44th Engineer Battalion (Combat)
The 44th Engineer Battalion was assigned 17 February 1992 to the 2d Infantry Division.
Constituted 15 August 1917 in the National Army as the 47th Engineer Railway Maintenance-of-Way Battalion. Organized 31 March 1918 at Camp Sheridan, Alabama. Converted and redesignated 7 September 1918 as the 47th Regiment, Transportation Corps. Regiment broken up 12 November 1918 and its elements reorganized and redesignated as follows: Headquarters and Headquarters Company disbanded; Companies A, B, and C as the 41st, 42d, and 43d Companies, Transportation Corps, respectively; 41st, 42d, and 43d Companies, Transportation Corps, demobilized 19-20 June 1919 at Camp Dix, New Jersey.
Former 47th Regiment, Transportation Corps, and the 41st, 42d, and 43d Companies, Transportation Corps, reconstituted 10 September 1936 in the Regular Army; concurrently, consolidated with the 47th Engineer Battalion (constituted 1 October 1933 in the Regular Army) and consolidated unit designated as the 47th Engineer Battalion
Redesignated 13 January 1941 as the 47th Engineer Regiment. Activated 1 August 1941 at Fort Ord, California. Redesignated 1 August 1942 as the 47th Engineer General Service Regiment. Regiment broken up 26 April 1944 and its elements reorganized and redesignated as follows: 2d Battalion as the 1397th Engineer Construction Battalion; (Headquarters and Headquarters and Service Company as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 1176th Engineer Construction Group; 1st Battalion as the 47th Engineer Construction Battalion--hereafter separate lineages); 1397th Engineer Construction Battalion inactivated 20 February 1946 on Okinawa.
Redesignated 29 April 1947 as the 44th Engineer Construction Battalion. Activated 31 December 1948 at Fort Bragg, North Carolina. Redesignated 1 April 1954 as the 44th Engineer Battalion
