345th Engineers Genral Service Regiment

[Walt's Daughter]

http://www.181stengineerheavypontonbattalion.com/page-d/

 

Here's some text again (see one of the previous links above) from the The Corps of Engineers - The War Against Germany. Notice how it mentions my dad's unit too (540th).

 

Peninsular Base

 

With the arrival of more service

troops from North Africa, the Fifth

Army Base Section assumed more re-

sponsibility for supply in the army's

rear. Through summer 1943, Fifth

Army's support organization was only

a skeleton, designated 6665th Base

Area Group (Provisional) and modeled

after the NATOUSA Atlantic Base Sec-

tion. It changed its provisional charac-

ter and its name to the full-fledged

Fifth Army Base Section on 28 August.

Under Brig. Gen. Arthur W. Pence, an

advance echelon accompanied Fifth

Army headquarters to Italy, landing

at Salerno on D plus 2. General

Pence established his headquarters at

Naples the day after the city was

captured, and on 25 October his com-

mand became the Peninsular Base Sec-

tion, with its Engineer Service under

Col. Donald S. Burns.^^

 

By 10 October the first full-sized con-

voy brought the 345th Engineer Gen-

eral Service Regiment to the base sec-

tion. The Base Section Engineer Ser-

vice also had at its disposal the 540th

Engineer Combat Regiment, two engi-

neer general service regiments (the

345th and 94th), the 386th Engineer

Battalion (Separate), one company of a

water supply battalion (attached from

Fifth Army), an engineer port construc-

tion and repair group, an engineer

maintenance company, a depot com-

pany, and a map depot detachment — in

all, about 6,000 engineers. ^^