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This is their story, the men of the 168th Engineer Combat Battalion, in their own words, not written by some second guesser working in a quiet and safe modern facility, but by those who were actually there in the heat, the mud, the cold, the bullets, the bombs, the tree bursts and the mines.
From the old walled city of St. Malo in France, to the submarine pens at Brest, through the bitter winter combat at St. Vith, across the blood-stained Rhine River, all the way to the Czech border, the battalion suffered hundreds of casualties but kept moving forward, opening up slave labor camps, freeing inmates of concentration camps and of POW enclosures. This is a story of the courage of the ordinary American.
Awarded five battle stars in Europe for performance in exploiting the Normandy breakout, clearing Northern France, defending in the Ardennes assaulting across the Rhine River and mopping up through Central Europe; the battalion also earned the Distinguished Unit Citation, the Belgian Croix de Guerre and a letter of Commendation from the Holocaust Council.
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