Lineage and Honors Information as of 18 April 2014
2d ENGINEER BATTALION
- Organized 31 December 1861 in the Regular Army at Washington, D.C., from new and existing companies of engineers as a provisional engineer battalion (constituted 28 July 1866 as the Battalion of Engineers)
- Expanded 14 March-7 June 1901 to form the 1st and 2d Battalions of Engineers (1st Battalion of Engineers -- hereafter separate lineage)
- 2d Battalion of Engineers expanded, reorganized, and redesignated 1 July-1 August 1916 as the 2d Regiment of Engineers
- 2d Regiment of Engineers expanded 21 May-20 June 1917 to form the 2d, 4th, and 5th Regiments of Engineers (4th and 5th Regiments of Engineers--hereafter separate lineages)
- 2d Regiment of Engineers redesignated 29 August 1917 as the 2d Engineers
- Assigned in September 1917 to the 2d Division (later redesignated as the 2d Infantry Division)
- 1st Battalion, 2d Engineers, reorganized and redesignated 16 October 1939 as the 2d Engineer Battalion (remainder of regiment disbanded)
- Redesignated 1 August 1942 as the 2d Engineer Combat Battalion
- Redesignated 1 March 1954 as the 2d Engineer Battalion
- Inactivated 15 June 2005 in Korea
- Headquarters and Headquarters Company activated 16 October 2008 at White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico (Support Company concurrently constituted and activated)
CAMPAIGN PARTICIPATION CREDIT
- Civil War
- Peninsula
- Antietam
- Fredericksburg
- Chancellorsville
- Wilderness
- Spotsylvania
- Cold Harbor
- Petersburg
- Appomattox
- Virginia 1863
- Philippine Insurrection
- Streamer without inscription
- Mexican Expedition
- Mexico 1916-1917
- World War I
- Aisne
- Aisne-Marne
- St. Mihiel
- Meuse-Argonne
- Lorraine 1918
- Ile de France 1918
- World War II
- Normandy
- Northern France
- Rhineland
- Ardennes-Alsace
- Central Europe
- Korean War
- UN Defensive
- UN Offensive
- CCF Intervention
- First UN Counteroffensive
- CCF Spring Offensive
- UN Summer-Fall Offensive
- Second Korean Winter
- Korea, Summer-Fall 1952
- Third Korean Winter
- Korea, Summer 1953
- War on Terrorism
- Campaigns to be determined
DECORATIONS
- Presidential Unit Citation (Army), Streamer embroidered WIRTZFELD-BULLINGEN
- Presidential Unit Citation (Army), Streamer embroidered HONGCHON
- Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), Streamer embroidered AFGHANISTAN 2010-2011
- French Croix de Guerre with Palm, World War I, Streamer embroidered AISNE-MARNE
- French Croix de Guerre with Palm, World War I, Streamer embroidered MEUSE-ARGONNE
- French Croix de Guerre, World War I, Fourragere
- Belgian Fourragere 1940
- Cited in the Order of the Day of the Belgian Army for action in the Ardennes
- Cited in the Order of the Day of the Belgian Army for action at Elsenborn Crest
- Republic of Korea Presidential Unit Citation, Streamer embroidered NAKTONG RIVER LINE
- Republic of Korea Presidential Unit Citation, Streamer embroidered KOREA 1950-1953
BY ORDER OF THE SECRETARY OF THE ARMY:
ROBERT J. DALESSANDRO
Director, Center of Military History
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