Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The 133rd Engineer Battalion's area of operations (AO) spanned an area the size of the U.S. northeast, significantly larger than most Engineer battalion's normal span of control in Iraq. The 133rd was awarded the Meritorious Unit Commendation for their participation in the Transition of Iraq and Iraqi Governance Campaigns. [6]
Although the 133rd Engineer Battalion has a lineage that goes back only to 1854, the Headquarters Company traces its history to the formation of the Portland Light Infantry in 1803. By the War of 1812 the Portland Light Infantry had become Captain Nathaniel Shaw's Company, 3rd Regiment, 2nd Brigade, 12th Division in the Massachusetts Militia.
In 1961, the regiment became the 20th Armor Regiment. In 1967, the 20th Armor Regiment was converted and redesignated as the 133rd Engineer Battalion, which carries on the lineage of the 103rd Infantry Regiment. [10]
The 133rd Engineer Battalion was organized in 1970 from the 20th Armor Regiment, which was a descendant from several other units including the famed 20th Maine Volunteer Infantry Regiment which fought at the Battle of Gettysburg. The 133rd has 42 campaign streamers, representing service from the American Revolution to the War in Iraq.
117th Engineer Battalion (United States) 121st Engineer Battalion (United States) 130th Engineer Battalion; 132nd Engineer Battalion; 133rd Engineer Battalion; 169th Engineer Battalion; 54th Engineer Battalion (United States) 203rd Engineer Battalion (United States) 204th Engineer Battalion (United States) 205th Engineer Battalion (United States)
The 10th Maine Battalion served as headquarters guard for the XII Corps at the Battle of Chancellorsville and as part of the Army of the Potomac's provost guard at the Battle of Gettysburg. The 10th Maine Battalion was detached from the XII Corps at Tullahoma, Tennessee, on February 29, 1864, to be amalgamated with the 29th Maine Infantry.
History of the First – Tenth – Twenty-Ninth Maine Regiment: In Service of the United States from May 3, 1861, to June 21, 1866. Portland, Maine: Stephen Berry. Hodsdon, John L. (1862). Annual Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Maine, 31 Dec 1861. Augusta, Maine: Stevens & Sayward. United States Army (1941).
The 240th Coast Artillery is also one of the "ancestor" units, along with the famed 20th Maine Volunteer Infantry Regiment, of the modern day 133rd Engineer Battalion of the Maine Army National Guard. [8]