Researching Ops

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Researcher

Dear Larry,

As requested, for the boards. I did a web search for "NARA Reasearcher" and chose the following:

Westmoreland Research
Post Office Box 20069
Alexandria, VA 22320-9804
Telephone: (202) 421-5151
Fax: (703) 317-1709
E-mail: mjc@westmorelandresearch.org
Contact Person: Michael Constandy

I'd highly recommend Mike. He's doing a very professional job researching my grandfather for us, and he found things in hours that I had no idea even existed.

We're very pleased with the quality of his research, and the costs are very resonable considering what he's finding!

Will post more as I get further information.
Sincerely,
Amber

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Many thanks, Amber. I just replied to your PM, too.

--Larry

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Update on research!

Hi, and a sincere thank you to everyone who's helped me research my Grandfather as well as the medals my dad had in his footlocker.

*UPDATE* My researcher has provided me with a huge packet of documents copied from microfiche, which I'm still going over. However, I thought that I would post the following for your interest. If you have any insights or comments on the following, I'd appreciate your input!

From Opa's Lebenslauf:

"On 5.VI 1941 I was enrolled as a volunteer in the Waffen
SS in Weimar-Buchenwald. My
Military8 Number is: SS Bombardier9 Karl Drews
Military Nr. 37497."

Pasted on the boards are:

Opa's handwritten lebenslauf
a translation in English
Oma's lebenslauf (not yet translated)
Photos of Opa and Opa
Family tree documents

Hope you find these interesting, thanks for your comments!
Amber

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translation into English - Opa's lebenslauf

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Oma's lebenslauf

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Photos of Opa

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side view

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in uniform!

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We'll have better copies of the pictures, soon, but wanted to post what I had.

These are my Oma - she and I went skydiving together when she was 65 years old!

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side

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full length

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family tree to prove lineage

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Thanks for your interest and any help. The documents I still need to go over include feldpost numbers and other details. I'll post those as I sort them out.

Thanks!
Amber

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looking through my packet, most of it relates to geneology, but I did find a reference on the front of a booklet to:

Diestgrad (rank?) ss Rttf, which I assume is SS Rottenfuhrer, with the date 25 jun 1943