263rd ENGINEER COMBAT BATTALION
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C Company, 263d Engineer Combat Battalion and some Company A at Camp Van Dorn, Miss, 18 November 1944. Photo provided by Noreen Fertig. A couple of those in the photo are from A Company 263d Engineer Combat Battalion. Top Row(L-R): Pfc Robert R. Walters, Pfc Anthony Baratta, Pfc Alfred H Busse, Sgt Raymond J. Lauchlen (I think this is who the soldier is- No other soldier in the unit with a similiar name), T/5 Anthony Kaboski (NBD 21 May 45), T/5 Aubry W. Albright ( A/263), T/5 Thomas E. Gross, T/5 Robert D Alton, Pfc Jesse L Knowles Jr (A;263d- KIA 3 April 1945), S/Sgt Mark C. Callahan, S/Sgt Albert P. Cavallaro. Bottom Row (L-R) S/Sgt Joseph F. Welsh, Pfc Raymond L. Brooks, T/5 Ruggles (There were two Ruggles in C Company- this one is either Frederick or Justin), T/5 Nicolo D’Angelo, T/5 Ralph Dunlap, T;4 Vincent Bellino, T5 Levi Geisler Jr and Pfc Peter Scanlon, In the middle row center behind Dunlap and Bellino is Pfc John H. Leiby.