<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6831195537530051919</id><updated>2012-02-16T05:28:49.320-08:00</updated><category term='world war two metal detecting army service number erkennungsmarke digging paratrooper dog tag identification exhumation identite recherche matricule'/><title type='text'>Research World War II-Enquêter sur la Seconde Guerre Mondiale</title><subtitle type='html'></subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://researchww2.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6831195537530051919/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://researchww2.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>Jean-Loup</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15698598518966301493</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>1</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6831195537530051919.post-8808243337868003086</id><published>2011-03-02T09:20:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2012-01-29T09:27:46.543-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='world war two metal detecting army service number erkennungsmarke digging paratrooper dog tag identification exhumation identite recherche matricule'/><title type='text'>Finding veterans, missing soldiers and items lost in battle - Rechercher les vétérans, les soldats portés disparus et les objets perdus a la guerre</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cccccc;"&gt;ENGLISH&lt;/span&gt;-&lt;span style="color:#66ffff;"&gt;FRANCAIS &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-esz6nGujg1w/Tx7bkmEbJYI/AAAAAAAAAWA/KWDIwMhmGgw/s1600/battlefield%2Bdigger.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-esz6nGujg1w/Tx7bkmEbJYI/AAAAAAAAAWA/KWDIwMhmGgw/s320/battlefield%2Bdigger.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5701235600038503810" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cccccc;"&gt;My name is Jean-Loup, I am a World War II history enthusiast, amateur historian, battlefield searcher and collector of military items. Over the years I have been involved in a large number of research projects related to WWII such as interviewing period witnesses, searching for and exhuming the bodies of missing soldiers, sea&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cccccc;"&gt;rching for the original owners of items found on battlefields (such a dog tags and helmets), contacting veterans or their descendents, investigating the circumstances of death of specific soldiers, finding archival sources of information, etc…&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cccccc;"&gt;If you would like some help and advice for a WWII research project you are working on, please feel free to contact me with your questions. Hopefully I may be able to help out. I can be contacted at the following address:&lt;/span&gt; &lt;a href="mailto:jean-loup@gassend.com"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;jean-loup@gassend.com&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cccccc;"&gt;Below you can find some examples of my research.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-7T-wyvj7nK0/Tx7bkX63RzI/AAAAAAAAAVo/UJLZf30LkrY/s1600/517th%2Bparachute%2Bregiment.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 221px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-7T-wyvj7nK0/Tx7bkX63RzI/AAAAAAAAAVo/UJLZf30LkrY/s320/517th%2Bparachute%2Bregiment.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5701235596240308018" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(204, 204, 204);"&gt;An American paratrooper is reunited with his helmet 60 years after the war.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#66ffff;"&gt;Un parachutiste Américain retrouve son casque 60 ans après la guerre.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#66ffff;"&gt;Je m’appelle Jean-Loup, je suis un passionné de l’histoire de le Seconde Guerre Mondiale, un historien amateur et un collectionneur d’objets militaires. De&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#66ffff;"&gt;puis des années, j’ai été impliqué dans un grand nombre de projets de recherche liés à la Seconde&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#66ffff;"&gt; Guerre Mondiale, par exemple la réalisation d’interviews de témoins de l’époque, la recherche et l’exhumation de soldats portés disparus, la recherche des propriétaires d’origine d’objets retrouvés sur les champs de bataille (des plaques d’identité et des casques par exemple), la recherche de vétérans ou de leurs descendants, l’investigation sur les circonstances de la mort de soldats, la rechercher de sources d’informations dans les &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#66ffff;"&gt;a&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 255, 255);"&gt;rchives, etc…&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#66ffff;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Si vous voulez de l’aide ou des conseils pour un projet sur lequel vous travaillez, vous pouvez me &lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;contacter à l’adresse suivante &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;: &lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;a href="mailto:jean-loup@gassend.com"&gt;jean-loup@gassend.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#66ffff;"&gt;Ci-dessous vous trouverez des exemples de mes recherches.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#66ffff;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-HvlowLDztDw/Tx7bkyyHAxI/AAAAAAAAAWI/YrMfOdnnItI/s1600/plaque%2Bidentite.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 209px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-HvlowLDztDw/Tx7bkyyHAxI/AAAAAAAAAWI/YrMfOdnnItI/s320/plaque%2Bidentite.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5701235603451347730" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;span style="color: rgb(204, 204, 204);"&gt;A German army identification tag lost in 1944 is rediscovered in 2011.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 255, 255);"&gt;Une plaque d'identité de l'armée Allemande perdue en 1944 est retrouvée en 2011.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cccccc;"&gt;Marvin Moles's paratrooper helmet&lt;/span&gt;-&lt;span style="color:#66ffff;"&gt;Le casque de parachutiste de Marvin Moles&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-DorJahrioaQ/Tx7bkYV4LHI/AAAAAAAAAV0/N0y7TVkv38g/s1600/517th%2Bprct%2Bhelmet.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 261px; height: 320px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-DorJahrioaQ/Tx7bkYV4LHI/AAAAAAAAAV0/N0y7TVkv38g/s320/517th%2Bprct%2Bhelmet.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5701235596353612914" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cccccc;"&gt;This  American paratrooper helmet that is typical of the 517th Parachute  Infantry Regiment (improvised hand made chinstrap and spray painted  camouflage) was found in the region of Grasse, southern France. The name  'Moles' was faintly visible, carved into the paint on the front of the  helmet. Research in the rosters of the 517th PIR showed that there was  only one Moles in the unit: Marvin Moles, from I Company. Marvin was  found still alive in the USA, and returned to southern France for the  60th anniversaries of the Liberation. He was able to revisit the former  battlefields he had fought on, and meet up with some grateful Frenchmen  who had lived through the Liberation.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#66ffff;"&gt;Ce  casque de parachutiste portant des caractéristiques typiques du 517ieme  Régiment de Parachutistes (jugulaire improvisée fabriquée  artisanalement et peintures camouflantes appliqu&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#66ffff;"&gt;és au pistolet&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#66ffff;"&gt;)  a été retrouvé près de Grasse, dans le sud de la France. Le nom 'Moles'  était visible gravé dans la peinture sur l'avant du casque. Une  recherche dans les listes de personels du 517ième a permis de découvrir  qu'un seul soldat de l'unitée portait ce nom: Marvin Moles, de la  Compagnie I. Marvin a été retrouvé toujours vivant aux USA, et est  revenu en France pour les 60ième anniversaires de la Libération. Il a pu  revisiter les champs de bataille sur lesquels il avait autrefois  combattu et rencontrer des francais reconnaissants qui avaient v&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#66ffff;"&gt;écu l'&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#66ffff;"&gt;époque de la Lib&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#66ffff;"&gt;ération&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#66ffff;"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 218px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5697540988486694546" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-8KzycuJL0fc/TxG7V5f6NpI/AAAAAAAAASA/R_1kYzty1M4/s320/parachutiste%2Bamericain.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;color:#cccccc;"&gt;Richard Metzger's badge-&lt;span style="color:#66ffff;"&gt;Le badge de Richard Metzger &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cccccc;"&gt;This  small badge was found by some Bedouins in the sands of the battlefield  of El Alamein, in Egypt, where serious fighting took place in 1942. The  inscription on it: "Fussball Klub Oberrot 1928" indicates that it is the  badge of the soccer club of the village of Oberrot, in Germany. Since  this village is very small, I considered it very probab&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cccccc;"&gt;le  that research may prove fruitful. An inquiry with the elders in Oberrot  revealed that only one member of the Oberrot soccer club had  participated in the fighting at El Alamein: Richard Metzger. He had been  a radio operator in a tank of the 8th Company of Panzer Regiment 8.  Unfortunately, Richard Metzger was killed in comba&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cccccc;"&gt;t  on July 17th 1942, in El Alamein, where the badge was found. Hans  Niederberger, another inhabitant of Oberrot had helped to extract  Richard Metzger's body from his destroyed tank. It is probably when his  body was being manipulated, or when it was exhumed after the war, that  the badge was lost. Richard Metzger's body, after having been buried in a  temporary grave, now rests in the German Military Cemetery of El  Alamein.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="justify"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 218px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 214px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5579536950528130434" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-XzHOA8C0z-0/TW5_S3tlPYI/AAAAAAAAAJs/yavBdlB0Ry4/s320/b4.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#66ffff;"&gt;Ce petit insigne a été retrouvé par des Bédouins dans les sables du c&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#66ffff;"&gt;hamp  de El Alamein, en Egypte, ou de sévères combats ont eu lieu en 1942.  L’inscription qu’il porte : « Fussball Klub Oberrot 1928 » indique qu’il  s’agit de l’insigne du club de football du village d'Oberrot, en  Allemagne. Vu la petite taille de ce village, j’ai pensé qu’il était  fort probable que des recherches puissent se révéler fructueuses. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#66ffff;"&gt;Suite  à une enquête auprès des anciens dans le village d’Oberrot, il s’avère  qu’un seul membre de l’équipe de football a participé aux combats en  Egypte. Il s’agissait de Richard Metzger, qui était opérateur radio dans  un char de la 8ème Compagnie du Panzer Regiment 8. Malheureusement,  Richard Metzger a été tué au combat le 17 Juillet 1942, justement à El  Alamein où l’insigne a été retrouve. Hans Niederberger, un autre  habitant d’Oberrot avait aidé à sortir le corps de Richard Metzger de  son char détruit. C’est sans doute lors du maniement du corps, ou bien  lors de l’e&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#66ffff;"&gt;xhumation qui a eu lieu après la  guerre que l’insigne a été perdu. Le corps de Richard Metzger, après  avoir séjourné dans une tombe provisoire, repose à présent dans le  Cimetière Militaire Allemand de El Alamein.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#66ffff;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-LS2vj8mHOxs/TxH2ccqS1sI/AAAAAAAAATI/bYFIyW1uZMY/s1600/Metzger%2BRichard%2B3.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 207px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5697605972190746306" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-LS2vj8mHOxs/TxH2ccqS1sI/AAAAAAAAATI/bYFIyW1uZMY/s320/Metzger%2BRichard%2B3.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;Richard Metzger. 8Kp Panzer Regiment 8. +17.7.1942 El Alamein&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-aU-S2KagW-o/Tx7dITH9DnI/AAAAAAAAAWk/PxHqbWr-q24/s1600/el%2Bruweisat.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 189px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-aU-S2KagW-o/Tx7dITH9DnI/AAAAAAAAAWk/PxHqbWr-q24/s320/el%2Bruweisat.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5701237312939953778" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cccccc;"&gt;A Bedouin prepares tea on the El Alamein battlefield. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#66ffff;"&gt;Un Bédouin pr&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#66ffff;"&gt;éparant du th&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#66ffff;"&gt;é sur le champ de bataille d'&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#66ffff;"&gt;El Alamein.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#66ffff;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-JuaXJmEQwVk/Tx7aTALQUII/AAAAAAAAAVQ/JfVUYQxJrSE/s1600/panzer%2Bregiment%2B8el%2Balamein.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 190px; height: 195px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-JuaXJmEQwVk/Tx7aTALQUII/AAAAAAAAAVQ/JfVUYQxJrSE/s320/panzer%2Bregiment%2B8el%2Balamein.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5701234198297202818" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;color:#66ffff;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cccccc;"&gt;William Sterud's raincoat-&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;color:#66ffff;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;L'impermébl&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;color:#66ffff;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;e de William Sterud&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-aLv5TE3GRfc/Tx7dIIafalI/AAAAAAAAAWY/l71LGB01NmQ/s1600/army%2Bservice%2Bnumber.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 223px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-aLv5TE3GRfc/Tx7dIIafalI/AAAAAAAAAWY/l71LGB01NmQ/s320/army%2Bservice%2Bnumber.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5701237310064912978" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cccccc;"&gt;The inscription "Sterud 6786" was found written in the collar of a US army raincoat found in southern France. Research indicated that there were only four men named Sterud who served in the US army during WWII, and only one, William Sterud, whose Serial Number matched the partial number visible in the raincoat. William Sterud's son was contacted and provided us with pictures of his father, who was a paratrooper and ended the war as a member of the famous 'Screaming Eagles' 101st Airborne Division. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; COLOR: rgb(102,255,255)"&gt;L'inscription "Sterud 6786" a été retrouvée dans le col d'un imperméable américain découvert dans le sud de la France. Des recherches ont permis de découvrir qu'il n'y a que quatre personnes portant le nom de Sterud qui ont servi dans l'armée américaine durant la Seconde Guerre Mondiale, dont un seul, William Sterud, avait un matricule correspondant à celui dans l'imperméable. Le fils de William Sterud a été contacté et nous a envoyé des photos de son père, qui était parachutiste et a terminé la guerre dans la fameuse 101ième Division Aéroportée.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-p82p5cW-8xw/TxxeZwuZqbI/AAAAAAAAAUI/InBLWw6_qI8/s1600/nm-photo-212962.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 226px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5697540764212145538" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-T53Lgk6sseA/TxG7I2AsLYI/AAAAAAAAAQ4/S1jI9qvCnE4/s320/101st%2Bairborne%2Bparatrooper.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;William Sterud&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cccccc;"&gt;Harold Miller's life jacket&lt;/span&gt;-&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#66ffff;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;Le gilet de&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#66ffff;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt; sauvetage de Harold Miller&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Sn4onVVHrj4/Tx7dJJTjsHI/AAAAAAAAAW8/Trd6kOlHLRA/s1600/Glider%2BPilot%2Bnormandy.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Sn4onVVHrj4/Tx7dJJTjsHI/AAAAAAAAAW8/Trd6kOlHLRA/s320/Glider%2BPilot%2Bnormandy.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5701237327484137586" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"&gt;This American life jacket was found by a French teenager in Normandy in the 1970's. He contacted us to try to discover who the jacket had originally belo&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="COLOR: rgb(255,255,255)"&gt;nged to, since the name 'Miller' and a serial number were visible on the front of the jacket. Research led us to find out that the jacket had belonged to glider pilot Harold Miller, who flew i&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="COLOR: rgb(255,255,255)"&gt;nto Normandy on June 6th 1944 as part of the famous Normandy invasion. His daughter was contacted and provided us with a picture of her father's dog tag, that bore an army service number identical to the one painted onto the life jacket. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="color: rgb(102, 255, 255); text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 255, 255);"&gt;Ce gilet de sauvetage Américain a été retrouvé par un adolescent qui vivait &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 255, 255);"&gt;en Normandie dans les années 70. Il m'a contacté pour &lt;/span&gt;tenter de découvrir à qui le gilet avait appartenu, vu que le nom 'Miller' et un matricule étaient visibles sur l'avant du gilet. Des recherches m'ont permis de découvrir que le gilet avait appartenu au pilote de planeur Harold Miller, qui a attéri en Normandie le matin du 6 juin 1944. Sa fille nous a envoyé une photo de la plaque d'identité de son père, ou est visible le même numéro de matricule que sur le gilet.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 190px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5697541001120033762" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-G1b1C-b7rvM/TxG7Woj7q-I/AAAAAAAAASg/VldhFJaoPjU/s320/WWII%2BAmerican%2Bdog%2Btag.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cccccc;"&gt;The mass grave of German soldiers at Villeneuve-Loubet&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 255, 255);"&gt;La fosse commune de soldats Allemands à VilleneuveLoubet&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-R3rAAlYuyoo/Tx7dJaLPUeI/AAAAAAAAAXI/CiWxwhorJz8/s1600/mass%2Bgrave%2Bgerman%2Bsoldiers.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-R3rAAlYuyoo/Tx7dJaLPUeI/AAAAAAAAAXI/CiWxwhorJz8/s320/mass%2Bgrave%2Bgerman%2Bsoldiers.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5701237332012650978" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(204, 204, 204);"&gt; In 2006 a mass grave containing the bodies of 14 German soldiers of Reserve Division 148 was found in the town of Villemeuve-Loubet, in southern France. The soldiers had been killed in battle in August 1944 when the First Special Service Force had attacked the town.  Numerous helmets (including several that were damaged by shrapnel fragments or bullets) and other military equipment were found with the bodies, as well as seven identification tags. By the time the investigation into the grave was finished, eight of the 14 bodies had been identified. Several siblings and children of the &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(204, 204, 204);"&gt;killed soldiers were subsequently cont&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(204, 204, 204);"&gt;acted, including the son of one soldiers who came to Villeneuve-Loubet to visit the spot where his father's body had been found.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#66ffff;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 255, 255);"&gt;En 2006, une fosse commune contenant les corps de 14 soldats Allemands de la Reserve Division 148 a &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 255, 255);"&gt;ét&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 255, 255);"&gt;é retrouv&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 255, 255);"&gt;ée dans le village de Villeneuve-Loubet, dans le sud de la France. Les soldats avaient &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 255, 255);"&gt;ét&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 255, 255);"&gt;é tu&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 255, 255);"&gt;és au combat en aout 1944 lorsque la First Special Service Force avait attaqu&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 255, 255);"&gt;é le village. De nombreux casques &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 255, 255);"&gt; (dont plusieurs avaient &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 255, 255);"&gt;é&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 255, 255);"&gt;té perc&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 255, 255);"&gt;és par des &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 255, 255);"&gt;éclats d'obus ou des balles&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 255, 255);"&gt;)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 255, 255);"&gt; et d'autres &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 255, 255);"&gt;équipements militaires&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 255, 255);"&gt; ont &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 255, 255);"&gt;ét&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 255, 255);"&gt;é retrouv&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 255, 255);"&gt;és, de m&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 255, 255);"&gt;ê&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 255, 255);"&gt;me que sept plaques d'identi&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 255, 255);"&gt;té. Quand l'enq&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 255, 255);"&gt;u&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 255, 255);"&gt;ête sur la fosse commune toucha &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#66ffff;"&gt;à sa fin, huit des 14 corps avaient &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 255, 255);"&gt;é&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 255, 255);"&gt;té identifi&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 255, 255);"&gt;és. Plusieurs fr&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 255, 255);"&gt;ères, soeurs et enfants des soldats tu&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 255, 255);"&gt;és furent ensuite contact&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 255, 255);"&gt;és, y compris le fils d'un des soldats qui est venu &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 255, 255);"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#66ffff;"&gt;à Villeneuve-Loubet pour visiter le lieu exact ou le corps de son &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 255, 255);"&gt;p&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 255, 255);"&gt;ère avait &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 255, 255);"&gt;ét&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 255, 255);"&gt;é d&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 255, 255);"&gt;écouvert.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 255, 255);"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-VelwDRr3atc/Tx7dIgIbwQI/AAAAAAAAAW0/-dP-932IMFQ/s1600/german%2Bdog%2Btags.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 224px; height: 320px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-VelwDRr3atc/Tx7dIgIbwQI/AAAAAAAAAW0/-dP-932IMFQ/s320/german%2Bdog%2Btags.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5701237316431626498" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: center; color: rgb(204, 204, 204);"&gt;German identification tags found with the bodies, enabling their identification over 60 years ater their deaths.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 255, 255);"&gt;Plaques d'identit&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 255, 255);"&gt;és retrouv&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#66ffff;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 255, 255);"&gt;és avec les corps, permettant leur identification plus de 60 ans apr&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 255, 255);"&gt;ès leur mort&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#66ffff;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 255, 255);"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-p82p5cW-8xw/TxxeZwuZqbI/AAAAAAAAAUI/InBLWw6_qI8/s1600/nm-photo-212962.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 211px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-p82p5cW-8xw/TxxeZwuZqbI/AAAAAAAAAUI/InBLWw6_qI8/s320/nm-photo-212962.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5700535025013467570" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(204, 204, 204);"&gt;The son of one soldier visits the location where his father's boy was recovered in 2006.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 255, 255);"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 255, 255);"&gt;Le fils d'un soldat visite les lieux ou les corps de son p&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 255, 255);"&gt;ère a &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 255, 255);"&gt;éte retrouv&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 255, 255);"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 255, 255);"&gt;é en 2006.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 272px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5697541001984326706" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-zM0wPVtFoGA/TxG7Wrx_vDI/AAAAAAAAASY/ycHi5drc3e0/s320/soldat%2Ballemand%2Bdisparu.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(204, 204, 204);"&gt;The sister of one soldier found in Villeneuve-Loubet proudly poses for the photographer of her local newspaper in Poland.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 255, 255);"&gt;La soeur d'un soldat retrouv&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#66ffff;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 255, 255);"&gt;é &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#66ffff;"&gt;à Villeneuve-Loubet&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 255, 255);"&gt; pose fi&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 255, 255);"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 255, 255);"&gt;èrement pour le photographe de son journal local en Pologne.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:180%;" &gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(204, 204, 204);"&gt;Unsolved cases&lt;/span&gt;-&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 255, 255);"&gt;Les cas non résolus&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;color:#66ffff;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(204, 204, 204);"&gt;Jim Heaven Ross's mess tin-&lt;/span&gt;La gamelle de Jim Heaven Ross&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="color:#66ffff;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-md1p6Q78ccE/Tx1OznHQf-I/AAAAAAAAAUU/WBcD5Y_Q40Q/s1600/First%2BSpecial%2BService%2BForce.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 251px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-md1p6Q78ccE/Tx1OznHQf-I/AAAAAAAAAUU/WBcD5Y_Q40Q/s320/First%2BSpecial%2BService%2BForce.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5700799351900635106" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(204, 204, 204);font-size:180%;" &gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt; This mess tin was forgotten in a village of southern France in August 1944, by a soldier who was in all probability a member of either the First Speical Service Force, or the 645th Tank Destroyer Battalion.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(204, 204, 204);font-size:100%;" &gt; In order to make his mess tin clearly recognisable, the soldier carved the following inscriptions into it: 'Jim Heaven Ross 1944'. Unfortunatly, the name 'Ross' is very common, 'Jim' and 'Heaven' are probably nicknames, and there is no serial number or partial serial number; all this combines to make identifying the original owner difficult. A search of the rosters of the First Special Service Force revealed that one soldier of the unit was named: 'J.E. Ross', from Winnipeg, Manitoba. Perhaps this J.E. Ross is the man who lost this mess tin? &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(204, 204, 204);"&gt;US helmet with partial serial number C-0757&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 255, 255);"&gt;Casque Américain avec matricule partiel C-0757&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-uGrNr31KarA/Tx7q3hQUjdI/AAAAAAAAAXk/wMBO_BWVvxY/s1600/armoured%2Bdivision%2Bhelmet.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 276px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-uGrNr31KarA/Tx7q3hQUjdI/AAAAAAAAAXk/wMBO_BWVvxY/s320/armoured%2Bdivision%2Bhelmet.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5701252417838157266" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(204, 204, 204);font-size:100%;" &gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(204, 204, 204);font-size:100%;" &gt;This hel&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(204, 204, 204);"&gt;met was found abandoned in a forest by a French girl in the Somme region of France on September 3rd 1944. On the side of the helmet, the paint has been scraped off in a triangular shape, probably in order to accommodate the insignia of an armored unit, that has since disintegrated with time. The French girl indeed remembered that some men of 'Patton's Army' had camped in the forest the night before. Inside the helmet is the 'laundry number' C-0757, in other words the soldiers initial and the last for digits of his army service number. Because I am not familiar with the units that liberated the Somme region, I have no rosters of soldiers to compare this laundry number with, and have this been unable to find out who the original owner of this helmet was.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(204, 204, 204);font-size:180%;" &gt;Gefreiter Monzhausen's helmet and gas mask&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 255, 255);font-size:180%;" &gt;Le casque et le masque à gaz du Gefreiter Monzhausen&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-DD9yU258C-Y/Tx7aMzmDRDI/AAAAAAAAAVE/NwTHMPEOYDs/s1600/german%2Bhelmet%2Bwire%2Bcamouflage.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 278px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-DD9yU258C-Y/Tx7aMzmDRDI/AAAAAAAAAVE/NwTHMPEOYDs/s320/german%2Bhelmet%2Bwire%2Bcamouflage.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5701234091840717874" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(204, 204, 204);"&gt;This German helmet and gas mask were kept by a family of farmers in Gaubert, near Digne, in the French Alps. The helmet has no identifying characteristics; though it does have an interesting wire passed around it for camouflage purposes. Such wire camouflaged helmets were very popular amongst troops in southern France. The inside of the gas mask is marked with the original owner's name: 'Gefr Monzhausen', in other words Gefreiter (corporal) Monzhausen. I do not know what unit Gefreiter Monzhausen was in, and it is usualy very difficult to research German soldiers because their personal information is kept very private by the German military archives. However, because the name Monzhausen is very uncommon, I am hoping that a relative of Gefreiter Monzhausen may one day happen to stumble upon this webpage one day during a google search, and be able to share more information about him.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 255);"&gt; Ich möchte Kontakt nehmen mit die Angehöriger von der Gefreiter Monzhausen der diesen Helm und Schutzmask in 1944 in der Umgebung von Digne vergessen hat!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-m2xHE2MKGFA/Tx7gf9J4n3I/AAAAAAAAAXY/OrJFKWzD64U/s1600/gefreiter%2Bmonzhausen%2Bkrieg.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 224px; height: 320px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-m2xHE2MKGFA/Tx7gf9J4n3I/AAAAAAAAAXY/OrJFKWzD64U/s320/gefreiter%2Bmonzhausen%2Bkrieg.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5701241017894215538" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(204, 204, 204);"&gt;Lothar Siegert's identification tag&lt;/span&gt;-&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 255, 255);"&gt;La plaque d'identité de Lothar Siegert&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(204, 204, 204);"&gt;I have a German identification tag belonging to a Jäger Lothar Siegert, of Reserve Jäger Bataillon 28, who was born in Dresden on June 28th 1926 and who fought in southern France. Because the archives of the city of Bremen were destroyed by Allied air raids in 1945, I have been unable to find any relatives of Lothar Siegert. Anybody who can share any information on him is welcome to contact me.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 255);"&gt; Ich habe ein Erkennungsmarke die gehört der Jäger Lothar Siegert, geboren in Dresden am 28.6.1944, der hat in Südfrankreich mit den Reserve Jäger Bataillon 28 gekämpft. Die Recherche ist schwer weil der Stadtverwaltung und die Archiven von Dresden in 1945 gebrannt haben. Wenn Sie etwas über Lothar Siegert wissen, können Sie mit mir Kontakt nehmen.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(204, 204, 204);font-size:180%;" &gt;Other research projects:&lt;/span&gt;  &lt;span style="color: rgb(204, 204, 204);"&gt;For future research projects, the author of this blog is trying to find  surviving veterans, information, photos and period documents about the  following graves registration  units:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 102);"&gt;-46th and 48th Quartermaster Graves Registration Companies.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(204, 204, 204);"&gt;Please contact me if you have any information about either the 46th or 48th Graves Registrations.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;color:#cccccc;"&gt;Webmaster: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;a href="mailto:jean-loup@gassend.com"&gt;jean-loup@gassend.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6831195537530051919-8808243337868003086?l=researchww2.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://researchww2.blogspot.com/feeds/8808243337868003086/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://researchww2.blogspot.com/2011/03/enqueter-sur-la-seconde-guerre-mondiale.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6831195537530051919/posts/default/8808243337868003086'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6831195537530051919/posts/default/8808243337868003086'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://researchww2.blogspot.com/2011/03/enqueter-sur-la-seconde-guerre-mondiale.html' title='Finding veterans, missing soldiers and items lost in battle - Rechercher les vétérans, les soldats portés disparus et les objets perdus a la guerre'/><author><name>Jean-Loup</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15698598518966301493</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-esz6nGujg1w/Tx7bkmEbJYI/AAAAAAAAAWA/KWDIwMhmGgw/s72-c/battlefield%2Bdigger.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry></feed>
