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To: LindyBill who wrote (30640)	5/24/2002 5:56:28 PM
From: FaultLine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

I believe, who credited the German loss of momentum at the "Battle of the Bulge" to "those damn engineers"; the American combat engineering battalions who were part of the 5th and 7th corps of the US Army, and fought well. This has been credited to the higher intelligence of the GI's in those units. You had to do well on the test scores to get in them My uncle was in the Army Corps of Engineers during WWII building bridges. He told me it was very tough going. Here's a photo of Norman in Italy in Dec. 1943. pbase.com Just for comparison, here's a photo of Norman with his brothers and sister a year earlier as a civilian in Colorado during an outing to the Garden of the Gods state park. pbase.com Loren ended up training fighter pilots. Verlin was killed in action in France when his jeep ran over a land mine. Lois later married an Army Air Force pilot who participated in the Berlin Airlift. My father, the eldest (and not in the photo), served in the Pacific Theater as a mortar squad sgt. --fl@herosall.com