48th COMBAT HEADQUARTERS
1014th ENGINEER
TREADWAY BRIDGE COMPANY
quarters 1014th Engineer Treadway Bridge Company as a Staff Sergeant. An outline of my dad's war follows:
United Kingdom
Northwest France - He was ready to land in LST's
when they were ordered to wait at the last moment
because of a German offensive during or just after
the Battle of the Bulge.
Kiskassel France
Built a treadway floating bridge on the Rhine river
Aschaffenburg Germany - Before my dad entered
this town there was fierce fighting. As he was on
the outskirts of town Allied plaines would straif and
bomb from 8:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. Then at night the
artillary would take over for twelve hours. The shells
were fired from behind my dad towards Aschaffenburg
traveling over him. Every once in a while one would
go off prematurely and he could hear the shell fragments
coming down through the trees. He insists this is why
his hearing is so bad today.
Bamberg Germany
Munich Germany
Stein Germany - My dad was here when the war in Europe
ended and the following day when the coward Hitler com-
mitted suicide.
Insbruch Austria
Gunwalderhauf Austria
Salsberg Austria
Erglesbach Germany
Regensburg Germany
Beyroth Germany
France
Dad came home
* January 1945
* January 1945
* Spring 1945
* Spring 1945
* March 1945
* April 1945
* April 1945
* May 7, 1945
* May 1945
* May 1945
* Summer 1945
* Summer 1945
* Fall 1945
* Winter 1945
* January 1946
* Jan/Feb 1946
