History of the 344th Engineer General Service Regiment

[Walt's Daughter]

Thanks to Richard Elverson, whose father was a member of the 344th Eng Gen Serv Reg, Co D, we now have the complete history from the National Archives.

 

He sent me all the files he copied to a CD, and I converted them into several PDF files. The first time I created just one file and it was WAY TOO BIG!!!

 

So, visit the link below and scroll down to the links section. There are now eight parts.

 

Engineer History

 

I also took the photos and placed them into our 344th Photo Gallery

 

Here's the letter he sent to me...

 

Hi Marion. I burned a CD for you this evening and will mail it

sometime this coming week.

 

When you put the records on the VI Corp website, I would like them

attributed to me, please.

 

The records that I will be providing to you represent approximately

1/3 to 1/2 of what is held at the National Archives @ College Park,

Maryland. Time and digital storage resources prevented me from

obtaining all of the records. I think some of the most meaningful

records are the ~ 12 pages summary of the 344th Engineering General

Service Regiment. It appears to me that they were attached to the 7th

Army for the majority of the time between landing in Operation Anvil

Dragoon at St Tropez, Alpes-Maritimes, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur,

France on 15 August 1944 until VE Day in May of 1945. One of the very

meaningful events for this unit was their arrival at Dachau

Concentration Camp on or around 29 April 1945 when they were attached,

I think, to the 45th Infantry Division.

 

I'm still reviewing the records that I'm sending to you so my

conclusion in the previous sentence may not be correct but I know they

were at Dachau at some point before the majority of the bodies were

buried as I saw pictures that my dad took many years ago.

 

Thanks,

Rick Elverson