Description

20 pages scanned

This is a compact but historically rich unit history of the 2nd Engineer Combat Battalion, published in 1945 and printed in Plzeň, Czechoslovakia (notably, right where the unit ended the war). The book traces the battalion’s lineage all the way back to 1861, covering its service across the Civil War, Spanish-American War, World War I, and finally World War II — from the Omaha Beach assault on D-Day through the Hürtgen Forest, the Battle of the Bulge, the Rhine crossing, and into Germany and Czechoslovakia. It includes a narrative history, a portrait of the commanding officer Lt. Col. Robert E. Snetzer, and the 2nd Infantry Division insignia.