Exciting letter France - 540th Engineer
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I received this letter this morning and had to share with you. I will translate later for those who do not speak French, but basically it says that this gentleman is a researcher and found an army camp in France, and discovered dogtags of a 540th engineer. He found the name on my site and says this soldier received a purple heart. He asks if I want photos of the camp. You bet! Here's the letter. I will post photos of the dogtags in a bit, but have to open the store right now...

 

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Bonjour,

 

Je suis collectionneur de militaria de la seconde guerre mondiale depuis assez longtemps.

Résidant en France, dans l'Est du pays à la frontière avec l'Allemagne, je pratique la détection.

 

J'ai découvert un ancien camp de l'armée américaine et j'ai trouvé cinq plaques d'identité de GI.

 

L'une d'entre elle est au nom de WILLIAM COX, (N° 14020473) grâce à votre site j'ai appris que ce soldat avait été décoré de la PURPLE HEART et qu'il appartenait au 540 th combat engineers.

Merci à vous

 

Je n'ai pas d'autres indications sur ce soldat.

Avez-vous d'autres informations sur WILLIAM COX. Je suis à la recherche d'une photo et de tout renseignements

Merci.

 

Voulez-vous des photos du camp US j'ai trouvé en foret ?

 

Désolé pour le texte en anglais mais je ne maitrise pas votre langue.

 

Salutations, à vous lire

Damien

Marion J Chard
Proud Daughter of Walter (Monday) Poniedzialek
540th Engineer Combat Regiment, 2833rd Bn, H&S Co, 4th Platoon
There's "No Bridge Too Far"
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Exciting letter France - 540th Engineer - by Walt's Daughter - 02-26-2008, 10:48 AM

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