A Tragic Truck Train accident in Palestine kills 3 members of unit on their way home from leave to visit Jerusalem.
Sam Reed has a wooden desk plaque of his grandad's,(759th Railway Operating Battalion T/Sgt. George A. Akers) who he thought had been given to him by a soldier he knew in training who later died during service. I did some snooping in old newspapers and contacted a few families of these soldiers through Ancestry.
Sam thinks the "Bill" might be PFC William Evans - he writes ... "he was with the 711th and was killed in action Oct 31 1944 in Carthage, Tunisia. The 711th and 759th overlapped at Camp Claiborne for nearly two months in Sept. and Oct. 1942, and they did some training at the Southern Railroad shops in Meridian MS."
other from the unit were Eric Fall:
