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To: crz

The 291st Engineer Combat Battalion under the command of Lt. Col. Peregrine.


25 posted on 12/15/2019 11:52:28 AM PST by yarddog ( For I am persuaded.)
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To: yarddog

And the 296th, and 51st. My step-dad was a sergeant in the 296th, landed at Normandy, fought at the Bulge, helped liberate the Buchenwald camp, and were among the first, if not THE first American troops to occupy Berlin... all while building bridges across europe.


44 posted on 12/15/2019 4:25:38 PM PST by Ol' Sox
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