In Memory Of:

Jim West
1940-2025
Obituary

The Time Has Come --

What with my quickly advancing old age (84), I find it difficult to keep all of my many military sites up to date.  I apologize for that. I will be able to keep all current information "live" on the Internet as long as the wonderful "AmVets of Southern Indiana" continue to host and I can personally afford to keep the fees up to date for the domain name...

I will try to answer any email questions (Host106th@106thInfDivAssn.org), but I do not intend to work on it every day, unless something spectacular comes along.  It's just too difficult. I began it in the year 1990. Thirty-three years is enough.

I will keep all the Google Rosters up-to-date.
They contain information on more than 200,000 Veterans.

Many Thanks to those that have suggested and contributed to the history of our local Veterans - Heroes one and All.

To list just a very few:
Mark Hayden - Computer Guru, Larry Bothe - (Curator Freeman Army Air Field Museum), Lou Thole & Ted Jordan - Freeman Field, John Schaffner, Wayne Dunn & Susan Weiss - 106th INF DIV, John Bowen - 31st INF DIV, COL Jorg Stachel - Camp Atterbury Commanding Officer and friend, Daughter Christine (Ta-Wo-Kana-Geda - "She Speaks Songs") Bartholomew County IN Pioneer Cemeteries Oversite, Son Christopher (Byggir - The Builder) that helps with remodels and builds, Egbert van de Schootbrugge - 30th INF DIV, Mike Kist & Rick Caldwell - AmVets of Southern Indiana, Michael Neufeld - Smithsonian and so very many, many more.

Questions to me at Host106th@106thInfDivAssn.org
 

The OFFICIAL SITE for:
Historic Camp Atterbury, Fort Benjamin Harrison, Freeman Army Air Field, Wakeman General Hospital,
Billings General Hospital, Indiana Veterans' Graves, Italian POWs in Indiana, German POWs in Indiana, and
Camp Atterbury Italian & German Prisoner's of War.

Also:
28th, 30th, 31st, 83rd, 92nd, & 106h Infantry Divisions
in WW2 and Korean War

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If your search doesn't produce any good results, try sending me an email. Give me the details of what you're looking for and I will try to help.

Our profound thanks go to the AmVets of Southern Indiana,
who supply the space and encouragement and equally as important,
the "smarts" to the 106th programming expert - Wayne Dunn.

Page last revised 10/25/2024
 James D. West 
Host106th@106thInfDivAssn.org
 www.IndianaMilitary.org

more than 50 GigaBytes of History As It Happened
Nothing is changed, interpreted or modified in any way. You see it as it happend

The information presented in these sites has & is contributing to the following :
1. KING TV, Seattle WA.
"Purple Heart returned to family"
07/2017.

2. "Warriors of the 106th"
 book with 41 references.
2017.

3. "Integrated Cultural Resources Management plan for Indiana Army National Guard Facilities"
2001 - 2006

4. Camp Atterbury Joint Maneuver Training Center, August 08/11/2000.

5. Camp Atterbury Veterans Memorial Assn. (CAVMA)
Continuous

6. 30th Infantry Division
web site
Continuous

7. "WW2 Jet Parts Unearthed at Freeman", Seymour IN
07/17/2012

8. "The Diggers"
TV episode of Freeman Field digs Seymour IN

9. "GI JEWS"
Jewish Americans in a WW2 movie

10. Atterbury Crier
11/2004

11. The Republic, Columbus IN
11/11/2004

12. The Republic, Columbus IN
11/14/2004.

13. Shelbyvile News, IN
03/21/2005.

14. Shelbyville, IN News
03/22/2006.

15. The Republic, Columbus IN
07/17/2012

16. 106th Infantry Division Assn. Discussion Board
Continuous

17. Revere's Riders
"National Museum of the Pacific War"

18. German Military Attaché
German Embassy, Washington D. C.
Search for German POWs held in US
by personal visit of the Military Attaché' to Camp Atterbury

19. PBS affiliate at Indiana University in Bloomington, IN.  a documentary segment on the Tuskegee Airmen in Indiana.

20. United States Military Grave Registrations
Searching for KIAs and MIAs.

I am so very pleased that this organization consults my records in their continuing searches for our missing Heores

21. 01/2017
"Mitchell Gallery of Flight Museum"
 at General Mitchell International Airport, MKE, WI

22. 01/15/2018
Return of military ID tag lost on Normandy beach to Boris Stern, 30th INF DIV.

23. 04/17/2018
Documentary on
MSgt Roddie Edmonds,
who saved 200 American Jewish soldiers

24. 07/14/2018
Dutch/Belgian Fields of Honor
www.fieldsofhonor-database.com

25. 07/14/2018
Indiana University Studies app
to support the Indiana High School
Studies app.

26. 07/31/2018
"Autopsy of a Battle"
by Jean-Loup Gassend
08/26/1944

27. 03/07/2019
Samuel Klee PhD dissertation about prison farms during World War II

28.
"Wyoming WWII Film"
of an American POW during WWII, held in Stalag XIIA, Stalag XB, and Marlag Nord.
04/19/2019

29.
www.fieldsofhonor-database.com
reference the rosters regularly 06/19/2019

30.
 www.RohnaClassified.com
HMT Rohna attack by German guided bomb, 11/26/1943
T/4 Joseph Pisinski
31 Signal Const. BN

31. 83rd Infantry Division Association
Continuous

32. Smithsonian Institute
investigating the Freeman Field German V2 rocket which is now on display in Washington DC. 08/24/2022

33."Hitler's Reluctant Emissaries" A film looking at the creation and operation of German POW camps in the US during WW2. 10/25/2022. Texas Archival Entertainment, LLC.

34. 92nd INF DIV
National Museum
of the U.S. Army
Fort Belvoir, VA
05/03/2023

35. Garland County Historical Society, Hot Springs AK
08/31/2023


 

 
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