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I would like to find out about my fathers WWII activity in the Combat engineers. His name is Joseph F Ruta. The VA said records burned in a fire. Thanks Joseph R Ruta.
I would like to find out about my fathers WWII activity in the Combat engineers. His name is Joseph F Ruta. The VA said records burned in a fire. Thanks Joseph R Ruta.
Added: February 28, 2017
Name: Glade S Wittwer, Jr
From: St George Utah. Alexandria VA since 1956
E-mail: Contact
My father, Glade S Wittwer, Sr, was in the 164th Engineer Combat Battalion, where he was the C.O. of B Company. He landed on Utah Beach on June 26, 1944. From then until the end of the war he served in France, Belgium, & Germany. For awhile, in Feb of '45 he was attached to the 1110th Engineer Combat Group. I believe he may have been in the 1175th Engineer Combat Group prior to that, but I haven't been able to confirm it. Pappy wasn't able to confirm much of the information himself. He spent a lot of time at the National Archives trying to research where the 164th was at any given time without much success. For many years, beginning in the '90s, he attended an annual reunion with the 164th. He died on March 31st, 1912, after a failed operation.