292nd Engineer Combat Battalion (New Member)

[Sir Gator]

Gary,

I think you've got a very strong match with Steiber.

 

I don't think I'm with y'all on the KP theory. Everyone else is dressed for the photo. If the KP guys stayed in their whites, you'd think everyone else would be in fatigues. When you say "medical detachment," are you talking about medics? They'd be with the unit, but I don't think they'd be in white, would they? And why would they be placed so prominently? It's definitely an interesting little problem. Too bad we can't see insignia on more of these guys.

 

I did give a copy of the Company A photo to the Camp Butner Society. I definitely want to get them some names, but you're adding so many names every day that I think I'll wait a while. Right now, they don't have a place to display it anyway. The museum is just a small room currently, and they told me they have quite a bit in storage. Based on what I've seen on their Facebook page versus what was in the museum, I'd have to confirm that.

 

Randy,

The original Company A photo is also lightly brown, almost sepia. It's too even to be aging, in my opinion, so I think the light brown is original. Looks good with the khaki in the uniforms. Just my opinion.

 

Lisa

Lisa,

 

Randy has a point that you'd think that maybe these guys would be attached to H&S Company? It's possible that maybe the white "lab coats" are the uniforms that would coincide with the the uniform that the other soldiers are wearing? We'll have to keep working on this. Lisa, take a look at the pages that Randy posted above and you will see that Wardlaw mentions that he was transferred to the 292nd in Nov of 1943 to "organize and train the members of the medical detachment, which consisted of one dentist, one doctor, one staff sergeant and fourteen medical specialists of different ranks". I do agree with you that sepia tone of the photo is really fantastic with the subjects and composition of the photo. We love our framed ones!

 

More comparisons coming soon so keep watching!

 

Gary