Many thanks to Karen Culler for sharing this with all of us.
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Dear Marion,
Thank you for all your help with Little Minnesota in World War II, now on Amazon for pre-order and due for release September 2017.
The book is a reality thanks to you and all the other contributors!
All the best,
Jill Johnson
While documenting our family, we found this photo of the 608th Engineers Light Equipment Co./2nd Platoon taken on October 21, 1944 in France.
My wife's uncle, Albert Kapsin, is in the front row on the far right. He passed away July 3, 2012.
The other photo was taken in Naples, Italy of the Maintenance Crew within the 302nd Ordnance Regiment (Base)/3rd Battalion (Maint.) Company K, about 1944. My dad, Harold Forester, is in the back row, fourth from the left. He passed away November 10, 1998.
We have an 7-page copy of the 302nd's Roster of Enlisted Personnel at Camp Polk, LA. 1942. If you would like a electronic copy via email, please let us know and we will share. We really have no other way of doing so except us keying in all that information into Ancestry or Fold3. That's a lot of typing...
I was trying to find out a little more info on the 6th Corps Rest Center and I saw your posting regarding the pamphlet you purchased on Ebay. I have one too. At the end of the war my Dad was assigned temporary duty for a short period of time at the rest center. I’m not sure if you have seen pictures of the Excelsior Hotel but I have attached some copies of information cards about the hotel. Hopefully this will be like putting a name and a face together. I have some other copies of pamphlets if you would like to see them.
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