Bangor Public Library Bangor Community: Digital Commons@bpl World War Regimental Histories World War Collections 1945 60th Engineer Combat Battalion: 1943-1945 United States Army Follow this and additional works at: http://digicom.bpl.lib.me.us/ww_reg_his Recommended Citation United States Army, "60th Engineer Combat Battalion: 1943-1945" (1945). World War Regimental Histories. 214. http://digicom.bpl.lib.me.us/ww_reg_his/214 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the World War Collections at Bangor Community: Digital Commons@bpl. It has been accepted for inclusion in World War Regimental Histories by an authorized administrator of Bangor Community: Digital Commons@bpl. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. BANGOR PUBLIC LIBRARY STODDER FUND l)OES NOT , lCULATE THE BEAVER 60TH ENGINEER COMBAT BATTALION 1943--------1945 ·- -- - --- ~--~-,- - -- , ' - _,,. ~- PROPOSED INSIGNIA 60th ENGINEERS THE 60th ENGINEERS * DEDICATION * w w.. •• . ~· ···. .· ·. " ,_ . .... :· ..... •• .. 4, "' ,. ~ .. .. : " .. · ..... ··~ : .. ~. .: ~:=: :::::-. ~ ::~-·. .. ., . ..>•• (ii• •.• . ~:::.a. ::::• .':::. :.::~ ~. • • • ,; ... .. • .. 0 •••• " •• 4 • .., • • • • "'• • • w •• • •• (,; •• .. .. : : : ::~ :~·· : : : .;.· · ~ :·.: • u ••~· This book 1s dedicated to those of the 60th Engineers who did not return to enjoy the world they fought for. c> INSIGNIA OF 35TH jl'\FA 1*'fl1.Y DIVISION .. .. '*' -· •• ·: MAJ. GEN. PAUL W. BAADE LT. COL. PHILIP BOTCHIN HISTORY OF THE 60TH ENGINEERS COMBAT BATTALION 60 ! What's in a number? What does it mean? On 29 January 1943, at Camp San Luis Obispo, Cali• fornia, a group of 4 Officers and about 60 enlisted men, mostly from the Middle Western and Far Western States, a~sembled to make the number mean something in the history of America and World War II. It was a brand-new number.