Monthly Journal HQ 540th - July 1945

[Walt's Daughter]

My pleasure. More to come soon. It's really is fascinating to go through all these declassified documents. I'm really learning a lot.

 

Speaking of "on their way to the Pacific...", I found out that my dad's regiment was going was scheduled to head out for the great Pacific. Thank God Truman dropped that bomb. Scary to think that my dad's unit might have gone off to fight again. Now I know why they look so pissed off in some of the later photos. Man, they just wanted to go home. Dad finally got his wish in November 1945. He had been in the ETO since spring of 1943. Long enough...