Hi everyone,

I'm looking for some info on were my grandfather would have been stationed (which base for training) in 1943. He was in the 34th Infantry Division 135th Company I. His MOS was Infantry 745...lived in Kentucky and was processed through Fort Thomas. I know that the Army was separating them by MOS after 1942 prior to that they all started from Camp Claiborne, Louisiana. As always THANK YOU for any help.

Tom

Grandson of PFC Walter J. Read

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I hate to admit this, but since there is very little interaction on our forum anymore, I've been frequenting another WWII forum, just for some banter back and forth and the exchange of ideas about various topics of WWII.

For instance, we are currently talking about the History's Channel's, The World Wars, which just finished airing this past week. I tried to get something going here, but...

If you look around the forum and visit some of the old posts from past years, you will see that we had quite an active exchange between the members and it wasn't uncommon for several of us to be engaged in several topics at the same time. Sometimes we'd talk about WWII movies and books, or simple gab away and tell each other what was going on in our lives. I guess I just miss the camaraderie.

Don't get me wrong, the forum is still a great place and we are helping so many people put puzzle pieces back together, but there's no "free-range" of ideas anymore, and that is what I miss.

Ah just saying, just reminiscing...

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Did anyone watch the History Channel's "The World Wars"? While it started off great, it was sorely lacking by the last episode. They had so many blatant errors that it made Lee and I cringe. Anyone with decent knowledge of WWII, would have balked. The worst one was how they portrayed Italy during the war. They actually made it sound like Italy was won in 1943 and that George Patton was responsible for that. Uh duh, George Patton never fought in Italy, He was the American General in Sicily.

Many times they got the clothing and props wrong too. Really! One was the uniforms shown while MacArthur was in the underground bunk in the Philippines. They should have shown the guys with earlier doughboy helmets, etc, It was simply sloppy.

The worst offender was one my hubby caught immediately. They actually showed a modern ship with missile capability when talking about the Japanese navy. Lee laughed and stated that if the Japanese had one of these during the war, it would have been over a hell of lot sooner with them winning hands down. Good grief! What, there isn't any WWII footage or photos from the war?? How about even computer graphics buddies? You do have that at your disposal, don't you.

All we can say is shame on the producers and writers. Way too many errors and this gets on TV and I can't even get anyone to look at my documentary. I did mine in house with an extremely low budget and I got my facts right. You didn't do your homework.

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