Engineers in the US Infantry Division

Discussion in 'US Units' started by Earthican, Jul 30, 2014.

  1. Earthican

    Earthican Senior Member

    Over the the years my bookmarks of infantry memoirs online has grown rather long. Attempts to find more memoirs from artillerymen and engineers has yielded few results. One source I have been using for years but never searched for personal experiences other than infantry are the student papers from the US Army Infantry School at Fort Benning, Georgia. There happens to be three papers from officers assigned to engineer battalions during the war.
    https://www.benning.army.mil/library/content/Virtual/Donovanpapers/wwii/index.htm

    For illustrating how the divisional engineers worked with the infantry in Normandy, I found this paper from an officer of the 308th Engineer Combat Battalion of the 83d Infantry Division.

    Since this paper was missing its original maps and I put some effort into piecing together two maps (deskew and size matching), I wanted to post it for others who might be interested.

    The source maps (circa 1950) came from the webmaster of the 83d Division website.
    http://83rdinfdivdocs.org/
     

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  2. Bernard85

    Bernard85 WW2 Veteran WW2 Veteran

    good day earthican,sm,yesterday,06:56pm.re:engineers in the us infantry division.i have just gone to you link,it tells me there is a problem with this website security certificate and leave the site,just to let you know.regards bernard85.
     

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