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History: 97th Engineer Battalion

(Construction)

Documents from the extensive personal files of LT Brian Heverin, who served in Germany and at Fort Riley, Kansas

Tragedy at Fort Tavannes:

The Death of Gerald H. Dunnigan

Search and Rescue Operations, 21-26 April 1956

For an overview of Fort Tavannes, visit this or other search engine links:

http://pierreswesternfront.punt.nl/content/2010/01/tunnel-de-tavannes-fort-de-tavannes

Only from this newspaper account do we have the name of this unfortunate soldier.

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