Several weeks ago my friend Allison who lives here in town lent me a book that belonged to her father. At the time I didn't realize that it was the SAME battalion. Yes, the 297th! When did I realize this? This morning!
I woke up earlier and was going through some things in my office and realized that I still had Allison's book in my possession. Oh know I thought, I should scan some of the pages and get this back to her. So I placed the book on my desk and read the cover again, 297th Engineer Combat Battalion. Wait I thought, don't I already have some info on this unit, and performed a search on our forum. Well duh! I sure do!!
With everything going on and the overload of so much info on the site and the forum, I never put two and two together! Mari and Mary I can't wait to tell Allison and her brother about both of you and the upcoming reunion this summer. I wrote a note to Allison this morning with the references to the 297th here on our forum. Wow, this is exciting! 
Anyway the book called Bridging Europe is a real treasure, and contains some of the best bridge photos I've ever seen. I will try and scan a few for our site, but the book is really deteriorating, and I'm afraid to bend back the cover since it doesn't belong to me. 
Small world huh? Unbelievable.
Proud Daughter of Walter (Monday) Poniedzialek
540th Engineer Combat Regiment, 2833rd Bn, H&S Co, 4th Platoon
There's "No Bridge Too Far"