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[Walt's Daughter]

Received this today:

 

Hi Marion,

 

I don't know if you can help me. I'm just beginning to track down information about my uncle's service in WWII. I know that he at one point belonged to the 591st Engineer Boat Regiment, thanks to a post card from the War Department that my mother kept. Was that part of the VI Corps? If not, do you know anyone I might contact about his unit? I'm confused about the various changes in the unit designation, and I am trying to determine if he followed through with the unit until his service ended. My next step is to enlist the help of his daughter in recovering his service records, but I don't know if that information will be included in them or not.

 

Thanks,

 

Tom

 

Thomas F. Tipton, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of English