This website is devoted to all soldiers who served and continue to serve with the 299th.

Information is needed about the D-Day Gap teams containing 299th Combat Engineers -

The information that is available on record in the National Archives is incomplete and as your webmaster I am trying to fill in the blanks. I need your help in this process.

It is up to the living members and to their families to help assure that their historical records are complete. I would also like to include photos of the men listed so please let me know if one is available. This is a an important part of the 299th history and it would be a wonderful honor to have their names and photos included. People email me and want to see photos of the members of the 299th, both at the time of the war and now if possible.

Any information would be greatly appreciated.

Sincerely Your Webmaster,

Jeannie Tucker ------------------------Please feel free to contact me: jeannie@jeannietucker.com

Lionel LaFave/299th WWII - My father was Lionel "Frenchie" LaFave, who served in the 299th in WWII, where he was wounded on Omaha beach. I am trying to make a collection of medals and patches that he would have had (his originals were buried with him). If anyone could give me a list I would greatly appreciate it. I am especially interested in getting a 299th patch.
I would also like to hear from anyone that might remember my Dad.
Thank you very much. - law141@charter.net

Dave Rosenthal /299th WWII - My name is Jeffrey Rosenthal. I'm one of 3 grandson's of the late Dave Rosenthal from Binghamton, NY. On this day, I find it appropriate to express my utter respect and grattitude to all Veterans of this country. However, I more specifically wish to express my deepest admiration of my grandfather and the men he served with.

Looking for information on JT Pardue and other members of the 299th-WWII-Omaha Beach who are buried in Colleville Sur Mer's cemetary.

My name is Jean-Marc Masotta and I am a teacher at a high school (12-16y ear olds) in Bain de Bretagne - west France. I live in a region called Bretagne, near the city of Rennes. I wrote to you because I was looking for some informations about a soldier, menber of the 299th who died at Omaha beach, in Normandy, the 6th of june 1944 : JT PARDUE.

My students and I are going to go to the Collevile Sur Mer's cemetery, on Tuesday, March 27th 2007 and we would like to put some flowers on 10 others soldiers graves. We feel that we have to do something, for these brave men, who died for freedom.
Our students could work in small groups with the American families who would agree to share what they remember of these soldiers, and, in exchange, our students could achieve something for the families : as reading a poem, or praying in front the grave...
This project will make our students realize that under each cross lied a human being who lived and suffered and that there are still families who remember them after all these long years...Moreover, it would be very interesting for our students to communicate with Americans and it would help them understand their history.

Here is a link to the website of the Fleurs De la Memoire Association (Flowers of Memory) This group does a wonderful service for he families of those buried at Colleville-sur-Mer and Saint James in Normandy (France).

http://fleursdelamemoire.free.fr/

The Objectives of the Association

This association is created to perpetuate the memory of the soldiers, sailors and airmen buried in the American Cemeteries of Colleville-sur-Mer and Saint James in Normandy ( France ), by placing flowers on their tombs.

Preamble :

Peace is precious and it has a price, it is an effort, always it is of blood, and too often its price is paid by men's lives. The peace we know in Normandy and France was paid for by the sacrifice of the young lives of Allied soldiers.

In the American Cemetery in Colleville-sur-Mer there are 10,944 brave Americans remembered; in the American Cemetery in Saint James the markers of 4,908 Americans remind us of the supreme sacrifice paid for France's liberation from the yoke of the Nazis. Today we know the liberty and happiness of freedom. We can never forget those that are buried in our country. Two generations have passed that to do not know the horrors of war.

Objective :

Nothing is truly won, it is imperative that we do not hide the past to preserve the future. Therefore in a gesture of respect, of remembrance and of friendship, the families and members of the association "Les Fleurs de la Mémoire" commit in writing : to lay a bouquet of flowers on the grave of a soldier, one time per year, if possible on the American Memorial Day, to remember the sacrifices of these brave men.

The grave that the family will put the flower upon will be the grave of a soldier that fought in the region. The grave will be determined by the association, the association will inform the family of the grave by giving it a card to that effect.

The family that takes responsability for placing flowers on the grave will pass this responsability on to its children to ensure the perpetuation of the obligation. In the case that it is impossible to place a bouquet of flowers on the tomb annually, please inform the association and if possible find another family to take the family's responsability.

Thank a lot for your help.
For all the employees and teachers of the level "3èmes" of our school.

Jean-Marc MASOTTA