10-24-2018, 03:48 PM
Marion,
Very helpful! It has been a learning process for military organization as a whole, being someone who hasn't served. I did speak with the Army Corp of Engineers a little while back and I quickly learned that the same 'rules' didn't apply to how the Engineers were organized. Unfortunately they were not able to provide any information on the combat group specifically.
I am anxiously awaiting my response from Maryland as the online directory does show a unit records file for the 1173rd.