292nd Engineer Combat Battalion (New Member)

[Sir Gator]

 

Gary,

 

This is a very nice find my friend, thanks for posting it, interesting! It is my understanding that Uncle Sam intentionally destroyed (God knows why!) all the troopship manifest lists, I think sometime in the 1950's. However lists from some ships may have survived for one reason or another. My grandfather's discharge paper shows him returning stateside at this time, so I'm confident he was on this ship. Have a good one.

 

Randy

As you stated earlier, newspaper articles of many cities listed this as the ship that the 292nd returned on. So you were spot on with that, my friend. Through Ancestry I accessed New York port records for incoming ships. When carrying troops back to the states, It would seem that some ship's manifests were so detailed that they had unit rosters of those on the ship. Unfortunately, the Hampden Sydney Victory did not get that detailed on this voyage or the other ones that I found. The ship made the following trips and arrived in New York Harbor... from Marseilles on Nov 29 and Dec 30, 1945 and Jan 30 and Mar 2,1946. It also arrived from Bremerhaven on Apr 1, 1946. I attached a couple of additional paper clippings announcing the ships arrival with the 292nd. I also attached a roster from A Company 1290th Engineer Combat Battalion that had a former member from the original roster of the 292nd, Hartwell D. Isget SN 34 657 016 who had apparently previously transferred and arrived in New York Harbor on his way home on Aug 24, 1945 aboard the General J. C. Breckinridge. Just an example of what we, unfortunately, did not get.

 

Gary