The German Army of World War II (1939-1945) collectively referred to its various engineer units as Pioniere - what would be called combat engineers in the West.
The German engineer troops developed out of a branch that only developed into a fighting service arm by World War II. Thus, along with the special engineers, th
Hitler first considered an invasion of Great Britain in autumn 1940, then scheduled Operation Barbarossa, the conquest of the European part of the Soviet Union,
At its peak in World War II, the United States Army contained over 700 engineer battalions, along with numerous independent brigades and regiments. The speciali