The
40th - Their Own Story
Pt 6 of 6
On the twenty-fifth of May, the battalion was reorganised under
a new T/O&E as the 40th Signal Light Construction Battalion.
Despite changes in personnel and equipment, it remained the
same organisation, ready to do any assigned job and do it a
little bit better and faster than any other outfit could. And
the next assignment started, an open wire lead from Nurnberg
towards Munich. Operations stopped 11 June 1945.
After an inspiring record in the European War, the job in Europe
was done. First into Germany, first across the Rhine, veterans
of the Ardennes bulge, and the whole sweep across Europe; the
Battalion had averaged 1 mile of open wire and 2½ miles of spiral
four constructed per day for the whole period of action. Wherever
they are next placed, their reputation will proceed them.
That is the story of a Battalion.
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