T/O & E OF ENGINEER CONSTRUCTION BATTALION/BUNKER CONSTRUCTION

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• Collection: General CIA Records
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• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 7, 2007
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: March 26, 1957
• Content Type: REPORT

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1. Construction Battaliox
he Battalion was stationed
aZ Zakany k4010N-19.51S) and Muraszemenye (462M-1:637B) along the Yugoslav border,
The battalion, with an actual strength of six hundred enlisted men and officers,
was charged with the construction of fortifications along the border. The
battalion consisted of three construction companies, one headquarters and
headquarters c and one service File Item
ompanys company ~ee I described at
end of repor~. All technicians, who were professional engineers and technician
in civilian life, were assigned to headquarters and headquarters company. This
company was also in charge of all equipment, including 50 horses and fuel.
2. The service company consisted of cooks, medics, clerks and 50 guards. No arms
were carried by the enlisted men; only officers carried pistols and the guard
had light machine guns. This was typical of this sort of construction on,
where none of the enlisted men had any basic infantry training,
nine battalions of this type, with the some strength and equipment, were station
at about 35 km intervals along the Yugoslav border. They started construction
of fortifications in 1950 and slowly decreased the number of battalions from 1953
In June 1955
3. constructed two sections, one in the Zakany area and one in the
Mureszemenye area fee rile Item II described at end of report. There was one
central engineer dump in Murakeresztur where construction material was shipped
in by rail. From there the material was transported by trucks to the construct-
ion areas. During the time of construction, all officers and enlisted men.lived
in private houses close to the construction sites.
4.~Ibattalion used the following equipment:
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7-ton Zia crane trucks
(soviet)
Diamond crane truck
(us)
Federal trailer trucks
(us)
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In good condition
Capacity unknown, in poor condition.
180 hp, in poor condition
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Dumpers
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[See File Item 1117
Stalinecz bulldozer
(Soviet)
Dr-430 tractors
(Hungarian)
3c
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apac
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Csepel from the British
120 hp, 4 cyl. diesel engine,
in good condition.
90 hp, made by Csepel
Enterprise, in good condition.
6
Concrete mixers
(Hungarian & German)
Watertank trucks
(Hungarian)
5 Hungarian 1/2 cbm capacity.
1 German, 1z cbm capacity.
3000-4000 liter capacity, made
by Csepel Enterprise.
4 Electric generators 320 and 220 volts, in good
(2 German, 2 Hungarian) condition
mounted (Soviet)
Trench diggers (Soviet)
Shop truck (Hungarian)
Made by the Mavog Enterprise in
Budapest. Equipped with lathe,
grinder and drill press.
Every evening each company within the battalion had to request the trucks
from the headquarters and headquarters company :.or the next day.
6. Reenforced concrete bunkers for large guns were constructed 1 km apart all
along the border between each large bunker, two or three smaller concrete
bunkers for machine guns were placed fee File Item IV described at end
of report. Forward of these bunkers, at a distance of about 100 m, a
trench 1 m wide and 12 m deep was constructed for infantry purposes. This
was followed by a heavy barbed wire fence about 1 m high (1 row) at a
distance of 50 m forward of the trench and, finally.. there was at 50 m
forward bf'the '.nee a barbed wire entanglement 30 an high (10 rows) with
mines buried under the barbed wire ZSee File Item V described at end of
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7- The whole defense system is about l-2 km from the Yugoslav border.
In the large bunkers tracks were laid to move the guns into firing
position. All bunkers were covered with sod or other natural growths
for camouflage purposes. We worked eight hours 3-shifts a day. Officers,
who used to construction engineers in civilian life, supervised. the jobs.
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2. Overlay sketch showing general locations where the battalion installed
border protection.
3. Sketch showings
(a) 4 c/m dumper of the type used by the battalion.
(b) Engineer,insign4ae
It. Construction sketches of a large `um bunker and a machine gun bunker.
5. Fortification pattern along the Yugoslav border, 1950-55-
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150 EM
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1 OFFICER 1`! LT.
1 PoL. OFF, LT.
CONSTRUCTION Co.
80 EM
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1 OFFICERIrtLT.
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SERVICE Co.
17o EM '
1 OFFICER IC LT.
1pouTlcnL OFF. LT.
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