Excerpt from The Official History of the Second Regiment of Engineers and Second Engineer Train, United States Army, in the World War Not only did' the 2nd Engineers show unusual ability as engineers, but it was several times used in emergency as infantry and always acquitted itself with credit. At Chateau Thierry, every company fought as infantry; at Soissons, every company was on the front line, and fought as infantry; at Saint Mihiel half of the companies accompanied the tanks. Or went over the top with the front line as wire cutters; at Blane Mont, every company was thrown into the front line to hold and to advance; at Attigny, two platoons went ahead of the front line as wire cutters; and in the Argonne, half of the companies were with the infantry under direct fire for a greater or less time as was necessary. This regiment experienced severe losses, as was to be expected. Proportionally, its loss was greater than that of any other engineer or artillery regiment, greater than that of more than half of the infantry regiments in the thirty combat divisions, and about two-fifths of that of the most severely handled infantry regiment. Actually, its loss in men was greater than the loss of three of the thirty combat divisions. Its total replacements for all purposes amounted to 191% before it reached the Rhine. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.