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
SS N. Y. U. Victory
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SS N. Y. U. Victory was a Type C2 Victory ship-based VC2-S-AP2 troop transport built for the U.S. Army Transportation Corps late in World War II. Launched in May 1945, it saw service in the European Theater of Operations in the immediate post-war period repatriating U.S. troops.
VC2-S-AP2 type transport
The Cordoba steaming on the North Sea Canal in 1954. Below is the Velsertunnel under construction.