Hello everyone I am the Grandson of a member of Co.A of the 257th Combat Engineer Battalion. Any info that I can find on him would be greatly appreciated. I have his Discharge and Qualification records. I am looking for any info related to his time (7 months) as an engineer. His uniform was stolen when he returned home so I have no idea what his uniform would have had on it. (patches or insignias) His personnel records were destroyed in the fire so this is what I have. I also know that he was AAF before becoming an engineer based on his photo album.
Yesterday I recieved a surprising message from my old internet friend Jean Jacobsen: She's visiting Siegburg with her hubby Steve! So we went up the Michaelsberg to the rose garden, to the Nordfriedhof, where her father had to bring passed american POW to, the synagogue monument...
Thanks to Marionwho made this possible!
I have finally gotten duplicate medals from the Army to mount in my dad's flag display case. I would like to put them in in order of importance (if that's possible).
They are: The American Defense Service Medal
European-African-Middle Eastern Campaign Medal & Bronze Star attachment (quadruple) & Arrowhead
WWII Victory Medal
Army of Occupation Medal & Germany Clasp
Marksman Badge & Rifle Bar
Army Lapel Button
Do I group the ribbons together with the medals underneath them, or do I display each ribbon with its corresponding medal?
Finally, although my father was wounded twice, the Purple Heart was not listed on his DD214, nor in the TACOM list. Anybody have insight into this? Do I need to make a separate inquiry for the Purple Heart?
A couple of years ago my wife Christine and I were doing research at the Corps of Engineers History Museum at Fort Belvoir. The curator, Eric Reinert, suggested that he had helped another lady with similar interests and we really ought to contact her. You might be ready to guess that he was referring to Marion Chard.
My daughter of the 93rd Engineers did, indeed, share a passion with the daughter of the 6th Corps Combat Engineers. Marion put up a link to our website, www.93regimentalcan.com and we put up one to hers. We've been checking in and enjoying this site regularly every since. And we're relieved to see everything back on line after the recent server problems.
Chris and my website is dedicated to the three segregated black general service engineering regiments who suffered, sometimes died and always lived with vicious discrimination while they did their part to push 1400 miles of Alaska Highway through the Northern Rockies in just eight months in 1942. Our book, We Fought the Road, will be published by Epicenter Press early this fall, and we are going back to the road for a publicity tour in just two weeks. I contacted Marion today and asked her permission to share this post with you, and she graciously agreed.
I promised her, and I promise you, not to fill your screen with promotional material. But if you are interested, we will be blogging on Facebook. Search for Christine and Dennis McClure and you'll find our author page with multiple links to the website. If you're interested, please follow us. We also have an author page on Amazon--search for either Dennis McClure or Christine McClure. And, of course, you are always welcome on www.93regimentalcan.com.
Thank you again, Marion for your fine site and for this opportunity.
