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82nd Engineer Combat Battalion  -  Activated January 1943 Overseas to Africa -November 23, 1943   Landed Omaha Beach  June 17, 1944
                        1-Camp Swift Texas-1943             2-Typical 1940's troop train     3-Departing  camp for overseas service                November 23, 1943
                         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



7- Ike meets with airborne before D-Day      8-Troops march to waiting ships  - June 5, 1944                    9-Church services aboard ship

                                                                      
                   10-D-Day june 6, 1944            11-Out of the LCI into the war.                12-Barrage balloons filled the sky

                 13-Digging in at Omaha                  14- Omaha Beach from the air                  15-Troops ashore  at Omaha

           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!


         19-Boarding the LCI  and heading  for the beach                        20- Omaha Beach, June 17, 1944               21-Our first Bridge at St. Lo (Candol)
  
                 22- 82nd Bridge at St. Lo             23- 82nd Drome River bridge at Chevry                        24-Drome River - August 2, 1944
                            25- St. Lo - destroyed           26-Vire - a crossroads city took heavy damage                     27- Vire liberated - August 7, 1944

   28-82nd bridge Seine River at Meulan - August 28, 1944                                   29-Seine River 30-From a French publication -B Co-1st  platoon  
  31-Constructing  Albert Canal bridge - Sept. 13, 1944              32-Albert Canal bridge reaches far shore.               33- Bridge collapses  due to damaged section 
            34- Dozer retrieves damaged bridge                      35- The completed bridge.  36- One of the many bunkers destroyed by the 82nd


    39-Troops cross over the Seigfred line October 1944                   38-Rhine River assault March 23, 1945.     39-Ludenhausen Germany - Dortmund Ems Canal bridge 



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


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
46-Elbe River bridge-later destroyed by  enemy fire          47-Elbe River - Truman bridge April 13, 1945                               48 - Infantry foot bridge