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Sent to me by Al Kincer.

Marion ...This is Crest of Engineer School Regiment. I have Mech & Tech some where will send when I find it.

Marion,

This may be a dumb question but was this Crest specific to any one Regiment or Division? Or was it for all Engineers?

The mechanical or technical..... was that sort of like a speciality? I ask these questions wondering if my Uncle George might have had one. He was a T/5 when he died.

Parker

Al:

Care to jump in here?

This may be a dumb question but was this Crest specific to any one Regiment or Division? Or was it for all Engineers?

No Q is too dumb.

I'm almost sure this was a DUI pin for a school. The Artillery had a similar pin for their basic school and also the Air Force. Once the student graduated, he would then be assigned to a specific unit.

Now the question is: would this pin be worn only by the staff of the school or would it be worn by the engineers who attended it. Most soldiers going through training would have a generic shoulder patch on their uniform. Ones going through Officer Candidate School would wear an "OCS" patch on their right sleeve. I don't think the students would wear this DUI pin; probably only the staff.

Steve

I do appreciate your insight and comments about the pin. Perhaps you could enlighten me on some other questions.

In talking to my Mom about her brother George she told me that after Pearl Harbor a friend of his was going to "take the Engineers test" because that was what he thought he wanted to do. So my Uncle decided he would too and Mom (who was in high school) loaned him her math books so he could bone up before taking the test. As it turned out my Uncle was accepted and his friend was not. I suppose his basic and school was done at Ft. Leonard Wood Mo. As I understand it after school he was a part of the 341st Engineers Gen Serv. Regiment.

These questions are for the enlisted engineers:

1. Do you know of any special test for Engineer Candidates or was it just a standard Army entrance exam that determined if they were a candidate for Engineer School or just how did that work?

2. Your page made reference to a technical / mechanical pin. I understand that was probably for the Officer Corps. But were the enlisted given general engineering or were they given any speciality training such as heavy equipment/bridge building/mechanics etc. while at Ft. Leonard Wood?

Any light you could shed will be of a big help in me understanding more about my Uncle. My Mom tries but she doesn't really know.

Thanks, Parker

Here's more from Al...

The first one is Mech & Tech

This one - 111 Engrs, 36 Inf Div

Crest for THE CORPS OF ENGRS