160th Engineer Combat Battalion WW II ( new member)

[Walt's Daughter]

Thought I had done this already, so my profuse apologies. This is a file compiled by Doug Steinke.

 

 

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Marion,

 

Thanks for your reply. Let me reassure you that I am in no way associated with any kind of spammer or have any political agenda. I did send a paragraph to your general email giving a little of my background interest in your website. I lost my father back in 2001. His name is Robert J. Steinke. He was a sergeant in the 160th Combat Engineers during WWII. Recently I was reading a very well written document from Glen Basingim on your forum website whose father was Edwin Basingim who also served in the 160th Combat Engineers in WWII. My father was in Company "A" and Edwin was in Company "B", they both had the same Battalion commander. When I read Glen's article there are some things I can add to it with documents my father kept from the war like the ship they sailed home on was called the "Europa" a captured German vessel. I can also help Glen identify some of the people in the photos he posted from his fathers campaign book which is identical to my fathers campaign book. 

 

In addition I have been working on my family tree through Ancestry.com In another discovery, my father had a second cousin to his mother who was a Major General during WWII under General Douglas MacArthur. His name is George Jacob Nold. He was stationed in Alaska during WWI and was in charge of the 10th Army. I have been doing research on him and have a PowerPoint presentation that I could send you as well if you are interested.

 

Sorry for getting too wordy here but I again want to reassure you I am simply an interested researcher looking for clues to my past.

 

Please let me know if you need anything else from me and I hope that I meet your criteria to become a site member.

 

Best Regards,

 

Doug Steinke 

 

 

Robert_J_Steinke_160th_Engineer.pdf