Title

Pack up and move: a pictorial history of the 348th Engineer Combat Battalion

Authors

Keith Bryan

Files

Description

It was on the 15th of July 1942 that the 348th Engineers were entered on the War Department records, as a General Service Regiment. The Regiment was organized at Camp Crowder, Missouri; and the greatest portion of its cadre was from the 19th Engineer Combat Regiment stationed, at that time, as Pasadena, California.

The first group of "fillers" joined the unit early in the morning of August 22nd after traveling many miles by rail from the various induction centers of the Seventh Service Command. These men were followed in succeeding three days by two groups, one from New York, and the other from Michigan. The unit at this time was under the command of Major Clayton Gates, later under Colonel Sylvester Nortner, a West Pointer and then the ranking colonel of the United States Army.

Publication Date

1946

Keywords

U.S. Army, Corps of Engineers, 348th Combat Battalion, World War 1939-1945, Regimental histories

Disciplines

Military History

Recommended Citation

Bryan, Keith, "Pack up and move: a pictorial history of the 348th Engineer Combat Battalion" (1946). Regimental Histories. 29.
https://digicom.bpl.lib.me.us/ww_reg_his/29