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There was no 14th Armoured Engineer Battalion in fact there was no 14th Engineer Battalion of any description according to Stantons' US army OOB. The 14th engineer regiment was lost in the Philippines.
If you mean the engineer battalion for the 14th Armoured Division that was 125th Armoured Engineer battalion. The division did not fight in the Ardennes.
An armoured engineer battalion was the Armoured Division's engineer unit, building or destroying things, laying or clearing mines, acting as an assault unit, as emergency infantry etc.
The battalion was allocated 1,224 men in mid 1943 but establishment was cut back to 707 or 708 men by mid 1944 and 674 men by mid 1945.
The 708 man unit was 35 officers, 3 warrant officers and 670 men. They had 20 50 cal and 18 30 cal machine guns, 103 sub machine guns, 434 rifles, 153 carbines, 3 pistols, 29 bazookas, 17 halftracks, 3 tractors, a 4 ton wrecker truck, 27 2.5 ton trucks, 18 2.5 ton dump trucks, 4 air compressor trucks, 8 3/4 ton weapons carriers, 26 jeeps and 6 treadway prime movers.
Geoffrey Sinclair Remove the nb for email.
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