Hello everyone,

   I am happy for my recent addition to the forums. My name is Michael Mercier and I am the curator for the Camp Butner Society and Museum in Butner, North Carolina. The camp was only in operation from 1942 to 1947 but in the first three years saw an estimated 50,000 soldiers come through for training. Now streets that were once lined with barracks, mess halls and admin buildings have houses and businesses.

   Our society has been around for about four years and the hardest part about starting a museum so long after the end of the war is not only finding decent, relevant displays for the museum but conducting research on the numerous units and soldiers that spent time here. We are lucky that we have the original post quartermaster’s log that he listed all the units that came to the camp and noted when they left and among them were numerous engineer units (that I will post about in a different thread).

The museum is the least we can do to honor and remember the soldiers, civilians and even prisoners of war who called Camp Butner home. We are temporarily located in a side room of the camp’s original sports arena that was built in 1942 until we can raise the funds to restore our permanent building. Please visit our official Facebook page at http://www.facebook.com/CampButnerSociety

Thanks so much!

Michael

Hello,

My name is John (Jack) Cherry. I am an unofficial Internet sleuth for the Cape Cod Military Museum, I am disabled and spend a lot of my time tracking down the Military History of Cape Cod. One of focal points is the Engineer Amphibious Command formed at Camp Edwards, on 15 June 1942. We are in search of accounts, photographs and memories of any and all of those that spent time on Cape Cod, as part of their Military service, in this or any other Commands here. In my short time here as a member, I have found a lot of material and am very thankful to M-1 for accepting me as a member and providing a great site to utilize in my search for information.

An "Auto-Biography" of a Jeep!

Looking for information on where the 2756th combat engineer battalion fought from December 1944 to July 1945. My  Dad, Julius Spradling, JR., was a first lieutenant Intelligence officer during this time. I have an article I found on the Internet that showed they were attached to the 101st Cavalry Group (http://www.trailblazersww2.org/pdf/101stcavalry_part1.pdf) from Feb. 9 to March 10. Thank you, Julius Spradling, III

Ok guys these are the books i have ordered to help get more of an insight  to aid me on further research..

The Ghost Front: The Ardennes Before the Battle of the Bulge

The Reich's Last Gamble : The Ardennes Offensive, December 1944

The Battle of the Bulge

Beyond the Rhine : A Screaming Eagle in Germany 

Battle of the Bulge 1944 : Hitler's Last Hope

Across the Rhine (World War II)

think this help me get further along

What think? & i Already have the vhs tape them damned engineers

tks for any input,

kitty