Need help piecing my Grandpa's WWII story - 39th Combat Engr
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My researcher got back with me:


There are actually three Reports included in the link: images 1-30 are the ‘Battalion-level’ reports.  Since we don’t know your grandfather’s Company in the 39th, I decided to exceed our scope of work and located the reports for the two constituent Companies of the 39 Engineers, which were Companies E and F.  Pages 31-63 are for Company E of the Battalion; and pages 64-95 are for Company F.


I looked through the reports, but I'm not sure if they are morning reports.  One page gives a general idea of what they were doing (training, building a staging area, recreation) and opposite page frequently has names and some notation which I can't understand.  I only reports for Sept 1943, which is when the invasion of Salerno happened.  My grandpa was a part of that invasion force.  His separation papers indicate he is a  demolitions specialist.  Based on the morning reports and other things I've read on the 39th, I'm beginning to wonder if my grandpa served in a different until and only joined the 643rd for the boat ride home.


Any suggestions of where I should look next?  I'm going to start Google-ing demolition specialist, but not optimistic I'll find any but an FBI agent at my door asking about my web searches.  :)

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Need help piecing my Grandpa's WWII story - 39th Combat Engr - by Weston497 - 12-05-2018, 10:14 PM

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