05-28-2007, 05:40 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Government Yard in Trenchtown
Posts: 20,182
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I'm sure they bought vouchers
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Originally posted by Replaced_Texan
Huh. Weird.
Ancestry.com released a bunch of military records yesterday, so I dutifully looked up my grandfathers. A guy with one of my grandfather's names who was born in 1886 in Ostra, Poland, at the age of 56, joined up on April 26, 1942. Stocky guy, from the looks of it. 5'5" and 160. Scar on his nose, according to the form he filled out.
I wonder if they let him in.
My grandfather that shared his name, by the way, joined up on September 11, 1941 in Hartford, Connecticut. He had three years of high school, and was 5'7" 142. He hadn't yet married my grandmother.
For some reason, I can't find my other grandfather, and his name is the more unusual of the two.
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You can fill out a quick form and get your ancestors' military records. We had to do this to get my grandmother's military benefits. Of course, we then submitted them for the whole Greedy clan, and got records going back to the Civil War. Next thing I have to figure out is how to get records for the ones who fought on the British side in Canada during the War of 1812.
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