This was the editorial from the Eager Beaver (the 540th's official newspaper overseas), published VE Day, May 9 , 1945
THIS IS IT!
Today is Victory Day in Europe
Eagerly awaited by allied forces.
Military and civilian, the world over
THIS IS THE DAY which has been
"sweated out" for months which
stretched themselves into years
to cover the advances and the
movements in retrogression,
the shellings, the bombings
the strafings, the quick and
the dead, in the greatest war
the world has ever known.
THIS IS THE DAY which has been
awaited, never patiently. By the
doughfeet in the foxholes,...
By the engineers at their bridges,
the ackack men at their
gunposts, by the brass and by
the yardbirds, by the men and
by the women in Europe and at
home...Wherever home was.
THIS IS IT!
Proud Daughter of Walter (Monday) Poniedzialek
540th Engineer Combat Regiment, 2833rd Bn, H&S Co, 4th Platoon
There's "No Bridge Too Far"