Engineer Combat Battalion, Camp
North Carolina, 1942
As far as I can remember, of the younger officers-that is, those with less than ten
service who came to Leonard Wood in early 1941-1 was the last to go. I went
Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, to a special
course in early 1942. It was called
the Seventh General Staff Class. Shortly
I graduated
Leavenworth and
returned to the training center as the adjutant, I was ordered to Fort Belvoir for a
month's divisional staff training course for engineer officers. I then went to Camp
North Carolina, near Durham as the battalion exec of a new unit being formed,
the
Engineer Combat Battalion of the 78th Infantry Division. The battalion
commander was a son of an ex-Chief of Engineers, Edward Markham, Jr.
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