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Surnames: Carver
Classification: Query
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I am searching for a veteran of WW2 who served in the 561st Field Artillery Battalion of
the US Army. He would have been born between 1903 and 1928.
The 561st FA Bn served in Europe starting with their landing on Utah Beach on June 30,
1944, and most of the unit left Europe from Le Harve, France in July, 1945. They barely
avoided capture at the Battle of the Bulge in late 1944.
I have the following on Lonnie D Carver
serial number 34588832
county/state at time of enlistment Madison/AL
place of enlistment Ft McCellan, AL
date of enlistment 1/4/43
native state AL
birth year 1922
There were about 500 men in the battalion, and I started with a roster of the battalion
that had been developed some years ago by living veterans at the time. I have first
names, middles initials, and last names on most of the men. There are some with no middle
initial and a few where all I've got is a last name.
I have the county/state of origin at the time of enlistment in the Army only if it is
shown above. I do have all the data I can gather from the Social Security Death Index,
the 1930 Census, the NARA AAD database, and the Registry page of the National World War 2
Memorial web site. In all of these sites, I usually get multiple listings for any name I
enter, so that by itself doesn't always narrow my search to an individual.
I have many letters out to people based on the little information I do have for a growing
number of the names on my roster. Addresses for those people were taken from Internet
"White Pages."
My real interest is where are these men today? And in cases where the veteran is
deceased, where are any descendants or family members?