Landed in France, hooked up with the 26Inf div.. We were the 288th Combat Engineers. We didn't stay with the 26th as we were loaned out to the 7th Army for a special assignment, when completed we were loaned out to the British 2nd army and Canadian 1st army up in Holland

It seems the only road to the Nijmagen Bridge  that tanks could ride on was in need of constant repair as there was a sink hole that we had to keep filling with bricks from skeleton houses we were blowing down for the brick.

We crossed the Nijmagen Bridge with a British company and when we moved into Germany we ran into stiff fighting and were eventually surrounded in the Xanton Forest near by. Our food was almost exhausted when the 7th army broke through and freed us.

We left the British assignment and met up with Patton's 3rd army until the end of the war.

We got word we were shipping back to the States when the war was ended in Germany. We were to have a month R&R and then be sent to invade Japan.. While we were at sea coming home, the war ended in Japan and I was discharged honorably about 2 months later as they had me teaching advanced demolitions to the new recruits.  I left out all the action that took place to save space