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Ancestry/Genealogy

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1. Congrats on your find!

Wed Sep 4, 2019, 03:18 PM

Sep 2019

I'm sure you'll treasure it.

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Googling my Dad's WW2 unit this weekend, I found this on eBay! [View all] Dennis Donovan Sep 2019 OP

Congrats on your find! The Genealogist Sep 2019 #1

It's sooo cool, with the 40mm Bofors guns in the foreground Dennis Donovan Sep 2019 #2

Wonderful, lucky you! These are terrific photos in excellent appalachiablue Sep 2019 #14

My Dad had twin and single Bofurs Mendocino Sep 2019 #24

Yes I've seen photos of these huge guns on US ships. Dad was appalachiablue Sep 2019 #25

It's not called the Greatest Generation for nothing. Sneederbunk Sep 2019 #3

Totally awesome. Good for your family!! LakeArenal Sep 2019 #4

Awesome TEB Sep 2019 #6

Very cool. Skinner Sep 2019 #7

What a marvelous find for you. blm Sep 2019 #8

Those barracks bring back some old memories. Thanks. demosincebirth Sep 2019 #9

So cool! We owe so much to them, the Greatest, as I told my dad many times. FailureToCommunicate Sep 2019 #10

A New Family Heirloom! dlk Sep 2019 #11

Coincidence? Your thought and a photo of him being there? Karadeniz Sep 2019 #12

What an awesome find! denbot Sep 2019 #13

Oh, good! LisaM Sep 2019 #15

That is amazing! bucolic_frolic Sep 2019 #16

I would check with the WWII Museum in New Orleans Sherman A1 Sep 2019 #22

Thanks bucolic_frolic Sep 2019 #23

What I do... reACTIONary Sep 2019 #29

Aww, so nice. Congrats on the find. iluvtennis Sep 2019 #18

Looks just like you, just without the mustache. marble falls Sep 2019 #19

How cool! nt SunSeeker Sep 2019 #20

My dad took a lot of photos during WWII. JohnnyRingo Sep 2019 #21

That's really great..the best generation ever Thekaspervote Sep 2019 #26

Them is some real handsome guys! sdfernando Sep 2019 #28