Lordy. Lordy, Your Dad Must have been in the same area as the 48th Engineers in Italy and Maybe on the same ship for the invasion of South France. WE landed with the 36th Div. I fed several MP units as WE moved up thru France. Welcome aboard. AL Kincer
Hi Al, & Marion, thanks for the welcome. Dad was in such a small detachment, usualy only 3 to 10 men, that records or info about a unit that small are almost non-existant. I can only go by what he remembered & a few dated documents that he had as to where he was at those times and the divisions that were in the area.
in Italy i believe his parent unit was CO.A 504th MP Battalion. When he arrived in Naples in Jan `44, he was
assigned to POW Det 4086 G, at some point it was redesignated as the 706th MPEG POW Det. that he was in till the end of the war. The unit probly operated out of VI Corps HQ and went whereever they were needed, usualy guarding supplies going to the front lines and escorting prisoners back so he could have been in the area of
any division units fighting in the area.
As for the southern france landing, he definitley went with a 540th Eng unit, The one thing i cant figure out and
dad didnt know is why he was assigned to go in with the assault troops. I figured since being blind in 1 eye
he would have basicaly been limited- service personal, which is how he he became an MP guard in the first
place, instead of coming in later in the day.
Larry