HEADQUARTERS SECOND DIVISION (REGULAR)
AMERICAN EXPEDITIONARY FORCES.

INTRODUCTION.

In all of the fiercely contested battles in which the 2nd Division participated, the 2nd Engineer Regiment, in addition to cutting lanes through the barbed wire entanglements for the attacking infantry, worked day and night on the roads, thereby making it possible for food and ammunition to be supplied to the troops in the front lines; and at many critical times, it reinforced the regiments of the 3rd and 4th Brigades, and fought by their side.

Finally, in the last battle of the war, it threw two foot bridges across the Meuse in the face of a withering machine gun and heavy artillery fire, thereby enabling the advanced battalions of the Division to cross the river and seize the heights on the east bank.

Throughout the war, this magnificent regiment fulfilled most efficiently and most courageously its dual mission as a working and a fighting force; and its splendid fighting record is shown by its heavy casualties, which were greater than those of any other Engineer Regiment in the
A. E. F.