I was able to do the same with the v-mail letters my father sent to his parents from the Pacific. Somewhere along the line my mother got them and I found them after she died. The letters are amazingly innocuous in light of the kind of hell the war in the south Pacific was like. (As if there is any other kind.) I also found the 32nd Division Association website and learned they were to have a reunion here in northern California a few years ago. I met a lot of his comrades but none who remembered him or were in his Company. I don't think many besides my father survived the war. They got stuck out in the wilds of Leyte Island without supplies and were missing for about three weeks. I might try to find the book you mentioned in your post. Thanks for the tip.
What I’m finding interesting in a lot of the footage used in this series, is how much of it was in color. Stuff I’ve never seen before, such as landings on Islands in the Pacific, or on the beaches in Italy. I’m really enjoying this color footage. Wonder where he dug it all up from. Lot’s of research had to have gone into this documentary. Many, many hours of work and editing. By the way, I like the music that Wynton Marsalis has done for the background. Some of it is very unusual, and frankly eery, when used during battle scenes. Very unique.