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Bob Searl, Sr.(b1917-d2017) | all galleries >> Galleries >> Gallery #4 = WW II DDay Normandy & Across Europe 1944-45 > Thanks for your interest in my precious Album of World War II Memories........A grateful and fortunate Survivor - Bob Searl
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Thanks for your interest in my precious Album of World War II Memories........A grateful and fortunate Survivor - Bob Searl


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B.Flegel 01-May-2013 16:42
good day
In search of authentic footage of the liberation of Pilsen, I found it in your album.Jsou images from Skoda., I was wondering if I could make a copy.
This is me 47 years and the second world known only from vyprávění.Mnoho witnesses already dead, so I am honored that I have found a man who was hell prošel.Byl I would like if I could get to the pictures and a story. If you know people who would like to share with me your experiences I will be grateful.
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Justin Crivello 13-Aug-2004 00:26
Bob,
I am from Seattle WA I am 25yrs old and have a great interest torwards our countries war history, especially WWII. My wife's grandfather Bud Comet, was on the USS Samuel Roberts
when it was sunk by a Japanese cruiser at the Battle off Samar in 1944. He goes next month to his 60th anniversary down in sandiego for it. Any way, our country would not be what it is today if it werent for men like you and Bud. And I think todays generation does not see how important our history is or what it has done for them. Thank you for taking the time to show people the history that you were apart of and I
Salute you for that!
Caryn 10-Oct-2003 07:47
Dear Bob,
Thanks so much for sharing your photo album. I am moved to tears. You and your buddies were just incredibly handsome and dashing andÑ well, you had a lot to be proud of in your day.

My dad fought in India and Pakistan against the Japanese. He was very interested in Photography and has some great photos which I have thought about organizing somehow, someday. It's wonderful lthat you did this, your hard work at the computer will not be forgotten! My parents met during the war, my mother was a USO singer and my dad met her while she was singing at a Jewish dance for GIs in Jacksonville, Florida. The guys kept hollering for my mother to sing "My Yiddishe Mama" and my mother thought it would be too sad to sing that. My father came to the stage to defend her. "Let this nice lady do her show the way she wants to" said my dad. Three months later they got married and my dad got shipped off. They will be married for 60 years in February 2004.

I live in San Francisco and my dad lives in Queens, and he doesn't have a computer, but when I come back there next time I will show him your album on my laptop. I know he'll love it. Please keep it going!!

Thanks so much. You're still handsome :-)

Caryn Leschen, San Francisco


Ailina 06-Oct-2003 23:11
Mr. Searl, your photographic documentary was a profound experience for me. I'm about as removed from the horrors of that event as a person could be, as I'm a 29-year-old mother of five in a quiet neighborhood in the South. This was another generation, another country, another conflict, another lifetime. But the emotional, mental, cultural, political, and human phenomena transcend. It's still ALIVE, and it very much registered in this viewer's spirit.

Thank you so much for your sacrifice, and thank you so much for sharing your experience.

With greatest thanks,
Ailina
Michael 20-Aug-2003 03:10
Sir,
Thank you for your service to our wonderful nation and for sharing some of your memories of service. You can be proud of your effort in defense of the United States.
Michael
Rich Beck 11-Dec-2002 21:46
Mr. Searl, I really enjoyed looking at your gallery. The WWII photos were very interesting. You saw a lot of amazing and terrible things. My dad was an Army Air Corp pilot in europe and participated in resupply and the Rhine Invasion via glider. You can see some of his pictures at:http://www.pbase.com/richhouston/wwii_pics He saw the war from a mostly different perspective (from the air) than you, other than after landing his glider in Germany and in Berlin after the surrender.
Guest 19-Nov-2002 12:30
Thanks for publishing these pictures!
Most of private pics soldiers made, will be lost in a few years, if nobody tries to save them. Good work!

BKD/Germany
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