5th+Engineer+Special+Brigade

Engineer special brigades were [|amphibious forces]  of the [|United States Army]  developed during [|World War 2] . The 5th engineer special brigade is a brigade of the Engineer special brigade developed in World War 2. They were created to be a highly intelligent people to flank and stand on the front line.

5th Engineer Special Brigade was formed from Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 1119th Engineer Combat Group on November 12, 1943, at Swansea, Wales. 5th ESB participated in the Invasion of Normandy (Omaha Beach) and operated Omaha Beach until November 19, 1944. On January 4, 1945, the brigade was transferred to the Seine section of Paris, where it supervised construction activities. It returned to the United States on July 11, 1945, and was inactivated at Camp Gordon Johnston, Florida, on October 20 of that year.

There is now a monument of what they did during World War 2 and show how good this brigade is. It is located a bove Omaha beach, on a small cliff which is a ruin of a German bunker with the Monument to the 5th US Engineer Special Brigade. The monument commemorates those who lost their lives while protecting the men in the landing craft and on the D-Day invasion beaches.

This will help us during the trip by learning about what the brigades did and see how they fought during the time of World War 2 and the Korean War.