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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
The regiment assisted in the summer training of Organized Reserve engineer units of the First, Second, and Third Corps Areas at Fort DuPont 1922-39. On 9 October 1939, the 2nd Battalion was redesignated as the 27th Engineer Battalion (Combat) and relieved from the 1st Division, while the 1st Battalion was redesignated on 12 October 1939 as the ...
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.
Each division also had three artillery regiments and an engineer regiment. [39] The United States joined World War I in April 1917. Because of the necessary period of training before the units were moved overseas, the first elements of the American Expeditionary Forces arrived in June 1917. Their first actions of the Western Front came in ...
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 battalion continues the lineage of the 20th Engineer Regiment. [3] The 20th Engineer Regiment was formed in 1917 as the United States prepared to enter World War I. It was established as a Forestry Regiment that grew to consist of 29 battalions and over 46,000 soldiers—the largest regiment in the history of the United States Army.
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