The 146th Engineer Combat Battalion was attached to the 1171st Engineer Combat Group, V Corps in England prior to D-Day. They were tapped, along with the 299th Engineer Combat Battalion to provide personnel for the Special Engineer Task Force, formed in March-April 1944 to deal with the shoreline obstacle belt created by the Germans in early 1944. On OMAHA they formed joint Army-Navy demolition teams with twenty-one Naval Combat Demolition Units. Those teams suffered probably the heaviest casualties of any units on D-Day.
Eleven veterans of the 146th Engineer Combat Battalion on D-Day are on The Heart of Texas Veterans Memorial.
Brown County WW2 Gold Star Honor Roll
Burns, James F. PFC Co.C 146 ECB KIA 6 Jun 1944 D-Day PH Mini-bio
Brown County WW2 Veterans
Benson, George M. PVT Co. A 146 ECB PH
Coffee, L.Z. SGT Co.C 146 ECB
Petty, Glynn R. PFC Co.C 146 ECB
Sorenson, Walter H. TEC5 Co.C 146 ECB
Townsley, William D. CPL Co.B 146 ECB PH
Coleman County WW2 Veterans
Davis, Fred T. PVT Co. A 146 ECB
Stokes, Travis H. SGT Co.A 146 ECB
Wilder, Roy E. MSGT Co.A 146 ECB
Comanche County WW2 Gold Star Honor Roll
Jones, Marvin L. SGT Co.A 146 ECB KIA 6 Jun 1944 D-Day PH SS Mini-bio
Mills County WW2 Veterans
Tubbs, Thomas R. SGT Co.C 146 ECB