I'm sad! I received a very bad message of an American on my email address! as you all know I research the families of my soldiers I adopted the grave. I put many posts on the forum of units of my soldiers! There is not long time . I received a message from a man who told me that I was not worthy to take care of graves of sons of america. That I have to take care of the graves of French soldiers .I was really to hurt.
I do not know if all Americans think the same thing ?
Over the years I have received many wonderful contributions from people, including photographs from the war. After working with various documents and images, I'd like to offer some advice...
1. If you don't have a scanner and choose to make copies of old photos/documents with your digital camera, please remember to TURN-OFF the TIME-STAMP. There's nothing worse than WWII photographs with big red dates stamped across them. Also many times the stamp winds up right on top of text, making it very hard to read.
I can airbrush the date OUT, but many times the placement doesn't lend itself to this method. Plus it makes a lot more work for me.
2. When scanning images/documents, make sure to change the resolution/size to a higher setting. I often receive scans which are very difficult to read/view because of their small size. If you can't read it at 100 percent zoom, then neither can anyone else. The more detail, the better! For photos and other images, 600 DPI or above is great. Many thanks to Professor David Ulbrich for that suggestion.
I can easily down-size a scan, so don't worry about that, but it's difficult or impossible to get "more" out of an image, which was scanned at a very low resolution.
Bobb wrote to me and asked if I was interested. Well yes I am, but simply can't afford to add this to my collection. I am hoping someone else may be interested. It would be a shame to let this go. Good luck to all.
When he first wrote I could not get to the link, and wrote to him. Below is his reply...
On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 2:59 AM, Bobb Dumaine wrote:
That is weird, Ms. Chard. I assume you are trying to call up the article from a computer in the US, and why would Ebay block a US Army unit history for US buyers? But I have seen Ebay do stranger things with books in the military category. To save you more bother, I am quoting here the article description and attaching a scan. If you are interested, I can cancel the Ebay auction and sell the book to you directl ($175.00). Just let me know, but do hurry.
WW2 UNIT DIARY 14TH ARMORED DIV, 125TH ARMD ENG. BN
HISTORY
125TH ARMORED ENGINEER BATTALION
Camp Shanks, New York to V-E Day Inclusive
written by officers and men of the battalion and privately printed in Munich/Diessen, Germany in 1945
This authentic, unit history (not a reproduction!) was written and professionally printed for unit members at the Munich end of the battalion’s long and hard-fought crossing of the Siegfried Line in Alsace with its parent division, 14th Armored, and a march which took it through the length and breadth of largely enemy-held Bavaria, where it liberated some 110,000 Allied POWs. (The full route the battalion followed is shown on a 17 by 22 inch folding map at the back of the book). A small staff, comprising the editor, Capt. Franklin Wallace, Jr. and his three assistant editors, Pfc. William Olpp, Tec 5 Samuel Wilson, Pfc Eugene Osequeda and Pfc John Dickmann, gathered personal experiences and photographs from unit personnel while the battalion was still intact in Germany, but was being prepared for demobilization and return to the States or transfer to other commands.
The book chronicles in operational diary form the movements and actions of the individual companies while the battalion was part of Seventh Army and after the link-up in Bavaria with Gen. Patton’s Third Army. Considerable attention is paid to naming officers and men involved in individual actions, and the book is overall a rich source of information on unit personnel, organization, personal valor awards and combat losses.
(The reproduction of the above text in part or whole requires the consent of the copyright-holder, audioartbooks.)
The book has its original composite hardcover (board and simulated leather spine) with the division and engineer corps insignias. Approx. 8 x 12 inches, 96 pages and 14 glossy plates of b/w photographs. Bound in the book at the back is a large folding map of the battalion’s route, annotated to show points at which significant engagments took place.
Condition overall is very good, especially considering the age of the book and the near-wartime circumstances under which it was edited and printed. Other than general age toning of the paper, the most noticeable defect is the smudging in the upper right corner of the front cover (see scan), with a corresponding but smaller smudge on the back cover. The covering on the spine has a 1 ½ in. wear spot. Inside the book is free of tears and stains, but the pastedown hinge of the front cover at two points has lost some adhesion, but without, weakening the tight binding.
