01-24-2006, 08:48 PM
Oops! hit the return button too fast! The Regiment landed in Sicily on D Day, 10 July, the 2nd Battalion acting as shore engineers for the 3rd Infantry Division, the remainder of the regimeht as shore engineers for the 2nd Armred Division. After operating the landing beaches of Gela and Licata, the regiment opened and operated the Port of Palermo on 25 July and Termini Imerese on 5 August. two landings made by the men of the 2nd Battalion on the north shore of Sicily towards Messina helped bring the campaign to a speedy conclusion. After the fall of sicily on 17 August 1943, the regiment was relieved from assignment to the Seventh Army, assigned to the Fifth Army and attached to the 45th Division.