one point included what files were destroyed. Everyone from A to E or something like that. (It's been awhile). So you can at least know if they are BSing you or if your great uncles' files are most likely gone.
posted by Fukiyama at 9:36 AM on February 10, 2018 [1 favorite]
A long time ago, on visits to my grandfather's house, I would leaf through his VFW magazines and read the section at the end where vets would write in ask their fellow vets for info much like what you are asking here, mostly for corroboration of health problems for the VA. Everything from Agent Orange exposure in Vietnam to fallout exposure from nuclear testing to "hey, does anyone remember me falling and needing evac?" Most if not all of these questions started with the mention that the vets' service records had been destroyed in the fire...
If you search at Wikipedia, the article for the MPRC at one point included what files were destroyed. Everyone from A to E or something like that. (It's been awhile). So you can at least know if they are BSing you or if your great uncles' files are most likely gone.
posted by Fukiyama at 9:36 AM on February 10, 2018 [1 favorite]
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