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=== 16 September 2026 ===

* '''Infobox ~~personal~~ fields trimmed''' — Soldier infoboxes no longer show Education, Spouse/marital, or ~~Occupation~~ (~~usually~~ NARA ~~enlistment~~ snapshots~~). Those~~ stay in the Technical record~~; curated life details belong in Biography and Timeline~~.

* '''1st MRBC Unit History roster''' — New [[1st Mobile Radio Broadcasting Company]] page with the printed ''Unit History'' cover and Consolidated Roster (PDF + linked transcription); featured on [[Training materials]] and linked from [[Camp Ritchie]].

* '''MISLS WAC yearbook photos''' — Fold3 yearbook pages and crops (Capt. Marian E. Nestor; grads leaving for Camp Ritchie; first MISLS WACs) added to [[Nisei and Pacific]] and [[Ritchie WACs]]; yearbook confirms '''21''' November 1945 WAC graduates transferred to Camp Ritchie.

* '''Settle Early G-2 account''' — Uploaded Lt. Col. Henry C. Settle’s 27 October 1944 ETOUSA G-2 organization interview (Fold3) to [[Training materials]]; Camp Ritchie graduate / European MITU / 29th Infantry Division staffing notes added to [[The Stories/Camp Ritchie Background|Camp Ritchie Background]].

* '''Nisei WAC translators''' — Enriched [[Hurt, Haruko (WAC)|Haruko Hurt]] (née Sugi; merged maiden-name duplicate) and [[Kato, Sue (WAC)|Sue Suzuko Kato]] from Wikipedia / Discover Nikkei; noted MISLS→PACMIRS “top twenty-one” assignment on [[Nisei and Pacific]] and [[Camp Ritchie]].

* '''MITU / Nisei redeployment training''' — [[Nisei and Pacific]] now summarizes July 1945 G-2 / Camp Ritchie records on Mobile Intelligence Training Units (demonstration teams, 442nd veterans, WRA concerns), with NARA PDFs from a JAVA packet; linked from [[Camp Ritchie]].

* '''EEIS monograph''' — Added the Signal Section history ''A Typical Enemy Equipment Intelligence Service'' (Detachment No. 9) as a PDF on [[Training materials]] (Camp Ritchie training + Ninth Army field work; Fold3 source).

* '''Passover at Camp Ritchie (1945)''' — New [[The Stories/Passover at Camp Ritchie (1945)|Stories]] page with Fold3 / JWB–USO documents for the first-night Seder (telegram, reports, program card).

* '''Camp Ritchie List of Directives''' — Personnel Section sheet (Pers. Sec. 214) uploaded to [[Training materials]] with a full transcription; linked from [[Camp Ritchie]].

* '''Camp Ritchie photos''' — Added wartime German-village training and late-1944 panoramic views on [[Photos]] and [[Camp Ritchie]] (filename captions; archival source not yet confirmed).

* '''Zekelman Holocaust Center oral histories''' — Added embeddable Zekelman interviews on [[Ritchie Boy Interviews]] for Fairbrook, Kosse, Lieberman, Michel, Norton, Schwarz, Stern (two parts), and Wachtel, with soldier-page cues and biography enrichments from the Center’s oral-history synopses.

* '''Internet Archive interview embeds''' — [[Ritchie Boy Interviews]] can play Internet Archive oral histories with click-to-play embeds (first: Robert A. Potash / Yiddish Book Center).

* '''Books — Olderman memoir''' — [[Books]] now lists Murray Olderman's ''A Year Apart: Letters from War-Torn Europe''.

* '''Infobox fields trimmed + Other class expanded''' — Soldier infoboxes no longer show Education, Spouse/marital, Occupation, State, Certificate, Arrived/Departed, or Years of service (NARA/roster snapshots stay in the Technical record). Roster '''Other class''' codes expand to readable names (e.g. SC8 → Special Course 8, DC36 → Division Class 36, MITU4 → Mobile Intelligence Training Unit 4).

* '''Aviary interview embeds''' — [[Ritchie Boy Interviews]] can play Milken Archive / Aviary oral histories with click-to-play embeds (first: Hugo D. Weisgall).

* '''Site link preview image''' — Homepage Open Graph / chat previews use the Ritchie Boys Wiki logo (same as the top-left site mark) instead of the MediaWiki “powered by” footer graphic.

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 === 16 September 2026 ===
-* '''Infobox personal fields trimmed''' — Soldier infoboxes no longer show Education, Spouse/marital, or Occupation (usually NARA enlistment snapshots). Those stay in the Technical record; curated life details belong in Biography and Timeline.
+* '''1st MRBC Unit History roster''' — New [[1st Mobile Radio Broadcasting Company]] page with the printed ''Unit History'' cover and Consolidated Roster (PDF + linked transcription); featured on [[Training materials]] and linked from [[Camp Ritchie]].
+* '''MISLS WAC yearbook photos''' — Fold3 yearbook pages and crops (Capt. Marian E. Nestor; grads leaving for Camp Ritchie; first MISLS WACs) added to [[Nisei and Pacific]] and [[Ritchie WACs]]; yearbook confirms '''21''' November 1945 WAC graduates transferred to Camp Ritchie.
+* '''Settle Early G-2 account''' — Uploaded Lt. Col. Henry C. Settle’s 27 October 1944 ETOUSA G-2 organization interview (Fold3) to [[Training materials]]; Camp Ritchie graduate / European MITU / 29th Infantry Division staffing notes added to [[The Stories/Camp Ritchie Background|Camp Ritchie Background]].
+* '''Nisei WAC translators''' — Enriched [[Hurt, Haruko (WAC)|Haruko Hurt]] (née Sugi; merged maiden-name duplicate) and [[Kato, Sue (WAC)|Sue Suzuko Kato]] from Wikipedia / Discover Nikkei; noted MISLS→PACMIRS “top twenty-one” assignment on [[Nisei and Pacific]] and [[Camp Ritchie]].
+* '''MITU / Nisei redeployment training''' — [[Nisei and Pacific]] now summarizes July 1945 G-2 / Camp Ritchie records on Mobile Intelligence Training Units (demonstration teams, 442nd veterans, WRA concerns), with NARA PDFs from a JAVA packet; linked from [[Camp Ritchie]].
+* '''EEIS monograph''' — Added the Signal Section history ''A Typical Enemy Equipment Intelligence Service'' (Detachment No. 9) as a PDF on [[Training materials]] (Camp Ritchie training + Ninth Army field work; Fold3 source).
+* '''Passover at Camp Ritchie (1945)''' — New [[The Stories/Passover at Camp Ritchie (1945)|Stories]] page with Fold3 / JWB–USO documents for the first-night Seder (telegram, reports, program card).
+* '''Camp Ritchie List of Directives''' — Personnel Section sheet (Pers. Sec. 214) uploaded to [[Training materials]] with a full transcription; linked from [[Camp Ritchie]].
+* '''Camp Ritchie photos''' — Added wartime German-village training and late-1944 panoramic views on [[Photos]] and [[Camp Ritchie]] (filename captions; archival source not yet confirmed).
+* '''Zekelman Holocaust Center oral histories''' — Added embeddable Zekelman interviews on [[Ritchie Boy Interviews]] for Fairbrook, Kosse, Lieberman, Michel, Norton, Schwarz, Stern (two parts), and Wachtel, with soldier-page cues and biography enrichments from the Center’s oral-history synopses.
+* '''Internet Archive interview embeds''' — [[Ritchie Boy Interviews]] can play Internet Archive oral histories with click-to-play embeds (first: Robert A. Potash / Yiddish Book Center).
+* '''Books — Olderman memoir''' — [[Books]] now lists Murray Olderman's ''A Year Apart: Letters from War-Torn Europe''.
+* '''Infobox fields trimmed + Other class expanded''' — Soldier infoboxes no longer show Education, Spouse/marital, Occupation, State, Certificate, Arrived/Departed, or Years of service (NARA/roster snapshots stay in the Technical record). Roster '''Other class''' codes expand to readable names (e.g. SC8 → Special Course 8, DC36 → Division Class 36, MITU4 → Mobile Intelligence Training Unit 4).
 * '''Aviary interview embeds''' — [[Ritchie Boy Interviews]] can play Milken Archive / Aviary oral histories with click-to-play embeds (first: Hugo D. Weisgall).
 * '''Site link preview image''' — Homepage Open Graph / chat previews use the Ritchie Boys Wiki logo (same as the top-left site mark) instead of the MediaWiki “powered by” footer graphic.