CWGal,
Thank you for your reply. I have looked at the web page you sent me but I cannot get it to translate to English ( HELP)!
Yes, yes, yes: mostly long tall tales of what some family member thought my fathers experiences were. However, I did have a couple of family members whom I know were also WWII vets and I know that dad had chatted with them (one brother & cousin)---I feel confident that what they told me was true and without change. That is how I know that dad went onto the beach on 6 June 44---without a doubt. Now these fine gentlemen are also gone. I do wish I had pressed them for more answers to my questions.
It seems that this chase is going on and on: I know you feel the same. Sometimes I just feel like laying it all to rest and forgetting about it all. Then a few days or weeks and sometimes even months will pass and I start looking again. I have a picture of dad in uniform that sits on a dresser and I look at it almost everyday: that helps, because he is not to far from my view. It pressures me to continue the search. I know that one of my e-mails or contacts will eventually lead to finding a little more information.
Sorry, I am not the guy who sent you to the French web page: I wish I was but I am not. I am having trouble converting it to English--any ideas or have I not looked hard enough?
Anyway, thank you for that link-up.
I await your reply,
geo
Hi George,Welcome aboard. Your search sounds a lot like mine: a lot of rumors and things that people remembered...sort of. (The only true thing I found was one of my uncles remembered that my father was at the Bulge, everything else might have been a compilation of every other veteran they knew) My big breakthrough was by posting on a couple of WWII websites. Some kind person took pity on me and sent me a long paragraph on my dads unit.
I'm not sure if the person they referred to on this site was you, but here is something on the unit you mentioned:
www.debarquement-normandie.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=156127&sid=e98dd62554ca90fefa9a1a45699ec8e6 - 65k
the website is in french but it will translate it to english for you.
My breakthrough in speaking to a member of my dads unit was I found a monument with his unit on it related to the Battle of the Bulge, I emailed the webmaster, that sent a letter to the Battle of the Bulge association president who looked at the rolls of his members and found a member of the 1251st....
Good luck!!!