Questions for all the VI Corps Engineers

Note: Feb 2014 - Looks like yet another of our file attachments on the forum have disappeared (see post below mine), but I found a copy on my own hard drive and have re-uploaded it.

VI Corps Questions for my Book.pdf

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your_name: Steve Blakney

address: 5018 N33 rd st

cityst: Tacoma WA

zipcode: 98407

phone: left off for privacy

email_confirm: left off for privacy

through: other

comments: I am trying to get information of my father. Like a lot of men he came home and did not talk a lot about what he did. He was in the combat engineers but I do not know the unit.

Places he talked about being

-Utah beach landing - first wave

-Saint Lo

-Malmady

-St Vith

and the Nordhousen liberation

My father was in the convoy that was stopped and latter executed at Malmady. He and, a few men he could talk into it, made a break for it near the back of the column. He hid out and latter was in the fighting around the St Vith area. For most of the war he was out in front of the infantry units blowing up things or keeping things from being blown up. They had sent him back to Belgium for a rest.

Are there any combat engineer units that would have been in all of these actions. I know they got switched around a lot and at one time were even fronting for a British unit.

your_name: chris timm

address: 4370 eagle crest dr

cityst: williamsburg, mi

zipcode: 49690

phone: left off for privacy

email_confirm: left off for privacy

through: Search Engine

comments: I am looking to track down as much information, photos, etc on the 1884th and 1885th engineer aviation battalions. Do you have much information on them?

I know we posted this on the forum last year, but Rocky just resent this to me and I thought it fitting that it should have a permanent home in the All Vets News section.

This is LONG, around 11 minutes, but please take the time some day to view it. It is worth the watch. And you know I don't post things lightly.

This is a video called Reveille.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2...7293&q=Veterans

Oh goodie, can't wait!

I am stuck in my Philadelphia home with my car parked several blocks away iced over I am sure and I am not about to trust my old legs on the ice to go de-ice it. So I nosed around my basement and found an old brief case I hadn't seen for many years, and in the brief case were a couple of papers I don't think I have ever seen.

When an Officer leaves the Army there are all kinds of clearances to make with the Finance Officer the Officer's Club, the PX, and they just stick all these things in a big envelope with your file and they send you home and I have never looked in it. I found the original handwritten request of my Company Commander for a citation, the original Regimental request for one, obviously typed by a clerk at the Regimental Headquarters some place in the rear. I also found the orders giving me a Bronze Str with a V for Valor.

Besides that old envelope I found a copy of he Beachhead news. Now I know you have seen the Beachhead News about Anzio but this one is about the landing in Sounthern France and I'll bet you haven't seen it and in fact I didn't know I had it. So I will make some copies and send them on........that is if it ever thaws out enough for me to get to a copy store.

Stay WARM as well as RUGGED!!!!

36 Engineers are rugged......John Fallon II. Capt. USA Ret.