Pleased to have added even more NARA docs (sitreps and more) to the 540th page today. Visit the page to see all the new docs, but wanted to display this one right here, because it's so cool.
Col. Fred Mallet Walker Jr., US Army (Ret) age 87, of San Antonio, died Wednesday, July 16, 2008. Col. Walker was born and raised in Northern Michigan. He graduated from Michigan Tech in Houghton, Michigan with a degree in Engineering and received his Masters in Engineering from Stanford University. He served in the Army Corps of Engineers in North Africa and Italy in World War II. He also served in Korea and Vietnam and retired from active duty in 1970 after 30 years of service. For many years after his retirement he would return to the UP of Michigan to spend his summers fly fishing. Late in his retirement he was an active volunteer with St. Paul Episcopal Church and devoted much time to their food distribution program for 9 years. He was also a member of the choir. Col. Walker is survived by his wife, Patricia; daughters, Cynthia Wade of Phoenix, Mary Hotchkiss and Krisanne Frost both of San Antonio; sons, Fred Walker III and wife, Maggie Walker of San Antonio and Bryan J. Norwood and wife, Jan of Charleston, S.C.; six grandchildren; and twelve great-grandchildren. Visitation will be on Sunday, July 20, 2008 from 5:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. at Porter Loring. SERVICE MONDAY JULY 21, 2008 10:00 A.M. ST. PAULS EPISCOPAL CHURCH 1018 EAST GRAYSON ST. Followed by interment at Fort Sam Houston National Cemetery. In lieu of flowers please send donations to Our Lord's Table, 1018 E. Grayson St., San Antonio, Texas 78208. You are invited to sign the guestbook at
This was sent to me by Mike Soler, whose grandfather, Mike Gomez, was a member of the 1108th Combat Regiment, 48th Battalion. Thank you Mike for passing along his obit. May he rest in peace.
Our dear friend Joe, sent me this email. I am sharing the contents with all of you. Pretty cool stuff.
I took the liberty of writing to Mitch this morning, and am looking forward to hearing from him.
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Dear Veterans and Friends
As you know, we reenact the 10th Engineer Combat battalion (3rd Infantry Division) in FRANCE.
3 weeks ago, 12 members of our association decided to build a wood bridge over a ditch near DOLE (JURA). Length = 6.5 yards - width = 2.4 yards (just for a jeep) it was very interesting to build something with trees. Our 2 jeeps crossed the bridge to check it was OK or not!! It was fine... We did it!!! Our first experience!!!
I join some pics. Enjoy! We want to realize a report about the combat engineers for Militaria Magazine!
I guess I am a little different. My name is Stephen Keith and I am a WW2 historian and Historic Military Vehicle (HMV) Collector.
I have an interest in the exploits of the Combat Engineers from WW2 and have labeled all my HMV that could have belonged to an Engineering unit as belonging to the 291st Combat Engineer of Col Pergrin in honor of what they did at Remargin Bridge and the Battle of the Bulge.
You can see some of my currently restored 'fleet' at my website:
I hope to learn more about the Engineers in WW2 from this site. I have already learned more about the fire fighting units in my 1st fifteen minutes here!
