05-15-2007, 04:45 PM
This was in response to me asking for permission to print it on the forum:
You bet, and today I just got a phone call from an old guy who landed with the 36th Engineers in Africa and Sicily but was not one of our seahorses. He was a member of the Navy Beach Battalion that was attached to us for each of the landings. They did the job that the Engineer Amphibian Command had planned to do with their shore battalion, marking the beachesetc.
36 Engineers are rugged......John Fallon II. Capt. USA Ret.
Marion J Chard
Proud Daughter of Walter (Monday) Poniedzialek
540th Engineer Combat Regiment, 2833rd Bn, H&S Co, 4th Platoon
There's "No Bridge Too Far"
Proud Daughter of Walter (Monday) Poniedzialek
540th Engineer Combat Regiment, 2833rd Bn, H&S Co, 4th Platoon
There's "No Bridge Too Far"