Found this today on the web regarding Walter Gardner and the 540th Engineers

Sent out an email to everyone on my 36th Engineer email list and the one addressed to Doug Dobbs bounced. He joined our forum last month, so this is a bit strange.

Doug if you are reading this, please get in touch with me to update your email address. Thanks!

I am at present reading Disobeying Hitler, German resistance in the last year of WW2.

It describes how Hitler's "scorched earth" policy was thwarted by many Germans, some in high places and his orders not adhered to. I have emailed John Fallon with a description as it contains a section on Operation Dragoon in which he took part.

The Author is Randall Hansen and it was published by Faber & Faber in 2014.

Colin.

Inside The Army’s Spectacular Hidden Treasure Room

Captain John Fallon of the 36th Engineers, recently read this book and sent the following review to me:

I read a lot of books about Normandy and a couple about Dragoon in Southern France but this is a winner - Eisenhower's Thorn on The Rhine by Prefer. It starts lucky enough with the godawful fighting in Rambervillers and Remiremont but not in detail because he is telling about the fight on the Rhine. Our Regiment fought continuously with the 117th Recon, and our artillery, the 83rd Chemical mortar battalion and the entire thing was blurred by the fighting in the North, Now this book tells almost nothing about those units but when I read it we were there. It was our story of 44-45 and I hope others from the 36th, the 117th, and the 83rd can read it.