The 51st Again!: An Engineer Combat Battalion in World War II (Signed)
Language: English
Published by White Mane Publishing Company, Inc., 1992
- Signed
- Hardcover
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Hardcover with red leather over boards, golden lettering along spine. Olive green and white DJ with black text across covers and spine. Light fading along edges and hinges, Two small (less than 1 cm) closed tears at crown of spine, 1 similarly small closed tear at foot of spine. Corners, crown and foot of spine bumped. No damage to text or illustrations on each cover. No date on title page. Copyright page dated only 1992. xii + 230 pages. Features introduction with brief background information, appendices, black and white photographs and maps throughout text, and endpapers with intricate maps of Europe. Pages clean and bright. Binding neat and tight. Please email us with questions or to request photos.
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- Title
- The 51st Again!: An Engineer Combat Battalion in World War II (Signed)
- Author
- Fowle, Barry W. and Floyd D. Wright (Signed)
- Publisher
- White Mane Publishing Company, Inc.
- Publication year
- 1992
- Condition
- Very Good
- Dust jacket
- Very Good
- Signed
- Signed by Author(s)
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0942597354
- ISBN 13
- 9780942597356
The 51st, called on to help stop the enemy, soon found itself holding a 40-mile front, with numerous strategic roadblocks to defend.
Fighting as infantry as well as engineers in several pitched battles, elements of five divisions relieved the battalion as the Battle of the Bulge came to an end.
When the American counter-offensive began, the 51st was in the forefront clearing roads and mines and bridging the Roer, the Rhine, and the Danube, along other natural obstacles to the American advance.
When the war ended in May, the 51st had just finished several bridges over the Isar Canal.
The 51st then turned to helping the Germans rebuild their country. By fall it was preparing to go home. The 51st Engineer Combat Battalion was inactivated on October 27, 1945 at Camp Patrick Henry, Virginia. Few of its orignal members remained.
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Reviews
- Ralph DeLucia, Willoughby Wallace Lib., Branford, Ct.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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