Thanks so much to Joseph Muia daughter, Mary Fran for sharing great information from her dad on his service in the 735th ROB.
We have been busy scanning reunion photo albums, unit histories and other doc and I will be posting much more on the 735th soon, a unit we didn't know that much about.
Thanks again to Mary Fran for sharing all this with the blog.

 

This is the scrapbook of private William Clinton Dunham. of the 733rd ROB with 100+ photos btwn the scrapbook and manila envelope full found inside. Starts with his time spent at Camp Jesse Turner in Arkansas through his overseas time in Germany/France.

Album from World War II.

Photos documenting the 3rd Military Railway Service, Persian Gulf Command, US Army. (showing Frank L. Hoppe of Havre, MT and his service in Persia).  Many small snap shot photos of buildings, monuments, bazaars, native Iranians.  Of note, photo of the King and Queen of Persian (Shaw) and FDR, Churchill and Stalin photos (probably taken at Malta; Most of the photos are identified on reverse..

Also contains one letter home to his mother, Large fold out map of the world (1940s era, good condition), military theme cartoons clipped from magazines and newspapers, Program from "This is the Army"... Irving Berlin's All-Soldier Musical Review, newspaper clippings about how "Iron Horses" kept in condition by shopmen of the Railroad Battalions.

Ration Card belonging to Frank, Co. B, 730th., photo copies of V-mail sent home for Xmas, New Year. Photos of Palaces and hotels, at Isphahan and Parband, Holy Temple at Gahm, Gold Temple at Gham

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Franklin writes about his Father-in-lawRoy Edward Mitchell .... Just found these additional photos of the battalion. The box car in the background appears to be one of the barracks cars they converted from French boxcars. R. Edward Mitchell is individual in uniform. We don't know the tee shirt guy. Back of Tiger Tank photo, " a German Tiger tank that lost his argument with a Yank".








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