Looking for a place for my Grandpa

[Walt's Daughter]

Wow, so many new faces this month. It's great. Pleasure meeting you here.

 

Love the photos and may have some info for you. Am going to send you over to David Little who runs a great Aviation engineer website. I hope he can help you. While he doesn't have the 824th listed, he still my be able to offer some assistance. The web is:

 

http://www.ixengineercommand.com/index.php

 

I have his discharge paper however the last Unit assigned to is not the Unit he served with during his time overseas. The last none organization he belonged to was the 434 AAF Base Unit, cant find anything on that.

 

Many times the men were discharged with another unit who was shipping out. That happened many times, especially with the smaller units. Kind of aggravating, the way it works. You think the army would list the unit he actually served with. Frustrating isn't it?

 

I'm also going to put you in touch with Michael Brodhead and Professor David Ulbrich. I will send you their email addys in a few minutes. Michael works at the Army Corps of Engineer's Office of History. David works at Fort Leonard Wood. Let's see what happens.