Good morning Jeff:

Glad you followed me over from Bando's site. A warm welcome.

I see you have a question mark next to the battalion name. Is this because you don't have access to his records such as discharge papers to confirm this? Do you have a patch or anything like that?

Let me know. Will be happy to see what I have on that unit.

Also happy to see a fellow area Detroiter. My neighborhood too.

Actually about 12 years ago I came into the possesion of a captured walther p-38.

It came from a friend whose father had long ago passed away.

He told me his fathers name, Charles Stevenson and only new that he was with the 363rd engineers. I found a listing at nara for him which confirms he was an engineer, but have never found any information about the 363rd. Regards, Jeff

If he is looking for the 363 regt. that should be a GS Engineer unit. If he is looking for the 3rd. Bn. of the 36 Engineer Regt. then we have him in site. AL

Jeff I would contact the Army Corps of Engineer's office first and then Richard Horrell of WW2 Connections to see what he has. These contacts can be found in my Research section.

So far I haven't come up with anything on my end, but will keep looking for info on the 363rd Engineers.

Evidently they are still an engineering unit in Iraq.

Hi Jeff,

Welcome.

But you have to get the WW2 terminology correct around here or Marion will pounce on you like Tigre.

Actually about 12 years ago I came into the possesion of a captured walther p-38.

You should refer to this as "liberated weapons".

Steve

You get a gold star today Steve!

MMM, Liberated..... I knew that! Got it. Thanks all for the leads, I'll let y'all know what I find. You have a very nice site! Regards, jt

Hope we don't scare ya with our sometime "off" sense of humor. Things get a bit wacky around here at times, but we're pretty harmless. Enjoy your stay.

Na, I don't scare that easy, remember I'm from and still live in Detroit!

Oh, good answer, good answer! I should have known. We have the same city veins running through us. Watch out world, we're taking over the forum... :pdt40:

I'm from and still live in Detroit!

Cool. During the recent reunion that I attended, I learned that the DI pin for the 339th Infantry Regiment contained the flag/or/shield for Le Sieur Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac, the French founder of Detroit. The 339th Regiment was organized at Camp Custer, MI, and went off to WW1 as "Detroit's Own" but returned with the name of "The Polar Bears".

In the upper LH corner of the DI is a small square with 3 "merletts" on a field of yellow; two birds over a horizontal black bar and one below it.

Just thought you would like to know.

Steve

This is the history of the 369th Engineer Regiment

369th Engineer Regiment.pdf

I received this today and was able to supply her with the document in the above post! YEAH!

Marion-

Greetings from central Nebraska. I am working on an article for our local newspaper in Sutherland for a tribute for Veterans Day…One of my vets served with the 369th Engineer Battalion..he was killed in action 29 Apr 1945 and is buried at Lorraine Cemetary at St Avold..I am unable to locate what Division the 369th was with..I keep getting directed to the 369th Regiment, which is not correct…he was fighting in France at the time of his death…Could you possibly offer me any guidance or suggestions on alternative routes to find this information…Our local Veterans Service Officer does not have any documention on this soldier that would offer me this info either…thank you so much for dedicating your self to the maintenance of this history…it is truly a gift and greatly appreciated! You can email me at ...

 

Kelli Kaps

I think the unit Kelli is looking for is the 369th Engineer Combat Battalion. not much online on this unit but i did find this on the lineage of the 369th Engineer Boat & Shore Regiment:

369th ENGINEER BOAT AND SHORE REGIMENT Constituted 19 October 1944 in the Army of the United States as the 369th Engineer Combat Battalion and organized 31 December 1944 from personnel of the 215th Antiaircraft Artillery Gun Battalion at Marignone, France. The unit was at Oberhausen, Germany at the end of World War II (15 August 1945 location). Served in the Army of Occupation of Germany from 2 May-29 September 1945. Returned to the United States via the New York Port of Embarkation on 14 November 1945. Inactivated 16 November 1945 at Camp Kilmer, New Jersey. Redesignated 369th Engineer Boat and Shore Regiment (less 2d Battalion) and allotted to the Organzied Reserves on 26 October 1946; concurrently, 158th Engineer Combat Battalion redesignated 2d Battalion. CAMPAIGN PARTICIPATION CREDIT World War II: Rhineland Central Europe DECORATIONS None

The records for the 215th Antiaircraft Artillery Gun Battalion & the 369th Engineer Combat Battalion are available at the Eisenhower library.

http://www.eisenhower.utexas.edu/Research/finding_aids/pdf/US_Army_Unit_Records_Index.pdf