Hey, thanks for your answers.
roque_riojas, I was thinking the same thing about the TEC 5 as radio opp and jeep with radio equipment because they where combat engineers.
I was told for one they where going to go to Son to help replace the bridge that was blown by the Germans over the Wilhelmina canal.
Rocky, I think the TEC 5 and 1st Lt would have been also armed going in to battle, also the glider pilot had a handgun.
The 1st Lt even acted as a 'on the job' co-pilot due to the shortage of pilots in that period.
The Germans where seen taking radio equipment from the crash-site and I was wondering what kind of radio equipment could have been onboard in the Jeep.
Maybe somebody knows what kind of SCR radio's where used by combat engineers when going into battle.
Anyway Marion , I understand the TEC 5 would have been a corporal.
What puzzles me now is, I’ve been to his grave last year at the American cemetery in Margraten and no CPL is engraved in the white cross, just TEC 5.
Marion, can you tell me what kind of Special duties your dad had as a TEC 5?
Peter.