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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