Hi all, I've been researching this for a longgg longgg time using only a few sprinkles of information I've learned from my mother and his discharge papers. My grandfather died a year before I was born but it's been a quest of mine to figure out very specifically where and who he was with.

Stuff my mom told me
He was in North Africa
He was in Italy
He was in Germany and helped liberate/liberated a concentration camp
General Mark Clark was the commanding General

Stuff I found out myself
General Mark Clark commanded 5th Army
After Rome was taken 6th Corp split and became 4th Corp (stayed in Italy) and the rest were molded into 7th Army (continued into France/Germany)

From Pictures
Not much lol
He's next to one artillery piece (what looks like an 105mm) in most of the pictures along with some other men in a sandy beach environment
He's not wearing any insignia nor are any of the other men (could these be pictures of advanced training in North Africa before the invasion into Italy?)

From Discharge Papers that could help
Heres where it gets hard to decipher
Michele J. Fuschetto
451st. Engineer Detachment Company
Arm or Service: C.E.
Component: ERC
Date of Seperation: 12 Nov 45
Date of Entry Into Active Service: 27 Jan 42
Place of Entry Into Active Service: Ft. Dix NJ
Military Occupation: Supply Clerk 835
Military Qualifications and Date: Carbine M1 A MM135 4 Apr 44, Comb. Inf. Badge 9051 HQ.338 Inf. 8 Sep 44
Battles and Campaigns: Rome Arno GO 33 WD 45 As Amended
Date of Departure: 25 Apr 44
Destination: M.T.O
Date of Arrival: 4 May 44
Date of Departure: 25 Oct 45
Destination: U.S.A
Date of Arrival: 6 Nov 45
Reason and Authority For Separation: Convenience of the Government AR 615-365 15 Dec 44 &RR 1-1 Demobilization
Remarks: Inactive ERC from 15 Oct 41 to 26 Jan 42
ASR Score 2 Sept 1945 69


Thats it. A lot of the abbreviations I know already.
MTO=Mediterranean Theater of Operations
GO=General Order
WD=War Departmet
ASR score were his points to get home

Thats all of my knowledge and the information I have. I pray that someone on these forums could help me out since I've exhausted my resources on the free internet. I can't find any 451st company that was detached. I can't find troop ship sailing dates that match the dates listed above. I can't even find out of the list of divisions that were in the Rome-Arno campaign, a division that matches his date of arrival into Africa.

Thank you so much in advanced for any information that could help me out at all!