DANFORTH ANCHOR - need information!

[Walt's Daughter]

My dad was in the 2828th Engineer Combat Bn. after the war was over but was in the 188th Engineers (not part of the VI Corps) during the war and took part in the crossing of the Rhine. I have attached a copy of 3rd Army Crossing of the Rhine. It mentions anchors on pages 15 and 22 but not by specific name.

 

You may want to suggest to your friend that the military engineering term is “ponton” with two o’s not three. That is the term used throughout the attached, my dad’s Engineer Field Notebook and it was the term we used when I was in the Engineers, too. Spell check keeps trying to “correct” me and Bud may simply be a victim of misguided technology.

 

Thanks for all you do to remind the current generations of what The Greatest Generation did.

 

Thanks,

Don