292nd Engineer Combat Battalion (New Member)

[Sir Gator]

Gary,

Those Longacre photos are the ones I was thinking of. The 1149th Ops Reports tell us what each company was assigned to each day during the Roer Crossings, which bridge or road or whatever. Interesting reading.

Pete

Pete,

 

I figured you'd know about the Longacre shots. Sam Harrison has well over one hundred shots from his father that he uploaded to Flickr. They are different that most of the Longacre shots in that they are mainly snapshots (the Longacre shots are more "professional"). They are different, but valuable in their own right to give you an idea of service through the eyes of the "normal joe". His shots can be viewed at:

 

https://www.flickr.com/photos/129969616@N08/

 

I actually found a photo that shows the "motor pool gang" which has my grandfather in it (which is very cool since we have no other photos of him during his time in Europe). He was assigned to A Company through his time at Camp Butner, but was transferred to H&S Company right before deployment. He was subsequently transferred back to A Company sometime in January 1945 "due to a shortage of mechanics" and stayed assigned to that company the rest of his time in the service.

 

Let me get back on track, the more images related the better just to give anyone interested more of an idea of the service of these men from many different points of view. The same goes for information... it is great to be getting a ton of info from the battalion, but also great to get the 1149th documents. Kinda getting info from the other end if you know what I mean.

 

Just a observation... isn't it great that so many folks are taking an interest in the unit and getting involved with honoring these great men?!!! This really is fantastic!!

 

Later, my friend,

 

Gary