258th Engineers

[Walt's Daughter]

Here's some info for you, Dean. Here's all the info that I have.

 

Please consider posting your search info in our guestbook and join our forum and place your search info under our Lost and Found section.

 

Let me know if I can be of further assistance.

 

Warm regards,

Marion

 

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Try contacting these people:

 

258th Engr (Combat) Bn

Mr. Alton P Murphy

106 Bay View Ave

Cambridge, MD 21613-1105

410-228-2029

 

258th Engineer (Combat) Battalion Society

Mrs. Philip J. Gallagher

127 Evergreen Street

Mount Holly, NJ 08060-1121

(The Diecast News)

(609) 267-2270

 

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You may also want to contact the Army Corps of Engineers. They were a great help to me. They have folders on virtually every engineer group. Some folders contain a wealth of info and may be several inches thick. Others might only have a few pages, but it's always worth a try.

 

http://www.hq.usace.army.mil/history/contact_us.htm

 

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You may also want to contact Richard Horrell, an historian friend of mine who does research on WWII units for a living. It is a fee-based service, but if you aren't getting anywhere, it may be worth it. He offers several levels of fact finding services. If you contact him, please let him know that I sent you. Thanks.

 

http://www.ww2connections.com/pages/1/index.htm

 

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You may also want to try and contact this gentleman: (this was taken from a guestbook)

 

Name: Michael Humphreys

E-mail address: mykolh@hotmail.com

 

Were you in the 150th? (check box): No

How did you hear about us?: websurfing

 

Comments: I enjoyed your website very much, and have visited it often. My grandfather (Lt. Col. Adrian Horace Williams) was involved with the Rhine River Crossing. I have many of his medals and certificates, as well as a portfolio titled, "The Rhine Crossing - 12th Army Group Engineer Operations" by Brigadier General P.H. Timothy. This portfolio is stamped RESTRICTED in red (however by now of course it is most likely declassified). He was with the 258th Engineering Combat Battalion. He trained with Navy LCM's and LCVP's on Prince Albert Canal. One of my grandfather's handwritten comments in the page margins told of the freezing weather posing anticipated problems to the naval craft (since Navy equipment was designed for use in salt water), the 258th Engineers initiated help to the Ninth Army by wrapping chemical heating pads around the motors. He also wrote that the Bailey-bridge equipment under camouflage nets at Sevelen, Germany were "Poor camouflage!"

Saturday, July 24th 2004 - 02:33:11 PM