Enlisted and was sent to Ft. Belvoir VA in '44. Near the end of training our whole group and many other groups were transferred to Camp Howze TX for Adv. Inf Training for 6 weeks as Inf. casualty replacements and then immediately sent overseas to ETO as Inf.
replacements. However, Combat Eng training was at least as tough as Inf. training. However, I sure recall the songs we sung on marches as Combat Engineers. "Ive been
working on the railroad", and the old King Cole song. "Old King Cole was a merry old soul , and called for his privates three. Beer, beer, beer said the privates, merry men are whe. No one else can drink more beer than a combat engineer. " And then up to the corporals, " we want a 3 day pass said the corporals, merry men are whe", and so on up through the ranks. Anone else remember the songs??? Sure wish I could really remember all the verses.. Just like the Jody "songs" and "Cadence counts". Seems like the new breed of our warriors seen to think that is something new. Not left over from many years ago. NOthing is new... Only a transition.