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| 82nd Engineer Combat Battalion - Activated January 1943 | Overseas to Africa -November 23, 1943 | Landed Omaha Beach June 17, 1944 |
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| 1-Camp Swift Texas-1943 | 2-Typical 1940's troop train | 3-Departing camp for overseas service November 23, 1943 |
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| 4-French 40& 8 train | 5-British converted luxury liner | 6-82nd men near St. Lo June 1944 |
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| Scenes from D-Day - June 6, 1944 | ||
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| 7- Ike meets with airborne before D-Day | 8-Troops march to waiting ships - June 5, 1944 | 9-Church services aboard ship |
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| 10-D-Day june 6, 1944 | 11-Out of the LCI into the war. | 12-Barrage balloons filled the sky |
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| 13-Digging in at Omaha | 14- Omaha Beach from the air | 15-Troops ashore at Omaha |
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| 16-Treating wounded on the beach | 17- Waterlogged GI's helped ashore | 18-The hours spent waterproofing vehicles paid off! |
| Alerted on June 10th, first 82nd units came ashore on the 17th! |
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| 19-Boarding the LCI and heading for the beach | 20- Omaha Beach, June 17, 1944 | 21-Our first Bridge at St. Lo (Candol) |
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| 22- 82nd Bridge at St. Lo | 23- 82nd Drome River bridge at Chevry | 24-Drome River - August 2, 1944 |
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| 25- St. Lo - destroyed | 26-Vire - a crossroads city took heavy damage | 27- Vire liberated - August 7, 1944 |
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| 28-82nd bridge Seine River at Meulan - August 28, 1944 | 29-Seine River | 30-From a French publication -B Co-1st platoon |
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| 31-Constructing Albert Canal bridge - Sept. 13, 1944 | 32-Albert Canal bridge reaches far shore. | 33- Bridge collapses due to damaged section |
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| 34- Dozer retrieves damaged bridge | 35- The completed bridge. | 36- One of the many bunkers
destroyed by the 82nd |
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| 39-Troops cross over the Seigfred line October 1944 | 38-Rhine River assault March 23, 1945. | 39-Ludenhausen Germany - Dortmund Ems Canal bridge |
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| 40-82nd patrol to secure far shore on the Weser River | 41- Weser River treaadway bridge - April 6, 1945 | 42-Roer River foot bridge - Feb.23, 1945 | |
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| 43-Here's where the bridge begins
Feb. 23, 1945 |
44-Roer River treadway bridge - February 23, 1945 | 45-Erft Canal bridge March 15, 1945 | |
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| 46-Elbe River bridge-later destroyed by enemy fire | 47-Elbe River - Truman bridge April 13, 1945 | 48 - Infantry foot bridge |