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Wow, that is quite a find and interesting regarding the translation too. You never know what will turn up next. A really cool aspect of our "jobs".
Let's see what we can find... 
Marion J Chard
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Thanx, I admit to being quite excited, because I did not think to find information on the soldier who had belonged, and instead even name and serial number, it was really good! 
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sifting through the book I found the page for letters and a test letter dated December 22, 1944 declares that the soldier was in Italy....
which would never go with the parachutist hypothesis....
on another page instead I found a clipping of an Italian aircraft , taken perhaps from a book....
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WHOA! What were the chances of that? Good detective work!!!
How sad though...
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In fact very few.... do you think it is possible that he was in the artillery?
The article talks about crew....
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That's what it sounds like to me. I was thinking artillery, too.
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ok so at this point ft. Bragg ?? not only the paratroopers were trained them?
However a friend of mine was telling me about a similar incident happened at the 91st Inf. div. in an area that I know well. He will let me know if the date coincides!
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Fascinating! and Bravo to great research and respect for another human being!
Jean
