649th Engineer Battalion
- Item sets
- World War II Regimental Histories
- Title
- 649th Engineer Battalion
- Publisher
- Offenburg-Baden : Franz Burda, between 1940 and 1949
- Date
- 1945
- Description
- From the Introduction: Activitated 15 December 1941 at Fort Belvoir, Virginia, the 649th Engineer Battalion was assigned to the First Army and placed under the technical direction of the Chief of Engineers. In an Army the size of ours the activation of a battalion causes only the slightest ripple on the pool of available manpower. It's just another battalion with a number and that's as far as it goes. But this book isn't about numbers; you can find numbers in an arithmetic book. This is the story of a group of men and we'd like to tell you from whence they came. At its inception, the battalion comprised three companies, viz: Headquarters and Service, including Photomapping; B, the Reproduction company; A, the Survey company ... Though the majority of us came from New York, New Jersey or Pennsylvania, all sections of the country are represented in our ranks, and practically all the states. What better beginning can a battalion in this man's army have?
- Subject
- United States. Army. Engineer Battalion, 649th--History
- World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Africa, North
- World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Europe
- World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Western Front
- World War, 1939-1945--Regimental histories
- Format
- 317 unnumbered pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 29 cm
- Language
- English
- Is Part Of
- Bangor Public Library Special Collections
- Note
- "Battalion book staff ; editor: Howard L. Worner."
- Rights
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