Do you remember the unit? I think my uncle was in an engineer unit that went into Berlin right at the end.
What a long slog for those guys.
Yes it was the 208th Engineer Combat Battalion.
I recall Daddy once saying they were originally bivouacked right off the Pottsdamerstrasse. Which I suppose was a highway.
Many of the men that served in the Soviet 8th Guards Army marched from Stalingrad to Berlin. The Soviet 62nd Army had been General Chuikov’s army in Stalingrad. After they survived that hell, the army was re-manned, re-equipped and designated as the 8th Guards Army. That was a long slog for those guys.