Nothing But Praise - A History of the 1321st Engineer Gen Serv Reg - By Aldo Bagnulo - Edited by Michael J Brodhead
Well I received a signed copy from the Army Corps of Engineers' Office of History. What a nice gift to add to my collection.
Imagine my surprise though when reading through the Preface and Acknowledgment sections. Hey hun, I called, look at this!!!
Here is a note from Michael Brodhead:
What most of us here are involved with is the promotion and distribution of
the history of the 1321st Engineer General Service Regiment. I've mailed a
copy to you, and you are thanked, but not as effusively as you should be, in
the preface. We think it is a good-looking publication. The official
kick-off is a February 22d book signing at HQ in Washington; another will
take place in March at our building. We will invite Mr. C. C. Pinson of
Oxford, Mississippi, the one veteran of the unit that we located, thanks to
you.
Many hugs,
Michael
The book is beautifully done, and I can't wait to read it in its entirety.
Here's the cover and the acknowledgment section. How cool is this? Many thanks Michael. I am deeply, deeply honored. Happy I could help to bring this to fruition. These men deserve to have their story told.
I've been in an small privat museum yesterday, the museum is located in Perlé (lux) www.385bg.com , the museum is dedicated to the men who died in a crash of 2 B17 over Perlé in july 1944 and it live's only from donations etc. .
At the end of the visit Roger our guide went to a small room with a display cabinet and in there was a nickel-plated m1 carbine Roger told us that it has been found after the bulge in Eschette (lux), Roger told me that he could not explain why it is nickel-plated and by whom, he said maybe it was Patton's, because Patton was in Eschette Roger said. (Roger is 72 years old and lived in the area that time)
So now to my question, do anyone on this board know anything about that the army or airforce issued nickel-plated M1's?
If you need more information about the carbine let me know it and I try to get them, I would be very glad if you could help me out with this.
