When sending in copies of articles, please remember to include, as best you can recall, the name of the newspaper and date, month or year it was published.

    When sending in copies of articles, please remember to include, as best you can recall, the name of the magazine and date, month or year it was published.

    They are the best way to humanize your units history and are a very important part of allowing historians and website visitors to experience your emotional reactions to and views of your service during your tour.

    I you have any concerns about your story telling, writing or composition abilities, I will edit all submissions to insure that the posting will meet appropriate standards.

     This is not a request for copies of your personal letters. I am only interested in the pertinent information relative to historical or social events.

     Personal letters were sent home by many of you during your tour(s) describing people, places, and events of interest that occurred to you or those around you. Some of the events or incidents may be found in official archives, others may not but are still very important in recording the history of your service and unit.

     They are also important because they were a first hand account of the official incidents and events, that were not filtered by military journalist, historians during the trip up the chain of command before making it into an official report. They may also contain personal reflections of historical events taking place, and details of non official events such as, birthday, promotional, holiday parties, etc. Your letters are also important in identifying or narrowing down the dates of events and incidents that would greatly assist the History Project in searching for any official archival reports. Your may also find some interesting items you dropped in the envelope to send home with the letter.

     Please take some time in reviewing your personal letters. If you discover any information of interest please contact me.

     Official, General-Special-Unit or any other type of orders and certificates of achievement, letters of appreciation or commendation, or any forms utilized daily by the military police.

     The orders assist in gathering new names and dates of unit activity that may not appear on other official documents. This information is important to the unit timelines for listing special assignments, promotions, training, awards presented, reassignments, and in verifying dates of other activities, etc.

     You may send in orders with Social Security Numbers displayed, and I will excise them before adding them to the archive. If you prefer to do it yourself, please just blank out all but the last four numbers. The last four numbers assist me in eliminating confusion in the History Project Archives with common names. Please contact me for any questions.

     Before the modern computerization of the military, only two official rosters from each unit were catalogued by higher headquarters in the National Archives. At that time most unit clerks worked off of each days Morning Reports to track the status of all unit personnel.

    One official unit (company) roster was compiled by higher headquarters personnel sections at the end of the first and third quarters. In some instances not all the rosters can be found at the National Archives, and some are inaccurate and others of very poor quality.

     Daily or weekly Squad, Platoon and Detachment level Duty Rosters were not kept for archival purposes, so if you have any, please contact me.

     If you would like to contribute some of your tour photographs for posting on the website please follow these guidelines on which photographs to send, and how to send them.

     Look for photographs in these four categories. People ~ Places ~ Events ~ Things.

     People: Photographs of individuals and groups of people regardless of the events depicted. They may also be photographs of local people employed by your unit or that worked with you. They can also be squad, platoon, detachment or unit mascots. It doesn't matter if you recall their names, someone else might after they are posted.

     Places: Photographs of places that would be recognizable and identifiable by other members of your unit. Unit billets, buildings, duty locations, bridges, landmarks, rivers, check points, intersections, land features, etc. Something you or others viewing them can identify.

     Events: Photographs before-during-after; details, parties, battles, convoys, formations, construction projects, USO shows, unit or individual awards, other special squad, platoon, detachment or unit events.

     Things: Wheeled or tracked vehicles, trailers, ambulances, aircraft, weapons, boats, other special equipment used or carried by unit members or in and on unit vehicles.

     Do not send photographs of general scenery unless you can identify the specific scene or it has some direct relevance to some event or incident.

     How to identify them: Include in an Email message or written list identifying all people and their rank, (left to right, as best as you can recall), names of places, description of events occurring, day month year or as close as you can recall.

     If you have an interesting story on the photograph, send that along also.

     Credits: If you did not take the photograph but know who did, please identify the photographer so I can attach the proper credit of each photograph source. Include full name with any middle initial, rank at the time, unit, tour years.

     Please do not print and mail photographs from your PC. When I scan them for the website they become unsuitable for posting.

    If you have any questions, please contact me before sending them.

     Memorabilia from from you tour(s) may be a treasure chest of interesting information to enlighten and assist the History Project viewers.

     Do you have any.... enemy or allied propaganda posters or leaflets; civilian anti war movement propaganda; official military forms like ticket books, trip tickets, accident reports, POW related forms, etc.; foreign holiday cards; standard operating procedures; health, safety & welfare bulletins; Mess Hall menus; memorial programs; unofficial unit patches; label's from foreign food products or other items that were popular; C Rations cans, boxes, bags, empty or still packaged.

     If you saved it from your tour it must have been for a good reason, tell me what it is.