Recieved this nice email today from Leonard...

Hi Marion,

On your page:

http://www.6thcorpscombatengineers.com/JamesBird.htm

You refer to the The 45th DIVISION NEWS published May 13th 1945 and its extensive article by Bill Barrett on the capture of Dachau by the 157th Infantry Regiment.

My later father, Felix A.Cizewski, was in the 45th Signal Company at the time and saved his copy. I have posted it at:

http://www.ibiblio.org/cizewski/dachau/dachau.html

Yours,

Leonard H. Cizewski, Madison, Wisconsin

son of the late PFC Felix A. Cizewski, 45th Signal Company

Gillies a swiss re-enactor has a website with a marked helmet at

http://dogface44.skyblog.com/6.html

Have a look

Marion's note: Found the exact page it was on and edited the link above to take you right there! Thanks Paul. This is just great!

Joe and other men from the 3rd Inf Div. A friend copied a great article from the Saturday Evening Post, dated August 11, 1945. It's titled, The Third: Tops in Honors by Collie Small.

I'm about half way done reading it and really enjoying it. I know you will too. The paper is large, so it won't fit in my scanner, but I will find a way to get it on the web for the Rock of Marne.

Stay tuned...

Got a letter from my friend Mit. Her husband Bill is an WWII engineer and was rushed to the hospital this week. Here's her letter. Please say a prayer for our friends.

Hello Marion,

I just wanted to touch base with you to let you know that my husband Bill is in the hospital, 4 days ago we had to rush him to the hospital ER he couldn’t hardly breathe, one of his lungs collapsed pretty sick man. He seems to be making progress the lung inflated and hopefully it stays inflated. I hope you are making progress in obtaining information about Bill’s unit, I was so worried that he would go to that big mansion in the sky, he kept saying he wasn’t going to make it.

Thanks for being my friend I hope to meet you someday so in the meantime we can correspond thru email. Have you had any luck checking with the Captain? Hope so. I read all that you had on your site, it was great. Check you later, Mit DeSpain -

Sent to me by Al Kincer. Thank you for letting us know. May your buddy rest in peace. So sad to get your letter.

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John Douglas of the 1108 Engineer Group passed away recently at his home in Grand Rapids Michigan.