mach1derful Posted September 2, 2010 #1 Posted September 2, 2010 New M1 shell. Ebay for $12.50. Looks like it has a partial chinstrap on one bail, and an ID on the inside. Looks like Ivan K Bell. 33256044. Should be able to research, hopefully. Anyways, thought I'd share since I've been absent for a while.
Raddock Posted September 2, 2010 #2 Posted September 2, 2010 Great score, I like that. Good luck with the research. Hope you can find his unit which can be tough.
BEAST Posted September 2, 2010 #3 Posted September 2, 2010 It looks like the last digit is a "9" not 4. Funny thing is, if you do use a 4 instead of a 9, that soldier is from the same county as Bell. Both ae from Indiana County Pennsylvania. Nice helmet :thumbsup:
mach1derful Posted September 3, 2010 Author #4 Posted September 3, 2010 It looks like the last digit is a "9" not 4. Funny thing is, if you do use a 4 instead of a 9, that soldier is from the same county as Bell. Both ae from Indiana County Pennsylvania. Nice helmet :thumbsup: Do you find that out on the NARA search engine? I gotta find the link to it, I have a new computer and lost my valuable archive of important militaria research links.
mach1derful Posted September 7, 2010 Author #5 Posted September 7, 2010 Helmet arrived. Here it is all cleaned up. Going to work on a little info card for the stand. Hopefully I can find more information on Ivan Bell.
mach1derful Posted September 7, 2010 Author #6 Posted September 7, 2010 Ivan K. Bell Birth: Dec. 29, 1910 Death: May 12, 1987 Buried in Erie, PA at the Wintergreen Gorge Cemetry.
Theorywolf Posted September 7, 2010 #7 Posted September 7, 2010 Now that you have his name, serial number, and DOD go to the social security death index online and get his SS#. Then go online to the national archive in St. Louis and download their form for getting their service record. Looks like he has a U.S. Army serial number for WW II so there you go! Send it off and just maybe they will send you back his file in a month or two!! Cheers, Mike
mach1derful Posted September 7, 2010 Author #9 Posted September 7, 2010 Mike and Forum Support, thank you so much! I'll keep you posted on what I find. Forum support, it looks a bit hard to read but is that MD under arm or service? (MD-medical department?)
mach1derful Posted September 8, 2010 Author #10 Posted September 8, 2010 Well if he arrived in Aug 1945 on the USS Breckenridge, than he definitely served in the ETO. That transportation ship made 5 trips to France to bring troops home, before it transferred to the Pacific. I wonder if I can narrow down his unit, etc. using that ship log? Also, the 56th Station Hospital was located in North Africa, for a time in Cairo, Egypt.
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