I am providing the following after I received a request via email.
Hi Marion,My grandfather, Milton Brodsky who I never had the privilege of meeting served in the Army Corps of Engineers during WW2. I only know he grew up in Brooklyn and moved to Lake Hiawatha New Jersey where he remained all of his life and lived from 1921-1973 after dying from injuries suffered from a car accident. I would love to find out any information if you have any access to finding me this information.
Thank you for your help,
Eric Welch
I found a short segment on another page that stated:
My grandfather was in Company B. This information is according to his records:
The regiment was formed in early 1942, and trained at Camp Claiborne in Louisiana. It shipped out to England in early August 1942 from Camp Kilmer. In England, at least part of the regiment helped build Nuthampstead airbase.
The regiment landed at Omaha Beach in Normandy around June 26, 1944, and went on to help repair the port of Cherbourg. The regiment then went to Granville, France where it may have assisted in constructing the facilities for the Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force (SHAEF) until mid-September 1944. It then moved to Versailles, France where it stayed until mid-November 1944. Again, the unit could have been assisting in the construction of facilities for SHAEF. In mid-November 1944, the regiment spent two weeks around St-Germain-en-Laye, France, before moving to Liege, Belgium.
The regiment was stationed in and around Liege throughout the Battle of the Bulge. In January 1945, the regiment moved to Tongres, Belgium. In March 1945, it moved to Aachen Germany where it remained until the end of the war.
After the war ended, the unit moved from Limburg, Siersahn, and Frankfurt am Rhein. During at least part of this time, the regiment built enclosures for German POWs who had served in the SS.
Marion J Chard
Proud Daughter of Walter 'Monday' Poniedzialek
540th Combat Engineer - H&S Company
