Combat Engineers

Here is a very interesting video about the Combat Engineers of WW 2.

ENGINEERS IN COMBAT - WORLD WAR II : Department of Defense : Free Download & Streaming : Internet Archive

 

I am partial to engineers!

 

Thanks for providing this link, my grandfather served in the Combat Engineers during WWII. I myself received training at Ft. Belvoir back in 1982 when I was in the service.

 

Glad you enjoyed it ! Ft. Belvoir has a legendary history and I'm just starting to learn about it.

Welcome to Fort Belvoir Home Page!

 

BTW, great avatar Steve!

 

My father was a combat engineer in the Marine Corps in Vietnam. Thanks.

 

We seem to have a lot of "children of combat engineers" here. My father was a CE in Korea.

 

Since everyone else is sharing. My dad was drafted for Korea, basic and engineer training at Ft Leonard Wood, assigned support for officer training at Ft Belvior (one memory they taught how to emplace an atomic bomb), sent to Korea, cease fire signed while they were on the boat going over (Marine Serpent, T-AP-202), served with the 74th Eng C Bn, built roads, bridges and schools. After leaving the Army he worked up the carpentry trade to foreman and later middle management of a local construction company. He dropped out of school in the tenth grade. He died last fall and is buried at the Great Lakes National Cemetery in Michigan.

 

Same thing happened to my father. Interesting.

 

I would say it's an odd coincidence, except we are a self-selected group (not random).

Letters from an engineer in training. Camp Abbot seems like the worst hell hole the Army selected for a training site. To read in chronological order, scroll to the bottom of each page, then work your way up to the most recent posts.

The World War II Letters of William Wellington Taylor, Jr.

Blogspot is notoriously hard to search, I can't recall how I found these.

 

Wow. That place almost makes me long for the red dirt of Fort Sill, Oklahoma.

I said "almost".

 

Posted on YouTube now, if you prefer full screen view.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ay2-LrzW3MY

 

Demolition Equipment for Airborne Engineers

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTIAtFjKt6g

 

Engineers Clear German Mines & Booby Traps in WW2

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNzPIvUSn6g

 

CE the most dangerous job going in my opinion...All the CEs i worked with were nuggety, funny and easy going...but VERY professional.

 

My grandfather was in the 5th ACE and was decorated with a bronze and silver stars fighting back a panzer division for three whole days waiting on ally air support. He and his group also destroyed 3 bridges, 10 half-tracks, and a Ju Junker. I'm very proud of him! But if anyone's intrested I'll post some pictures and a transcript of one of his battles that I inherited.

 

Stories with photos are always interesting.