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Just a quick post to update the website with some new photos! And by “new,” I mean new to me. These are photographs I didn’t know existed and had never seen until this summer. My parents recently decided to move back home to Chattanooga, Tennessee, and while going through boxes upon boxes of old family photographs I stumbled across an old envelope containing the photos you see below. I was genuinely shocked to find them. I was fairly certain I had seen just about every photog

The Adjusted Service Rating Score (WWII)... a.k.a., "The Points System" During World War II, the US Army used what was officially called the Adjusted Service Rating Score , but almost all soldiers referred to it as the “ points system ”. This determined which soldiers were eligible for return to the United States after VE-Day on May 8, 1945. It was designed to be objective and to reward length of service, overseas service, combat, participation, and decorations. As seen in th

On June 18, 1945, in a rare battlefield ceremony in Dornstadt, Germany, Technical Sergeant Charles H. Coolidge was formally presented the...

Honoring the 80th Anniversary of VE Day: A letter from Charles Coolidge Today marks the 80th anniversary of VE Day—Victory in Europe...

An odd title for a blog entry for sure, but I thought y'all would enjoy this article from the 11 February 1945 edition of the T-Patcher...

This archive has been a long time coming! For the last few years, I’ve been busy preserving, scanning, organizing, and archiving many of...