APPENDIX I
COMMANDING OFFICERS OF THE 97TH ENGINEERS:
COLONEL SAMUEL WHIPPEL
MAJOR ROBERT C. HOLMES, JR.
MAJOR ROBERT C. COFFIN
COLONEL CHARLES D. MCDANIEL
LIEUTENANT COLONEL JOHN B. CRAWFORD
MAJOR JOHN D. WEIBEN
LIEUTENANT COLONEL JAMES B. MCNALLEY
MAJOR ROBERT A. ATKINS
LIEUTENANT COLONEL CHESTER D. BREWER
LIEUTENANT COLONEL WILLIAM F. CRISE [assumed command Nov 1959].
LIEUTENANT COLONEL FRANK GAINES [1959–60; not in history files: see TASCOM article below. Was the retiring commander in May 1960]:
LIEUTENANT COLONEL JOHN H. CARLSON
LIEUTENANT COLONEL MONTJOY
LIEUTENANT COLONEL FERDINAND ASCHEE
LIEUTENANT COLONEL WILLIAM GARDINER
MAJOR HARRY L. HARVEY
LIEUTENANT COLONEL HAROLD L. MYRON [France, Germany, 1966–67]:
LIEUTENANT COLONEL ALBERT A. DUPONT [Pirmasens, Germany; Ft. Riley, Kansas; 1967–69]
LIEUTENANT COLONEL THOMAS E. GIOIOSA [Fort Riley, Kansas, January 1969–28 February 1970]:
LIEUTENANT COLONEL FRED W. ARON, JR. [28 February 1970–December 1970]:
MAJOR MARTIN MACE ROGERS [December 1970–27 January 1971]
LIEUTENANT COLONEL ANCIL R. PRESSLEY, 27 January 1971–22 October 1971 (inactivation)]. Assumed command of 34th Engineer Battalion, the unit that absorbed personnel from the 97th Engineer Battalion
APPENDIX II
BRIEF UNIT HISTORY
For photographs of the unit in Germany, including some of the last commander, Colonel Dupont, and BG LePeilbert, visit the yellow highlighted sites listed under “Germany:”
