The Eastward Drive into Germany: 1945
Rain and heavy traffic caused roads to deteriorate rapidly following the "Bulge". Here, Lt. Bob Skinner and men from Co. A "corduroy" a road near Schoenberg, Belgium. (Dearinger)
US military traffic continues toward Germany despite the road conditions. Schoenberg, Belgium near the German border. (Dearinger)
Company C passes through "dragon's teeth", part of the daunted Siegfried Line. (Bonde)
A Sherman tank crosses a bridge in Germany constructed Company C, 35th Engineers. (Bonde)
An engineer from Company A, welds beams to repair a bridge near Saalfeld, Germany. (Bonde)
Left to right: Lt. Bob Skinner, Lt. Harold Joyce, Cpt. Jack Dearinger, and Lt. Col. Paul Symbol near Saalfeld, Germany. (Skinner)
Corporal Flamboe, Co. A, clears debris from a street in Plauen, Germany. April 1945. (Dearinger)
Scenes such as this were common in the days immediately following the war in Europe. Here, Russian soldiers roam the same streets as the men of the 35th. Bad Elster, Germany. (Bonde)
White sheets are draped from the windows of a German town in hopes of sparing the buildings from possible destruction as the war in Europe nears its end. (Bonde)
Many of the men from the 35th visited Buchenwald Concentration Camp shortly after its liberation by US forces. (Bonde)
35th Engineer (Combat) Battalion
Northern France - Rhineland - Ardennes/Alsace - Central Europe
