Type: Classic Metal License Plate New, 12" X 6".
Organized 31 December 1861 in the Regular Army at Washington, D.C., from new and existing companies of engineers as a provisional engineer battalion (constituted 28 July 1866 as the Battalion of Engineers)
Expanded 14 March-7 June 1901 to form the 1st and 2d Battalions of Engineers (1st Battalion of Engineers--hereafter separate lineage)
2d Battalion of Engineers expanded, reorganized, and redesignated 1 July-1 August 1916 as the 2d Regiment of Engineers
2d Regiment of Engineer expanded 21 May-20 June 1917 to form the 2d, 4th, and 5th Regiments of Engineers (2d and 4th Regiments of Engineers--hereafter separate lineages)
5th Regiment of Engineers redesignated 29 August 1917 as the 5th Engineers
Assigned 6 December 1917 to the 7th Division
Inactivated 27 September 1921 at Camp A. A. Humphreys, Virginia
Relieved 11 January 1936 from assignment to the 7th Division and assigned to the 8th Division
Activated 1 February 1936 at Fort Belvoir, Virginia
Relieved 16 September 1939 from assignment to the 8th Division
Redesignated 1 August 1942 as the 5th Engineer Combat Regiment
Regiment broken up 27 December 1943 and its elements reorganized and redesignated as follows:
1st Battalion as the 1277th Engineer Combat Battalion
(Headquarters and Headquarters and Service Company as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 1128th Engineer Combat Group; 2d Battalion as the 1278th Engineer Combat Battalion--hereafter separate lineages)
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