03-03-2008, 11:07 PM
I love firsthand accounts such as Art Cook's. Was he 2nd Bn, 36th ECR? There was a ship, the Thomas Stone, torpedoed at Algiers. Good thing there was weak enemy resistance when so many things went wrong with the first landings, including the engineers not having their equipment and vehicles shipped (duh?). It took some repeated lessons to establish Army-Navy procedures at the waterline too. In the EAME engineers were one man to every 9 or 10, the largest number outside of regular combat troops but still there was a shortage. Getting back to the troopships for anyone interested: others sunk at Morocco were Edward Rutledge, Tasker H. Bliss, and Joseph Hewes (carrying the 3d ID). Thats what I found online anyway.—Sandy