Description

101st Engineer Combat Battalion
26th Infantry Division • World War II •

200 pages scanned. Instant PDF download.

This combat history, “Times That Try Men’s Souls,” was written by Pfc John De Rose, Jr. of the 1st Platoon, Company B, chronicling the unit’s actions from training at Fort Jackson, South Carolina through the landing at Utah Beach, the drive across France with Patton’s forces, the Battle of the Bulge, and the final push into Germany in 1944–1945. This listing is a digital download of a scanned copy of the original wartime publication.

Campaigns: Northern France, Ardennes, Rhineland, Central Europe

Commanders: Capt Roger Q. Spencer, Jr. (Company Commander, Company B); Lt Col Gladding, “Commando” Gladding (CO, 1st Battalion); Major Henry Anderson (Battalion Executive Officer)

Unit newspaper: unknown

Table of Contents
We’ll-Never-See-Action Mood Begins to Change (1944)
We Finally Leave for Parts Unknown
We Land in France at Utah Beach
Rolling East and Into the Line with Patton
Bitter Fighting Through Alsace-Lorraine
The Beginning of the Winter Counter-Offensive
The Winter Counter-Offensive in the Battle of the Bulge
Fighting in the Deutschland
The Beginning of the End
All the Way Across Germany
Victory!
Appendix: Home Addresses, Awards and Decorations
Nicknames, Superiorities

“No truer comrade and beloved friend could He have called after it was all over”
— from the memorial to Cpl William P. McCormick, Company B