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The 20th Engineer Battalion is a combat engineer battalion of the United States Army, headquartered at Fort Hood, Texas.[1] It is assigned to the 36th Engineer Brigade and III Armored Corps.[2] The battalion continues the lineage of the 20th Engineer Regiment.[3]
The 20th Engineer Regiment was formed in 1917 as the United States prepared to enter World War I. It was established as a Forestry Regiment that grew to consist of 29 battalions and over 46,000 soldiers—the largest regiment in the history of the United States Army.[4][5] It conducted forestry and ancillary operations throughout France, from the Spanish and Swiss borders to the very front lines in Ardennes.
The 20th Engineer Combat Regiment was activated in 1942 with two organic combat engineer battalions. After assault landings in Morocco and Sicily, the regiment was reorganized. The 1st Battalion, 20th Engineer Regiment was renamed the 20th Engineer Combat Battalion as it prepared for assault landings on Omaha Beach, for which it received a Presidential Unit Citation. The battalion fought across Normandy and northern France and then into Germany, with its final battles in Czechoslovakia.
The 20th Engineer Battalion (Combat) conducted operations throughout Vietnam from 1966 to 1971. It was part of the defense of Saudi Arabia and participated in the assault into Iraq in 1990-1991 during the Gulf War.
The 20th Engineers were deployed twice to Iraq and twice to Afghanistan as part of the War on Terrorism.
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^"The 20th Engineers in World War 2". The 20th Engineers. Retrieved 27 November 2022.
^Regiment Large as Whole Division – Biggest in World. The Stars and Stripes, 8 November 1918, Page 1
^Report of the Chief of Engineers, U.S. Army, 1919, Part 1. Government Printing Office, Washington, 1919. Page 22
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