112th combat enginner battalion D-Day

Trying to find out some info on the 112th combat enginner battalion. My grandfathers twin brother served with them as a medic and was kia on d-day. Its been hard finding any specific info on the unit so i figured i would ask you guys. Please anything is better than what i have now links storys anything. All i know about them is they were to land at dog red at H+60 some of them were on lct's and then some on one lci. He was kia when he rolled over onn a mine while trying to help a wounded man. Maybe i could put together a idea of what his units mission was that morning if i could get some info. Thanks

 

Found this link GSD; U.S. Army Center of Military History - Lineage and Honors Information

Let me know if you want any more information

P.S.
So I'm sure he would have received the EAME Medal with Arrowhead and bronze star (for Normandy).

 

Thanks for the link any info you can give me would be great. Like i said i am trying to figure out what there misson was on d-day. So any help you can give me woud be awsome and i will be thankfull so keep it comeing.

 

Link: 112th Engineers - VI CORPS COMBAT ENGINEERS WWII

This thread gives you the 112th's mission on D-Day; they were to open up Exit D-3 between Dog Red and Easy Green on Omaha Beach, but were pinned down behind a seawall with the 116th RCT, and did not manage to open the exit until 2000hrs on June 6th.

 

Thanks guys i havent had alot of luck geting info ont this you guys have gave me as much on this post as i had. Keep it comeing all i got in his idpf was info on his remains being moved from France back home. There were copys of letter my grandfather his twin sent form his unit asking about his personal stuff. I did get a copy of the inventory of his stuff witch i matched up to what was left in his foot locker. So it looks like he got put rite in the middle of it i found somewere that alot of the 112th guys were on lci 94. It said they took alot of fire going in i would like to figure out if he was killed by a mine early or did he make it on the beach or to the seawall? I read somewhere that there was a mine feild on the bluffs they had to clear anyone have any ideas on this?

 

I know what you mean i will never know for sure how he was killed but i am trying to get a idea. Thanks for all the help you have given me and please anything you can think of will help me.

 

From what you said of his death GSD, I was thinking he might have been advancing to the seawall with the 116th RCT, where upon he found this wounded GI and was trying to help him, when he rolled over to maybe get his first aid kit off his body, then accidentally hit the mine.

 

Thanks guys for takeing time to help me out on this. My goal is to learn all i can about his and my grandfathers service so i can tell the kids about them. Its been tuff the n/a lost his records in a fire so that was a wrench in my research. So all this may not sound like much but its given me a better idea of what may have happened. Like to think me made it on the beach and was able to help out or maybe even saved a couple of his guys before he was killed.

 

blitz, Hope you find what you're looking for. Your grandfather's twin brother is a hero in my eyes and the rest of my countrymen (English).
All the best with your research.

 

Long shot: Check out the U.S. Navy. I am interested in the LCT's. I have not researched the
112th Engineer Combat Battalion, and I do not know their landing craft. This is only an idea for you to think about.
I found out that my much older brother was second in command on LCT(5)-50 (Army identification) on Omaha, but I still haven't found the time of landing. The NAVY keeps records of the LCT's. For the first wave, Assault Group O-1, they have the Landing Index that matches the LCT with the equipment as well as the time of landing. Here is an example: LCT(A)2050 was in the 743rd Tank Battalion, Company A, and it landed on Dog White at H-Hour. It carried three tanks. It was not destroyed in the First Wave. LCT Flotillas of World War II is here: World War II LCTs . Occasionally Navy personnel are known. For example:
Ensign Robxert C. Wzilson
Officer-in-Charge
USS LCT(A) 2124
An Army officer commands the troops on the LCT. For example, Lt. Robzert A. Bzilson, 18th Infantry, Regimental Antitank Company. A NCO is second in command of the troops: For example: T/SGT Bovzert G. Bxzilson, 18th Infantry, Regimental Antitank Company. The Navy keeps LOADING AND TOWING ASSIGNMENTS for ASSAULT AND COMMAND CRAFT.

 

My Dad was in the 112th Combat Engineers First Wave that hit Omaha Beach on D-Day. Only talked about that day a handfull of times. Talked about Camp Shelby.
He did go back a couple of times for the Anniversaries.

 

What did you find Gsd? I am in the same boat, records destroyed by fire. My grandfather was Nicholas Morello, company C 112th Engineers landed at Omaha. He survived war but died 1976 . Anyone got info?

 

Info below, I can send you a higher resolution of the entire chart if you wish

Can you give me his name? Their are some records in this report that tells you “who” is on each landing craft/vessel??

 

So what I see from the Landing Diagrams about, 112 Engineer Battalion landed in:

D+40
Dog Red - LCM - Serial 1100

D+60
Dog Red - LCT - Serial 1157
Dog Red - LCVP - Serial 1160
Easy Green - LCT - Serial 1161

D+70
Dog Red - LCI(L) 532 - Serial 1181

NOTE: Chart above shows 112th ECB Landing in Serial 1105, information in my post below show this was actually the 121st ECB

Next, I’ll post up the Jefferson’s information next