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Americal Legacy Foundation Goes Live on the Web

ALF Website

As we remember the end of World War II on the 70th anniversary of the surrender of the Empire of Japan, a new website has been launched to help remember the soldiers who made that victory possible. The Americal Legacy Foundation is a new non-profit organization dedicated to preserving the memory of the soldiers who served in the U.S. Army’s Americal Division during World War II, the Cold War, and the Vietnam War. A new website supporting the Foundation just launched this week, and can be found at: http://americalfoundation.org.

The Americal Legacy Foundation seeks to preserve the division’s legacy through monuments, public media, museum displays and scholarship programs. The Foundation will also provide a central point for the purchase of the division’s history of World War II, Under the Southern Cross. The monument program is in full swing, with a number of accomplishments to show. There is a monument at the National Infantry Museum, outside Fort Benning. As written about on this site, a monument at the site of the Japanese surrender on Cebu at the end of World War II was dedicated in March 2015 (read that story here). A future monument to honor Americal Artillery units is in the works, to be located at Fort Sill, Oklahoma. Another Monument is envisioned at Fort Sam Houston, Texas to honor Americal medics, doctors and nurses.

Looking forward into the future, the preservation of the legacy of the Americal Division depends on the families and descendants of those who served. I encourage any and all to contact the Americal Legacy Foundation, make a donation, and inquire about other ways to help this important cause.

2015: Website Relaunch

I am very pleased to announce a relaunch of this website. The original site was launched in 2010, using the Omeka platform from George Mason University. For a few years now, I’ve wanted to migrate to a newer format, with a blog. This blog will allow me to post updates and news story about my research. It will also hopefully be a good way to connect veterans of the unit and their families. In 5 years of being online, I’ve made so many connections to other Company G men and their families, but the old website format made it difficult to talk about it. I hope to do more of that in the future.

The newer, streamlined format should also make it easier to navigate the site, and will allow me to make easier and more frequents updates and corrections. Stay tuned for more to come shortly!

New 182nd Infantry website, launched May 2015.
New 182nd Infantry website, launched May 2015.
Old 182nd Infantry website, launched in 2010.
Old 182nd Infantry website, launched in 2010.