An update from my trip to the Archives in St. Louis:
The records were blah! relatively speaking. No great successes as before with Geraghty and others.
I need to look in more depth at what I did get but not much to look at.
Those poor guys, especially those that gave their lives to the War, and they have basically nothing in their file. If a family member wanted to learn more about them, they would have to devote a huge amount of their time to discover anything. Especially if they did not know what Division/Outfit the person had been in. It seems to me the Gov't should provide funding to update/augment the records.
They especially should when it comes to the microfiche and the indices are almost impossible to figure out. I was never successful working with the indices and lost a lot of time. They need to hire Larry and have help figure it all out.
The folks working there could not have been nicer or more helpful - the problem was there were basically no records to work from!
Jean