The 549th Engineers Light Pontoon Company was a combat engineer company of the United States Army during World War II. Operationally attached to the 1150th Engineer Combat Group, it served under XXI C
World War II recruiting poster for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
Treadway bridge supported by pneumatic pontons
United States Bronze Star Medal
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
549th Engineer Light Pontoon Company
…Dillingen, then continued on towards Austria as three separate platoons. In the European Theater of Operations it was often just ahead or behind the 289th Engineer Combat Battalion during the months of March, April, and May 1945. At various points it detached a platoon to the 289th and traded an officer back and forth in April…
Shoulder sleeve insignia
Combat engineers ferrying infantry in M2 assault boat
Infantry support bridge over Saar River erected by 289th Engineers at Volklingen between 18 and 20 March 1945