OMB.1st Special Brigade Monument Pictures on Utah Beach

Oldest Military Blogger Posts some Pictures he promised....

It seems that, some promises are more difficult to keep.

Forgive the Quality, think of the effort.

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This Monument on the Utah Beach is almost 30 feet in height and in

some other pictures I posted, our 6 foot seven, First Sergeant Harte,

is standing next to the Pylon at the very top.

The Pylon atop the Monument Dedicated to The First Engineer Special Brigade Memorial and the Service Units that landed on Utah Beach , on H Hour, D Day, on June 6th, 1944.

The front of the Monument on Utah Beach with the Engraved, Bronze, Dedication, Plate, to those lost from the Service Units that are listed in the previous Picture.

A Studio Picture, only not enough contrast to give you an idea how

good looking I could have been.

Standing in the back, on the left is Portnoy, Center, is Schultsy,

Sorry ....Know who the one on the right is, like I know my own name,

but can't recall right now.. It'll come to me!

In the front row, Okie on the left and West Virginia on the right.

Ginny, was from Wheeling, West Virginia, and sharp as a tack.

All Good Soldiers, to have at your side.

The Two grinning Savages in front of the destroyed Pillbox, facing the Channel on

Utah Beach are, Solomon Fein, Sgt.Finnegan on the left

and George E. Gable, Sgt. Okie on the right side of the picture.

Private First Class Anglin, from Peoria, Illinois standing in front of the 301st Company Jeep

when we got to Cherbourg, France....Finally, Housed With Bunk Beds and Mattresses, months after the Assault on Utah.

Okie on the right,and I sitting on our travel gear before we departed on

one of our Train Duties, guarding 40 and eighters, with special cargos,

into the freight yards, outside of Paris.

First Sergeant Harte, of the 301st Port Company...All 6 foot seven of him.

He and I, Jeeped from Cherbourg, to Liege, to visit my

brother, Moishe, in the Hospital when he got Trench Foot, serving with the

80th Infantry Division, at Bastone.

The shoulder patch insignia with the machine gun carried by an Eagle,

is the Amphibious Engineer official symbol.

The Seahorse symbol was worn on our First Class Uniform under the right

pocket of our Eisenhower Jacket .

You can really appreciate the size of a "pillbox", when you see one with with a dozen men

surrounding the area around one destroyed on the Beach.

I recognize a few of the men, by their posture and their attitude standing there.

A few by the hair comb and facial shape and contours, but I would be guessing,

except for the man on the bottom right, is Bob Marcott from Oak Park Ill.