292nd Engineer Combat Battalion (New Member)

[Sir Gator]

If that was taken in 1941 and depending on what month it was he would have been 20 or 21. A young guy, indeed!

 

 

I discovered two more photos of my father, one standing in front of what looks like an ambulance and the other behind a sign for the 108 Medical Unit, which, as you point out, was part of the 33rd Infantry Division.

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Dennis,

 

Very cool my friend! Sometimes you never know what "treasures" you will find that you'd either forgotten about or never knew you had. So, we know he was with the Illinois National Guard's 33rd Regiment in Illinois before they were federalized. Now we need to figure out how he got from them to 20th Engineers before the 33rd deployed to the Pacific theater? And, of course, then how he got from the 20th to the 292nd CEB in Europe. Ahhh, the answers allude us for now, but I expect will be forthcoming.

 

Have a good one, my friend! Glad to be back in the saddle after a short hiatus!

 

Gary