Livianne,
I and my wife, (vic3o3) are working on a similar project for my father's unit, (243rd signal operations company).
He also never talked about his time in WWII other than a couple of minor stories. I suggested to him a couple of times of recounting his experiences during WWII for Stephen Ambrose's oral history project at the Eisenhower Center. He never did and last Thanksgiving we lost him to a massive heart attack.
I am heading up to what will probably be the last reunion of his old unit this weekend. I'm hoping to get some information from the remaining survivors. What I'd love to do is be able to piece together something of a unit history. Mainly just for my sake but for anyone else who was interested also.
There are several different resources on the net if you have some basic information. My wife can post links...
Also if you can locate any surviving members of your grandfather's unit they may be able to help you piece the information togther also.
Semper Fi
My mom always says if I can't find the information then nobody can...let's just hope she's right. :)
Do you think the VA would be able to help me? He was getting full benefits in the last few years of his life so they would have to have at least some info of his available to them - would my mother (his daughter) be able to get anything from them?