03-03-2008, 01:28 AM
Hi Marion,
Regarding the Fedala landing, here's a note from my father's recollections I took in 1990: "There were few casualties on my LCI, but 200 to 300 on others died. We were to secure the beach, set-up dumps, and unload ship supplies—but five ships were torpedoed and sunk on the way in."
After being relieved of operating the port of Fedala it appears that the 36th Engineers were mostly training in Africa. Dad landed at Licata too but the first bloody fighting he spoke of was at Salerno. By all accounts I've heard and read that is where the 36th ECR had their first combat experience outside of a few skirmishes.—Sandy