WWII US Army Serial Numbers: Meaning in the First Digits The U.S. Army began issuing serial numbers to help avoid mixing the records of people with the same name. (A genealogist’s dream come true!) When we dig a little deeper into the number itself, we can learn a bit about the pe...
Harry Truman had only succeeded to the Presidency on April 12, 1945, upon the death of President Roosevelt, only 2 months after the Yalta conference. Germany surrendered on May 7, starting the 3 month clock to the promised entrance of the Soviet Army to hopefully finish off the Japanese ...
Open AccessArticle by Valeria Freitas Chaves 1, Fabricio Fagundes Pereira 2,*, Jorge Braz Torres 3, Ivana Fernandes da Silva 2, Patrik Luiz Pastori 4, Harley Nonato de Oliveira 5, Valmir Antônio Costa 6and Carlos Reinier Garcia Cardoso ...