Sent an email to Gilles regarding his photo of a 36th Combat Engineer's helmet. He has a photo site dedicated to the 36th Inf Div. I got this back today along with some photos. I am going to include these on the 36th's Engineer'sHistory Page too.
http://dogface44.skyblog.com/index.html
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hello marion thanks for you rmessage on my website!
yours is absolutely awesome! ive been reading/checking
its for quite some time now!
here are the photos!
reenactment photos are of my group in osuthern france
last summer.
do you know any 36th engr vets who have written
biographies???
i also have many photos of the 36th troops liberating
vesoul france. we can clearly see the seahorse
patches. i have no scanner so i wont be able to send
them yet.
best regards gilles
Gilles Guignard
0041-79-204-23-54
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This helmet was found in the Colmar pocket area early 2004. Museum of the Combats of the Colmar Pocket.
Proud Daughter of Walter (Monday) Poniedzialek
540th Engineer Combat Regiment, 2833rd Bn, H&S Co, 4th Platoon
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