Last Name Hodge

First Name Robert

Middle Initial R

Inducted From Pennsylvania

Rank Private First Class

Combat Org. 36th Engineers Combat Regiment

Date of Death Oct 24 1943

Monument Sicily & Rome, Italy

Status Buried

U.S. Awards Purple Heart Medal

Foreign Awards

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Last Name Hodges

First Name James

Middle Initial T

Inducted From Alabama

Rank Private

Combat Org. 540th Engineers Regiment

Date of Death Mar 01 1944

Monument Sicily & Rome, Italy

Status Buried

U.S. Awards Purple Heart Medal

Foreign Awards

Now Marion, check this out. I went to the ABMC site and did a search by UNIT. I tried entering 540th Engineer REgiment and nothing. Then I simply entered "540" and here are my hits.

Remember---these are soldiers still buried on foriegn soil. And I counted 5 different cemeteries.

Search Results for 540 ENGR REGT

32 records found, ARNOLD PAUL C to TRAVIS HIRAM

ARNOLD PAUL C PVT 35385303 OH 9-Dec-44

AVERRETT JACK B PVT 39409400 NV 10-Mar-44

BAHTIARIAN ARDASH TEC5 32224142 NY 24-Nov-44

BAKER JOHN M PVT 16062649 MI 22-Mar-44

BARRY GEORGE D TEC5 32395856 NY 2-Jun-43

BAY CHARLES J TEC5 31097472 MA 31-Dec-44

BUSONICK CHARLES J J SGT 33114832 PA 24-Nov-44

CIUREY CREIGHTON P PFC 37146136 NE 1-Mar-44

DE LEO DOMINIC PFC 31086753 MA 1-Mar-44

DE WALD HERMAN J PFC 35665426 KY 1-Mar-44

FITZWATER RALPH PFC 35427654 WV 1-Mar-44

GRAVELLE ALFRED J PFC 31078008 MA 29-Jan-44

HARRISON CHARLES W PVT 34042444 TN 24-Nov-44

HATCH STEWART H PFC 31301636 MA 1-Jan-45

HODGES JAMES T PVT 34198513 AL 1-Mar-44

HUFF VINCENT M PVT 36184037 MI 1-Mar-44

JOHNSON ANDY W PFC 39178092 WA 9-Nov-42

KAPETANICH JOHN M SGT 39234205 CA 19-Dec-43

KJEMS HENRY R SGT 39175674 WA 24-Nov-44

KRIEGEL BERNARD PVT 42017513 NJ 19-Aug-44

LAWSON WILLIAM O PVT 38402141 OK 18-Aug-44

LAZZARO VINCENT J PVT 42102900 NJ 1-Jan-45

LEE CLIFFORD C PFC 35382331 OH 24-Apr-44

LOHBECK CHARLES J PVT 15114305 OH 10-May-44

LOVETT JOHN R JR SSGT 34267994 GA 24-Jan-44

MC LAUGHLIN CHARLES PFC 13066312 VA 12-Aug-43

MOEN JOHN PVT 37278217 ND 1-Mar-44

NICOL ROBERT B 2LT O1111269 CT 6-Feb-44

PEDERSON THEODORE L PVT 36222407 WI 24-Jan-44

STECHER ROBERT A PVT 32278321 NJ 15-Aug-44

THOMPSON BERNARD H PVT 37207081 KS 24-Jan-44

TRAVIS HIRAM PVT 37146110 MO 12-Jul-43

(I didn't copy the last columns. This is Rank, S/N, Home State, and Date of Death.)

Go to this link to search by Unit: http://www.abmc.gov/listunit.php

I'll let you do the same for the 36th Engineers.

Wow. That unit paid a hugh sacrifice.

Steve

Pretty impressive yes? I have that link on the main site and have found that many of the people that visit have used it and found people they knew.

The 540th fought long and hard and paid a high price in KIA's and casualties. They were in service for a long period too, from November 1942 to the end of the war. They saw a lot of territory, built a lot of bridges, unearthed a lot of mines, etc. They also fought as infantry and did so in the Ardennes/Alsace Campaign. I really admire them and it's hard for me to imagine all they went through.

Thanks for posting that here. I appreciate all your time and your efforts.

DE LEO DOMINIC PFC 31086753 MA 1-Mar-44

What happened on 1 March 1944?? There are 8 with that as the date of their death---not counting the soldiers not buried there and the ones WIA.

???

Steve

Have you seen this on my History Page?

540th Awards, etc.

What happened on 1 March 1944??  There are 8 with that as the date of their death---not counting the soldiers not buried there and the ones WIA.

???

They were at Anzio and took a direct bomb hit on Company F Billet, 21 enlisted men killed, 19 EM wounded and 3 EM missing in action.

a direct bomb hit on Company F Billet, 21 enlisted men killed

Oh, my.

I was about to resort to pulling out my copy of "Fatal Decision" and looking for something in it. Anzio was a strange and dangerous place. One moment you could be resting in a fox hole and the next moment shells would be falling around you. The beach head was large enough to have hospitals, movies(usually underground and an occasional baseball game. But you were assured of enemy bombers and snipers looming over you waiting to take a shot at you.

Steve