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Ancestry/Genealogy

reACTIONary

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29. What I do...

Reply to bucolic_frolic (Reply #16)

Fri Sep 6, 2019, 08:33 AM

Sep 2019

...and would suggest you do, is to scan them and post them to to the Internet Archive (https://archive.org). Provide some background and contextual information. This will make them available, far into the future, for anyone who has an interest, personal or for research.

Stuck in a box somewhere in the basement of a small museum, they won't do anyone any good. But if they were scanned and posted, you could still do that and know that regardless of what happens to them physically, they will always be available to those who have an interest.

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Googling my Dad's WW2 unit this weekend, I found this on eBay! [View all] Dennis Donovan Sep 2019 OP

Congrats on your find! The Genealogist Sep 2019 #1

It's sooo cool, with the 40mm Bofors guns in the foreground Dennis Donovan Sep 2019 #2

Wonderful, lucky you! These are terrific photos in excellent appalachiablue Sep 2019 #14

My Dad had twin and single Bofurs Mendocino Sep 2019 #24

Yes I've seen photos of these huge guns on US ships. Dad was appalachiablue Sep 2019 #25

It's not called the Greatest Generation for nothing. Sneederbunk Sep 2019 #3

Totally awesome. Good for your family!! LakeArenal Sep 2019 #4

Got to admire the swagger in WWII soldiers, etc. My dad had that same look. Hoyt Sep 2019 #5

Awesome TEB Sep 2019 #6

Very cool. Skinner Sep 2019 #7

What a marvelous find for you. blm Sep 2019 #8

Those barracks bring back some old memories. Thanks. demosincebirth Sep 2019 #9

So cool! We owe so much to them, the Greatest, as I told my dad many times. FailureToCommunicate Sep 2019 #10

A New Family Heirloom! dlk Sep 2019 #11

Coincidence? Your thought and a photo of him being there? Karadeniz Sep 2019 #12

What an awesome find! denbot Sep 2019 #13

Oh, good! LisaM Sep 2019 #15

That is amazing! bucolic_frolic Sep 2019 #16

I would check with the WWII Museum in New Orleans Sherman A1 Sep 2019 #22

Thanks bucolic_frolic Sep 2019 #23

What I do... reACTIONary Sep 2019 #29

I bet if someone mentioned this to your local newspaper... they'd love to write about it! NurseJackie Sep 2019 #17

Aww, so nice. Congrats on the find. iluvtennis Sep 2019 #18

Looks just like you, just without the mustache. marble falls Sep 2019 #19

How cool! nt SunSeeker Sep 2019 #20

My dad took a lot of photos during WWII. JohnnyRingo Sep 2019 #21

That's really great..the best generation ever Thekaspervote Sep 2019 #26

No surprise the sleezy and morally corrupt had to wait 2 generations to get back into power applegrove Sep 2019 #27

Them is some real handsome guys! sdfernando Sep 2019 #28