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John G. Sullivan Friday, June 5th 2009 - 02:29:40 PM jsullivan@cisriskgroup.com I wrote Fuel To The Troops, Published bu Merriam Publiishing, Ray Merriam. You may find my book by googleing my name and the Title to the book. I served in 698th Engineer Petroleum Distribution Company, which laid the first pipeline across the Rhine on your Bridge. Lt Everest Wible received a Bronze Star for this accomplishment, and is memtioned in my book. S/Sgt Peter J Sarpolis, of Glen Lyon Pa., headed the enlisted men in this part of your story headed up this effort.

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Klaus Schlupp Monday, May 11th 2009 - 11:15:28 AM info@d-light-service.de Thanks God for the US Army! Thanks to the US Army that make the end of the ww2!

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Craig Lee Jennings Wednesday, April 1st 2009 - 09:58:32 AM clcjnngs@metrocast.net The John Jennings born 7 October 1724 and discussed at the following link: http://www.rlhenry.net/jenn.htm was my great, great, great, great grandfather. His son George was my great, great, great grandfather. Many of my direct descendants were born and raised in the town of Brownsville, MD and their burial sites can be found there.

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Craig Lee Jennings Tuesday, March 31st 2009 - 06:06:33 PM clcjnngs@metrocast.net John Jennings as discussed at http://www.rlhenry.net/jenn.htm was my great, great, great, great grandfather. Many of his descendants, my ancestors, were born and raised in or near Brownsville, MD and the grave sites of many can now be found there. A pleasant surprise to find the info at the above link on the web.

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Craig Lee Jennings Tuesday, March 31st 2009 - 06:04:21 PM clcjnngs@metrocast.net John Jennings as discussed at http://www.rlhenry.net/jenn.htm was my great, great, great, great grandfather. Many of his descendants, my ancestors, were born and raised in or near Brownsville, MD and the grave sites of many can now be found there. A pleasant surprise to find the info at the above link on the web.

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Alice Duncan Monday, March 2nd 2009 - 09:22:48 PM Morsnom2@sbcglobal.net Decendent Tucker family of Culpeper County Va. 1800/1830 Margaret Tucker m Jacob Miller 1823 according to a Tucker family probate. Is she the same as yours?

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frank tippett Wednesday, December 17th 2008 - 03:19:24 PM a good job

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Les Parr Saturday, December 13th 2008 - 09:24:48 PM lesnyvonne2002@yahoo.com Great site, thanks to all who served. I have a question my grandfather served in the 1260th combat engineering battalion and served in the european theatre in ww2. Sadly, he recently died. I dont know what larger unit the 1260th was part of. I don't know if you can somehow help me. He did serve in the battle of the Buldge. Any possible help would be greatly appreciated. Les

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Claude Leake Saturday, September 13th 2008 - 01:14:03 PM cleake@ntelos.net Claude Leake, Jr, PFC, 207th; Col. Burfening(sp?)Battalion Commandeer; Company "A", Capt. John Hutto, CEO; 2nd platoon, Lt. Schultz followed by Lt. Gunther(sp?), platoon commander; Sgt. Bisson, NCO. I have the booklet on the bridge. At one of our reunions some active engineers came and put on a demonstration. They told us the the Hodges Bridge still holds the record for the longest ever built. It' good to make contact with some of our colleagues. Thanks for the work on the web site.

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Juan Peláez Ochotorena Tuesday, July 29th 2008 - 05:03:53 AM jpelaez15@yahoo.es Congratulations. Fantástico. Muchas gracias Juan

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john F. Leach Monday, July 14th 2008 - 03:10:22 PM cjsnorkle@comcast.net Son of P.F.C. Foster E. Leach 148th Combat Eng. Batt.

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Pamela Smith Thursday, June 19th 2008 - 03:10:16 PM PJ_63@sbcglobal.net http://793rdfieldartillery.homestead.com/ Thank you for sharing the information & photos. I have been in the process of documenting my father's time in the service and have been fortunate to talk with some gentlemen from the same battalion. These men are true Heroes that have lived their life as if they had done nothing but their jobs when what they actually did is give us the freedom we now enjoy. God Bless our Veterans and Soldiers

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John F. Leach Friday, June 13th 2008 - 01:28:12 PM cjsnorkle@comcast.net My Dad was a PFC in the 148th. He worked as a stores clerk during the war per his discharge papers. He often talked about the bridge and had a picture of it. Are their many of the 148th still with us? Dad passed 2 May 1982 one week before his 70th birthday. Thank you for all you have done.

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D. Hein Tuesday, May 6th 2008 - 11:30:28 PM d_hein@sbcglobal.net Your website with the tribute to the Hodges Bridge is wonderful. My late father, Donald Hein, was in the 207 combat engineers and he had the same booklet as in your website. Working on that bridge was the one thing he loved to tell me about his war experiences. Recently I discovered some family photos with many pictures of the Hodges Bridge, including one my dad took of the first German prisoners to cross the bridge in an American transport truck. Anyone who was in the 207th or knows someone who was please feel free to contact me. I have photos I'd like to share.

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DON WOOD Saturday, April 26th 2008 - 05:34:51 PM don17ab@yahoo.com I AM ASSISTING A LADY HERE IN FT PAYNE, AL. SHE IS WRITING A BOOK ABOUT THE WWII VETS FROM OUR COUNTY. WE HAVE 494 DIFFERENT STORIES, AND EACH ONE IS TOLD SEPERATELY. I AM WRITING THE STORY OF LT LESTER JOLLEY. HE WAS THE EXEC OFFICER OF COMPANY A, 207TH ECB. HE DIED SEVERAL YEARS BACK. I FOUND YOUR SITE ABOUT THE HODGES BRIDGE, AND USED SOME OF THE DATA TO CONFIRM THAT HIS UNIT ASSISTED IN BUILDING THE BRIDGE. YOU DID A GREAT JOB!!!!!!!!! THANKS

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Jacqueline Eckhardt Monday, March 24th 2008 - 09:35:54 AM dorene@mycbsi.com I have so enjoyed reading what you have written. I do wish that I had had access to this when I was teaching about WWI. Thank you.

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ANGELA MATHEWS Thursday, February 21st 2008 - 03:51:40 PM ANGMICMAT@BELLSOUTH.NET MY G G GRANDFATHER IS ALEXANDER MATHEWS. MARRIED FRANCIS. WHAT I HAVE FOUND SO FAR IS THEY LIVED IN MCMILLANS, SC (MARION COUNTY). HAD 3 CHILDREN SARAH, DANIEL, AND ROBERT. DANIEL IS MY G GRANDFATHER WHO ENDED UP IN FAIRFIELD, FL. ALSO MARION COUNTY. THEY HAD 6 CHILDREN HUGH, ALICE, ALMA E, BENJAMIN B, JACK R, AND DOROTHY D. ALEXANDER WAS BORN ABT 1850 IN SC.

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Mike Loring Tuesday, February 5th 2008 - 10:33:44 AM mikeloring@earthlink.net http://www.mikeloring.com Nice to see all the photos I scanned many photos for steve tooker

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Rene Borowski Monday, February 4th 2008 - 10:42:18 AM borowski@caesar.de I´m living near the spot where the old hodges-ponton bridge was laid over the river rhine. Thank you for the old photos. It´s very nice to learn more about the place I´m living now. I´m 42 years old and like to jog along the river rhine. So I visit the place of the old briged almost every day. Best whishes and greetings from Germany, René

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Sandy Brand Sunday, December 23rd 2007 - 03:35:49 AM sandybrandusa@yahoo.com My father,Louis Lee Smith,a member of the 207th Engineering Combat Battalion, helped construct the Hodges Bridge at Bad Godesberg. I have a copy of the same booklet as shown here as well as a picture Dad took of the completed bridge.

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Joseph Franklin Mathews Tuesday, September 11th 2007 - 02:39:46 AM jojujuja@yahoo.com I was pleasently suprised to stumble upon this website. My mother's maiden name is Brown as well so I got quite a bit of information. Thank you

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Sandy Economou Friday, June 29th 2007 - 02:08:30 PM seconomou@tampabay.rr.com Great pictures and history. My Dad was in the 207th Engr. Combat Battilion working on the bridge as an electrician. Found a ink drawn map of the Continental Parade of the 207th, just recently and some pictures of Hodges Bridge. I wonder what the area looks like now. Thank you.

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Gerold Litschi Friday, June 29th 2007 - 08:48:42 AM litfchig@comcast.net I was there. I supervised (T/5) the placing of cables on the barges that we sank up-stream to serve as anchors for the treadway. [Co. A 207 CE John Hutto commanding ]

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John Woughter Monday, April 30th 2007 - 03:02:49 AM john.woughter@gmail.com An interesting web page and history of the Hodges Bridge in Bad Godesberg, Germany. I am the spokesman of the US Embassy offices left in Bonn, and find it interesting that groups in the towns on both sides of the river have made an effort to preserve the history of the bridge. On May 13, there will be a ceremony opening the display of a historical tablet on each side of the Rhine to remember the bridge. John Woughter US Embassy Office Bonn, Germany

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Nancy Elizabeth McIntyre Mathews Monday, April 9th 2007 - 09:50:19 PM Scopoletus@aol.com Very nice website. I am new to genealogy but would be very interested to find out more about your Alexander Mathews/Mathes and any of his siblings. I have been researching my husband's Mathews family and have gotten back six generations to Isaiah Mathews, b. 1796, d. 1858 & Sarah ??? Mathews, b. 1797, d. 1865; who were the parents of Isaac Mathews, b. 1827 who married Margaret Campbell, b. 1834, of Meadow Gap, Springfield Twsp, Huntingdon, PA and had children: Sarah, Lucinda, Isaiah, Mary, Jeanatta, Eliza J., Elizabeth, Samuel R., Catherine, Thomas B. & Charles W. This family is of Irish decent and my husband's Great Aunt Agnes Agalia Mathews said she was told by her brother Gerald prior to his death that either dad or grand-dad had come over from Ireland. Unfortunately, that's as much as we have to date... the search continues.

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Daniel Moore Monday, February 19th 2007 - 06:26:37 PM sueanddan224@verizon.net Thanks for the great site on the 148th. My grandfather was in the 148th, company C. He is listed on the original personnel form as Benjamin Ginder from Rising Sun, Maryland. His name is actually Benjamin Givler. He was from the Coatesville, PA area. He passed away in 1967, his wife(my grandmother) is still with us. Anyone, with any good stories or rememberances of him during the war, I would love to get an email from you and pass along to my Grandmother. She has been really thinking of him lately and I would love to give her a good smile. Thanks So Much!

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Claude T. Hadding III Monday, November 6th 2006 - 10:26:20 PM mrtommywmg@yahoo.com Alexander Mathes, born c.1708 was my grandfather, 10 generations past. Thanks for the information.

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sharon Brunson Saturday, September 30th 2006 - 08:10:38 AM angelsmssg@comcast.net Louise, Awesome website you have. Thanks for continuing the journey of geneology and the research you done on our ancestors! Hey, I didn't realize we were cousins! L, Sharon keep in touch!

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Detra Tutton Monday, August 28th 2006 - 09:22:35 PM 2tutts@prodigy.net What a fascinating page! My family is from Warren County, particularly Thompson Hollow on my mother's side. I am trying to research the Mathews (Alice Mathews b @1855) and Elizabeth Mary (or Mary Elizabeth) Brown b 1877. It was very interesting to see the Brown and Mathews names on the same page as well as Jennings, who I know many! Thank you! Detra

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Reinhard becker Friday, July 7th 2006 - 11:34:43 AM reinhardbecker2@gmx.de Hallo, der Kreis der Heimatfreunde Niederdollendorf arbeitet am östlichen Ende der Hodges Bridge. Wir interessieren uns auch sehr für die Geschichte der Hodges Bridge und planen, am Rheinufer im Verlauf der ehemaligen Brücke eine Erinnerungstafel aufzustellen. Für weitere Bilder und Informationen wären wir sehr dankbar. Ihre HomePage finde ich sehr gut. Mit freundlichen Grüßen Reinhard Becker

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Leola B. Kinman Saturday, July 1st 2006 - 12:25:38 PM ev-lee53@comcast.net

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Larry Dean Jennings Thursday, March 2nd 2006 - 10:25:44 PM larry.jennings@affiniagroup.com I need any info on Benjamin Jennings who was born somewhere in Marylad ca 1758. He lived in what is Somerset Co., PA today and served in the Revolutionary War. His father's name was Benjamin also. The younger Benjamin is buried in PA. but elder Benjamin is believed to have returned to Maryland where he died. Another version has him dying in Ohio Co., West Virginia. Problem is boundries then and now are different. One lead has elder Benj. being a Quaker. The elder Benj. was in the Turkeyfoot region of Somerset Co. in 1768 according to area survey of site by Capt. Steele to the Penn family. Any information or help is appreciated. Thanks Larry Jennings- IL. Benj.-James Spencer-Isaac D.-Noah D.-Lawrence-Dewey-Dean then Me.

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Lester M. Cohen Sunday, January 8th 2006 - 11:55:38 AM lesnroz@theriver.com I was the batallion Dental officer, Captain at that point, having been with the 148th. from it's formation in Camp Shelby , Miss., until the end of the war. I was in the original cadre of 32 officers, and 800 or so enlisted men who train ed there, and went to England then to France on D=2 on Utah beach and through the rest of 7th. corp progress until the end of hostilities, finishing in Eisenach Germany, then redeployment to the U.S. I am now 87 years old, and am still in good health,and grateful to have found this web site to relive my days with the 148. Lester M. Cohen

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Mary Pressley Thursday, December 22nd 2005 - 07:49:31 PM m.zureich@verizon.net Mary Keysor Meyers was my mothers first cousin. I still keep in contact with her brother Paul who is now 79 yeas old. What a wealth of information she put into the Allen book (my mothers maiden name). Glad to see her work goes on in others. Mary

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leon jennings Thursday, December 15th 2005 - 08:38:50 PM leonjennings1995@msn.com

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John A. Vaskov Wednesday, September 14th 2005 - 01:55:10 PM jvaskov@comcast.net I was very interested to come upon your site. My father was a member of the 148th Combat Engineers 1943-45. He passed away on July 15th, and we are finding photos and other personal items from his years in the service, including photos of the Hodges Bridge. If you would be interested, I will try to scan them and transmit them to you. For reasons unknown, his name doesn't appear on the roster posted at your web site. He and a number of others from the unit had been getting together for a reunion in Washington, PA each year for the last 12-15 years. I hope to be able to find his mailing list. Information about my father at the WWII Memorial is at http://www.wwiimemorial.com/registry/search/pframe.asp?HonoreeID=279681&popcount=1&tcount=1

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JAMES E JOHNSTON Tuesday, August 30th 2005 - 11:02:26 PM FARRADY@MSN.COM GREAT SITE! JOHN FARRADY WHO WAS KILLED OCT 15, 1918 AT MEUSE-ARGONNE WAS NOT A SENIOR AS LISTED. HE WAS A JUNIOR. I HAVE HIS PICTURE IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO PUT IT ON YOUR WEBSITE. HIS BROTHER HUGH WAS KILLED JULY 22, 1918 AT THE 2ND BATTLE OF THE MARNE. I ALSO HAVE HIS PICTURE. THE AMERICAN LEGION POST IN FROSTBURG, MD IS NAMED AFTER THEM.

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ramoltron Sunday, August 14th 2005 - 02:32:54 PM ramoltron@alltel.net I'm doing a documentary on locals in WWII. What is your copyright policy? Love your photos and I know two guys who were there. ramoltron

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