Rhine River Crossing VIA Eng's

[Walt's Daughter]

Joe:

 

Just received close to 1000 pages from the National Archives this morning. Talk about manna from heaven. Anyway...

 

While doing a quick perusal through the docs from the 540th, I ran across this and thought you'd like to see it. This concerns the Rhine River crossing and the equipment allocation for said operation.

 

Each rgt received the following equipment:

 

48 - storm boats

48 - 55 HP motors

42 - double assault boats

42 - 22 1/2 HP motors

4 - Infantry support raft sets

1 - heavy ponton raft

5 - cable sets

61 - Dukws

2 - utility boats

35 - mortar carts

 

Upstream River Defense:

 

4 - cable set

4 - mine barriers

15 - Dukws

 

Chemical Smoke Generator Company:

 

10 - Dukws