Don,
Also don't over look the branch that used it. You may find a photo in it in something labeled so obscure as "Mechanics working on aircraft, ship, etc"
Rick
---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: jim gilmore <jgilmore@ptd.net>
Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2002 22:52:16 -0500
>
>Don wrote,
>
> ............I contacted a Mr. Lester who is supposedly a
>experienced researcher at NARA, College Park, MD.
>He says that the US Army "took pictures of everything they bought"
>with respect to vehicles. True?
>A specific Willys or Ford jeep wouldn't be there, of course, but what
>about my weird panel?
>What do you say Mr. Gilmore, Doyle, Stephens, Vaughn, Lathrop?
>...................
>
>
> Well.......I don't know it they took a photo of EVERYTHING...........but
>there are photos of most everything. You must know where to look though.......
>
> You can't just go there and look in one file and find every photo......
>
> I have been through over 34,000 photos just in the Army contact print
>boxes alone. And this was just from 1940 to mid 1943!! This does not
>include the USMC, Navy, Coast Guard or civilian photos that I have looked
>through.
>
> I don't have time right now to give a crash course in Archive digging.
>Maybe if I have time this weekend I'll post a overview of how to go about it.
>
> REMEMBER.........you are the only one who really cares about getting a
>photo of your vehicle. The people who work at the National Archives are
>very helpful but....they just don't have the time to go through the
>thousands of photos to find what you might need. You have to take at least
>a week and go digging for 12 hours a day to really find the "gold".
>
> First thing to do is to go to the Henry Ford Archives in Dearborn
>MI. Start where your vehicle started from. You are more likely to find
>photos there than the Nat. Archives but you must go and dig yourself.
>
> A good tip.........don't think of what your vehicle is......but what it
>also is! It is a panel truck but it may be found under such obscure photo
>titles as "lockers", machine shop, service truck, maintenance truck,
>airfields, shipyards, and even surplus. These are all photo titles. I found
>some great photos of GP's in a file labeled "visitors" and others in "radio
>installations".
>
> Jim
>
>
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