73 years ago , tonight ,D-Day .

M Secco · **Joined:** Sun May 12, 2013 2:46 pm **Posts:** 245

73 years ago , tonight, June 6th D-Day . My dad was a Half Track driver . My uncle was in a Railway Engineers division made up mostly of Milwaukee Road railroaders .
God Bless Them All !

Richard Glueck · **Posted:** Tue Jun 06, 2017 9:57 am

May God grant them all peace after this life, especially those who made the greatest sacrifice on the French coastline. I shudder to think of how the world would have turned out under Nazi domination.

Tim Moriarty · **Joined:** Thu Jun 22, 2006 4:25 pm **Posts:** 374

M: The Milwaukee Road sponsored the 744th Railway Operating Battalion and the 757th Railway Shop Battalion, both of which served in the ETO. Here's some information on the 744th:

http://www.angelfire.com/va2/worldwar2family/744.html

wilkinsd · **Posted:** Tue Jun 06, 2017 9:50 pm

The 728th Railway Operating Battalion was sponsored by the L&N. it arrived in a France soon after D-Day and opened up the Port of Cherbourg after it fell. If you've ever seen a photo of the "Toot Sweet Express" those are L&N employees in the photo who operated it.

Here's a history of the battalion that I desperately need to revise and get published:

http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1150&context=stu_hon_theses