Hello from Belgium.
As you will see, there is one category with American Infantry, Armored, Airborne and Cavalry Units/Division in the top of the left side bar and another one in the bottom. The top one will be the place for the archives, the photos and everything related to the unit while the bottom will only deals with the Order of Battle of the unit and the comments from visitors.
About the top category, you are all invited to comment the photos in French, English, Dutch and German (Caption) as well as add you own photos to the collection (if you have some). Please notice that the photos MUST have a size of minimum 1024 pixels.
I am only trying to get some order in the area and allow students and historians to find quickly what they are searching for.

You are all welcome to participate in this project and if you have Wartime photos from your father or grandfather, send them to me and I will see if I can ameliorate the quality (photoshop) of the generally small pictures to put them online. In every cases, please scan with a resolution of minimum 300 DPI (Dot per Inche). If you really don’t know how to do this then please send me the original and I will send them back to you (100%) as soon as they are scanned.
Gunter

Photos : Marty Cavanagh : caption see comments at the bottom of the post.

It is with much sadness that I am writing to you. We are all struggling to deal with the loss of our beloved Col. Townsend. I want to share with you some of the events of Colonel’s last days. Last Sunday morning I met Isaac (Epps) at the hospital, and we spent the day at Col. Townsend’s bedside, in the Intensive Care Unit. We met late in the morning, and I stayed clear through until 8:00 pm, when the visiting hours are over and they ask you to leave.
Isaac had been there the day before, and had talked to Colonel and had made friends with the nurses and staff in the ICU.
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I am sorry but I can’t work right now as I had a motherboard crash in my main computer, I bought a new one Asus P5W DH with a 2.4 Intel Dual Core CPU and a DDR2 2 Gigs Dram but unfortunately I didn’t know that this motherboard didn’t have the Monitor feature onboard … Now I am bugged because Graphic Cards ….
I am using a Laptop and I can’t work with such a toy ….:(

I would like to send all my best wishes for 2010 to all of you, in every country all around our planet. 2009 was a very hard and even rough period for a lot of people all around the globe and 2010 will not be better as long as Banks, Traders and Speculators will invest money to buy virtually all the human being essential goods, with virtual money then sale these goods for virtual money, just to make real benefits on the costs of the humanity. These Banks, Traders and Speculators can be a part of this no risk supreme game because, if they broke, Governments will use the regular peoples’ real money to feed them back.
2010 will also be a bad year for the now definitely cut into three thirds planet; 1st third, the small people, workers, jobless; the 2nd third, the poor countries that will see children starving as usual since 100 and 100 of years; the 3rd third, the one that just want to destroy the other two thirds.
Nothing is working right on the planet and do not believe that it will be a little better in 2010. I just see black clouds in my dreams and hopes.

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1- Salutations Gunter : have you had sight of my new book – an accurate record/history of station 167 ridgewell – Title is The Airmen Of Ridgewell – over 200 pages – 60 photos – some not published before -some in colour. Could be that some information therein not in your archives ? email here

2 – I have lived not far from Warton base all my life. I was born in Preston in April 1944, my father in law was a GI called Edwin Beamer, who was based at Warton, but spent time off duty with my family. I have recently started trying to trace Edwin, who will be in his 80’s now , if alive. I am finding the plethora of sources time consuming to wade thru’ because there are so many interesting links. I have found records of an Edwin Beamer from Lycoming Penn. but this man only joined the Air Force in 1945. I would love to hear from anyone who could help me streamline my search !!
Cheers Alan Edwin Sullivan email here

As we prepare for the Christmas Season let us not forget our brave men and women who are serving our country in troubled spots all over the world. A Dear Friend of mine, an Airborne Comrade from the World War II vintage, sent me this Christmas Poem. I hope that you will enjoy it.
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Dear Gunter,
I have loaded the picture on the EUCMH webserver and your system is working pretty well. On the photo, you will see that it has been enhanced. You will see also that the man is wearing an U.N.T.S.O. medal ribbon for service in Palestine as an Observer (had to be in 1948) as there is a date on the back of January 4th 1949.
He is also wearing a M.P. sash. The picture came from my mothers possessions after she had passed away. Mother lived in Cardiff. The St. Mellons Intransit Depot would have been only about 2 miles or so away. So I am trying to find out what US Units were at St. Mellons.
The request if open for everyone who can help in this case. If you can get a listing of the Troops that passed trough the St Mellons Transit Depot pass the information online to help Paul.

Message from a Facebook friend O.B. Wright. It’s a little old news but hell its a good one to read anyway. Leading the fight is US Marine Gunnery Sgt Michael Burghardt, known as ‘Iron Mike’ or just ‘Gunny’. He is on his third tour in Iraq. He had become a legend in the bomb disposal world after winning the Bronze Star for disabling 64 IEDs and destroying 1.548 pieces of ordinance during his second tour. Then, on September 19, he got blown up. He had arrived at a chaotic scene after a bomb had killed four US Marines. He chose not to wear the bulky bomb protection suit. ‘You can’t react to any sniper fire and you get tunnel-vision,’ he explains.
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To All Veterans, thank you for your service !
THE FINAL INSPECTION

Texte Facebook de Frédéric Devevey, envoyé aux membres de Seconde guerre mondiale – GCM 44.
Objet : Petite précision sur la legislation.
Petite mise au point amicale suite à un mail reçu sur mon profil, on m’a demandé quelle est la législation en matière d’utilisation respectueuse ou pas, d’un détecteur de métaux. Les choses sont en fait claires en France et je répond donc :
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