Oh sheesh, just when I started to lose a few pounds! Well at least underneath it all I could feel skinny! Okay no offense to Capt Todd, ...

We don't have a subscription to it, but I'm sure they will post it on their site once the next issue comes out. Maybe I can copy it then.

No the 34th weren't mentioned above because this was related to the Invasion of Southern France.

Hey, M, I just noticed that you are about a week away from hitting your 8000th post! Holy cow! I bet you wonder where the time has gone! You sh...

The Alpha sector landings was where the 36th Engineers landed with the 3rd Inf Div Camel sector was where the 540th and 48th Engineers landed...

VI Corps had been withdrawn from the front after the fall of Rome and assigned to the Seventh Army on June 15. Two days later, its commander, General ...

If you want to read a very good book, pick up a copy of Dragoon, The Other Invasion of France by Paul Gaujac

It actually varied and changed from time to time. In France they were part of 7th and then directly under VI Corps. I can provide details in a while...

Here's the 36th's emblem

Here's a photo of the motor pool taken in occupied Germany. Notice the my father's patch. It shows the 2833rd designation.

No the 540th, 36th, 39th, and 1108th were never part of a division and therefore did not have divisional patches. They were "bastard" units and were ...

That last one got me I could hear the sounds (or lack thereof) in my head! Oh lordy, those inadequacies would show up on the shores of Nort...

Danka, Larry. Now I don't have to copy everything myself. I can just post the photos. I did post part of them this morning under another r...

Here's a similar story I just read in one of our Reader Digest's issues: You will have to rotate the pages to read it...