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== Changelog ==

=== 17 September 2026 ===

* '''Camp Ritchie naturalization (July 1943)''' — New [[The Stories/Camp Ritchie naturalization (July 1943)|Stories]] page from the ''Washington Post'' report of 85 soldiers naturalized (almost all from Camp Ritchie), with 50 clear soldier-page links from the printed list.

* '''IPW Team 46 Bulge report''' — Added [[Team IPW 46]] Interrogation Report No. 107 (27 December 1944, Malmedy–Stavelot / 120th Inf Regt) to the team page and [[Secret Heroes/Battle of the Bulge]] (no individuals named on the sheet).

* '''Ardennes battle-credit letter (USFET, 7 Jul 1945)''' — Uploaded HQ USFET letter-order listing units awarded Ardennes campaign credit, including [[Team IPW 19|IPW 19]], [[Team OB 35|OB 35]], [[Team IPW 69|IPW 69]], [[Team IPW 141|IPW 141]], [[Team IPW 174|IPW 174]], and [[Team MII 474-G|MII 474-G]]; featured on [[Training materials]] and [[Secret Heroes/Battle of the Bulge]].

=== 16 September 2026 ===

* '''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.

* '''About the data — AI wording''' — Clarified that AI-assisted biographies are drafted from curated person-specific sources (profile text, newspapers, obituaries, family packets, research notes), not from open-web search, and still do not certify accuracy.

* '''Multi-person gallery photos''' — When a photo caption names two or more Ritchie Boys, the same file is added to each matched soldier’s Gallery with roster links in the caption (not only on the packet owner’s page).

* '''Ellen Kaufmann Boucher interview''' — Added her 1995 Canandaigua cable testimony to [[Ritchie Boy Interviews]] with a biographical blurb and soldier-page cue.

* '''Interview watchlist bios''' — New or newly found video/audio testimonies go on [[Ritchie Boy Interviews]] with a short biographical blurb before the player (not title-and-embed only).

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 == Changelog ==
+=== 17 September 2026 ===
+* '''Camp Ritchie naturalization (July 1943)''' — New [[The Stories/Camp Ritchie naturalization (July 1943)|Stories]] page from the ''Washington Post'' report of 85 soldiers naturalized (almost all from Camp Ritchie), with 50 clear soldier-page links from the printed list.
+* '''IPW Team 46 Bulge report''' — Added [[Team IPW 46]] Interrogation Report No. 107 (27 December 1944, Malmedy–Stavelot / 120th Inf Regt) to the team page and [[Secret Heroes/Battle of the Bulge]] (no individuals named on the sheet).
+* '''Ardennes battle-credit letter (USFET, 7 Jul 1945)''' — Uploaded HQ USFET letter-order listing units awarded Ardennes campaign credit, including [[Team IPW 19|IPW 19]], [[Team OB 35|OB 35]], [[Team IPW 69|IPW 69]], [[Team IPW 141|IPW 141]], [[Team IPW 174|IPW 174]], and [[Team MII 474-G|MII 474-G]]; featured on [[Training materials]] and [[Secret Heroes/Battle of the Bulge]].
 === 16 September 2026 ===
+* '''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.
+* '''About the data — AI wording''' — Clarified that AI-assisted biographies are drafted from curated person-specific sources (profile text, newspapers, obituaries, family packets, research notes), not from open-web search, and still do not certify accuracy.
+* '''Multi-person gallery photos''' — When a photo caption names two or more Ritchie Boys, the same file is added to each matched soldier’s Gallery with roster links in the caption (not only on the packet owner’s page).
 * '''Ellen Kaufmann Boucher interview''' — Added her 1995 Canandaigua cable testimony to [[Ritchie Boy Interviews]] with a biographical blurb and soldier-page cue.
 * '''Interview watchlist bios''' — New or newly found video/audio testimonies go on [[Ritchie Boy Interviews]] with a short biographical blurb before the player (not title-and-embed only).