I am searching for a veteran of WW2 who served in the 561st Field Artillery Battalion of the US Army. He would have been born between 1903 and 1928.

The 561st FA Bn served in Europe starting with their landing on Utah Beach on June 30, 1944, and most of the unit left Europe from Le Harve, France in July, 1945. They barely avoided capture at the Battle of the Bulge in late 1944.

I have the following on a Dalton Gay:

NARA AAD serial number 6926417
NARA AAD county/state at time of enlistment Hillsborough/FL
NARA AAD date of enlistment 1/5/1940
NARA AAD native state FL
SSDI possible last known location Bartow, Polk, FL
SSDI possible birth date 3/23/1920
SSDI possible death date 12/1980
SSDI possible state issued SSN FL

Even with all that, he may not be the one I'm looking for.

The 561st FA Bn has an informal association that meets at a reunion each year; thus my effort to find more living veterans of the 561st or their descendants.

There were about 500 men in the battalion, and I started with a roster of the battalion that had been developed some years ago by living veterans at the time. I have first names, middles initials, and last names on most of the men. There are some with no middle initial and a few where all I've got is a last name.

I have the county/state of origin at the time of enlistment in the Army only if it is shown above. I do have all the data I can gather from the Social Security Death Index, the 1930 Census, the NARA AAD database, and the Registry page of the National World War 2 Memorial web site. In all of these sites, I usually get multiple listings for any name I enter, so that by itself doesn't always narrow my search to an individual.

I have many letters out to people based on the little information I do have for a growing number of the names on my roster.

My real interest is where are these men today? And in cases where the veteran is deceased, where are any descendants or family members?