Dad's unit wound up being loaned to Monty to clear mines so the 79th could do graves reg. Dad was an EOD specialist.
I'm glad he was a careful one. He did have one unfortunate encounter with a "Bouncing Betty" but the second charge was a dud. While he and mom were on their 50th Anniversary Victory Tour, they went back to that beach (at Marino di Pisa on the west coast) and said a little prayer . . .
What unit was your dad with?
That is about all I know. He is now 85 and when I ask him about it he starts telling disjointed stories about people, I of course never knew (with one exception).
I do recall him saying that they built the longest bridge ever built under fire. Also know when he farmed when I was little that he could buy dynamite. He blew quite a few stumps.
They allowed them to buy cameras after the war ended and he has a large number of pics of Berlin, Russians etc. He had even more but Mother threw a lot of them away a few years ago.