112th infantry regiment battle of the bulge
In a month's time the flow of replacements had brought the regiment to full strength. arrived early in the afternoon but left precipitately, losing one gun
then, as seen by Manteuffel and Luettwitz, was not how to achieve the
The entire action lasted ten minutes. The main body of the 1st Battalion was stationed at Camp Taji while the main body of the 2d was stationed at Camp Liberty on the Victory Base Complex. On 19 December the right wing division of the latter, the 5th Parachute Division, took over the attack on Wiltz, or perhaps more accurately, drifted into a fight for the town. Leaderless, the platoon broke. If anyone has information about Fred or his division please contact me. In the 1st Battalion zone to the north the advance detachments of the 2d Panzer Division moved straight for Marnach, attempting with one quick blow to clear the Americans obstructing the through road from Dasburg to Clerf.7 While the German engineers labored at the Dasburg site to bring their heavy tank bridging equipment down to the river, the 28th Panzer Engineer Battalion and the 2d Battalion, 304th Panzer Grenadier Regiment, crossed the Our in rubber boats and moved west through the predawn darkness. The road center at Wiltz and the bridges there were only about twelve miles from Bastogne. Here Nelson received a message from the 28th Division which ordered the regiment to hold the line LausdornWeiswampach-Beiler, which the 112th Infantry had just abandoned. The coat of arms was approved on 2 January 1930. On German operations maps Wiltz lay athwart the boundary which divided the attack zones of the XLVII Panzer Corps and the LXXXV Corps. One tank platoon remained there to bolster the defense, while the other turned back to the south, picked up Company C, and, on orders, returned with the infantry to Munshausen. 75th Ranger Regiment Special Forces Infantry Regiments/Battalions Army Campaigns Pre-divisional Orders of Battle . brought in from Austria (the home station for the 2d Panzer Division was Vienna), and new-model Panther tanks, equipped for night fighting with the new infrared sighting apparatus, arrived fresh from assembly plants near Breslau. . A Silver color metal and enamel device 1 5/32inches (2.94cm) in height overall consisting of shield blazoned: argent (silver gray), issuant in fess a bridge of one arch sable masoned of the first, the center portion shot away, in chief a cross pate azure and a Spanish castle gules; in base a lion rampant of the third grasping a cross of Lorraine of the fourth. Replacements, generally better than the average, were. In response to their call for reinforcement and ammunition four tanks fought their way through the German infantry along the Skyline Drive, arriving in Hosingen about 2200-but with no rifle ammunition. A small tank-infantry team blasted the single 57-mm. Even before the seizure of Ouren the LVIII Panzer Corps had shifted its interest to the south. Company B, on the extreme north flank, had been forced back into the 424th Infantry area, but about 235 men withdrew cross-country toward Ouren. But Germans struck again and again. The 1st Battalion commander had already ordered Company A, located three miles farther north on the Skyline Drive at Heinerscheid, to send a patrol south and make contact with Company B. The enemy made three attacks in the same close formation over the same ground before they discovered the error of their ways. The degree of tactical success achieved by the 112th Infantry and the fact that it was able to hold intact as a regiment may be explained by a number of factors. The units of the 110th Infantry were disposed as follows to face three full German divisions. On the left the 26th Volks Grenadier Division finally achieved contact with the 5th Parachute Division, which had been advancing cautiously along the boundary between the 109th and 110th Infantry and had done nothing to help Kokott's southern regiment, the 39th. and withdrew on foot to Wiltz-the 2d Battalion flanks were wide open. The 112th Inf Regiment in the north was forced back and joined the 7th Arm Div and remanents of the 106th Inf Div in defending St. Vith. Colonel Nelson at this moment had two contradictory orders and would have to risk his regiment if he carried out either. 1st Battalion has worked [its] way back." The road center at
Before daybreak on 18 December the survivors, now only a handful, started west. 126th Infantry Regiment. Throughout the day the American outposts watched masses of foot troops and vehicles defile westward through Heinerscheid, only some two thousand yards to the south. Each division was reinforced with additional self-propelled assault guns or tank destroyers and each had a full complement of divisional artillery (four battalions for the infantry division and three motorized battalions in the armored divisions). Even so, the unit accounted for six tanks on the 16th and broke up two panzer assaults of company size. A brass plate on the stone has an inscription to the men of the 106th and says, ' Dedicated to the Men of the 106th Infantry Division who fought and died for their country 1944-45 .'. This had been accomplished by noon on the first
From mid-December 1944 through the end of January 1945, in the heavily forested Ardennes Mountains of Belgium, thousands of American, British, Canadian, Belgian and French forces struggled to turn back the final major German offensive of World War II. The 28th Division commander agreed to pull back where he could, but by the morning of the 18th it was apparent that to re-establish any sort of front behind the Clerf was impossible. The symbolism of the distinctive unit insignia is the same as that of the coat of arms. Kokott's infantry would have to carry the battle through the night. Five hundred yards from the Germans, on the far side of a draw, the. A half hour before dawn on 18 December German guns and mortars opened heavy fire. In the late afternoon of 15 December General Luettwitz gathered his division commanders in the XLVII Panzer Corps forward headquarters at Ringhuscheid for final instructions and introduction to the new commander of the 2d Panzer Division, Colonel von Lauchert, who had been selected at the last moment by the Fifth Panzer Army leader to replace an incumbent who was not an experienced tanker. At nearly every point the American tanks would have to fight their way down the roads to reach the infantry holding the villages. This move was made early in the morning with disastrous results recorded earlier. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1969. to the Our bridges in the 3d Battalion area led the regimental commander
At the chteau by the south bridge 102 officers and men of the regimental headquarters company still were in action. the undergunned batteries of the 687th Field Artillery Battalion held
On the corps left, however, General Kokott and the 26th Volks Grenadier Division jumped the gun. artillery by this time had displaced to the west and was out of range. There was no hint from any source that the enemy was about to strike squarely into the center of the 8th Division and in overwhelming array. The camp was liberated by the Russian Army May 1, 1945. of the 2d Battalion (Lt. Col. J. L. MacSalka) assembled in a draw between
1959 is when this organization began to resemble the current organizational structure. Marnach garrison out of the way, but an hour later Company B radioed that three hundred Germans were northwest and southwest of Marnach. 109th, 110th, and 112th Infantry Regiments 107th, 108th . restored while the commander of the 1130th reported that his
22 Mar - 11 May 45 Central Europe Campaign CD 2 36 Pages - PDF. Kokott's right, the 77th Regiment, pushed elements beyond Hosingen (actually moving between the 1st and 3d Battalions of the 110th Infantry), but these detachments, stopped by the American 105-mm. Accurately adjusted fire held the enemy battalion at bay and forced
The tank thrust through the 1st Battalion center pushed parts of companies C (a platoon of which had joined the battalion from training), A, and D back through the woods toward Welchenhausen. Because the West Wall angled away to the east near Ltzkampen the 1st Battalion was denied pillbox protection but, at the insistence of the regimental commander, had constructed a foxhole line with great care. 103d Engineer Combat Battalion 103d Medical Battalion 28th Division Artillery. Meuse River on the right of its old comrade, the XLVII Panzer Corps. At night the strip between the ridge and the river became a no man's land where German and American patrols stalked one another. Across the lines General Cota had little reason to expect that the 110th Infantry could continue to delay the German attack at the 28th Division center as it had this first day. The 112th was the first war-strength National Guard regiment in the United States. Then too, some welcome tank support had arrived on the scene. 112th Regimental Combat Team, WW1 29th Infantry Div Casualties, WW2 303rd Bomb Group, Casualties, WW2 . Company B held Marnach. The 1st Battalion, 112th Infantry Regiment draws its origins from Civil War era units, including the 13th, 15th, and 17th Pennsylvania Regiments and still maintains the right to possess the silver bands and battle streamers awarded for battle service in the Peninsula and Virginia 18611863 campaigns and for participation in the battles of Manassas, Antietam, Fredericksburg, Gettysburg, the Wilderness, and Spottsylvania. XVII SS Corps on 6 December and moved with his staff to Kyllburg,
The 112th Infantry's attack plan for 2 November designated the 1st and 3d Battalions to attack cross country at H plus 3 hours (1200) in a column of battalions, the 1st leading. On the left of the regimental zone, the 1st Battalion (Lt. Col. Donald Paul) held the intersection of the Skyline Drive and the Dasburg-Bastogne main highway at Marnach, employing Company B and a platoon from the 630th Tank Destroyer Battalion. The unit was transported to and garrisoned at El Paso, Texas for training, but was never utilized because hostilities ended. The mission remained, but the troops available on 16 December were less than half the number promised: one armored division, the 116th Panzer Division, and two-thirds of an infantry division, the 560th Volks Grenadier Division. Here about ten o'clock, Battery C of the 229th came under direct tank fire but stopped the tanks with howitzer fire at close range while Company C of the 447th Antiaircraft Artillery Battalion used its quad mount machine guns to chop down the infantry following behind. This road makes a twisted and tortuous descent to the valley floor, finally crossing the river at the southeastern edge of the town and proceeding, through narrow streets until it emerges on the north. (Strickler made it to the latter point where General Cota placed him in charge of the defense.) When day came the Americans caught the troops following the advance party of the assault company out in the open. Crest: that for the regiments and separate battalions of the Pennsylvania Army National Guard: From a wreath argent and azure, a lion rampant guardant proper holding in dexter paw a naked scimitar of the first, hilted or and in sinister an escutcheon of the first on a fess sable three plates. This is the order of battle of German and Allied forces during the Battle of the Bulge. of the 77th, under the cover provided by German artillery, drove
the 156th Regiment. At that crucial point the infantry had to take Bastogne as quickly as possible, with or without the help of the armored divisions. Col. Daniel Strickler, the regimental executive officer, who now had assumed command at Consthum, organized a perimeter defense of the town, set out mines along the approaches, and disposed his three effective tanks and three armored cars to watch for the enemy armor known to be on the road from Holzthum. This company was also in Altoona. going in the West Wall maze north of Ltzkampen and the initial
Certainly the enemy infantry were spreading rapidly through the woods and draws between the American front line and the Our River. was reached midway between Bastogne and the Meuse. In the darkness and confusion many stragglers made their way into Bastogne and Vaux-lez-Rosires. Although Fuller pled for the return of the 2d Battalion to his regiment, Cota refused to release this last division reserve. The provisional battalion which had been recruited from the headquarters staff remained in Wiltz. Perhaps the tankers were too busy looting the American freight cars and supply dumps to bother with the little force in the chteau. The 28th Division got caught in the Battle of the Bulge and endured many casualties. west of the German jump-off positions on the Our River and the final
This unit was redesignated less than a year later, in December 1921, when they became 103rd Ordnance Company, Special Troops. The regimental command post staff left Ouren even while the enemy was filtering into the village and moved to Weiswampach. Believing that once across the Our River, his left armored attack force, General der Panzertruppen Heinrich Freiherr von Luettwitz' XLVII Panzer Corps, would find the going better than on the right, he assigned Luettwitz a rather wide front. or German bank of the Our River. The sector held by the 112th Infantry was approximately six miles wide. "Rocky" Moretto was one of only two men in his infantry company who . Like all such units, however, the 26th was geared to foot power and horsepower; there were 5,000 horses in the division, including a few of the tough "winterized" Russian breed. Two hours later the 112th Infantry acknowledged receipt of these instructions. It arrived in Clerf with nineteen medium tanks. his assistance, probably to be in position to give support by the late
Wrote one in his diary: "Nobody able to sleep and no hot meals, today. 115th Infantry Regiment. They sailed to Puerto Rico on 5 July 1898 and served with the 1st Brigade, 1st Division, 1st Army Corps throughout the campaign. About 1300 a thick, soupy December fog rolled in on the village. However, if it were not . Caught off-guard, American units fought to stem . The 10th Regiment jumped off south of Michelshoff on December 21st and experienced one of their bloodiest fights of World War 2. The fight in the Schmidt area had cost the 112th Infantry alone about 2,000 killed, wounded, missing, and nonbattle casualties. All that remained of the 707th
On the evening of the 18th Col. Ludwig Heilmann, commander of the 5th Parachute Division, knew that the divisions on his right and left were well ahead of his own. The numerous pillboxes provided a substantial amount of cover; the 3d Battalion, for example, was not seriously endangered until the attacking tanks maneuvered close enough for direct fire. This came late in the morning, after the 28th Division commander, General Cota, ordered a tank platoon from the 707th man infantry out of the Battery C area. The American howitzers, south of Wiltz, also took a hand in slowing the German attack. Meanwhile, General Middleton, the VIII Corps commander, issued a holdfast order to all his troops. With an open left flank and under artillery fire called down by the American observation post on the Wahlhausen road, the 39th swerved from the westward axis of attack and became involved at Weiler, contrary to orders. The problem
In the meantime the Company C advance north toward Marnach also ran into trouble: persistent small arms fire forced the infantry to leave the road and move slowly across country. in house-to-house fighting with Company D and Company B, 103d Engineer
Once through St. Vith the LXVI would follow Krueger to Andenne, but if things grew rough on the left wing Manteuffel intended to switch Lucht's corps to the south. 28th Division commander James E. Wharton was in his first day of command when a German sniper shot him while he was at the 112th Infantry's command post. During the Battle of the Bulge the 112th RCT managed to . Abstract. The Americans had identified the 26th long since as the unit garrisoning the West Wall bunkers on the German bank. . His suspicions were confirmed when a patrol sent into the town failed to return. The 110th Antitank Company was in Hoscheid just to the west. As American riflemen and machine gunners cut down the German assault teams, they saw their own ranks thinning. By the second day it was apparent that the combination of stubborn resistance and poor approach roads would delay the projected crossing at Ouren. Finally the Germans took the village, only to be driven out again. Colonel Fuller set. The Americans had taken 186 prisoners and killed or wounded two or three times that number; the losses in the 1130th Regiment were "very high," said the enemy reports. Between Holzthum and Buchholz, Battery C of the 109th Field Artillery was hit hard but held its positions, firing the 105-mm. The dates of its approval and amendment are also the same. battalion, hastily formed from the 28th Division headquarters, by setting
Descent to the town and its bridges is made on this side by two winding roads. A few attacks were started against the new American line, which now covered Beiler, Lieler, and Lausdorn, but none were energetic. When the mortar crews and antitank platoon had used all their ammunition they joined the infantry in the center of the village and fought as riflemen. On the Battle of the Bulge: Eisenhower, John S. D. The Bitter Woods. In this case, as in many others during the American withdrawal, the full story is that of the cooperation of the combined arms. This created a bulge in the German line. But now the north road into the town was open. Company B and a platoon of the 630th Tank Destroyer Battalion were well entrenched there and gave the Germans a warm reception, although themselves under fire from batteries east of the Our. He was an instructor at the U.S. Army Command and General Staff School (1938-1940). midafternoon, leaving open an avenue into the 2d Battalion left flank. The mission given Luettwitz conformed to his reputation for drive and audacity. [] 65th Infantry Regiment, Puerto Rican Casualties 66th Armored, Casualties 714th Anti Tank . My Uncle, Fred H. Noonan(originally from Binghamton,NY) - 26th Infantry Regiment,1st Infantry Division fought and died in the Hurtgen Forest. They were mustered out of federal service in December 1898. The regiment reached France in May 1918 as part of the American Expeditionary Force. and the 110th Infantry. The sector at the Our River in which Luettwitz' corps would begin the attack was a little over seven miles wide, the villages of Dahnen on the north and Stolzembourg on the south serving as boundary markers. It was his intention, however, to move the provisional battalion first, leaving the 3d Battalion to keep the escape exits open while the 44th Engineers acted as rear guard. Luettwitz and the army commander ran at least two map
Eighteen men put up devastating fire against the first attack of over 500 German paratroopers. . Reports include lessons learned, analysis, and criticisms. 110th Infantry Regiment, Col. Hurley Fuller's command post was in Clervaux; Executive Officer was Col. Daniel B. Strickler. Small detachments with burp guns now crept down through the dark and engaged the troops in and around the chteau. By dusk the American line had been pushed back nearly to Weidingen when orders came to withdraw behind the Wiltz River and destroy the bridge at Weidingen. In the first German blueprint for the Ardennes counteroffensive the latter corps had been assigned four divisions and the mission of driving to and across the. One
On the morning of the 20th Jones ordered the regiment to sideslip back to the east, reoccupy Beiler, and dig in along the eastwest ridge line, Leithum-Beiler-Malscheid. howitzers and the tank platoon near Buchholz, again had to side-step in the drive to the Clerf. In 1968, all of the units, except for the units in Huntingdon and Everett became the 2nd Battalion, 104th Cavalry; Lewistown was Headquarters and Headquarters Troop (less detached troops), Tyrone was Troop H, Altoona unit became Troop G and Howitzer Battery, and the Bellefonte unit became a Detachment of Headquarters and Headquarters Troop. The responsibility for command here was assumed directly by the VIII Corps. Colonel Nelson decided to pull back through Huldange since enemy tanks were known to be in Trois Vierges. He argued that the enemy literally must not be awakened and that the assault forces should move forward the moment the guns sounded. against the British and American advance in southwest Holland, and had
General Luettwitz was none too pleased with the progress made by his two attack divisions on this first day. The battalion is assigned to the 56th Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 28th Infantry Division, Pennsylvania Army National Guard. and maneuver was possible. Both the 1st and 2d Battalions deployed with the rest of the 56th Stryker Brigade Combat Team on 19 September 2008. Remnants of the 3d Battalion had assembled at Consthum, the battalion headquarters. Colonel Nelson's antitank reserve, Company C, 630th Tank Destroyer Battalion, was deployed on the ridge west of the river, but these were towed guns, dug in and relatively immobile. The Infantry School at Fort Benning began collecting academic monographs from company commanders soon after the end of World War II, to record their personal combat experiences. 112th Infantry Regiment. During WWII the regiment landed in Normandy in 1944, after D-Day, where it became the 112th Infantry Regimental Combat Team (RCT). . The company commander withdrew the remaining five tanks on a side road and reached Urspelt, taking position near the 2d Battalion command post.9, The American pincers action had failed to constrict at Marnach. tank destroyers from the 630th Tank Destroyer Battalion, weapons of
This experience, events would show, had borne little fruit. Covers operations in all theaters of operations. thing was agreed upon: Bastogne had to be taken before the bulk of the
A radio message alerted the commander to the danger of a direct approach; so the platoon and some accompanying infantry entered Clerf by a secondary road along the river. positions. Get Military Unit/Ship Histories and After Action Records (AAR) We offer access to after action reports and operational records from all branches of the U.S. Military. Time was running out for the American companies: ammunition. Here it lay astride the main attack axis of the German LXVII Panzer Corps of the Fifth Panzer Army headed to Bastogne, Belgium, and points west. General Cota still had in hand a reserve on the night of the 16th, but it was the last reserve of the 28th Division. The next morning Colonel Nelson was able to tell General Cota, "Very good news. Robert L. Smith, soldier of the 112th Infantry Regiment tells of his memories of service in the breakout from Normandy to Paris, Belgium, Luxembourg and Germany. Probably by this time a good share of the 116th tanks had been committed. On orders, the three remaining assault guns went back to cover the wrecked structure. The 229th Field Artillery Battalion was emplaced behind the north flank near Welchenhausen on the German side of the river. Norman G. Maurer, 3 of the 3d Battalion, leading a sortie of twenty men, surprised the enemy and drove him back with very heavy casualties. Before noon five separate assaults had been made at Consthum, but all were beaten off by small arms, .50-caliber, and artillery fire. 124th Infantry Regiment. During the afternoon the Germans pressed
Luettwitz turned the Geilenkirchen sector over to the
The heavy barrage and the pyrotechnic display which opened elsewhere on the 28th Division front on 16 December was viewed at first with some detachment by the men at the 112th observation posts. While tanks dueled in the street like gunmen of the Old West the 3d Battalion made its orderly way out the west side of the town, reorganized, and as night descended marched to Nocher. The 26th Volks Grenadier Division (Generalmajor Heinz Kokott) already was deployed in the Eifel sector of the West Wall adjacent to the Our where it covered not only the XLVII Panzer Corps zone but a wide frontage beyond. Only the weakened 1130th Regiment and the division fusilier company, once again in touch with its fellows, were left behind to extend the bridgehead formed at Ouren. antitank guns supplemented the weapons organic to the conventional Volks Grenadier division. These two attacks from west and south had made no headway but were not too costly. One battalion of armored infantry was given bicycles, and would move so slowly through the mud and over the hills that its function during the drive to the west was simply that of a replacement battalion, feeding into the more mobile units up ahead. Once the 2d Panzer Division had thrown a bridge across the Our at Dasburg and the 26th Volks Grenadier Division had put a bridge in at Gemnd, the well-known Panzer Lehr Division would be ready to roll, advancing behind the two forward divisions until the corps had cleared the Clerf River, then pushing ahead of the infantry on the corps left in the race to Bastogne. Back at Hosingen the attempt to break American resistance had won an early lodgment in the south edge of the village, but had achieved no more. indicate a co-ordinated attack. Near the village a patrol found that the stone bridge was guarded by only a half squad of Germans. as it careened down the road back through Clerf. The areas selected by the two corps for their main efforts were some six to seven air-line miles apart-an indication of the weight to be thrown against the American 28th Infantry Division. The Americans were not too worried by the flanking move because tanks of the 10th Armored Division were expected momentarily. Interviewees include company commanders, platoon leaders . 30th Infantry Division 59th Inf Bde . The 3d Battalion positions on the German bank were built around captured pillboxes, for here earlier American advances had pierced the first line of the German West Wall. The 311th Infantry Regiment was attached to the 8th Division in the Hurtgen Forest, 10 December. The bridges at Clerf and Wilwerwiltz were in German hands (no preparations had been made to destroy them); most of the sixty tanks committed in the central sector were destroyed. He was a prisoner of war at Stalag IV-B in the town of Mhlberg an der Elbe for six months. About 0730 the two rifle companies of the 2d Battalion jumped off at the ridge east of Clerf. from the rear. But Battery A of the battalion was swept up by the Germans who had bypassed the left wing anchor of the regiment at Heinerscheid. Company L, on the western side of the ridge at Holzthum, reported figures in the half-light but, peering through the ground fog, which clung all along the division front, could not be sure whether they were American troops passing through the area or the enemy. As the column emerged from the village of Heinerscheid, concealed high-velocity guns opened on the skimpily armored light tanks, picking them off like clay pipes in a shooting gallery. to cross the XLVII Panzer Corps bridge at Dasburg and commence
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In a month's time the flow of replacements had brought the regiment to full strength. arrived early in the afternoon but left precipitately, losing one gun then, as seen by Manteuffel and Luettwitz, was not how to achieve the The entire action lasted ten minutes. The main body of the 1st Battalion was stationed at Camp Taji while the main body of the 2d was stationed at Camp Liberty on the Victory Base Complex. On 19 December the right wing division of the latter, the 5th Parachute Division, took over the attack on Wiltz, or perhaps more accurately, drifted into a fight for the town. Leaderless, the platoon broke. If anyone has information about Fred or his division please contact me. In the 1st Battalion zone to the north the advance detachments of the 2d Panzer Division moved straight for Marnach, attempting with one quick blow to clear the Americans obstructing the through road from Dasburg to Clerf.7 While the German engineers labored at the Dasburg site to bring their heavy tank bridging equipment down to the river, the 28th Panzer Engineer Battalion and the 2d Battalion, 304th Panzer Grenadier Regiment, crossed the Our in rubber boats and moved west through the predawn darkness. The road center at Wiltz and the bridges there were only about twelve miles from Bastogne. Here Nelson received a message from the 28th Division which ordered the regiment to hold the line LausdornWeiswampach-Beiler, which the 112th Infantry had just abandoned. The coat of arms was approved on 2 January 1930. On German operations maps Wiltz lay athwart the boundary which divided the attack zones of the XLVII Panzer Corps and the LXXXV Corps. One tank platoon remained there to bolster the defense, while the other turned back to the south, picked up Company C, and, on orders, returned with the infantry to Munshausen. 75th Ranger Regiment Special Forces Infantry Regiments/Battalions Army Campaigns Pre-divisional Orders of Battle . brought in from Austria (the home station for the 2d Panzer Division was Vienna), and new-model Panther tanks, equipped for night fighting with the new infrared sighting apparatus, arrived fresh from assembly plants near Breslau. . A Silver color metal and enamel device 1 5/32inches (2.94cm) in height overall consisting of shield blazoned: argent (silver gray), issuant in fess a bridge of one arch sable masoned of the first, the center portion shot away, in chief a cross pate azure and a Spanish castle gules; in base a lion rampant of the third grasping a cross of Lorraine of the fourth. Replacements, generally better than the average, were. In response to their call for reinforcement and ammunition four tanks fought their way through the German infantry along the Skyline Drive, arriving in Hosingen about 2200-but with no rifle ammunition. A small tank-infantry team blasted the single 57-mm. Even before the seizure of Ouren the LVIII Panzer Corps had shifted its interest to the south. Company B, on the extreme north flank, had been forced back into the 424th Infantry area, but about 235 men withdrew cross-country toward Ouren. But Germans struck again and again. The 1st Battalion commander had already ordered Company A, located three miles farther north on the Skyline Drive at Heinerscheid, to send a patrol south and make contact with Company B. The enemy made three attacks in the same close formation over the same ground before they discovered the error of their ways. The degree of tactical success achieved by the 112th Infantry and the fact that it was able to hold intact as a regiment may be explained by a number of factors. The units of the 110th Infantry were disposed as follows to face three full German divisions. On the left the 26th Volks Grenadier Division finally achieved contact with the 5th Parachute Division, which had been advancing cautiously along the boundary between the 109th and 110th Infantry and had done nothing to help Kokott's southern regiment, the 39th. and withdrew on foot to Wiltz-the 2d Battalion flanks were wide open. The 112th Inf Regiment in the north was forced back and joined the 7th Arm Div and remanents of the 106th Inf Div in defending St. Vith. Colonel Nelson at this moment had two contradictory orders and would have to risk his regiment if he carried out either. 1st Battalion has worked [its] way back." The road center at Before daybreak on 18 December the survivors, now only a handful, started west. 126th Infantry Regiment. Throughout the day the American outposts watched masses of foot troops and vehicles defile westward through Heinerscheid, only some two thousand yards to the south. Each division was reinforced with additional self-propelled assault guns or tank destroyers and each had a full complement of divisional artillery (four battalions for the infantry division and three motorized battalions in the armored divisions). Even so, the unit accounted for six tanks on the 16th and broke up two panzer assaults of company size. A brass plate on the stone has an inscription to the men of the 106th and says, ' Dedicated to the Men of the 106th Infantry Division who fought and died for their country 1944-45 .'. This had been accomplished by noon on the first From mid-December 1944 through the end of January 1945, in the heavily forested Ardennes Mountains of Belgium, thousands of American, British, Canadian, Belgian and French forces struggled to turn back the final major German offensive of World War II. The 28th Division commander agreed to pull back where he could, but by the morning of the 18th it was apparent that to re-establish any sort of front behind the Clerf was impossible. The symbolism of the distinctive unit insignia is the same as that of the coat of arms. Kokott's infantry would have to carry the battle through the night. Five hundred yards from the Germans, on the far side of a draw, the. A half hour before dawn on 18 December German guns and mortars opened heavy fire. In the late afternoon of 15 December General Luettwitz gathered his division commanders in the XLVII Panzer Corps forward headquarters at Ringhuscheid for final instructions and introduction to the new commander of the 2d Panzer Division, Colonel von Lauchert, who had been selected at the last moment by the Fifth Panzer Army leader to replace an incumbent who was not an experienced tanker. At nearly every point the American tanks would have to fight their way down the roads to reach the infantry holding the villages. This move was made early in the morning with disastrous results recorded earlier. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1969. to the Our bridges in the 3d Battalion area led the regimental commander At the chteau by the south bridge 102 officers and men of the regimental headquarters company still were in action. the undergunned batteries of the 687th Field Artillery Battalion held On the corps left, however, General Kokott and the 26th Volks Grenadier Division jumped the gun. artillery by this time had displaced to the west and was out of range. There was no hint from any source that the enemy was about to strike squarely into the center of the 8th Division and in overwhelming array. The camp was liberated by the Russian Army May 1, 1945. of the 2d Battalion (Lt. Col. J. L. MacSalka) assembled in a draw between 1959 is when this organization began to resemble the current organizational structure. Marnach garrison out of the way, but an hour later Company B radioed that three hundred Germans were northwest and southwest of Marnach. 109th, 110th, and 112th Infantry Regiments 107th, 108th . restored while the commander of the 1130th reported that his 22 Mar - 11 May 45 Central Europe Campaign CD 2 36 Pages - PDF. Kokott's right, the 77th Regiment, pushed elements beyond Hosingen (actually moving between the 1st and 3d Battalions of the 110th Infantry), but these detachments, stopped by the American 105-mm. Accurately adjusted fire held the enemy battalion at bay and forced The tank thrust through the 1st Battalion center pushed parts of companies C (a platoon of which had joined the battalion from training), A, and D back through the woods toward Welchenhausen. Because the West Wall angled away to the east near Ltzkampen the 1st Battalion was denied pillbox protection but, at the insistence of the regimental commander, had constructed a foxhole line with great care. 103d Engineer Combat Battalion 103d Medical Battalion 28th Division Artillery. Meuse River on the right of its old comrade, the XLVII Panzer Corps. At night the strip between the ridge and the river became a no man's land where German and American patrols stalked one another. Across the lines General Cota had little reason to expect that the 110th Infantry could continue to delay the German attack at the 28th Division center as it had this first day. The 112th was the first war-strength National Guard regiment in the United States. Then too, some welcome tank support had arrived on the scene. 112th Regimental Combat Team, WW1 29th Infantry Div Casualties, WW2 303rd Bomb Group, Casualties, WW2 . Company B held Marnach. The 1st Battalion, 112th Infantry Regiment draws its origins from Civil War era units, including the 13th, 15th, and 17th Pennsylvania Regiments and still maintains the right to possess the silver bands and battle streamers awarded for battle service in the Peninsula and Virginia 18611863 campaigns and for participation in the battles of Manassas, Antietam, Fredericksburg, Gettysburg, the Wilderness, and Spottsylvania. XVII SS Corps on 6 December and moved with his staff to Kyllburg, The 112th Infantry's attack plan for 2 November designated the 1st and 3d Battalions to attack cross country at H plus 3 hours (1200) in a column of battalions, the 1st leading. On the left of the regimental zone, the 1st Battalion (Lt. Col. Donald Paul) held the intersection of the Skyline Drive and the Dasburg-Bastogne main highway at Marnach, employing Company B and a platoon from the 630th Tank Destroyer Battalion. The unit was transported to and garrisoned at El Paso, Texas for training, but was never utilized because hostilities ended. The mission remained, but the troops available on 16 December were less than half the number promised: one armored division, the 116th Panzer Division, and two-thirds of an infantry division, the 560th Volks Grenadier Division. Here about ten o'clock, Battery C of the 229th came under direct tank fire but stopped the tanks with howitzer fire at close range while Company C of the 447th Antiaircraft Artillery Battalion used its quad mount machine guns to chop down the infantry following behind. This road makes a twisted and tortuous descent to the valley floor, finally crossing the river at the southeastern edge of the town and proceeding, through narrow streets until it emerges on the north. (Strickler made it to the latter point where General Cota placed him in charge of the defense.) When day came the Americans caught the troops following the advance party of the assault company out in the open. Crest: that for the regiments and separate battalions of the Pennsylvania Army National Guard: From a wreath argent and azure, a lion rampant guardant proper holding in dexter paw a naked scimitar of the first, hilted or and in sinister an escutcheon of the first on a fess sable three plates. This is the order of battle of German and Allied forces during the Battle of the Bulge. of the 77th, under the cover provided by German artillery, drove the 156th Regiment. At that crucial point the infantry had to take Bastogne as quickly as possible, with or without the help of the armored divisions. Col. Daniel Strickler, the regimental executive officer, who now had assumed command at Consthum, organized a perimeter defense of the town, set out mines along the approaches, and disposed his three effective tanks and three armored cars to watch for the enemy armor known to be on the road from Holzthum. This company was also in Altoona. going in the West Wall maze north of Ltzkampen and the initial Certainly the enemy infantry were spreading rapidly through the woods and draws between the American front line and the Our River. was reached midway between Bastogne and the Meuse. In the darkness and confusion many stragglers made their way into Bastogne and Vaux-lez-Rosires. Although Fuller pled for the return of the 2d Battalion to his regiment, Cota refused to release this last division reserve. The provisional battalion which had been recruited from the headquarters staff remained in Wiltz. Perhaps the tankers were too busy looting the American freight cars and supply dumps to bother with the little force in the chteau. The 28th Division got caught in the Battle of the Bulge and endured many casualties. west of the German jump-off positions on the Our River and the final This unit was redesignated less than a year later, in December 1921, when they became 103rd Ordnance Company, Special Troops. The regimental command post staff left Ouren even while the enemy was filtering into the village and moved to Weiswampach. Believing that once across the Our River, his left armored attack force, General der Panzertruppen Heinrich Freiherr von Luettwitz' XLVII Panzer Corps, would find the going better than on the right, he assigned Luettwitz a rather wide front. or German bank of the Our River. The sector held by the 112th Infantry was approximately six miles wide. "Rocky" Moretto was one of only two men in his infantry company who . Like all such units, however, the 26th was geared to foot power and horsepower; there were 5,000 horses in the division, including a few of the tough "winterized" Russian breed. Two hours later the 112th Infantry acknowledged receipt of these instructions. It arrived in Clerf with nineteen medium tanks. his assistance, probably to be in position to give support by the late Wrote one in his diary: "Nobody able to sleep and no hot meals, today. 115th Infantry Regiment. They sailed to Puerto Rico on 5 July 1898 and served with the 1st Brigade, 1st Division, 1st Army Corps throughout the campaign. About 1300 a thick, soupy December fog rolled in on the village. However, if it were not . Caught off-guard, American units fought to stem . The 10th Regiment jumped off south of Michelshoff on December 21st and experienced one of their bloodiest fights of World War 2. The fight in the Schmidt area had cost the 112th Infantry alone about 2,000 killed, wounded, missing, and nonbattle casualties. All that remained of the 707th On the evening of the 18th Col. Ludwig Heilmann, commander of the 5th Parachute Division, knew that the divisions on his right and left were well ahead of his own. The numerous pillboxes provided a substantial amount of cover; the 3d Battalion, for example, was not seriously endangered until the attacking tanks maneuvered close enough for direct fire. This came late in the morning, after the 28th Division commander, General Cota, ordered a tank platoon from the 707th man infantry out of the Battery C area. The American howitzers, south of Wiltz, also took a hand in slowing the German attack. Meanwhile, General Middleton, the VIII Corps commander, issued a holdfast order to all his troops. With an open left flank and under artillery fire called down by the American observation post on the Wahlhausen road, the 39th swerved from the westward axis of attack and became involved at Weiler, contrary to orders. The problem In the meantime the Company C advance north toward Marnach also ran into trouble: persistent small arms fire forced the infantry to leave the road and move slowly across country. in house-to-house fighting with Company D and Company B, 103d Engineer Once through St. Vith the LXVI would follow Krueger to Andenne, but if things grew rough on the left wing Manteuffel intended to switch Lucht's corps to the south. 28th Division commander James E. Wharton was in his first day of command when a German sniper shot him while he was at the 112th Infantry's command post. During the Battle of the Bulge the 112th RCT managed to . Abstract. The Americans had identified the 26th long since as the unit garrisoning the West Wall bunkers on the German bank. . His suspicions were confirmed when a patrol sent into the town failed to return. The 110th Antitank Company was in Hoscheid just to the west. As American riflemen and machine gunners cut down the German assault teams, they saw their own ranks thinning. By the second day it was apparent that the combination of stubborn resistance and poor approach roads would delay the projected crossing at Ouren. Finally the Germans took the village, only to be driven out again. Colonel Fuller set. The Americans had taken 186 prisoners and killed or wounded two or three times that number; the losses in the 1130th Regiment were "very high," said the enemy reports. Between Holzthum and Buchholz, Battery C of the 109th Field Artillery was hit hard but held its positions, firing the 105-mm. The dates of its approval and amendment are also the same. battalion, hastily formed from the 28th Division headquarters, by setting Descent to the town and its bridges is made on this side by two winding roads. A few attacks were started against the new American line, which now covered Beiler, Lieler, and Lausdorn, but none were energetic. When the mortar crews and antitank platoon had used all their ammunition they joined the infantry in the center of the village and fought as riflemen. On the Battle of the Bulge: Eisenhower, John S. D. The Bitter Woods. In this case, as in many others during the American withdrawal, the full story is that of the cooperation of the combined arms. This created a bulge in the German line. But now the north road into the town was open. Company B and a platoon of the 630th Tank Destroyer Battalion were well entrenched there and gave the Germans a warm reception, although themselves under fire from batteries east of the Our. He was an instructor at the U.S. Army Command and General Staff School (1938-1940). midafternoon, leaving open an avenue into the 2d Battalion left flank. The mission given Luettwitz conformed to his reputation for drive and audacity. [] 65th Infantry Regiment, Puerto Rican Casualties 66th Armored, Casualties 714th Anti Tank . My Uncle, Fred H. Noonan(originally from Binghamton,NY) - 26th Infantry Regiment,1st Infantry Division fought and died in the Hurtgen Forest. They were mustered out of federal service in December 1898. The regiment reached France in May 1918 as part of the American Expeditionary Force. and the 110th Infantry. The sector at the Our River in which Luettwitz' corps would begin the attack was a little over seven miles wide, the villages of Dahnen on the north and Stolzembourg on the south serving as boundary markers. It was his intention, however, to move the provisional battalion first, leaving the 3d Battalion to keep the escape exits open while the 44th Engineers acted as rear guard. Luettwitz and the army commander ran at least two map Eighteen men put up devastating fire against the first attack of over 500 German paratroopers. . Reports include lessons learned, analysis, and criticisms. 110th Infantry Regiment, Col. Hurley Fuller's command post was in Clervaux; Executive Officer was Col. Daniel B. Strickler. Small detachments with burp guns now crept down through the dark and engaged the troops in and around the chteau. By dusk the American line had been pushed back nearly to Weidingen when orders came to withdraw behind the Wiltz River and destroy the bridge at Weidingen. In the first German blueprint for the Ardennes counteroffensive the latter corps had been assigned four divisions and the mission of driving to and across the. One On the morning of the 20th Jones ordered the regiment to sideslip back to the east, reoccupy Beiler, and dig in along the eastwest ridge line, Leithum-Beiler-Malscheid. howitzers and the tank platoon near Buchholz, again had to side-step in the drive to the Clerf. In 1968, all of the units, except for the units in Huntingdon and Everett became the 2nd Battalion, 104th Cavalry; Lewistown was Headquarters and Headquarters Troop (less detached troops), Tyrone was Troop H, Altoona unit became Troop G and Howitzer Battery, and the Bellefonte unit became a Detachment of Headquarters and Headquarters Troop. The responsibility for command here was assumed directly by the VIII Corps. Colonel Nelson decided to pull back through Huldange since enemy tanks were known to be in Trois Vierges. He argued that the enemy literally must not be awakened and that the assault forces should move forward the moment the guns sounded. against the British and American advance in southwest Holland, and had General Luettwitz was none too pleased with the progress made by his two attack divisions on this first day. The battalion is assigned to the 56th Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 28th Infantry Division, Pennsylvania Army National Guard. and maneuver was possible. Both the 1st and 2d Battalions deployed with the rest of the 56th Stryker Brigade Combat Team on 19 September 2008. Remnants of the 3d Battalion had assembled at Consthum, the battalion headquarters. Colonel Nelson's antitank reserve, Company C, 630th Tank Destroyer Battalion, was deployed on the ridge west of the river, but these were towed guns, dug in and relatively immobile. The Infantry School at Fort Benning began collecting academic monographs from company commanders soon after the end of World War II, to record their personal combat experiences. 112th Infantry Regiment. During WWII the regiment landed in Normandy in 1944, after D-Day, where it became the 112th Infantry Regimental Combat Team (RCT). . The company commander withdrew the remaining five tanks on a side road and reached Urspelt, taking position near the 2d Battalion command post.9, The American pincers action had failed to constrict at Marnach. tank destroyers from the 630th Tank Destroyer Battalion, weapons of This experience, events would show, had borne little fruit. Covers operations in all theaters of operations. thing was agreed upon: Bastogne had to be taken before the bulk of the A radio message alerted the commander to the danger of a direct approach; so the platoon and some accompanying infantry entered Clerf by a secondary road along the river. positions. Get Military Unit/Ship Histories and After Action Records (AAR) We offer access to after action reports and operational records from all branches of the U.S. Military. Time was running out for the American companies: ammunition. Here it lay astride the main attack axis of the German LXVII Panzer Corps of the Fifth Panzer Army headed to Bastogne, Belgium, and points west. General Cota still had in hand a reserve on the night of the 16th, but it was the last reserve of the 28th Division. The next morning Colonel Nelson was able to tell General Cota, "Very good news. Robert L. Smith, soldier of the 112th Infantry Regiment tells of his memories of service in the breakout from Normandy to Paris, Belgium, Luxembourg and Germany. Probably by this time a good share of the 116th tanks had been committed. On orders, the three remaining assault guns went back to cover the wrecked structure. The 229th Field Artillery Battalion was emplaced behind the north flank near Welchenhausen on the German side of the river. Norman G. Maurer, 3 of the 3d Battalion, leading a sortie of twenty men, surprised the enemy and drove him back with very heavy casualties. Before noon five separate assaults had been made at Consthum, but all were beaten off by small arms, .50-caliber, and artillery fire. 124th Infantry Regiment. During the afternoon the Germans pressed Luettwitz turned the Geilenkirchen sector over to the The heavy barrage and the pyrotechnic display which opened elsewhere on the 28th Division front on 16 December was viewed at first with some detachment by the men at the 112th observation posts. While tanks dueled in the street like gunmen of the Old West the 3d Battalion made its orderly way out the west side of the town, reorganized, and as night descended marched to Nocher. The 26th Volks Grenadier Division (Generalmajor Heinz Kokott) already was deployed in the Eifel sector of the West Wall adjacent to the Our where it covered not only the XLVII Panzer Corps zone but a wide frontage beyond. Only the weakened 1130th Regiment and the division fusilier company, once again in touch with its fellows, were left behind to extend the bridgehead formed at Ouren. antitank guns supplemented the weapons organic to the conventional Volks Grenadier division. These two attacks from west and south had made no headway but were not too costly. One battalion of armored infantry was given bicycles, and would move so slowly through the mud and over the hills that its function during the drive to the west was simply that of a replacement battalion, feeding into the more mobile units up ahead. Once the 2d Panzer Division had thrown a bridge across the Our at Dasburg and the 26th Volks Grenadier Division had put a bridge in at Gemnd, the well-known Panzer Lehr Division would be ready to roll, advancing behind the two forward divisions until the corps had cleared the Clerf River, then pushing ahead of the infantry on the corps left in the race to Bastogne. Back at Hosingen the attempt to break American resistance had won an early lodgment in the south edge of the village, but had achieved no more. indicate a co-ordinated attack. Near the village a patrol found that the stone bridge was guarded by only a half squad of Germans. as it careened down the road back through Clerf. The areas selected by the two corps for their main efforts were some six to seven air-line miles apart-an indication of the weight to be thrown against the American 28th Infantry Division. The Americans were not too worried by the flanking move because tanks of the 10th Armored Division were expected momentarily. Interviewees include company commanders, platoon leaders . 30th Infantry Division 59th Inf Bde . The 3d Battalion positions on the German bank were built around captured pillboxes, for here earlier American advances had pierced the first line of the German West Wall. The 311th Infantry Regiment was attached to the 8th Division in the Hurtgen Forest, 10 December. The bridges at Clerf and Wilwerwiltz were in German hands (no preparations had been made to destroy them); most of the sixty tanks committed in the central sector were destroyed. He was a prisoner of war at Stalag IV-B in the town of Mhlberg an der Elbe for six months. About 0730 the two rifle companies of the 2d Battalion jumped off at the ridge east of Clerf. from the rear. But Battery A of the battalion was swept up by the Germans who had bypassed the left wing anchor of the regiment at Heinerscheid. Company L, on the western side of the ridge at Holzthum, reported figures in the half-light but, peering through the ground fog, which clung all along the division front, could not be sure whether they were American troops passing through the area or the enemy. 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