Larry, you are so funny! And that is separate from your being such a wonderful human being to do the kind of research that you do and the length of time required to help record history so it is not lost or forgotten!
Just this morning I wanted to look up something and instead of going to my volumes of notebooks - what did I do?
I went to Larry the Legend's summarized list of the 22 men that were buried at the Siegburg Cemetery. I got the answers I needed quickly.
I was looking to see if any of the men were from the 106th Div. I recalled I had spoken to someone some time in the past from the 106th - and recently, more will follow in the future, I spoke to another wonderful gentleman from the 106th.
Thanks to you I saw immediately the answer was - no one from the 106th was on that list.
Then I looked to see if there were any other Airmen on the list, other than Dryden. Again, thanks to you Larry, I could quickly see the answer was no!
I did happen to look more closely at the Marcus Abner entry and recalled that was the information I had first gotten - as far as the ship,etc. His file at the NARA in St. Louis actually had some documents in it that will clear up that misunderstanding that was in that other place in his records. It will not be right away, but I will get those off to you.
Larry, you are absolutely Amazing! And I can't wait to share some new news with you and Christoph - I want you to be impressed with my efforts too!
Now, how long should I make you wait?
Jean