253rd Combat Engineer BN in WWII filmed by a soldier in Company A. Covers mostly off duty time from Oct 1943 to April 1946 when they were deactivated. .
It sure was interesting when we got to the classification center. They took us around from one building to another. And they stuck needles into our arms and whomped us on the knees with a little rubber hammer and mashed down our tongues with an ice cream stick. Then after a real nice supper, (I never had such a fill of beans in my whole life), we was all setting around the barracks in our snappy new uniforms learning how to salute, everybody talking and joking and feeling the back of their necks, where they had these horse clippers run over them, when this nice fella, this here sergeant, come in.
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Thanks for sharing, my father was in Company C, 253rd Engineer Combat Battalion, just confirmed today in his Separation Record.
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It sure was interesting when we got to the classification center. They took us around from one building to another. And they stuck needles into our arms and whomped us on the knees with a little rubber hammer and mashed down our tongues with an ice cream stick. Then after a real nice supper, (I never had such a fill of beans in my whole life), we was all setting around the barracks in our snappy new uniforms learning how to salute, everybody talking and joking and feeling the back of their necks, where they had these horse clippers run over them, when this nice fella, this here sergeant, come in.