DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY
DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY
THE U.S. ARMY CENTER OF MILITARY HISTORY
103 THIRD AVENUE
FORT LESLEY J. McNAIR DC 20319-5058
REPLY TO March 28, 2002
Force Structure &
Unit History Branch
Richard D. Baker
605 W. Craig Street
Atmore, Alabama 36502
Dear Mr. Baker:
This is in response to your letter of June 1, 1999, concerning the 66 Engineer Company and the 567 Engineer Company. We regret the amount of time that has passed before responding to your request, but personnel constraints have contributed to our large backlog of unanswered requests. Although we accept questions from veterans and the public concerning the history of U.S. Army units, our first responsibility is to provide historical support to the Army Staff and respond to official inquiries from active Army units, Congress, and other military and federal agencies. Due to these and other official responsibilities, our professional staff is no longer able to provide a detailed response to your inquiry. We will do our best, however, to direct you to more appropriate sources of information.
Enclosed is a Statement of Service for the 567 Engineer Company, which provides a concise organizational history of the unit and a list of its battle honors.
A Statement of Service is not available for the 66 Engineer Company. Following is information on the unit from our files. The 66 Engineer Company was constituted on July 1, 1940 in the Regular Army. It was activated on July 8, 1941 at Fort Jackson, South Carolina. The unit was redesignated on April 1, 1942 as the 66 Engineer Topographic Company, Corps. It was inactivated September 20, 1946 in Japan. The unit was activated on November 30, 1946 in Germany, and inactivated there on June 20, 1948. The unit was activated on December 15, 1950 at Fort George G. Meade, Maryland. It was redesignated as the 66 Engineer Company on October 1, 1953. It was inactivated March 20, 1972 in Vietnam. The unit was activated on December 21, 1976 at Fort Hood, Texas, and inactivated there on June 15, 1987. The unit has not been active since that time. The company received campaign participation credit during World War II for the following campaigns: Algeria-French Morocco (with arrowhead); Sicily (with arrowhead); Naples-Foggia; Rome-Arno; North Apennines; and Po Valley. The “with arrowhead” in the campaign participation credit indicates that the unit made an assault landing during that campaign. The
company received campaign participation credit during Vietnam for the following:
Counteroffensive, Phase II; Counteroffensive, Phase Ill; let Counteroffensive;
Counteroffensive, Phase IV; Counteroffensive, Phase V; Counteroffensive,
Phase VI; let 69/Counteroffensive; Summer-Fall 1969; Winter-Spring 1970;
Sanctuary Counteroffensive; Counteroffensive, Phase VII; Consolidation I; and
Consolidation II. The unit has received the following decorations: Meritorious
Unit Commendation, Streamer embroidered ITALY; Meritorious Unit
Commendation, Streamer embroidered VIETNAM, 1966-1967; Meritorious Unit
Commendation, Streamer embroidered VIETNAM 1968; Republic of Vietnam
Civil Action Honor Medal, First Class, Streamer embroidered VIETNAM 1967-
1970.
The U.S. Army Center of Military History writes the Army’s official history, but these books usually describe campaigns rather than the activities of single units. The Department of the Army, in fact, does not prepare narrative histories of individual units, and we are unaware of any having been prepared for the 66 Engineer Company or the 567 Engineer Company by another organization or individual. The best sources of information are the unit’s own operational records (i.e., after-action and annual reports). Such records created by Army units during World War I, World War II, and the Korean and Vietnam wars are in the custody of the National Archives and Records Administration, 8601 Adelphi Road, College Park, Maryland 20740-6001. The National Archives also preserves official photographs created between 1861 and 1988.
You may also want to contact the veterans’ associations for the 66 Engineer
Company. The contact is Mr. John Stephanos, 39 Sundial Cir., Berlin, MD
21811-1545. We are unaware of an association for the 567 Engineer
Company.
Additional information on the services of the Center of Military History is available on the Internet through CMH ONLINE at army.mil/cmh-pg. Please use the link to frequently asked questions (FAQs) for the locations of other unit or personnel records, or to possibly answer future questions. Links are available from CMH ONLINE to the National Archives and to the Military History Institute websites, and I recommend the unit and reference bibliographies available at the latter site. I hope this information will assist your continued research.
Sincerely,
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Richard A. Gorell
Chief, Field Programs
and Historical Services Division
Enclosures
STATEMENT OF SERVICE
567 Engineer Company
Constituted 29 April 1943 in the Army of the United States as the 567 Engineer Dump Truck Company
Activated 25 June 1943 at Camp Ellis, Illinois
Inactivated 6 April 1946 in Japan
Activated 6 December 1946 in Japan
Inactivated 5 December 1947 in Japan
Redesignated 12 August 1948 as the 567 Engineer Service Company
Activated 15 September 1948 in Japan
Inactivated 6 November 1951 in Japan
Activated 2 June 1969 in Germany
Redesignated 7 June 1969 as the 567 Engineer Company and allotted to the Regular Army
Inactivated 16 February 1986 in Germany
Activated 16 June 1994 at Fort Wainwright, Alaska
Inactivated 15 December 1995 at Fort Wainwright, Alaska CAMPAIGN PARTICIPATION CREDIT
World War Il-AP
New Guinea
Luzon
DECORATIONS
Philippine Presidential Unit Citation, Streamer embroidered 17 OCTOBER 1944 TO 4 JULY 1945
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