Army Fire Service - Hoboken fire pics?

[Flakdodger]

Almost a year later from our posts, I was trawling through my back issues of After The Battle Magazine and came across an article "Antwerp City of Sudden Death" in issue 57.
As well as mentioning an attack on New Year's Eve, there is mention of 19 Jan 45 - 3 storage tanks destroyed, burning for 48 hours. 9 dead, 20 injured. 14 Feb 45 - fires quickly extinguished. 13 dead, 10 injured.
Hope this is of interest.
Dave

[marcuswraight]

Flakdodger,
That is absolutely brilliant and while I'd love to see photos, it is information that is priceless.  I would be really interested in seeing that. I've sent you a message.
Regards
Marcus

[PrueM]

Following on from Dave's message, found the same (I think) article online:
http://www.v2rocket.com/start/chapters/antwerp.html

Hope that's of some help 

Prue

P.S.  Try searching for 1944 fire antwerp - that's what I did, and you don't get nearly as many US links coming up!  Here's another article (PDF) that you might find interesting:
http://sill-www.army.mil/firesbulletin/2008/jan_feb_2008/Jan_Feb_2008_pages_42_45.pdf

[Flakdodger]

Hello Marcus and Pru,
Marcus - I will scan the article to you, thanks for the PM. Sorry to leave you in suspenders, can I do this at the weekend? I tend only to be able to grab a couple of hours on-line of a weekday evening...and it is never enough.
Pru - thanks for two very interesting links! In fact the article I have for Marcus is the Reference: Achiel Rely, After the Battle 57, 1987
There is certainly more to read in the article you have found.
Some of the illustrations are common to both, and some are very explicit in their portrayal of the dead.
As a Londoner, the V-weapon blitz is part of my heritage. It was only in later life, finding family history links to the Antwerp area, that their V-Weapon assault caught my interest.
Surely, the purple prose 'City of Sudden Death' is not misplaced.
Dave

[earonpie]

Hi
During WW2 the Pioneer Corps and the RASC ran Fire Fighting Companies, also after liberation the Pioneer Corps ran Belsen for nearly two months which leads me to think that your relative was a Pioneer. Have you got his service number or full name and date of birth and I can check our records. During the last few years the Royal Pioneer Corps have built up a data base of over 700,000 who served in the Corps during WW2.
Regards
Norman Brown
Controller RPC Associaiton

[kathy-r]

Hi Marcus
My Dad, Len Goring, was in Belgium with the Army Fire Service towards the end of the war. He rarely spoke about his time in Belgium but he did tell us about the hoses freezing because it was so cold, and also about trying to help the local people who had no water. I am currently trying to contact a Belgium family from Hoboken who my Dad became friendly with. I have some photos that you might be interested in. I would love to hear any other information you might have.
Kathy