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Bart writes about his cousin Ralph W. Engram, Jr. 

He was commissioned on October 20, 1943, at the Transportation Corps Officer Candidate School at the New Orleans Staging Area in New Orleans, LA. 

He knows that he served in France, close to Paris as he sent home several pictures of him on Christmas Day in Paris and others in the French rail yards, on locomotives, and in front of rail cars. 

Ralph is wearing LT insignia in all these pictures. He died in the 1950s so Bart never met him. His tombstone lists his unit as 1964th S.C.U.T.C. (these were ad hoc Service Command Units) which is a unit he served in after service in Europe. 

We would love to know what MRS units he was in, if anyone knows about Engram contact me militaryrailwayservice@gmail.com

 

Here are the captions from the back of the pictures: 

1. Picture with 3 figures: Capt Boyer, Capt Redding, Lt Engram 

10. Picture with 7 figures: Capt Haase, Lt Hellman, Lt Engram, Lt Lindsey, Lt Howell 

2. Picture of chateau: Chateau where Lt Engram lived January 1945 

9. Picture of soldiers in mess line: Chowhounds 

7. Picture of locomotive 1791: Lt Engram France January 1945 

5. Picture of front of locomotive: Lt Engram France January 1945 

Picture of person on rail car: Lt Engram France January 1945 

3. Picture of milkman: Lt Engram Paris Christmas Day 1944 

6. Picture of person standing in beside a rail car: Lt Engram France January 1945 

8. Picture of person leaning on pile post obstacle: Sgt Ralph Engram Camp Claiborne September 1942

https://www.alaskarails.org/historical/Freshour/

http://win.goticatoscana.eu/EN/Italy_at_war/StoryOfMRS/StoryOf1stMRS.html

The Machinist, Official newspaper of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers, published 1946 to 1994.

The Machinist, Official newspaper of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers, published 1946 to 1994.

 

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