289th Engineer Combat Battalion (United States)
The 289th Engineer Combat Battalion was a combat engineer battalion of the United States Army during World War II. It served under XXI Corps of the Seventh Army in action mainly in France and Germany in 1944 and 1945. It received campaign credit for participation in the Ardennes-Alsace campaign ,
Rhineland campaign,
and the Invasion of Germany.
Shoulder sleeve insignia
World War II recruiting poster for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
Combat engineers ferrying infantry in M2 assault boat
Infantry support bridge over Saar River erected by 289th Engineers at Volklingen
XXI Corps (United States)
The XXI Corps was a corps of the U.S. Army during World War II. It was constituted on 2 December 1943, and activated on 6 December 1943 at Camp Polk, Louisiana. XXI Corps fought for 116 days in the European Theater of Operations, starting in the Alsace, crossing into southern Germany, and swarming into Austria, with individual elements reaching into northern Italy. The corps was commanded in combat by Major General Frank W. Milburn as a subordinate unit of the Seventh U.S. Army.
Elements of the XXI Corps reached Berchtesgaden, Germany, Wörgl, Austria, and Vipiteno, Italy by war's end