Description

333d Engineer Special Service Regiment
Corps of Engineers, Communications Zone, European Theater of Operations • World War II •
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Document Overview
Compiled and edited by the Regimental S-5 Section and published with a foreword dated Reims, France, 18 June 1945, this unit history recounts the 333d Engineer Special Service Regiment’s activation, stateside training, and its landing at Utah Beach to lead the reconstruction of the Port of Cherbourg, followed by its advance across France and Germany in support of General Patton’s Third Army, with company narratives, a regimental roster, decorations, and photographs of the port works and the Rhine crossing. This listing is for a digital download of a scanned copy of the original photo-illustrated volume.

Campaigns: Normandy Campaign; Northern France Campaign; Rhineland Campaign; Central Europe Campaign — including the reconstruction of the Port of Cherbourg, the Rhine River crossing at Mainz, and the liberation of Buchenwald.

Commanders: Col. Guy S. Langstroth (Commanding, 9 May 1944 to date of publication); Col. James B. Cress (Commanding, 13 May 1942 to 9 May 1944).

Unit paper: unknown

Table of Contents
Foreword
Prefatory Note
A Short History of the Regiment
Pre-Activation
Camp Claiborne
Toledo, Ohio
Desert Training Center
United Kingdom
France
Germany
Decorations Awarded Members of the Regiment
Unit Citations and Battle Participation Awards
Environs of Cherbourg
In Proud Memory of Our Dead
Rhine River Bridge, Mainz, Germany
Buchenwald Camp, Weimar, Germany
In Support of Gen. Patton’s Third Army
Mechanical Equipment
Regimental Roster
Company B
Company C
Company D
Company E

“The difficult we do immediately, the impossible takes a little longer.”
— Brehon B. Somervell, Commanding General, A.S.F.