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Organic Units Commanding General 1st Infantry Brigade: 1st Division: May 24, 1917 16th Infantry Regiment 18th Infantry Regiment 2nd Machine Gun Battalion Brig. Gen. Omar Bundy Brig Gen. George B. Duncan Brig. Gen. John L. Hines Brig. Gen. Frank Parker Col. Hjalmar Erickson 2nd Infantry Brigade: 1st Division: May 24, 1917 26th Infantry Regiment
Three American engineer regiments–the 11th, 12th, and 14th–were engaged in construction activity behind the British lines at Cambrai in November, when they were unexpectedly called upon to go into the front lines during an emergency. They thus became the first AEF units to meet the enemy.
The history of United States Army Corps of Engineers can be traced back to the American Revolution. On 16 June 1775, the Continental Congress organized the Corps of Engineers, whose initial staff included a chief engineer and two assistants. [6] Colonel Richard Gridley became General George Washington's first chief engineer.
17th Engineer Regiment (standard gauge railway construction),The Seventeenth Regiment of Railway Engineers was organized in Atlanta, Georgia, in the summer of 1917. The Regiment was primarily formed with railroad workers from the Southern states as well as the Midwest and was under the command of Col. John S. Atwell.
The Corps of Engineers ran the United States Military Academy until 1866 and served as the first American college with an engineering-based curriculum. [2] Throughout the early 19th century, military engineers in the Army Corps built brick and masonry seacoast fortifications. After 1824, two Army Corps of Engineers existed in the United States ...
The 101st Engineer Battalion is a unit of the Massachusetts Army National Guard and one of the oldest serving units of the United States Army. It is one of several National Guard units with colonial roots and campaign credit for the War of 1812. The 101st Engineer Battalion was originally established as the East Regiment. [1]
The 591st Boat Regiment was detached, as was the 561st Boat Maintenance Company, which remained in England working on Navy landing craft, but the 36th and 540th Engineer Combat Regiments were attached for the 10 July Allied invasion of Sicily (Operation Husky), [5] bringing the strength of the brigade to over 20,000. [7]