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Re: finding World War II vets
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Paula Wiegand <[log in to unmask]>
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Paula Wiegand <[log in to unmask]>
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Sat, 28 Feb 2004 17:06:03 -0500
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On 28 Feb 2004 at 10:59, Libbie Griffin wrote:

> A town in Holland is attempting to locate 12 men (or their survivors)
> who were hidden from the Germans in their town during WWII, after
> their plane was shot down.  The men were in the First Airborne Div.,
> but attempts to locate them via the vets organization affiliated with
> that division haven't been successful.

The First Airborne Division was British not American, did you mean
the 82nd (American's first airborne division) or the 101st?

If you are tracing British veterans, I would begin at
www.1837online.com to search for births, marriages or deaths.
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Paula L. Wiegand
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Genealogy Quest
"Military records at reasonable prices"
http://www.genealogy-quest.com/Military/index.html

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