At 10:27 AM 5/4/01 -0400, you wrote:
>Hello Paul:
>
> I have a friend off the list who was a WWII military firefighter.
>Might the info you have list any "Engineer FireFighting Platoons" ??? He's
>written one book on them and is constantly gathering info on the subject.
>This is one more area that the military does not bother about. The
>professional historians view is that if an activity is done by a less than
>battalion sized outfit, it's not worthy of any attention.
Tracking even battalions gets hard sometimes.
> They had at least 300 EFFP's during the war, and he's found hints that
>there were another 100+ that seem to have not been documented in sources
>he's found.
>
> What source did you use to find for the posts and units stationed
>there ?
I'm working with a list from an OOB site that i'm SLOWLY cross checking
against
the 1946 Army publication listing posts, camps and forts.
I figure at the rate I'm going it should be finished around the time I
retire....
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