My father was Marvin E. Roseberry. he served in Italy during WW2. How can I find other who might still be alive and would know soemthing about what he did over there. He never talked about it and has since passed on to Heaven. Thank You Deanna Daughter
Originally posted by deasigns@Sep 18 2004, 09:18 PM My father was Marvin E. Roseberry. he served in Italy during WW2. How can I find other who might still be alive and would know soemthing about what he did over there. He never talked about it and has since passed on to Heaven. Thank You Deanna Daughter [post=28220]Quoted post[/post] Do you know any more than that he served in Italy? There are associations for old soldiers. It would be good if you knew his unit. If you do you could, with luck, contact his wartime friends. Also, you can probably read something about his service from books about the fighting in Italy. If you do not know his unit tell us what information you do have. People here will be able to tell you from things like the patch he wore, the address on his letters etc etc etc. Anything at all that you can come up with would be great as we are working blind here. We don't even know which country he was from. However, from his name I would guess that he was an American?
Start off with his nation's military records. If they're American, they likely got torched in the famous 1973 at the National Military Personnel Records Center in St. Louis, but try anyway. Get hold of his discharge and other paperwork, which should have the units he served with. Next stop are your Public Records Offices for those units' diaries and records, and then the reunion groups connected with them, to find his buddies. Then come the histories of his division, regiment, and battalion. The ones commissioned by the outfit will have his name and feats...they are good on that sort of thing. Also the official histories of the campaigns...they will give his unit's operations fairly precisely. If he's a New Zealander, you can get his battalion's history.
