US Army Training Center - Yearbook (Fort Benning, GA)

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ATTer arriving aT Benning The division wenT inTo Training and by The end oT I949 The l0Th was an eTTecTive and viTal elemenT oT The 3rd lnTanTry Division. AT The beginning of I950 The l0Th. along wiTh The resT of The division, compleTed individual Training and progressed To a-dvanced uniT and combined Training in coordinaTion wiTh The mission of providing demonsTraTions Tor The lnTanTry School. ln February i950 a new Training phase was iniTiaTed when The division moved To LiTTle Creek, Virginia, Tor orienTaTion on am- phibious operaTions, Upon compleTion oT The Training assignmenT, The l0Th Engineer BaT- Talion embarked aboard ship Tor Vieques Island in The Carribbean where iT Took parT in OperaTion PORTREX, The mosT exTen- sive ioinT amphibious maneuver ever under- Taken by The U. S. in peaceTime. ReTurning To ForT Benning in laTe March and early April, elemenTs of The l0Th were included as Aggressor uniTs To parTicipaTe in Exercise SWARMERH aT ForT Bragg, NorTh Carolina. ExpecTaTions Thai' The 3d, being combaT ready, would be called To The Far EasT im- mediaTely aTTer The Korean Police AcTion began in laTe June l950, were noT Tulfilled. lnsTea-d of going To TighT, The division was drained oT iTs personnel in July, These men being Transferred and used as Training cadre in oTher uniTs. BuT in AugusT oT I950 orders did come down Tor The 3d To move To The Far EasT. ReorganizaTion began and Troops began filling The many vacancies. By 2 SepTember The division, sTill undermanned, saile-d Trom Camp SToneman, California. While The greaTer parT oT The division landed aT Moii-Japanese porT on The Sc-uThern island of Kyusu-The 65Th RegimenT, along wiTh Company C of The lOTh Engineers and cerTain arTillery uniTs Torminq The 65Th RCT, landed aT Pusan and parTicipaTed in The breakouT Trom The Pusan PerimeTer. On 9 November The l0Th Engi- neers wiTh The resT oT The division moved To Korea, having spenT a monTh Training The ROKA Troops ThaT Tilled The almosf 7000 vacan- cies in The division. , The IOTh was ciTe-d Tor excepTionally meriTorious conducT in The periormance oT ouTsTanding service in supporT of combaT opera- Tions in Korea Trom The lsT oT December l95O To 3l July l95I. During This period The IOTh, working under The mosT adverse cir- cumsTances, perTormed every phase oT iTs diverse duTies wiTh un- surpassed excellence. DespiTe The conTinual movemenT oi The division and The wide dispersion of iTs TronT-line uniTs, The ba'i'Talion consisTenTly rendered close and eTTecTive logisTical supporT. ln iTs combaT operaTions The baTTalion was equally proTicienT, lTs supplemenTaTion of The divi- sion's deTensive lines during The evacuaTion of Hungnam and The subsequenT sTraTegic desTrucTion oT ThaT ciTy proved oT maTerial as- sisTance To The division in accomplishing iTs mission. The superior abiliTy displayed by The men oT The baTTalion in TaciliTaTing The crossing oT The Han, lmiin and HanTan Rivers, in laying and re- moving mines and in The erecTion oT various obsTacles calculaTed To slow The enemy earned Them The respecT and admiraTion of all Those To whom They rendered service. The l0Th Engineers displayed such ouTsTanding devoTion To duTy and periormed iTs excepTionally d'iTTiculT Tasks in such a manner as To sei' iT apari and above oTher uniTs wiTh a similar mission. The skill, resourceiulness and indomiT- Engineers oTTen assumed The role oT combaT soldiers and used every means available To proTecT Their work. Small boaTs, used by Troops To cross and To paTrol The mouTh of The Rhine river, were equipped wiTh Two .50 caliber machine guns. able espriT de corps exhibiTed by The members oT This baTTalion reTlecT greaT crediT on Themselves, The Corps of Engineers and The miliTary service oT The UniTed STaTes. ' The l0Th Engineers Took parT in all The maior campaigns oT The Korean Police AcTion and received special recogniTion Tor Uiiongbu Corridor and lron Triangle acTions. Company D received The Presi- denTial UniT STreamer lNavyl Tor Their parT in The Chosin Reservoir acTion. The l0Th, along wiTh The enTire 3d Division, remained in Korea aTTer The Korean Truce unTil laTe November i954 when a small group oT The 3d's personnel escorTed The colors back To The UniTed STaTos. Then on 2 December i954 The personnel oT The 47Th Div'sion were assigned To The redesignaTed 3d lnTanTry Division. WiTh This change The personnel oT The 682nd Engineer BaTTalion became mem- ber, November and December I955. The 3d Division has been again became The home of The l0Th. Since coming back To The sTaTes, The baTTalion, wiTh The division, has parTicipa'l'ed in Two raTher exTensive exercises- Exercise FOL- LOW ME in February l955 and Exercise SAGE BRUSH in Ocio- ber, November and December I955. The 3rd Division has been Training and Tield-TesTing many new ,concepTs oT warfare Tor The nuclear age. Many diTTiculTies have arisen buT The lOTh and The division have and will conTinue To meeT and overcome all such problems. Through iTs long hisTory The lUTh has found The warTime, as well as much of The peaceTime, a long period oT back-breaking work which was oTTen hazardous, seldom if ever glamorous, buT in keep- ing wiTh The moTTo on The baTTalion cresT: LABORAMUS SUSTI- NERE- We work To assisT. 'Taken in parT Trom G. O. No. 868, Hqs EighTh U. S. Army, Korea. 8 Nov 1951.

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23,-.il if yn 3, ?7r:,4wr: il V M I V .V f-,- I- .. llkt ack , NTWAR 47 Under a proTecTive smoke screen, l0Th Engineers load a German half-Track wiTh TNT To ram iT inTo a German-held TorTiTicaTion near MuTzig. siderable Tame. AT Cape Calava, on Sicily's norThern coasT, The reTreaTing enemy blew ouT a bridge, iTs abuTmenTs and a parT oT The roadway on a sheer cliff. AT TirsT glance The repair iob seemed impossible excepT wiTh Time-consuming, maior engi- neering eTTorT. However, The l0Th wenT To work and in surprisingly shorT Time had bridged The gaping chasm in The demolished roadway. ln The words of Ernie Pyle. 'famed war correspondenT, They wenT To work To hang a bridge Trom The sky. Among the TirsT vehicles To pass over The compleTed bridge was That of Maier General TruscoTT, Commanding General, 3rd Division, who commended Company A and The oTher personnel oT The l0Th Tor Their speedy and compeTenT iob. AT Anzio The engineers ToughT someTimes as inTanTry buT were engaged for The mosT parT in deacTivaTing enemy mine Tields and laying oThers Tor 'Friendly Troops and in consTrucTing command posTs, roads and bridges. 1 ATTer The TighTing ended in WW ll, The l0Th Engineer BaTTalion served on occu- paTion 'duTy in -Germany Tor more Than a year before reTurning To The U. S. and Camp Campbell, KenTucky, in SepTember I946. There The l0Th, along wiTh The divi- sion, remained consisTing only oT headquarlers cadre unTil November l948. Then under The command of Maior General P. W. Clarkson, The division was ordered To ForT Benning, Georgia, for reorganizaTion. X, . .,,.,,. , V 7, ,g , , , .1 ,,, X-.xg ' ',,f'17'f, , s ,.,Q1,h e. -X, ,,--X x.,......,...,- -

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I I Q I i Mal OCaIIaghan IOIh Engineer Bairalion Commander, wishes MfSgI. Ordie Bond, acring Bn. Sergeanl' Malor besi' of luck and success on his reassignmeni io Europe. Maior O'CaIIaghan and MfSg+ Bond eniered Ihe service I'oge'Iher in I940 wi+h fhe I06Ih Engineer Regimeni, 3IsI Infaniry Division al' Camp Blanding, Florida. Be'I'ween them 'Ihey 'IoIaI over 30 years of service Io our couniry. Coat of Arms of the 10th Engineer Battalion - BLAZONRY SI-IIELD: Argent, an anchor debruised by Iwo oars saliire- wise beiween in fess I'wo increscenis all sable: on a chief of 'rhe Iasi' a pale wavy or bearing a seven- poinied mullel gules. CREST: On a wreaih of 'Ihe colors Iargenr and sablel wi+hin a garland of oalc 'irucied argeni a spur gear sable. MOTTO: Laboramus suslinere IWe worlc Io assisil. DESCRIPTION The pareni member of 'I'he I0'I'h Engineer Baiialion saw service wi'I'h ScoI'I' in Mexico and Jroolc pari' in I'he Civil War. Therefore, Ihe lO+h has adopied I'he Iwo crescenis from General ScoH's coar of arms and used ihe color black since i+ was 'I'he color of Ihe iacings on Ihe uniform worn by Ihe Engineers in Ihe Civil War. The anchor and ears was Ihe badge of ihe Engineers and Ponioniers of Ihe Army of Ihe Poiomac. The wavy pale on Ihe upper pari' of 'Ihe shield recalls I'he Marne which Ihe pareni' uni'I' bridged: and 'Ihe seven-poinied s'I'ar from 'Ihe cap badge oi 'Ihe Ausiralians recalls I'he cooperaiion on 'rhe Amiens ironi. The cresi' is a silver oalc wreaih +o represen-I' 'Ihe cap- 'I'ure oi Clairs Chenes I'I'he Cleared Oalcsi Woods, 20 Oc'I'ober I9I8. The black gear suggesis +he molorizecl and mechanized equipmeni wi'Ih which 'I'he I0+h Engineer Baliaiion opera'I'es. The IOI'h Engineer Baiialion ICombaiI is enI'i'IIed +0 'Ihe following baioile honors and may carry slreamers on i'Is colors wi'Ih inscripiions as indicaied. BaH'Ie Honors and Decoralions of 'I'he IOIh Engineer Bailalion ICombaIl are: CAMPAIGN STREAMERS CIVIL WAR: Peninsula Aniieiam Fredericksburg Chancellorsville Virginia I863 Wilderness Spoisylvania Cold Harbor Petersburg Appomaiiox SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR: Saniiago WORLD WAR I: Somme Defensive Champagne Champagne-Marne QCOmbatj Aisne-Marne S'I'. Mihiel Meuse-Argonne WORLD WAR II: Algeria-French Morocco Tunisia Sicily Naples-Foggia Anzio Rome-Arno Souihern France Rhineland Ardennes-Alsace Ceniral Europe KOREAN CONFLICT: CCF Inierveniion Firs'I U.N. Counieroiiensive CCF Offensive U.N. Summer-Fall Offensive Second Korean WinI'er Korea Summer-Fall I952 Third Korean Winier Korea Summer-Fall I953 DECORATIONS WORLD WAR 1: Sireamer in Ihe colors of 'Ihe French Croix de Guerre with Palm, embroidered Champagne-Marne and Aisne-Marne WORLD WAR II: Dislinguished Uni+ Sireamer, embroidered CoImar Sireamer in 'Ihe colors of 'Ihe French Croix de Guerre wiih Palm, embroidered CoImar Fourragere in 'Ihe colors of Ihe French Croix de Guerre KOREAN CONFLICT: S+reamer in the colors of 'rhe Republic of Korea Presideniial Unii Ci+a'I'ion, embroidered Uiion- gbu Corridor Sireamer in Ihe colors of 'Ihe Republic oi Korea Presideniial Unir Cilalion, embroidered Iron Tri- angIe Meriiorious Uni'I SIreamer, embroidered Korea Bravery Gold Medal of Greece IChryssoun Arisiion Andriasl for Korea Presideniial Uni+ Sireamer INavyl, embroidered Chosin Reservoir, Company D SILVER CAMPAIGN BANDS KOREAN CONFLICT: Company C, inscribed U.N. Offensive, CCF in+er- ven'Iion 4 I I ' fi' 'awfus suswf'