As Marion has noted, the unit records would need to be obtained from College Park. I have not found much info on the 257th available either.

 

What i have found is the 257th ECB was an element of the 9th U.S. Army from

5 September 1944 - 5 May 1945. They have Campaign Credits for Ardennes- Alsace, Central Europe, & Rhineland, Occupation - Germany, 2 May - 18 Sept 1945.

No Distinguished Unit or Meritorious Citations listed.

 

a couple of attachments were found:

257th Engineers © Battalion attchd to 1st Inf Div. 01.10.1944-31.10.1944

257th Engr C Bn attchd to 45th Inf Div 19 Apr 45-23 Apr 45

 

http://www.oldhickor...n Div Units.pdf

This is great! Thank you very much for all your help! This answers a lot of my questions. I definitely need to get down to College Park and do some digging too.

My biggest mystery now is trying to figure our his Army Air Corps experience.

No Distinguished Unit or Meritorious Citations listed.

I think we can all agree after reading the letter linked to this thread that this unit should be revisited and reconsidered for unit citations.

Marion, how is the progress coming with getting engineers awarded the CIB? I read through that thread but it hasn't been updated recently.

Unfortunately the CIB is at a dead-end right now. I even contacted the army board of review. So many people are in our "court" but each of us has hit a wall. Sad!

I added a new history to the main site today. You can find this - 257th Engineer Combat Battalion - Oct 1944-May 1945 - prepared by Vincent J Bellis Jr - added 09-20-2016

and other related engineer history at:

https://ww2combatengineers.comlinksEngineers.htm

I was able to get in touch with the family of Mr. Nickerson that Marion originally posted a link to

http://www.wickedlocal.com/lexington/archi...ond-L-Nickerson

They were very nice and sent me photos of his uniform that shows 7th Army, XXI Corps.

I am working on getting info from his discharge

Excellent news. Thanks for sharing all of this with us. Looking forward to more. 🙂