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| 540th unit records for you? Inquire within... |
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Posted by: Walt's Daughter - 12-16-2018, 12:17 PM - Forum: MARION'S NEWS n UPDATES n BABBLINGS...
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Hey!
When I hired a researcher years ago to acquire the unit records of the 540th, I also wound up with some duplication. I've put these aside and am offering them to anyone who would like to have them. There are not dupes of every page of course, but when my researcher copied them in Maryland, we somehow wound up with extra copies of many of the pages. The only thing I ask is that you pay for postage.
If you are interested, please post here and I will be happy to share with you.
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| First Sargent Angelo Maggi |
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Posted by: Don maggi - 12-09-2018, 05:30 PM - Forum: LOOKING FOR...
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Hello everyone
I am trying to find any info on my late father, Angelo " Lou " Maggi. I have very little info to go by. I know that he was a first Sargent from a memory of his old uniform patch. I do know from his deceased sister that he was in a combat engine unit in Italy at the end of Ww2. He was on a unit that built bridges over rivers. He was born April 27 1910. At the time he entered the army he was living in Paterson N.J. Well that is all I know. If any knows of any unit rosters that might help, please let me know
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Don Maggi
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| Engineers assigned to Peninsular Base Section, Caserta area c. April 1944 |
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Posted by: lowellsilverman - 12-09-2018, 03:36 PM - Forum: LOOKING FOR...
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My grandfather, Robert Silverman was a dentist in the 32nd Station Hospital in the MTO. The one story he told his sons was about a close call he had when dud bombs fell on the hospital during a German air raid. While researching the story, I discovered the raid happened on April 24, 1944 at the compound in Caserta, Italy. At that time, the 32nd was assigned to the Peninsular Base Section. I was able to find photographs from the incident at the Pritzker Military Museum. When I showed the photos to a retired U.S. Army E.O.D. expert who also is a historian for bomb disposal units in WWII, he pointed out some oddities in procedure and unit markings. The disposal unit's 2 1/2 ton truck doesn't have any bomb disposal markings, for instance. In fact, the only markings on the bumperettes are "PBS" on the left and what looks like "20" or "23" on the right.
A couple of people suggested that it's possible that an Engineers unit might have done the disposal in this case. There were only two Ordnance bomb disposal companies and a few independent squads in all of Italy at the time and it seems that when they were spread thin, Engineers might have been called on. I was hoping to find out which Engineer units might have been assigned to the Peninsular Base Section in the Caserta or Naples area in April 1944, or at least what sort of Engineer unit would have been called upon to perform this duty if a BD squad was not available.
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