Hi. I registered on this site some months ago, and then got busy doing other things before getting back here. My dad enlisted in April 1942 and was in training (basic?) in Falmouth, Massacusetts. I have some great photos of his unit practicing parachuting. On the back of one of them is a listing of some of the guys' names and hometowns, and some even included street addresses. I've been trying to chase down to see if any of them are listed in the WWII Memorial registry, and so far I haven't found a one. I've found potentially two of them on the social security death indexes, but nothing for certain. I was wondering if anyone knows whether those who you trained with stayed with you in the same unit throughout the war, or if people got transferred around a lot. I do know his foxhole buddy stayed with him throughout the war, and he later found out that his foxhole buddy, having survived the entire war, was killed in a traffic accident some years later. Because his name was common, I wasn't sure if one of the seven or so listed on the WWII Memorial registry was him or not until I found a letter he'd written my dad about four months after they were discharged; he was not one of them, so I registered him myself.
The only two addresses I had for my dad (from letters his mother wrote him in 1945) were: Co. G 85th Mt Infantry/APO 345 c/o PM New York City (May 1945) and HQ Co -- 157 Bn. 350th Inf APO 88 -- c/o PM New York City (Aug 1945). Am I even on the right site here, given that information, or should I look elsewhere?
Pardon the cheesy "handle", but I was inspired by Walt's Daughter's being so named that I use the nickname my dad always called me.