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To: yarddog

Beautiful and inspiring poster. Thank-you for sharing. Are they like the Seabees?


55 posted on 02/04/2016 10:40:48 AM PST by lulu16 (May the Good Lord take a liking to you!)
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To: lulu16

Thanks, I think they are the same as the Seabees only the Army.

Daddy was in the Combat Engineers and they spent most of their time behind the lines repairing roads bridges etc. Most of their casualties were from clearing mines and artillery. At one time they were losing so many men and machines that they had to work at night.

Every now and then they were the tip of the spear tho and at least once were turned into infantry because the Germans had counterattacked, destroyed their bridge and were near to pushing us back into the river.


62 posted on 02/04/2016 10:46:35 AM PST by yarddog (Romans 8:38-39, For I am persuaded.)
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