08-24-2012, 06:24 AM
Kieth and Jim, my area of research is the Italian Campaign WW2, particularly Operation Husky (Sicily1943). The 344th GSR was involved in mainland Italy through to Germany and appears a number of times in this book that we on here call our bible:
http://archive.org/details/corpsofengineers00beckpages Pages 186, 212, 452, 454.
I appears that their area of expertise was in the transport and construction of Bailey Bridges?
Colin.