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Show Cedar Man With j Engineers In Alps I I Sixth A: my Group, France Playing a leading role In the organization or-ganization of a vast network of defenses In the French Alps along the Franco-Italian frontier, an Engineer En-gineer Ccmbat Battalion of the 44th Antiaircraft Artillery Brigade of which Sgt Alma E. Dalley, son of Mr. and Mrs. L. B. Dalley of Cedar City, is a member Is gaining gain-ing a reputation as "the doughboys' right hand." In its present positions in the French Alps, the men of the bat-ta bat-ta ion are fighting in bittfr weather weath-er with a fortitude that Is comparable com-parable to their ability as combat engineers. Through some of the moft difficult diffi-cult fighting terrain in the world J twisting mountain trails, snow-I snow-I covered ridges, and innumerable points that are "naturals" for enemy ambushes these Combat Engineers have cleared minefields, constructed by-passes, repaired roads and constructed bridges to facilitate troop movements. At the same time, gua'.dlng against any passible German counter-attacks, mines are laid, barbed-wire entanglements en-tanglements tre stretched aloni (strategic places, and bridges and i roads are prepared for demolition. I |