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What We Do   In The News   Sample Reports   Sample Analysis   World War 2   Korean War   Request a Quote   Research Subject   Database   Testimonials   Contact Us		Bill Beigel In The News World War 2 Mysteries Are At Last Solved Professional World War 2 Researcher William L. Beigel finds answers to the questions friends and relatives have been asking for over 60 years. William Beigel, of Torrance, will be speaking for the Conejo Valley Genealogical Society in Simi Valley on Tuesday, May 20, 2008 at 6:45 PM. Beigel finds the records of those who were killed, wounded or Prisoners of War in World War 2 and Korea, information that their next of kin probably never knew. Due to war time secrecy and other concerns, casualty information was rarely provided to relatives during World War 2. A terse "your son is Missing in Action over France" or "your father was killed in the Philippines" was all the information most ever received. However, Beigel, who has appeared on "Fox and Friends" and "Life and Times" on television, and in numerous periodicals, has cracked the code. "Military agencies prepared specific files for those who were killed during the War" he says, and the level of detail and specificity provided in the files can be "staggering". In reading the narrative in the files, Beigel says "it's almost like you were there". Many years of experience has enabled Beigel to interpret the various files that exist for his clients. "When the military prepared the documents" he says "they weren't interested in making them easy to understand; they were prepared for reasons of military expediency, and often include a bewildering array of acronyms and abbreviations". A prospective client once called me up and said he had received a file from the Air Force, and couldn't make sense of it. "What is RMC, or EUS, or DED"? After a brief discussion, Beigel got the business. For the record, "RMC" is Returned to Military Control; "EUS" is Evacuated to the United States, and "DED" is "Presumed Dead, Remains Not Recovered". Many heart-breaking stories come out of Beigel's research. "I did some work a few years ago for a woman whose father was shot down in the War, and survived to become a POW in Germany". But the man would never discuss his experience, and after he died, his daughter contacted Beigel to get the story of what had happened. After a few months of digging, Beigel found the report of the crash of the man's B-24 "Liberator" heavy bomber. The aircraft had been hit by heavy anti-aircraft fire on its final mission. Her father had been trying to hold on to the foot of a fellow crewmember who will still alive, but had partly fallen out of the plane through a hole in the fuselage. Eventually the crewmate slipped from his grasp, falling to his death somewhere over Hungary. "And I'll bet that her father thought about that event every day for the rest of his life, and maybe he felt the boot slipping away from his hand each night as he drifted off to sleep". The presentation will be in the Marvin E. Smith Community room at the Grant E. Brimall Library, at 1401 E. Janss Road, in Thousand Oaks. For further details, contact Judy Hall of the Conejo Valley Genealogical Society at (805) 526-1120. Personalized WW2 Historical Research • (310) 791-3949 • email © 2003-2005 Personalized WW2 Historical Casualty Research. All rights reserved.
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