My new friend Karl contacted me. Here are his letters to me and this is the info I compiled for him this morning.
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dear missis marion. first let me tell you who i am. i am a hobby
historian living in germany near heidelberg, my friends and i
participate in collecting us army artifacts and also reeanactments.
second interest is the two weeks before and after the occupation of the
rhein-neckar area in april 1945. i read that the 540 th engineer combat
group did some operations here. i like to ask you if you would give me a
hand on finding out what units build the bridges in this area. i would
be very thankful. yours truly karl heinz kleine
hello marion. i thank you very much for your agreement to give me a hand
on my researches. i work with a partner who is stationed in heidelberg,
with the airforce, he may also write to you sometimes. we are trying to
cover the occupation of the rhein-neckar-area precisly with all exact
informations such as unit descriptions and correct places. the picture
you attached i think i know where it was taken i will go there and take
a comparisation shot and send it to you. i am also in contact with the
63rd inf.div veterans and have a cd of pictures from them. i already
located some pictures there that i will look for and make also
comparisations.thank you again i remain greetings from heidelberg, yous
karl heinz
hello marion. good to hear you are very much involved in engineer history. thanks a lot also for your recent mail.the picture in
heidelberg will have to wait some since i don`t get to go to heidelberg
too often however its planned in the near future.i will also send you a
panorame postcard from the most romantic city in germany. the bridges
in question to make it easyer for you are from north to south on the
rhein : rheindürckheim/hamm, worms down stream from the nibelungenbridge
destroyed, mannheim/sndhofen, ludwigshafen to mannheim, on the neckar in
mannheim city , heidelberg city also later in heidelberg downstream from
the friedrichsbridge and maybe a bridge up river at hassmersheim. these
are all that i could think of, if there are anymore on these rivers let
me know. for your efforts i allready thank you very much. since i`m also
involved in reenactments i will soon send you a picture of our group
with me on it just so you know with what an ol`goat your dealing with.
once again thank you very much til next time. karl