It then advanced across France towards Nancy, fighting along the Siegfried Line and crossing the Saar River in early December.
After the German counteroffensive in the Battle of the Bulge began, the battalion was deployed to the Ardennes sector on 21 December.
The battalion was sent back into combat in the Western Allied invasion of Germany, fighting in the offensive across the Roer River and crossing the Rhine on 24 March.
It advanced into Germany to Tangerhütte, where it remained until assuming military government duties in early May after the German surrender.
[1] Returning to the United States, the battalion was inactivated at Camp Patrick Henry, Virginia, on 13 November 1945.