527th Engineer Light Pontoon CO

[Walt's Daughter]

World War II Bridge Test Site

 

Obit of Millard William Becraft

 

Obit of Albert Jules Allpress

 

See excerpt from this book - see entry regarding Elsey

 

Here's a document from our website on the units in the Battle of the Bulge

 

This clip from a 1952 newspaper talks about their first reunion

 

 

Here's an excerpt from the page below. Click on the link to read the whole thing in context.

 

http://thedonovan.com/archives/005010.html

 

With the withdrawal of the 35th Engineer Combat Battalion the VIII Corps no longer had elements directly in the path of the main German drive, always excepting, of course, the troops defending Bastogne, which by this time were cut off from the rest of the corps. The outposts of the corps at Recogne (held by the 7th Tank Destroyer Group) and at Vaux-lez-Rosières (defended by a scratch force from the 28th Division, reinforced by the 527th Engineer Light Pontoon Company) thus far had escaped the attention of an enemy moving west, not southwest. General Middleton was concerned about his open left flank and as his engineers came back ordered a barrier line formed along the Semois River. On the VIII Corps right, in the area south of Bastogne, reinforcements from the Third Army were concentrating under the command of the III Corps. The VIII Corps tactical air command post, which had been moved to Florenville on the 21st, continued to receive rumors and half-true reports of German forces turning southwest against its front, but it was fairly clear that the main threat was past.