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Warriors In Their Own Words | First Person War Stories

Col. Bill Gara: Leading the First Engineer Battalion in World War II, Part I

Warriors In Their Own Words | First Person War Stories

Robert Kirk

History

4.6675 Ratings

🗓️ 29 April 2021

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Col. Bill Gara tells stories of the 1st Engineer Combat Battalion of the 1st Infantry, which he led from the 1944 Normandy landings through May of 1945. Gara served from North Africa to Omaha Beach and the Battle of the Bulge. See additional photos and learn more about the 1st Engineer Battalion at firstengineerbattalionveterans.org and tune in next time to hear the rest of his interview on Warriors in Their Own Words. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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I'm Ken Harbaugh, host of Warriors in Their Own Words.

0:41.4

In partnership with The Honor Project, we've brought this podcast back at a time when our nation

0:46.2

needs these stories more than ever.

0:48.9

Warriors in Their Own Words is our attempt to present an unvarnished, unsanitized truth

0:53.6

of what we have asked of those who defend

0:55.4

this nation. Thank you for listening, and by doing so honoring those who have served.

1:01.4

Today, in the first of a two-part episode, we're hearing from Colonel Bill Guerra.

1:06.4

Colonel Guerra was the commanding officer of the First engineer combat battalion of the first infantry division.

1:11.6

He led the battalion from the 1944 Normandy landings through May of 1945.

1:16.6

He served from North Africa to Omaha Beach in the Battle of the Bulge.

1:24.6

Through ROTC, I graduated from New York University, College of Engineering, in May of 1940.

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