1269th Engineer Combat Battalion (United States)
The 1269th Engineer Combat Battalion was an engineer combat battalion that served in the United States Army in the European Theater of Operations during World War II. It saw action in France and Germany, serving notably with the Army's T-Force intelligence assault force in the capture of German atomic weapons facilities and personnel as part of Operation Big.
A converted luxury liner, the SS Mariposa was a very large troopship, fast enough to elude U-boats unescorted across the Atlantic
Timber trestle constructed in the Maritime Alps in the winter of 1944-45
Battalion crossing Rhine near Worms, Germany 29 March 1945. Trucks and men of Company C are nearest in view.
T-Force 1269th engineers dismantle the nuclear pile that German scientists had built up under the Uranprojekt program in Haigerloch, April 1945
Engineer Combat Battalion
An Engineer Combat Battalion (ECB) was a designation for a battalion-strength combat engineer unit in the U.S. Army, most prevalent during World War II. They are a component of the United States Army Corps of Engineers.
World War II recruiting poster for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
Combat Engineers ferried infantry and special forces troops in craft such as this M2 assault boat at Dornot-Corny, Lorraine in World War II
Infantry support bridge over the Saar River erected by 289th Combat Engineers at Volklingen, Germany
1269th engineers attached to the technology-capturing T-Force of the Alsos Mission dismantle a nuclear pile built by German scientists in Haigerloch, Germany, April 1945
