The 10th Engineer Battalion, formerly the 2d Battalion, 6th Engineer Regiment, bore the distinction of being a part of the first unit of the 3d Division to sail for France in 1917. After having been assigned to duty with British forces, the regiment performed the feat of constructing 16 bridges in 40 days.

As a combat engineer battalion in World War II, the unit engaged in infantry fighting with distinction at several periods-notably during certain periods on the Anzio Beachhead. Its primary work there of laying wire and mines, however, was more hazardous, since the men had to go ahead of the infantry front lines.

The 10th Engineer Battalion's most widely publicized single feat in World War II was its construction of the bridge at Cape Calava on the north coast Of Sicily.

During the long push up the Italian peninsula the battalion was extremely busy spanning blown bridges and removing German mines. Its other functions, simultaneously or during "rest" periods, were road building, construction of command posts, mosquito control and removal of mines in areas over which practice amphibious landing maneuvers were to be conducted.