Papa Art saw this and I am posting it here too. Can never hurt. Only thing though, who do we contact if anyone does have info??

Hi,

Any one know veteran Lyle Gordan

Lyle Duane Gordon, Korean War Veteran

Born farm in Regent, N.D.

7th Division 31st Reg 1949 Inchon Landing

and came through Frozen Chosin

Dis-charged E-8

Settled in Aberdeen, S.D. Sweetheart Bread

Moved Seattle, Oregon, as Seattle Fire man

Re-tired 20 yrs ago to Mesa,AZ, 75 last Dec.

Go to this site

http://howtoprankatelemarketer.ytmnd.com/

Sgteo

your_name: Michael Agee

address: 10611 W. Houston

cityst: Sapulpa, Oklahoma

zipcode: 74066

phone: left off for privacy

email_confirm: left off for privacy

through: Search Engine

comments: My dad's uncle Charles was an engineer in WWII. He was killed in Sicily. The jeep he was in hit an anti tank mine. Three of the four men were killed, the driver survived. His name was Lt. Charles E. Ellis. If I'm not misstaken he was with the 19th Eng. before leaving the states. Does anyone remember him or have any info. on him. I would like to pass it on to my dad.Thank you

I wrote back to him yesterday and told him if he could find out a bit more since the 19th was a bn of the 36th Engineers, but there was also a 19th Engineer Regiment.

Told him to check out the other posts regarding this right here under this section. Am waiting to hear back from him.

Hi Michael:

Sorry for the delay in my response. Things are keeping me hopping on this

end as usual.

It was so nice to hear from you. The 19th Engineers were a battalion and

DID serve in the Mediterranean Theatre and were part of the 36th Engineer

Regiment. But there also was a 19th Engineer Regiment which consisted of

the 401st and the 402nd Bns. Do you have anything else that might help me

out such as pin, patch, letters, etc. Let me know. Confusing huh???

I will be happy to place this info on the forum in the hope that someone

might recognize the name and be able to help your further.

Sincerely,

Marion J Chard

Proud daughter of Walter (Monday) Poniedzialek

540th Combat Engineer WWII

www.6thcorpscombatengineers.com

www.6thcorpsmusic.us

From Gilles:

Hello my friends in the 36th,

I just found this picture, the caption only says:

INVASION INTERMEZZO--THE IMMEDIATE OBJECTIVES OF HIS

UNIT SAFELY TAKEN, THIE AMERICAN SOLDIER RELAXES WHILE

AWAITING FURTHER ORDERS BY STRETCHING OUT ON UNPACKED

SUPPLIES, LISTENING TO RECORDS ON A PORTABLE

PHONOGRAPH. THE SCENE WAS ONE OF THE SIDELIGHTS OF

THE INVASION OF SOUTHERN FRANCE ON JULY 15, 1944.

Im pretty sure this is a 36th engr photo on yellow

beach, telling from the SP armbands and the nets on

helmets. The dodge WC behind seems to have the marking

3-30 or 3-15 which would be correct for yellow beach.

im copying on this email my friend John Shirley who

landed on Yellow beach on aug 15th 1944.

all the best Gilles

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Gilles sent the following email to several of us this week and wanted to know about the engineer unit listed on the V-Mail that he found on Ebay. Well I am happy to say that Steve came up with the following info on this unit.

Marion,

First Reference Check: Dept of Army Pamphlet 672-1

"Unit Citation and Campaign Participation Credit Register" dated July 1961

66th Engineer Topographic Co. Campaigns {in no particular order }-

(1) Algiers-Morroco - 1943

(2) Naples-Foggia ground - Sept - Dec 1944

(3) North Apennines Sept - Oct? 1944

(3) Po Valley April 1945

(4) Rome-Arno - May - July 1944

(5) Sicily ground - July 1943

No other engineer unit numbered 66 is listed. Sometimes there are more that one unit with same number, which could be because it changed its identity and role.

Check Other References:

"15th Army Group", Appendix with Organization of both 5th and British 8th Armies. Nothing.

The 66th Engineer Topographic Company is a support unit that would not have been involved with front-line combat. It is more of a think-tank unit. I don't expect to see it mentioned in any of the usual unit history books.

BUT, I got an idea. I thought about checking my Maps. Each map issued by the US Army has reference info in the bottom Left Hand corner. Typically, the LH details identifies the map as prepared under the direction of the Chief of Engineers and may contain some specific info and a date it was originally drawn up. Any revision date might be in the Legend area.

However, the map could be reprinted over and over. So at the Right Hand corner of the map it will list what unit was responsible for the printing and it is marked with a print date. I checked my map collection and most are reprinted by British Royal Engineers. However, I found this on one of my special maps made for the II Corps HQ:

PHOTOLITHOGRAPHED BY 66TH ENGR. TOP. CO. U.S. ARMY, SEPT 1944.

then a little further down, printed in small black letters are:

OVERPRINT BY 66TH. ENGR. TOP. CO., US.S. ARMY, SEPTEMBER 1944.

This map was a map that was printed with the usual contours this is a redish brown color and it had additional info over-printed in BLACK that showed the jeep and mule trails in the mountains around Lioano and Livergano---the scene of the heavy fighting at and above the GOTHIC Line in the fall of 1944.

I can scan the corner of this map for your friend if you think they would be interested. Here is a link my Maps page that shows a close-up of the above described map.

Map Page: http://www.custermen.com/Maps/ArmyMaps.htm

Closeup view of Map: http://www.custermen.com/Maps/MapLoiano2.jpg

Closeup view of map with portion converted to B&W.

http://www.custermen.com/Maps/MapLoiano2.jpg

So I'm positive that this unit served in Italy and made maps for the 5th Army. That is about as good as I can do.

Steve Cole

www.custermen.com