Man ! This site has more bells and whistles that my airplane! I hope this is the correct way to make a reply.
Greetings folks!
Finally a Google search paid off!
I think it is a great idea setting up a 208th ECB site! My Dad is Sgt Robert M. Martin, Bravo Co, 2nd Platoon, who was referenced above, is doing well here in Southwest PA.
If anyone has email contacts for other 208th ECB vets, I'm sure he'd love to touch base with them. We have a lot of JPG's take of 4 or 5 maps Dad has of "The Fighting Dozers" travel from Normandy to Berlin which we'd be glad to share for the website.
One of the maps has a complete listing of names, ranks and 1945 addresses for the 208th members. Others are detail drawings of various structures they put up along the rivers. We have posted some of the stuff on little discussion group I stood up on Yahoo: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TheFightingD...ineerBattalion/. It is member only right now, but click on join and I'll provide access.
All the best!
Bob Martin
Here's a pic of Dad in the American Legion uniform he had made in 1946. I'm next to him and my son Zack is in front of me.