223rd Engineers WWII

[Walt's Daughter]

From the Office of History in Alexandria...

 

Classification: UNCLASSIFIED

Caveats: NONE

 

Marion,

 

No unit history for this company in our holdings, I regret to say. As you

know, the Order of Battle volume has no entries for units smaller than a

battalion. The only information found was in Karl C. Dod's The Corps of

Engineers: The War Against Japan. According to this source (one of the

"Green Books"), after the recapture of Kiska and after the 7th Division left

the island "The 223d and 521st Combat Companies, recently arrived on the

island, remained to construct base facilities." (pp. 332-333) Later on p.

333: "Work on airfields and bases in the Aleutians continued. On Kiska, the

engineers labored on the docks, the runway, gasoline storage, and quarters

for the troops."

 

I can't think of anything to suggest other than to try the National Archives

at College Park.

 

All the best,

 

Mike