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Engineer Combat Battalions

Company B of the 27th Engineer Combat Battalion, attached to the 158th Infantry, did equally well with flame throwers in the Maffin Bay area of the New Guinea mainland, across from Wakde Island. On 24 May the engineers, supported by two tanks, destroyed a machine gun emplacement, which had pinned down an infantry company for over three hours. This was the first recorded instance of a co-ordinated tank-flame thrower attack in the Southwest Pacific. A month later, farther to the east at Lone Tree Hill, the pattern was repeated. On 18 June 2d Lt. Theodore Frankel, antitank platoon leader, ist Infantry, 6th Division, supported by two tanks, knocked out three... [Pg.551]

Ltr, CmlO SOS ETO to CmlO FUSAG, 3. Jun 44, tub Flame Throwert. rath Army Group Reds, 470.71—Apparatus, (a) The theater made this recommendation after the portable Eanie thrower became an item of Class IV issue. WD Cir No. ao4, ay May 44. Other support bases of issue were airborne division, 13 armored division, it Ranger battalion, 6% and engineer combat battalion, 14. [Pg.596]

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