Posting this for Rocky!

Hi All !!

JUST A SHORT NOTE. I HAVE BEEN INVITED TO GO SEE THE K.C. ROYALS PLAY

THE CHGO.WHITE SOX TODAY GAME WILL TELEVISED ON LOCAL CHANNEL 4 FOX

IT WILL BE VETERANS' RECOGNITION DAY...AND IT'S GOING TO BE A HOT ONE.

MAYBE SOMEOF YOU MIGHT SEE IT. ROQUE (Rocky)

Hello,

I am an actor in Toronto, Canada, getting ready to play Stanley in a streetcar named desire. the character is a WWII vet, part of the "241st Engineers" and specifically mentions the battle at Salerno in the script.

i am going to poke my nose around the forum a bit, but if you have any interesting tidbits, i would greatly appreciate it.

thanks for the inclusion. FYI, my grandfather is a vet of the Royal Canadian Air Force, and my dad just retired from the Canadian Armed Forces, after a 33 year career which took him to Egypt, Bosnia, and most recently to Afghanistan. My sister is also married to a weapons tech. in the forces, my uncle is in the air force, and my cousin is a tank driver. So i come from an army family. I guess I'm the black sheep.

Hello WW II ETO Engineers,

Were you in an Engineer General Service Battalion or Regiment that repaired a partially destroyed railroad bridge over the Durance River at Myrageusse, Southern France in September, 1944? The bridge installed was a quadruple/single about 130 feet in length and supported by two piers. Some of my unit's fire trucks and trailer mounted fire fighting pumpers pumped out the caissons for the pier footings.

Like to hear from anyone involved in this job.

Aloha,

Jim Davis

1204th Engineer Fire Fighting Platoon

ETO - WW II

Hello Marion,

Thanks for the info. Sorry, can't help the gentlemen. We had no contact

with Engineer units, other than our own kind, during the war with one

exception. That was an Engineer Combat or General Service, Battalion or

Regiment who was rebuilding a railroad bridge on the Durance River at

Meyraguess in Southern France not long after the August 15 1944 landing.

The bridge was a Bailey, a triple/triple and the longest Bailey put up to

date at that time, reportedly. The length I have forgotten if ever knew.

But it was so long it required two supporting piers to hold it up. Our job

was to pump out the water in pier footings created by driving sheet piling

into the river bed. With the water out concrete could be poured. We used

fire trucks and trailer mounted fire fighting pumpers 24/7 for several days

and then moved on north with the advancing 7th Army of which we were a part.

Have no pictures, just memories as enlisted could not have cameras.

Aloha,

Jim

Marion's note: Posted this here for our friend and forum member Jim Davis.

James G. Davis, Member and Historian

1204th Engineer Fire Fighting Platoon

World War II

Author: "Fire Fighters in Fatigues - The 1204th Engineer Fire Fighting Platoon - A History"

http://www.maui.net/~r11/index.html

I just read "bye bye geneviève" I found this book a pleasant read.

It would appear that this story made sink a lot of ink on the side of Ste Mère l'eglise, for reasons that I do not know. The figure of the number of 500 american paratroopers saved would be exaggerated, there would have been only 3 paratroops who had been rescued by the father maurice in the marshes.

As the passage or she is with her little brother claude in the quarry at the bottom of the deck irsa, when she pulls a barbed hooked a shoe of his brother who is connected a German mine, which exploded, projecting the one on each side, would be pure fiction.

But this look of a child in war is interesting. I suppose it is enough to put some reservations on historical and pass a good time ...

http://www.cpmac.com/spip/spip.php?article10023

Vee