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649th engineer battalionHoward L. Worner

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WE CAN BLAME ANY NUMBER 0 F GUYS FOR THIS BOOK, BUT THE FIRST RAP GOES TO

EX-MASTER SERGEANT TOOZE, REGULAR ARMY, (LI COL, LAST WE HEARD OF HIM), FOR CONCEIVING THE ORIGINAL IDEA AND EGGING IT ON. AN . OCCASIONAL SHOT IN THE. ARM KEPT SGt T 0 0 Z E '5 B R A I N C H I L D . F R 0 M E X P I R I N G IGNOMINIOUSLY, AND WHEN THE GOOD SGt LEFT US FOR THE BIG LEAGUES WE CARRIE 0 . .

ON, NURSING AND WHEEDLING THE EMBRYO FROM PLATTSBURG TO NORTH AFRICA AND THENCE TO FRANCE, WHERE IT S U 0 DEN L Y SPROUTED AND GREW TO BOOK SIZE.

' THE PUR POSE OF THIS ILLITE RARY GEM AS FAR AS WE CAN SEE, IS TO ACQUAINT YOU WITH THE VARIOUS CHARACTERS IN OUR OUTFIT, WHAT THEY DID IN tHE WAR ANQ IF POSSIBLE, WHY. ·

IF THIS BOOK SEEMS VAGUE AND UNINTELLIGIBLE TO YOU, IT IS ;A~ . Tit.U ~E :

PICTURE OF OUR LIFE IN THE ARMY. ·AN"(HOW" ; " "' SOME OF OUR EXPERI~NCES BELIE· GEN-ElfAL ::: :~: . SHERMAN'S fAMOUS STATEMENT .. WAR 1.5 HELL'~ .

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'649th ENGINEER BAnALION

CTIVATED 15 December 1941 at Fort Belvoir, Virginia, the 649th En-gineer Battalion was assigned to the First Army and placed under the

technical direction of the Chief of Engineers. In an Army the size of ours the activation of a battalion causes only the slightest ripple on the pool of available manpower. It's just another battalion with a number and that's as far as it goes. But this book isn't about numbers; you can find numbers in an arithmetic book. This is the story of a group of men and we'd like to tell you from whence they came.

At its inception, the battalion comprised three companies, viz: Headquar­ters and Service, including Photomapping; B, the Reproduction company; A, the Survey company. Today H. & S. company includes Survey, not Photomap­ping, and Photomapping is now A company. We would only confuse you if we were to tell you this, so we won't say anything more about it. We'll keep it simple and talk about the origin of the three companies as originally formed.

The official record says: "Companies A and E of the inactivated 44th En­gineer General Service Regiment provided the enlisted personnel for the Headquarters and Service (Photomapping) and B (Reproduction) companies, respectively." That's a fair statement and one easy to comprehend. H. & S. company sprang from A company of the old 44th and B company came from E company of that outfit. Simple, what?

Let's go a little further into that record. We quote: "A thirty-nine man en­listed cadre supplied by the 29th Engineer .Topographic Battalion formed the technical nucleus for the Reproduction company." Ah, there you are. Thought the War Department was a bit daffy, didn't you? Well, some of us came from a Topo outfit and it's a darn good thing we did. Thirty-nine men from the 29th. Brother, those boys earned their dough.

Company A (Survey), (we're in the record again), was inherited in its en­tirety from the inactivated company D of the 30th Engineer Topographic Bat­talion. Now we're l'eally getting down to cases. There's a whole company that was in the work before they came to the 649th. We were not all "basics," you see. We had a fair chance, from the beginning, to become an outstand- · ing unit in the service of our country.

Unfortunately; the record didn't cover the origin of all the officers. It merely says: "The assignment of the commanding and commissioned of­ficers was marked by the prevalence of officers from the 30th Engineer Topographic Battalion." There's the 30th again. They'll just have to bask in our reflected glory for they did furnish the nucleus of an outfit that stayed overseas.

Though the majority of us came from New York, New Jersey or Pennsyl­vania, all sections of the country are represented in our ranks, and prac­tically all the states. What better beginning can a battalion in this man's army have?

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Capt. WAYNE W. WALTERS Bn. Operations Officer

Major ELDON C. WAGNER Executive Officer

Capt. FRANCIS X. HALBECK JR. Bn. S-4 Officer

Capt. WILLIAM W. OWENS Battalion Surgeon

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It fell to the lot of these men to lead us. Leadership, they found, often involv­ed parental guidance - parents hever receive praise until it is too late.

Capt. WILLIAM P. HEAVLIN "H. & S." Company Commander

Capt. HENRY G. BOESCH "A" Company Commander

Capt. LYNN R. WICKLAND "B" Company Commander

1st Lt. EDWARD B. ALBER

1st Lt. JO D. ROE

1st Lt. ARTHUR R. MERKLE

1st Lt. RAYMOND WOZNICKI

2nd Lt. BYRON E. R. TAYLOR

1st Lt. JOHN HALADA Y.

1st Lt. NORMAN E. FINCK

1st Lt. JAMES H. GRIFFIN

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1 sf Lt. JOHN R. PAULMAN 1711 th. Engr. Map Depot Det.

1 st Lt. ALVAREZ J. SANCHEZ

1st Lt. DAVID W. SCHNEIDER

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2nd Lt. WILLIAM O. BUNKER

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rr==l rom the abundance of photographic evidence contained within the covers of lJ:'_J this book the "layman," info whose hands if might fall someday, might justifia­bly assume that our sole missiqn overseas consisted of compiling a photographic record

of our seemingly aimless peregrinations through Africa, France and Germany. But be­tween moves, or when not "p13ssing in review," or flirting with wine, women, and song,

or basking in the sun on North African beaches, we really did work, and work long and

successfully, too. To A Company was assigned the task of Photomapping, or trans­ferring the detail from aerial photos to graphic, or conventional maps. For the sake of

the record, our first "big job" was to prepare maps for the invasion of North Africa, way back in 1942. Later on, frqm our North African "bastion," we mapped, in advance, the paths which led our armies through Sicily and through the whole length of Italy. From our convenient vantage point we foresaw the landings in Southern France and then followed on the heels of the Seventh Army up through France,_infoGermany. We were

still in there, wielding our crow quills and straining our eyes to ferret out power lines or possible underground factories, right up until V-E Day-and after. The pictures on the following pages show us engaged in some of the tasks which constituted our share of the war effort.

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JOSEPH J. RUBERTI

LOUIS G. LETOURNEAU

DAVID R. MANNING

WALTER F. POWERS

WALTER C. ZIEGLER

AUGUST BLOMBERG

CARL H. H. BAUMANN JR.

JAY W. JENSEN

FRANK CORTESE JR.

JOSEPH W. CARNIGLIA

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BERNARD LIGHTER

LOUIS C. BOHL

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JOHN J. FLEMING

CASIMIR J. DROGAN

JAMES S. BERRYHILL

SAM GORDON

THEODORE J. PINlEWSKI

BERNARD L. FLANIGAN

JACK L. BROWN

RALPH L. WYSONG

LLOYD H. DOUSETTE

HARRY D. PARRISH

ISIDORE GOLDSTEIN

ALBERT P. LANG

JOHN A. MOKRI

EDWARD E. KROLL

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ALBERT J. BRADY

CHARLES J. REILLY

GILBERT A. STAHL

JOHN D. RUA TTO

JAN VAN DAALEN

HAROLD R. SHIPPEE JR.

HERBERT M. REICHEL

HENRY E. HARNISH

EDWARD J. HARMAN JR.

NORBERT G. KEARN

ERVIN M. JOHNSEr-:1

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WALTER LANGER

LEONARD R. BROWN

MARVIN D. BILECK

HERBERT E. NESBITT

DANIEL J. HARRISON

HOWARD L. WORNER

WILLIAM A. RAE JR.

EDWARD J. WALINSKI

FRANK PROSIO

CIRO J. PICARIELLO

WILLIAM A. COIRO

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PETER A. CAPAINOLO

HOWARD C. GOSNELL

ALFONSO H. HERRERA

WILLIAM P. CARTER

ISADORE CHORNEY

HARRY G. SMITH

CHARLES B. FALES

EDWARD PLATT

CARL E. SMITH

LEON VOELLM Y JR.

JOHN R. HARRIS

ARCHIE B. McKINNON

PETER J. COMPOFELICE

ROBERT S. COMPTON

JOSEPH KOVNER

FRANK V. PROODIAN

CHARLES A. THOMSON

CLIFFORD E. HERL

HAROLD S. BRIGMAN

ALFONSE M. GUZZi

JOHN VARGA

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WILFRED VEE HUIE

FREDERICK H. MANGEL

HUGH J. McCULLOUGH

LINDEN A. BURNER

ANTHONY A. SACCO . ALBERT G. ST ARKEN

EDWIN F. LATTIN

PETER HYLAND

ROCCO AMBROGIO

WILLIAM E. KLEMM

EDWARD C. STOKES

MICHAEL HMARA

BARTON J. MAGRIN

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VINCENT E. DOBROWSKI

DONALD R. WUERZBERGER

AARON SCHWARTZ

ELLIOTT A. WOODS

VINCENT C. BALDASSANO

RICHARD T. DOWNIE

FREDERICK W. LOCHEL

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ing its flow through the proper Channels. Where is

Sheet 53W? What symbol to use? See Operations.

PM SUPPLY: Photo-Mapping Supply handled everything

from one-ounce pen points to one-ton reflecting projectors

. . . but we never could talk them out of an HB pencil.

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COMPUTING: Our computers and their complicated

machines rattled off eight-place geodetic coordinates as

easily as their own ASN's.

PM FILES: Plenty of photos here and nary a pin-up in

the lot. They kept us supplied with up-to-date flights

and the latest sorties.

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ANNOTATION: Our pre-invasion town plans of Mar­

seille, Aix, Avignon and Grenoble gave us an inkling of

future events on the continent. "Secret equals British Most

Secret."

The difference between orchards and vineyards from

20,000 feet gave many an annotator myopic nightmares.

STRIPPING: "Light-table tan" was an occupational

disease well known to those of us who put the finishing

touches on the negatives.

DRAFTING: Neither the heat in Africa nor the rain in

France kept the ink from flowing freely ... all over the

Kodaline.

Red .· . . green . . . blue ... half-tone fill .. , "Hot sheet,"

must be out in three hours .. .

STEREOCOMP: A few of us thought we could operate a

stereocomparagraph, but more often it was a breathless

chase after the black dot over the steep peaks and gorges

· of the Apennines or the Pyrenees .

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MOSAIC: "If it won't fit, force it," was a never-ending

temptation when we sweated over varied-scale photos

covered with slippery paste; nevertheless, a couple of

Generals seemed to like our mosaics .

CO. EDITING: Here the sheets were given a close edit

check . .. then back to the platoons for more changes ...

mistakes became fewer as we went along.

LE ROY: Last night's vino or schnapps never affected the

ubiquitous LeRoy set ... Border data, posters, and letters

home were all turned out with equal precision.

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--THE MODELERS (or Hodcarriers, as the

vulgarians would call them) actually

carried a burden of responsibility in

this war with their small scale, three di­

mensional reproduction of battle areas.

The process (we won't bore the reader

with details) combined draftsmanship,

carpentry, sculpture, painting and

weight-lifting. We put everything into

our models but Huie's pancakes and

we hope the Generals derived some

benefit from them before the termites

set in!

Photo, upper right: Ziegler, Coiro and

Bohl, Photo, right: Cox, Brady, Prosio,

Hartman, Van Daalen and Wheeler.

Photo, lower right: Checco and Cortese.

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Butt of more jokes than any other phase of army life, the kitchen is, nevertheless, one of the most important things in tath life. "Three squares" a day were necess­ary and "three squares" it was, whether in the field or barracks, on the road or high seas. Gripe? Sure we griped. Chowhounds all, it took us two years over­seas to gain a sympathetic understanding of the job that "Mick" and the boys did. "Fresh eggs tomorrow morning? Call me for breakfast."

Here's Sears, Roebuck, G. I. style. But you don't get a catalogue to order the right size. What m.atter the size? You signed for one on your Form 32 and you got it, didn't you? Salvage and Shoe Repair ... sure b~ats civilian ways. Blankets today. Hurry and get a good one. Pick up soap. Pick up insect repellent. Pick up heavy s'ocks. All men with two, turn one in. We cer­tainly beat a path to that door. Hey, Lou! How about a candle?

Our ingenious carpenters - they always hit the nail on the head.

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The task of producing maps in support of combat oper­ations is one of great magnitude and sectecy. The shaded portions in the above drawing show the areas that were mapped by the 649th Engineer Battalion in the European campaign. This includes photo mosaics, defense overprints, town plans and road maps, all at various scales.

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Nerve center of the unit! The red-tape department where jobs are recorded, planned, and detailed to the proper sections for processing. T-4 planners handle the paper work; shift foremen shoulder the. responsibility and okays.

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CARL E. TAYLOR EDWARD T. BARNES

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The precision camera makes it easier for experienced operators to reproduce copy in line and halftone. Thousands of negatives of high quality, including 300-line screen halftones, were made under many varied conditions.

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Home of the T -square, razor blade, and o­paque brush, where negatives are "laid up" on goldenrod paper to conform with required specifications .... A frigidaire, sink, bottles and roomy cabinets comprise the chemist's corner. All solutions for the entire train, from developers to etch"es, are prepared in this sec­tion.

Layout men, known in the army as draftsmen, lithographic, have a wide variety of duties requiring patience, a critical eye, and a steady hand. Whether it be fine color separation, delicate retouching, or accurate color registration, the job must be complet­ed under stress of time . . . Booklets and odd-sized sheets which require trimming proved the twenty-six inch cutter a necessity.

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~/fit All preparations in topo work lead finally to the offset presses where the image from the plate

is transferred to a rubber blanket and thence onto the sheet. Each color in a map is printed separ­ately, some maps requiring as many as six impressions to be completed.

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Though the average issue of maps was ten thousand, the Sardinia job totalled eighty thousand sheets. As many as fifty thousand impressions have been printed from a single plate. Production was at its high­est when each of the four press­es specialized in one of each progressive color.

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From the start of our foreign assignment in North Africa un­til we moved to France, our presses were in operation twen­ty-four hours per day, produc­tion halting only for minor re­pairs. Constant use required many major repairs which nec­essitated, in time, complete hew presses. Peak production was reached in Rambervillers where over a million impress­ions were turned out in one week!

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Army offset presses were designed to run at a speed of thirty-five hundred impressions per hour. Howev­er, the urgency of our work often compelled press­men to operate at speeds up to fifty-three hundred. The press roared and the walls vibrated, but the dead­line was met!

The finished lay is used to trans­fer the image onto a zinc plate. The metal is coated with a light sensitive solution, dried, and plac­ed in direct contact with the neg­ative in a vacuum frame. After exposure to intense light, the plate is developed and chemically treated for use on the press.

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mechanics of photography down to a science! Making match­ed prints from aerial negatives constituted the greatest part of the work. Direct photographin~ of-topographic models, however, contributed interesting variety to their work.

An innovation of the 649th! We

proved that the photostat cam­

era, indispensable for copying

intelligence data, could be in­

corporated into a mobile unit.

Since its inception, it has been

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quarters.

The walls vibrated, the machine whirled, and the marbles roar­

ed! Literally tons of sand were used to turn out the thousands of grained plates from which

our maps were printed.

FRANK KO.DRICH JR.

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The power-house on wheels! Twin Diesel engines, capable of producing enough electricity to light a small city of twenty -five thousand people, were often in operation continuously, day and night, with as little as a one and one half hour shut­down per week.

WlrLIAM H. HOUCK

Chemically pure water, a ne­

cessity in lithography, was ob­

tained only through the efforts

of a trained crew of water pur­

ification men. The twenty-five

hundred gallons of water used

each day were drawn from our

portable, canvas, three thous­

and gallon tank.

Proficiency and production de­pended on maintenance of our

machines. Mechanics were constantly on the watch for

signs of strain or wear, made periodic checks, helped to keep

the unit on schedule.

WILLIAM T. HOUGH

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From a watch to a Diesel, from

a telephone to an air-condition­

ing unitL if it needed repair or

adjustment, you could depend upon "Mac or Miles". Very

popular men!

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Material for use in the train was re­

quisitioned, stored, and distributed by the

men of train supply. It was their job

to maintain a supply of chemicals, inks,

paper, graining grit, etc. In some cases

substitutes had to be found. It was their

headache, but they never failed us.

• The department store of the Army! The . soldier comes here for anything from shoes to mosquito repellent and usual­ly pays off in gripes. Despite inevitable grumblings, the supply men had admir­able patience, did their best under ad­verse conditions to keep the company supplied with basic necessities.

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Since the day this company was first formed from the inactivated D ComP.any of the 30th Engineer Battalion it has been associated with survey work. Projects already under way were continued along the Carolina coast.

Our first problem, Pamlico Sound, North Carolina, kept us from meeting the two other companies of the battalion (newly activated December 15, 1941} till May 1942, at which time we all assembled at Plattsburg, New York. A com­pany made the long transfer by train. "Where is Christ" and "Peter Drost left his post" are frequent quotes from that experience. However, from the record of social events and hearts los• to the fair ladies of Washington, North Carolina, we really can't say we regretted our long absence from the battalion.

A Company continued survey work in the adjaceni Ad­irondacks doing triangulation and running traverse in the vicinity of Plattsburg, Lyon Mt., and Silver Lake.

Came the move to Fort Dix, New Jersey. Had the big moment arrived - no soap. Instead, we settled deep in the Pine forests of Camp Pickett, Virginia, bristling with obstacle courses and slithering with lovely, gooey mud. Some survey work was done from this headquarters in Danville and Leaks­ville, Virginia, till the battalion was finally alerted and be­gan preparation for leaving the country.

With our arrival in Africq various changes in organization took place. A Company became H & S Company (Head­quarters and Service}. Now, besides a section for survey work, the company comprised sections for battalion administration, battalion operations, supply, motor pool, and map distribu­tion. These last named sections remained in Africa, and the survey platoon embarked for Italy and the 5th Army in De­cember, 1943.

D-Day, August 15, 1944, found us once more preparing to join forces, finally doing so in France, September, 1944 .

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flect how important to our

morale were all the sugar re­

ports, and reports otherwise,

bills, Time, R. D. and old news­

print from you all at home.

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ADMINISTRATION SECTION

HOWARD L. WORTHINGTON CHARLES W. PALMER THOMAS G. QUIRINO HOWARD COOK JR. FREDERICK E. MILLS JR. WARREN L. WOODS EDWIN N. BRUNDAGE JOSEPH L. ERENRICH EDWARD J. DONNELLY THOMAS C. SILLARS

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FRANK MAYS WARD N. STEARNS FRANK C. COPPOTELLI CHESTER L. DESANTIS LOUIS J. LEMAIRE HERMAN COOKE THOMAS R. BOSTLEY

HENRY J. TOOMEY JR. RUSSELL E. WHITNEY WILLIAM E. HOSAGE GEORGE SPOMER THOMAS T. WILLIAMS ISADORE OSTROFF JOHN K. URBAN CARLETON R. GILLETT FRED D. EBERSOLE JOHN D. TAYLOR WALTER S. KOWNASKI BUHRMAN B. GARLAND

JOSEPH F. MARTINO DAVID P. SANDERS ARTHUR J. JOSEPH IRVING H. WALIT RICHARD C. THOMPSON FRANK J. MALESCI ALFRED J. GILBOE JAMES L. ADERHOLD JOSEPH C. HAUFE

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EMMETT G. BABB OSCAR L. VICK FRANK BABULA DOMINICK W. ERRICO MEL YEN M. HILL CLAIR M. FINDLAY WALTER E. STANCIL VERNON L. FRITZ THOMAS G. WHITE ALBERT D. HUBER JR.

FRANK MAGDALINSKI BURNELL B. FLETCHER HUBERT G. LEISING FRANCIS A. McLAUGHLIN TAGE 0. CARLE ROBERT R. AUGUSTINE GEORGE J. DOWLING WARREN E. FAVOR JAMES GARGIULO ARMAS V. NILSON LELAND F. WAITE JOSEPH A. WARNICK JEROME MOTTOLA

KITCHEN SECTION

MIL TON G. BASARA

JESSSIE H. FARMER

CHARLES A. La PIETRA

JOSEPH WOJT A LEW SKI

FRANK MASIAK

ERWIN L. THOMAS

ISRAEL COHEN

CHARLES T. EPPS

GEORGE E. RA YN

PETER DROST

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ANDREW M . WHITE

HERMAN B. KUCK

JOSEPH J. HARTMAN

GEORGE A. KRULL

HARRY D. FRACESCHINI

KENNETH W . RUDE

SIDNEY MOSKOWITZ

CAL YIN C. KUHL

FRANK SOCHA

JOHN J. Y AMONACO

FRANK A. ORSZULAK

CHARLES WADSWORTH

GERARD E. McGUIRE

CHARLES F. ALLEN

LEVI E. CHRIST

NICK MAJETICH

JAMES J. HAMIL TON

IGNAZIO G. FIACCO

WILLIAM R. PlOCH

The Survey Platoon was activated in Africa in Nov. 1943. It first gave artillery control support to the 13 FA Brigade in the Monte Cassino area in Italy. The men climbed rugged mountains over snow, mines, and into forward areas to niake observation behind enemy lines. Their readings were computed and sent to allied artillery units. Following the breakthrough at Cassino the pla­toon advanced through Rome into Nor:_thern Italy as far as Siena, then returned to Naples for the invasion of Southern France. After landing in S. France on D + 1 the platoon advanced rapidly with the forward elements making themselves avail­able for immediate artillery support. The winter months were spent working under adverse weather conditions in driving through the Maginot Line de­fenses to the Siegfried Line. This brought them to the Rhine where the platoon lent their assistance in establishing the bridgehead across the Rhine in conjunction with the 3 F.O.B.

For participating in five major campaigns, each member of the platoon was awarded five Bronze Battle Stars, and a Bronze Arrowhead.

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JOSEPH P. BANAS BUEL H. HILL GRADY RAMEY HAROLD D. BUTLER PERCY R. SEAVEY PHILIP FISH VICTOR T. WIGLESWORTH MARCO UZELAK CLARENCE W. THAUER ALBERT J. SARGUS GEORGE W. ZB9RA Y WILKINS McDADE HARRY L. WILLIAMS STAN LEY WISNIEWSKI SIDNEY D. HOLLOWELL IRVING H. WALIT THOMAS I. RANKIN LAWRENCE G. PILCHER

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JOSEPH C. CLARK

JOHN F. COLIN

CHARLES P. FREEMAN

LAWRENCE R. WILSON

CARL A. WILLIAMS

JOSEPH E. DAVID

OSWALD F. SMITH

GEORGE O'NEILL

JOSEPH l. BURGET

GEORGE T. OUSKA

ALBERT P. ZRIMSEK

D. B. CATES

COSIMO A. INNAMORATO

GARETT W . RIGG

JOHN W. BASSLER

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A Bivouac at chow time always brought forth groups of hungry, tat­tered peasants begging for leftovers. Who could deny them, having so little, when comparatively we had so much.

The dawn came stealing furtively over the still sea, an

anticlimax after our expectations. D- 1 Day was like any oth­

er. Off the bow was the coast' and only an occasional shot

disturbed the tense quietness that gripped us. "Scared"? "Hell yes". We landed in France and won the Bronze Arrowhead.

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Mattern and his squad

get ready to set up at a road

intersection in the Nazi Reich.

Hitler and his cohorts, in their

blind egotism hadn't bargain­

ed for this. We surveyed

other angles and foJJnd they

stacked up ve~y well.

Rear contact man setting tape,

rear stretcher determining dif­

ference in elevation.

Mine detectors catch up with

us crossing the Siegfried Line.

Jerry had no time to blow

these charges.

* The clouds gather omin­

ously over Germany. A por­

tent of eventual catastrophy

to those who would destroy

the dignity of free men. Ty­

rants take heed! Men in their

just wrath will rise and des­

troy you time after time.

We crossed the fron­

tier into Germany. Ludweil­

er was strangely quiet in

the pale winter sunshine.

All the people had fled, not

even a stray cat left to see ·

the Americans had come.

Hoffman fin­

ishes tagging a

point. In the back­

ground a couple

of 1 05' s lurk be­

neath camouflage

nets, a mute, but

ominou,s threat to

Jerry, hidden be­

hind the hill.

Romerill read­

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to do a b it of fig­

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points will I have).

To the right an­

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fix.

(Editors Note, C'mon, !ella's, it wasn't a s bad as thatl)

A Jerry road block

that wasn't sprung. To the

right, Ziegie, our combat

medic, looks the situation

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Battalion Operations is responsible for the planning and organizing of all the technical work undertaken by the Battalion. Here photos are plotted to determine how well the area to be revised is covered, first drafts are edited and checked for errors. The final draft undergoes a thorough edit and corrections, if any, are made by the two draftsmen of the section.

INDIVIDUAL CLo1'IDNG AND EQUlPMENT RECORD (See AR 35-6680, 36-6720, 35-6560, and 615-40)

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will see him busily pounding his ear. The clerk strives might­ily to overcome the paper

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Army chow comes in for plenty of criticism

from all the Joes, but to produce great piles

of food day after day for years and make it

taste like that which Mom used to put in front

of you is quite a problem.

Who can deny that as cooks go, (G. 1.) ours

were about tops. Will you ever forget those

special holiday feasts, when the 0. M . issued

extra rations? What pies and cakes and tur­

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canned butter with a spoon? And the one who

kept going back for seconds and even fifths when

there was ice cream?

With deep appreciation we dedicate these

two pages to Sgt. La Pietra and his staff. May

they prosper.

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Whatever there was to repair,

Sandy and Co. could be relied upon

to do a first class professional job,

From intricate computing machines

to delicate watches.

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ypenterc»> 0/Jop Brundage and Co., joiners and

carpenters extraordinary, makers of

fine cabinet work and craftsmen in

metal. Give it to Brundage for a

good job well done.

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Sgt. Novak and his distribut­

ing section were responsible for the

packing and deliv~ry to Map Depots,

of the 12,800,000 maps produced

by the 649th Engineers.

The Electronics Engineer, master

mind in his field. Great was the be­

wilderment of the layman wh~n con­

fronted by the dumbfounding tech­

nical verbiage of Cpl. Joseph.

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Maintenance of Ve­hicles, a vital work in this type of mobile war. Our mechanics nursed trucks and trail­ers through an aver­age of 30,000 miles of hard driving with a minimum of break­downs. An exception­al record.

Every camp, whether for a day a week or months, found the Mo­tor Pool ready to un­dertake most any re­pair job. If tools were­n't T. E. someone im­provised a ~ubstitute. American ingenuity is proven.

Pushing trucks over 30,000 miles

of all kinds and conditions of roads, in

all sorts of weather, and with no serious

accidents is a big job. That is a record

our drivers can be justly proud of.

Due to the untiring efforts of these

good drivers we were convoyed safely

through Algeria, France, and Germany.

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We carry a compl~te line of fine merchandise; tobaccos, liqours, toiletries, stationery, confec­tions and unmentionables. All articles not usable, guaranteed to brin~ high returns on the foreign market. Do you barter or fraternize?

Going on sick call had its brighter side even if you couldn't wangle quarters for the day. The snappy patter and repartee of "Doc" Owens and the "Old Five", plus the south­ern drawl of "Mississippi", put you in a good mood. Medicinal therapy, namely pills, were the accepted cure­all and Jim Laws and his crew were always on hand to dispense them. Our dental problems were ably tak­en care of by Capt. Degutis.

fP ERVI Most people think of Special Service in terms of brass and big time

stars of stage and screen. This is the more publicized, but very infre­

quent, side of the picture. We know it more intimately in its everyday

phase of a G. I. and some well worn equipment. Using everything

from ping pong balls to "Pocket Books", and dart games to moving

pictures, Cliff Her! did his best to keep our leisure hours occupied.

He had his headaches with the projector and the "helpful hints" of his

ever-lovin' pals, but he did manage to show us a good movie once

in awhile. -What's the show ton ight Cliff? ·

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649th gave us our introduction to Fort Belvoir. For some,

its central location meant many happy weekends at

home. For others, it meant Washington and the pleasant

times spent there .

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Macombe reservation was the site of many a

bivouac, hike, and picnic. Small rocks were

thrown, black eyes resulted, bruises treated

and swimming in the raw permitted.

We always did take maneuvers

with a grain of sand.

From Sgt. to 1st Lt. to Belvoir in

two easy jumps .. . now a major.

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nuts; one of the three, (Josephine,

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The H. F. Alexander pulled out in the early morning of April 2, 1943

and it was a lucky few who stole a last good-bye to the Statue ot

Liberty. Yes, a handful got seasick and others stood at the rail all day

waiting for a torpedo to smash our hull; but on the whole, the dice

games flourished, some read.hooks and the chaplain kept us well sup­

plied with music and entertainment. It was a mild crossing and the

disappointed ones who waited up tiff eleven o'clock at night to see

Gibraltar and didn't, were nevertheless glad to see the first lights of

Tang ier and Algeciras as we passed through the Straits. We arrived

in Oran harbor on April 13th, as the sun went down on another day

and the end of our voyage.

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orange groves and bamboo shaded tomato patches making a crazy quilt setting for its ancient cities. White plastered buildings, red tiled roofs crammed into mysterieus Casbahs. All this was . . . Algeria.

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franc, French wine, madamoiselles

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remembrances of Fouka and its people.

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Algiers were surprisingly modern.

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L'atne Je Dieu, qu'aureolait un ostensoir.

Des spirales d' encens, sacre, dans les lumieres,

Mclaient le bleu Ju ciel aux etains des torcheres.

Un Joigt Je Sainte Agathe, hommage au corps divin,

F aisait du reliquaire un rare et digne ecrin.

Par les gennes de fer, on voyait des dentelles,

Des pieces de satin . fremissant~s et belles,

Des las sis de pur style et J' extrme valeur,

De lourJ; brocarts Je soie enflammes de couleurs

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Comment le feu prit-J ? C' est volonte divine ...

A l'auhe, quand le sieur Prieur vint pour Matines

11 trouva tout l'autel, les nappes de vJeur,

Les ornements de soie, et les bois, et les fleurs

Consumes et fumants.

Mais le saint reliquaire

Intact, irradiait, debout, dans Ia lumiere.

Preuve que, dans ce vieux couvent miracule,

Son corps incendie, Dieu n'avait pas brUle,

Et qu'aux moines pecheurs Ia juste Providence

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F urent dresses par le conseil episcopal,

Di'unent ltontologucs par T res Illustrissin1c

Ardtcvcque de Rye ( et Revercnclissiutc !).

Depuis ce vieux couvent montre pour l'avcnir,

Au ciel, son clocher tel un vivant souvenir.

Car voici trois cents ans, Paqucs ctant flcurics}

II adv~1t un miracle eclatant des hosties ...

D'or et de merv~il.leux est tout enlumi.ne,

Par divine faveur, ce nom de Faverney.

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THE STORY OF THE MIRACLE OF THE SACRED HOST IN THE ABBEY OF FAVERNEY

It was in the year 1608, shortly after Easter, that the striking miracle of the Sacred Host occurred. Down through the centuries it has added to the name of Notre Dame de Faverney. From the green hillside the Abbey church looked down upon its con­vent, where, alas, the monastic rigor of the Order of St. Benedict no longer prevailed. On a certain day, twelve Benedictines, stronger in body than in piety, having recited the morning office, were strolling about, . dragging their sandals and dreaming of the pleasures of good living until it should be time for Vespers. To punish them, Divine Providence resolved to perform a miracle; and this is how it came about.

It was the custom, authorized by a Papal bull, to grant an Indulgence to any mem­ber of the faithful who would pay a visit to the Most Blessed Sacrament on the day of Pentecost. For this occasion a tabernacle had been set up, wherein dwelt the Body of Christ in a radiant monstrance. The smoke of incense and the flames of the candles mingled and ascended into the blue of the heavens. Through the iron grillwork sur­rounding the place could be seen the rare and costly laces, the shimmering satins, the colorful silks which rustled and danced in the breeze, and the multitudinous flowers bending their petals to its soft pulsations.

In the evening, the sacristan, having locked the gate, went to bed leaving God all alone for the night. How did the fire start? "The Will of God" is the only possible explanation.

At daybreak, when the Prior of the Abbey came to recite Matins, he found the whole altar, the valuable cloths, the silken ornaments, the woodwork, the flowers, all consumed by fire. But the Holy reliquary remained intact, still standing, still ra­diant in the morning light. This was proof to all men tKaf, though the whol~ con­vent was destroyed by fire, the Sacred Body of Christ could not burn. Thus the Just Providence had chosen the most propitious moment to manifest His Omnipotence to the errant monks.

Later, an investigation conducted by a council set up by the Archbishop of Rye ratified and proclaimed the miracle.

And so todCJy, the bells tolling in the spires of Faverney still remind us of the stupendous happenings of over three hundred years ago which gave renown to the name of this country village.

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Before we set up housekeeping in the Chateau de Craon, in Lorraine, few of us had ever dreamed that we would one day live in such a story-book setting. When we moved out, we had concluded that, "it wasn't what it was cracked up to be." This charming, 18th century country house reflected, in its still well-preserved external spl~ndor and internal gilt ornateness, all the pristine glory of France's Golden Age. One could envision the Court nobles and their ladies frolicking on the verdant lawns, or "cutting a rug" in its spacious ballroom, or hunting the wild boar in the well-stocked surrounding woods.

We never tired of exploring the cavernous "donjons" and serpentine corridors; or watching the swan pursuing its solitary way over the waters of the moat; or trying to fathom the reactions of the Beauvais and Craon ancestors, peering down from their portraits, to the antics of the "crazy Americans." A trip outdoors, · through mud rivalling that of Pickett, to utilize the primative sanitary facilities, was attended by preparations befitting a polar expedition. During the weeks before Christmas, the numerous packages from home resul­ted in nightly orgies of feasting and unrestrained merriment in "the wacky ward." If nothing else, the castle proved a highly photogenic subject. During the rare intervals of sunlight, between the almost incessant rains, we all responded to the call, "Cameras," and rushed outside to shoot the castle from a new and different angle.

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Here was real country. Even the most urban of the city

boys became outdoor men. The tree-covered hills of Alsace­Lorraine were now our home. Man, look at those hills; in­

hale that air; what country! We walked miles, over the hills and through the woods, for a glass of beer and didn't seem

to mind it. Here were the forests that poets and writers must

have pictured, when . they spoke of woods with their cathe­dral-like stillness and long shafts of light. The people were the cleanest, neatest and most hospitable we met. They, and

the country, made such an impression on us that we return­ed to them many times long after we departed. We will long remember our home of Christmas, 1944.

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We moved to the war torn town

of Rambervillers in the cold of win­

ter. The French garrison in which we were 'billeted, with its lack of

electricity and water, was uncom­fortable at the start. Not even those.. "smoke generators" we called stov.es

could successfully combat the frigid blasts. In the best tradition of the 649th, however, we began to improve the area and progressed so rapidly, that the arrival of the warm spring sun found us engaged in all sorts of recreational activity. The Remount Station next door gave the place a

"dude ranch" air, not to mention the

air of its equine charges, but we got away from it all by visiting the near­

by city of Nancy and browsing a­midst the exquisite crystal in Bac­carat.

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Kaiserslautern is the . town ·where the Third Army joined the Seventh in closing the trap in the Saar Pal­atinate. We found marked evi­dences of a war here, with rubble and debris all over the place. We also found a nice development of houses in which we promptly settled down, and formed a good opinion of German homes. Non-fraterniza­tion, however, kept us from coming to any conclusions about the people. We did get quite chummy with tons of lumber and steel,[ t~ough, coming to opinions which are unfit for pub­lication. Little did we know what lay ahead.

A maelstrom of events greeted our

entrance into this pleasant suburb of

Stuttgart, starting with Germany's

long awaited, unconditional surren­

der. Before the jubi113tion of sweet

victory had C1 chance1 to die down,

the War Department announced the

values of tne Point System which

threw most of us into a mathemati­

cal quandary. This serious business

was, nevertheless, a source of mer­

riment and we had many a laugh

trying to make two and two equal

something more than four.

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Boesch, Henry G. Griffin, James H. Haladay, John Hamburger, Richard Owens, William W. Taylor, Byron E. R. Wagner, Eldon C. Waitt, Robert G. Walters, Wayne W. Wickland, Lynn R. Woznicki, Raymond Pierce, John R., Jr. Addy, Frank L., Jr. Aderhold, James L. Bourg, Alfred 0. Brundage, Edwin N. Cooney, John R. Davia, David W. Decker, Raymond B. Dupree, Rufus L. Garland, Buhrman B. Granelli, Anthony Hartman, Robert L. Helms, John W., Jr. lnnamorato, Cosimo A. Jensen, Henry Jr. Johnston, Robert W. Lyle, Elmer F. Mattern, William E., Jr. Miksiewicz, Frank C. Miles, Robert M., Jr . Spomer, George Strausbaugh, Joseph A. Taylor, Carl E. Williams, Harry L. Witthoft, Frederick Worthington, Howard L.

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For award Of The

MERITORIOUS SERVICE UNIT PLAQUE

THE 649TH ENGINEER TOPOGRAPHIC BATT All ON, for superior performance of duty in the accomplishment of an excep­tionally difficult mission from 1 January 1945 to 31 March 1945, in France. Working un­der considerable strain over extended periods of time in order to accomplish ex­tremely urgent operational mapping tasks, the 649th Engineer Topographic Battalion continuously provided fast, accurate ser­vice and insured an adequate supply of reliable maps for tactical units. Working under the handicaps of insufficient person­nel and, in some cases, lack of reproduction material, the unit greatly surpassed normal production. This outstanding technical ach­ievement, as well as the battalion's out­standing disciplinary record, reflects great credit on the Corps of Engineers.

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