The
40th - Their Own Story
Pt 5 of 6
The
mud in the middle of February became worse until work slowed
and then stopped. From the seventeenth to the twenty-eighth
of February, there was a rare break-a rest. For the first everyone
could clean up and rest up, work over
the equipment and vehicles, get poised for the next move.
Then back into Germany again. First there was the open wire
lead from St. Vith to Prum, Germany. Lt. Wood was injured surveying
that one by one of the mines left behind the Siegfried line.
There was an aerial cable job at Julich, then an open wire line
from the north of Julich to Eupen-Gladbach. There was more cable
work to be done and then another open wire job.
This next open wire job went thirty-two miles from Bad Kreusnach
to Wiesbaden. But 1745 feet of that distance was across the
Rhine river. A respectable enough job in itself, but also, it
was the first wire across the Rhine. The 40th was first again!
There was some spiral four to be placed around Wiesbaden, work
around Koenigsburg and Erlingen, then a thirty mile open wire
lead from Frankfurt to Long Gons. The thirty-seven mile open
wire job from Ensler to Nurnberg was under way as the war ended.
But work went on as everyone counted points and traded rumours.
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