Thanks kid! The Hyperwar site has some very good "stuff", and I've been using them for reference material for years.
As always, am always looking to make sure "my boys" get mentioned, because as any you sons and daughters of engineers damn-well-know; "our boys" are often times left off of rosters, etc. Boils my blood, as a daughter and also as a historian. I can oft times be heard to scream within my office walls, "Where are the damned engineers?"
Operation Goalpost - Western Naval Taskforce
9th Infantry Division
Other 60th Infantry Troops (Ninth Inf Div)d
d Including 1st Battalion, 540th Engineer Regiment
But... even with this exhaustive study, where are is my beloved 540th Engineer 2nd Bn? Aha; not listed. I think that may tend to perturb "my boys"!
They were part of Operation Blackstone - Western Taskforce
Operation Brushwood -Western Naval Taskforce
3d Infantry Division
1st RLG (reinforced), 7th Infantry a
2d RLG (reinforced), 30th Infantry b
a Including Battery A (less 4th Platoon), 443d Coast Artillery (AA) Battalion, and 1st Battalion, 36th Engineer Regiment.
b Including Battery B (less 1st Platoon), 443d Coast Artillery (AA) Battalion, and 3d Battalion, 36th Engineer Regiment.
Same goes for the boys of the 2nd Bn of the 36th Engineers, who landed At Algiers! They had quite a fight, as part of the Eastern Naval Taskforce.
It just seems a shame that these units, as well as numerous others, get inadvertently left out of so much recorded history.
For a very exhaustive study of the engineers in North Africa, do not forget my favorite source:
The Corps of Engineers - The War Against Germany - Authors: Alfred M. Beck; Abe Bortz; Charles W. Lynch; Lidia Mayo; And Ralph F. Weld - Publisher: Department of the Army
Which I am proud to say, is now available online (it's HUGE)!!! It's a downloadable ZIP file.
http://www.ibiblio.org/pha/USA-in-WWII/Set-5-of-7/
So between these two sources, you should get a pretty good feel of the endeavors of the 36th and 540th in North Africa.
Proud Daughter of Walter (Monday) Poniedzialek
540th Engineer Combat Regiment, 2833rd Bn, H&S Co, 4th Platoon
There's "No Bridge Too Far"