35th Signal Construction Battalion Distinctive Unit
            Insignia John C.Thomas 1st U.S. Army Shoulder Patch

35th Signal Construction Battalion

Left: 35th Signal Construction Battalion Distinctive Unit Insignia; Right 1st U.S. Army Shoulder Patch

Oral history of John C.Thomas:
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Landed on June 6, 1944 in the second wave on Utah Beach with an engineering unit.

D-Day assignment was to establish communication with the ships off-shore.

After the break-out from Utah Beach his squad was to construct or rebuild communication lines.

He carried "survivor's guilt" the rest of his life.

Shared his with his sons in 1970. Shared with the Unofficial Archive of the U.S. Army Signal Corps in  in WWII by his son Bill Thomas, March, 2021.

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