Rubuta ci gaba ga wannan sakin layi - A cikin 1942, an sake sanya sunan bataliya ta zama "1st Engineer Combat Battalion" kuma ta sauka tare da sojojin farko a mamayar Arewacin Afirka
Ka yi haƙuri. A cikin 1943, rundunar ta share cikas na karkashin ruwa kuma ta lalata akwatunan makamai na abokan gaba yayin saukowa a Sicily. A lokacin saukowar Normandy a Omaha Beach a shekarar 1944, bataliya ta jagoranci sojojin kai hari, ta keta ramuka a cikin babban ma'adinan abokan gaba da shingen waya da kuma share hanyoyin yaƙi da ke kaiwa ga rairayin bakin teku.