Gene sent me the following letter recently. Mr Fidcuia was with the 631st. You can read more about him here:
http://www.6thcorpscombatengineers.com/GeneFiducia.htm
You are an excellent writer. Just read your article in the WW2 Magazine. Was the article edited in any way by the magazine?
The History channel had a very nice segment on the contributions by the engineers to the war effort in history of the armed forces showing their invaluable role in getting supplies and men to the front in all wars. And of course their fighting as well.
Without the engineers even POW camps, supply dumps, docks, pipelines, roads and bridges would not have been constructed and the armies could not move.
Other branches of the service were rotated and pulled from the fightine but we engineers were in the war for the duration. Some units such as ours were shipped to other theatres of operations after the war ended in Europe because the engineers were needed.
Gene Fiducia.