your_name: Steve Blakney
address: 5018 N33 rd st
cityst: Tacoma WA
zipcode: 98407
phone: left off for privacy
email_confirm: left off for privacy
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comments: I am trying to get information of my father. Like a lot of men he came home and did not talk a lot about what he did. He was in the combat engineers but I do not know the unit.
Places he talked about being
-Utah beach landing - first wave
-Saint Lo
-Malmady
-St Vith
and the Nordhousen liberation
My father was in the convoy that was stopped and latter executed at Malmady. He and, a few men he could talk into it, made a break for it near the back of the column. He hid out and latter was in the fighting around the St Vith area. For most of the war he was out in front of the infantry units blowing up things or keeping things from being blown up. They had sent him back to Belgium for a rest.
Are there any combat engineer units that would have been in all of these actions. I know they got switched around a lot and at one time were even fronting for a British unit.
Proud Daughter of Walter (Monday) Poniedzialek
540th Engineer Combat Regiment, 2833rd Bn, H&S Co, 4th Platoon
There's "No Bridge Too Far"