130h Brigade History

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The 130th Engineer Brigade has a storied history from the time it was established in the U.S Army as the 1303rd Engineer General Service Regiment and activated on July 15, 1943 at Camp Ellis Illinois. The 130th played a pivotal role during WW II with campaigns in Normandy, Northern France, Rhineland, Ardennes-Alsace, Central Europe and the Asian-Pacific theatre. The regiment was deactivated in 1955 and elements of the 130th were allocated to the regular Army. For a short time the 130th Engineer Brigade was re-designated as the 130th Engineer Aviation Brigade in Japan until it was deactivated in 1956 (130th Engineer Brigade Lineage, n.d.).
On June 16th, 1969 the 130th Engineer Aviation Brigade was again re-designated as the 130th Engineer Brigade …show more content…
In January 1991 the 54th and 317th received orders to deploy to Southwest Asia to take part in Operation Desert Shield and Desert Storm as part of Task Force 1-41 (R. Brewer, 1NOV10). Task Force 1-41 was the first coalition force to breach the Saudi Arabian border on the 15th of February, and conduct ground combat operations in Iraq. During the entire ground campaign Task Force 1-41 including Company D, 9th Engineer Battalion and Company D, 317th Engineer Battalion, travelled over 200 Kilometers in 72 hours and destroyed 65 armored vehicles and 10 artillery pieces, while capturing over 300 enemy prisoners (Thomas, Frank, …show more content…
Throughout Operation Iraqi Freedom, the headquarters supported up to 15,000 engineers at one time conducting missions ranging from bridging, humanitarian assistance, topographic missions, dive missions, firefighting, base construction, river patrols, mine detection, missile removal and many more (Rodney Brewer, 2010). The 565th Engineer Company a member of the 130th Engineer Brigade, built the Birthday Bridge, the longest floating bridge assembled in a combat zone. The bridge was placed across the Tigris River in Tikrit and had a span of 580 meters (130th Engineer Brigade Lineage,

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