Chris Murphy

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Chris Murphy @ChrisMurphyCT

3/ After D-Day, one of the primary obstacles confronting the Allies were all the bridges that had been destroyed or damaged by Hitler in an effort to frustrate the Allies’ advance. Pop was assigned to Patton’s Third Army to build and repair bridges, and to do it FAST. https://t.co/HkdE6QrGS5 — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Nov. 11, 2021

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2/ Pop had just received his engineering degree from Duke, so he was recruited to join the Army Corp of Engineers. During a one week leave in December 1943 he married my grandmother. Days later, he was shipped off to Europe. They wouldn’t see each other again for two years. https://t.co/wOFrGxv4Qc — PolitiTweet.org

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4/ These are photos of the bridges he helped build across Belgium, France, and Germany. One story Pop told was of the time Patton pulled up to a bridge that wasn’t 100% finished and Pop had to nervously explain to the famously impatient general that it wasn’t safe to cross yet. https://t.co/O7N4qEfXVa — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Nov. 11, 2021