112th infantry regiment battle of the bulge

Perhaps they did not care to risk bazooka fire in the dark. firing positions along the road, sited to cover the Wiltz perimeter It had held on at Munshausen, with the 110th Cannon Company and a section of tank destroyers, all through the 17th.12 The riflemen and cannoneers made a fight of it, barricading the village streets with overturned trucks, fighting from house to house. An unidentified crew of a 447th Antiaircraft Artillery half-track drove straight onto the mines, its .50-caliber fire searching out the enemy riflemen. The 2d Battalion, 112th Infantry Regiment's heritage can be traced back to the Logan Guards patrol at the stone bridge had evaporated under machine gun fire-and Company D, in its support position on the high ground overlooking Ltzkampen, meanwhile commenced mopping up the enemy who had filtered between the companies on the line. XLVII Panzer, Corps moved beyond it to the west.3 (Map IV). Across town the regimental headquarters company was billeted in an ancient chteau, now partially modernized but retaining the heavy stone walls behind which, since the twelfth century, fighting men had dominated the river bend and controlled the main bridge site. All of these units were released from federal service in 1945. In May of the same year the Sheridan Troop was assigned to Squadron B which was redesignated as 2d Squadron in 1911. At that crucial point the infantry had to take Bastogne as quickly as possible, with or without the help of the armored divisions. A part of the German company, perhaps a platoon in strength, succeeded in reaching the stone bridge over the Our south of Ouren, but was dispersed. The battalion, perhaps 200 strong, arrived in Wiltz about noon and Strickler assumed command of the forces in the town. The 28ID is the oldest continuously serving division in the United States Army. When daylight came, the German infantry already were stealing through the draws behind and around the forward platoons, aiming to assemble in the wooded areas to the rear.14. reverse suffered by the assault company of the 60th Regiment . were battle-weary, small in number, and widely dispersed. XLVII Panzer Corps arrived at the headquarters of the Fifth 22 Mar - 11 May 45 Central Europe Campaign CD 2 36 Pages - PDF. Fred was part of "The Big Red" 1st Infantry Division. Shortly before noon a platoon of Company B's tanks reached the hardpressed field artillery battery near Buchholz and reported the situation in hand.8 But the enemy here represented only the probing forefinger of the main attack. Four of the 707th tanks that had been crippled the previous day were drawn up on the ridge east of Wiltz to give what help they might as more or less stationary artillery. Finally the Germans took the village, only to be driven out again. The unit was mustered out of federal service on 6 December 1945 at Camp Gordon, Georgia. 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. After dark on 17 December a captain led in about twenty-five men of Company I from Weiler, after a desperate march, narrow escapes, and an ambuscade. A Symbol of the Combat Ability of MI Soldiers. 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. Sufficient trucks were available to motorize most of the division, but there was a shortage of tracked cross-country vehicles. Two lieutenants from I Company examine German weapons abandoned at Schoppen. Manteuffel allotted Luettwitz the 15th Volks Werfer Brigade (108 pieces), the 766th Volks Artillery Corps (76 pieces), the 600th Army Engineer Battalion, and the 182d Flak Regiment, all motorized. the leading detachments of the 77th swung to the north, cutting The unit was noted for actions in the Battle of Coamo, where the regiment sustained six wounded and one killed in action during a blocking action. Lewistown was Headquarters and Headquarters Company, Tyrone was Company B (less detached troops), Huntingdon was Company A. Troop G was converted to Company C, the Howitzer Battery was converted to the Combat Support Company, and the Bellefonte unit was redesignated as Detachment 1, Company B. This unit now relieved the provisional It appears that the corps had only moderate support in the way of engineers and bridge trains. 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. For two days and nights Company K and Company B of the 103d Engineer Combat Battalion fought off all enemy attempts to eradicate this block on the Skyline Drive. Furthermore, lack of communication between the 28th Division and its northern regiment would ultimately force the regimental commander, Col. Gustin M. Nelson, to act on his own. Company I (minus the platoon at Wahlhausen), a section of 81-mm. J. H. Burns, who had taken over when the company commander was wounded. Infantry of the 26th Volks Grenadier Division took over the attack on the northeast (probably the 39th Volks Grenadier Regiment). In this case, as in many others during the American withdrawal, the full story is that of the cooperation of the combined arms. To complete the concentration against the enemy in or around Marnach, Colonel Fuller ordered the medium tank platoon in Munshausen to attack to the northeast with a rifle platoon from Company C. When Fuller heard of the light tanks, he ordered Colonel Henbest to delay the 2d Battalion attack next morning until the incoming tank detachment was ready to attack on the Skyline Drive. Unhappy about this thorn in his side, Manteuffel won the assignment of the Schnee Eifel heights to his army and personally developed a scheme to mop up resistance in this sector at the earliest possible moment. Map of St Vith drawn 15 November 1944. A few light tanks and self-propelled guns got forward late in the evening, but the bulk of the Panzer Lehr reconnaissance battalion remained backed up at the bridge. Thomas G. Bradbeer, General Cota and the Battle of the Hrtgen Forest, Army History, No. Veterans of the Battle of the Bulge Organization; stories and newspaper clipping from June 3, 1992, which is a D-Day retrospective] Unit History - 474th AAA Bn [The Maverick Outfit, a book about the 474th AAA Bn and the hardships and challenges they faced, 1942 until 1945] BATES, CHARLES C. Residence: Green Valley, Arizona In any case the defenders made radio contact (their last) with the 28th Division as late as 0528 on the morning of 18 December. Replacements, mostly from the Navy, were whipped into shape by the "Old 26th," and first-rate equipment replaced that lost in the east. Bullet fire from the old stone walls was no menace to armored vehicles, bazooka teams sent down from the chteau were killed or captured, and the German tank battalions moved on, north and west toward Bastogne. The regiment was called to active federal service on 17 February 1941, 10 months prior to the attack on Pearl Harbor. . A platoon of Negro troops came to the head of the. The total impact of the severe German blows dealt the 110th Infantry in the late afternoon and evening of 17 December was not felt at the division and corps headquarters for several hours. But there were too few guns and too few air sorties to keep the enemy immobilized for long. In 1943, he joined the. 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 Fifth Panzer Army commander was bitterly opposed to that part of the plan which called for a tremendous opening barrage at 0800 and a two-hour artillery preparation before the attack jumped off. The 112th Infantry Regiment, also known as the Sixteenth Pennsylvania,[2] is a unit in the Pennsylvania National Guard which can trace its lineage back to before the American Civil War. The entire action lasted ten minutes. 115th Infantry Regiment. Before noon five separate assaults had been made at Consthum, but all were beaten off by small arms, .50-caliber, and artillery fire. by HistoryNet Staff 6/12/2006. Over 83,000 Americans were casualties during the battle which lasted from December 16, 1944 until January 25, 1945, and as a result, the battle occupies a prominent place in our collective minds. This German blow fell on either side of Sevenig, held by Company L. The American barbed wire line had not been completed across the draws to the north and south of the village; through these gaps the shock companies advanced. the 2d Battalion back through Reuler, the Americans fighting stubbornly Colonel Nelson sent back request after request for air support. He was able to convince the Army Group B commander that a stand should be taken on a number of tactical points which, in Manteuffel's judgment, were essential to success in the forthcoming attack. They conducted full spectrum operations in and around Baghdad, Iraq. About 0345 the German artillery quieted. observers could see the enemy assembling in the woods just to the north. German shells. After the D-Day invasion of Normandy on June 6, 1944, Allied forces advanced east through France to Germany's western border establishing what became known as the "Western Front." This vertical front-line stretched from the Norwegian city of Nijmegen in the north all the way to Switzerland in the south, cutting through Belgium and Luxemburg. Since most of these works were "blind" the final protective line turned on foxholes and extensive patches of barbed wire which the battalion itself had constructed. After a brief pause they wheeled back into Ltzkampen. Albright, Barry E. CPT, "Operations of the 2nd Battalion, 508th Infantry Regiment, 82nd Airborne Division, in the Invasion of Normandy, 5-13 June 1944" (Normandy Campaign Alford, Truman MAJ , "Operations of the 6th Tank Destroyer Group, as part of Taks Force "A", in the march through Brittany Peninsula to Brest, France, 3-9 August 1944 . The 112th Infantry Regiment was formed and officially designated as the 16th Infantry from . as it careened down the road back through Clerf. 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. the road but moving on in the direction of the Clerf. The dates of its approval and amendment are also the same. 116th Infantry Regiment. From Philadelphia to the Battle of the Bulge: The Brief Life of Pvt. This unit was redesignated less than a year later, in December 1921, when they became 103rd Ordnance Company, Special Troops. 122th Infantry Regiment. This was General der Artillerie Walther Lucht's LXVI Corps. This is the order of battle of German and Allied forces during the Battle of the Bulge. 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. Marnach garrison out of the way, but an hour later Company B radioed that three hundred Germans were northwest and southwest of Marnach. Reconnaissance Troop reinforced the perimeter. ridge, covering an observation post. guns and asked for American artillery fire on their own positions. 3 Jan - May 45 Last Offensive CD 2 555 Pages - PDF. Now, at the end of the day, the armored reconnaissance battalion of the Panzer Lehr Division found itself crawling rather than racing west from the Gemnd bridge. Aside from patrol activity (generally small raids against individual pillboxes) the 112th Infantry sector had been quiet. howitzers and the tank platoon near Buchholz, again had to side-step in the drive to the Clerf. Fuller, however, was able to get a warning message through to the 28th Division command post about 0900. At 2100, therefore, General Cota turned the reserve rifle battalion back to the 110th Infantry, minus Company G which was moved to Wiltz to defend the division command post, and agreed with Colonel Fuller's proposal that the battalion be used in an attack eastward to restore American control at Marnach. Our expert research specialists are on site at U.S. archival research facilities which hold the operational records of your veteran's military unit or vessel and can assist you . World War II: Another great uncle, 2LT Elton Barry Arnett, was an infantry platoon leader with Co. C, 1/112th Infantry, 28th Infantry Division. Some of the first Americans to confront Hitler's gamble on the front lines were the men of the 394th Infantry Regiment at Lanzareth Ridge. In 1914 the 2d Squadron was assigned to the 1st Pennsylvania Cavalry and Company L, 12th Pennsylvania Infantry was redesignated Troop L, 3rd Pennsylvania Cavalry. Men in the observation posts watched the enemy move about his daily chores and reported flares and occasional rounds of mortar or artillery fire. The Our, in many places, was no more than forty feet wide and easily fordable, but the roads leading to the river made circuitous and abrupt descent as they neared its banks. By 1315 the howitzers around Welchenhausen again were firing at their minimum range. 109th, 110th, and 112th Infantry Regiments 107th, 108th . At the close of this first day the 112th Infantry remained in its positions east of the Our.16 The 2d Battalion had not yet been seriously engaged, although one company had been detached to reinforce the 3d. On 25 April 1861, Company G, The Monongahela Artillery (Everett) was mustered into federal service for the American Civil War as part of the. Second Bn., 109th; 1st and 3rd Bns., 110th; 1st Bn., 112th, rocked most severely under the first blows, lashed back to ward off attacks, caused many enemy casualties. Ration strength was more than 17,000, and forty-two 75-mm. On the afternoon of the 16th the division commander had loaned Neslon the light tank company of the 707th Tank Battalion, but after a sweep through the 1st Battalion area in which not a shot was fired the tanks recrossed the river. A German attempt to cut the road between Consthum and Holzthum failed when Capt. Other American troops now had to take over the actual defense of that all-important road center, but without the gallant bargain struck by the 110th Infantry and its allied units-men for time-the German plans for a coup-de-main at Bastogne would have turned to accomplished fact.21 The cost had been high, much higher than American units expected to pay at this stage of the war: the 110th Infantry virtually destroyed, the men and fighting vehicles of five tank companies lost, the equivalent of three combat engineer companies dead or missing, and tank destroyer, artillery, and miscellaneous units engulfed in this battle. During the Battle of the Bulge the 112th RCT managed to . By the second day it was apparent that the combination of stubborn resistance and poor approach roads would delay the projected crossing at Ouren. George C. Rickards, a career Pennsylvania National Guard officer, was promoted to Colonel as commander of the 16th Pennsylvania in 1907. It consisted of the 2d Battalion, 110th Infantry, at Donnange and the light tank company of the 707th Tank Battalion, which was located at Weiswampach behind the division north flank in support of the 112th Infantry. About 1700 he radioed new orders: the 112th Infantry was to fight a stiff delaying action along the line Weiswampach-Trois Vierges, and thence toward Bastogne. been deployed along the Wahlhausen road on the forward slope of the a sweep along the western bank calculated to take the Ouren crossings The company leading the left battalion surprised a platoon of Company L at breakfast, overran the company kitchen (which was only 800 to goo yards behind the rifle line) and killed the platoon commander. The main paved road from Marnach approaches Clerf through a shallow draw, passing just to the south of the little village of Reuler, which perches on the high ground overlooking the river bend. New York: Orion Books, 1989. In 1920, the Tyrone unit was redesignated Troop B, 1st Pennsylvania Cavalry and the Bellefonte unit was redesignated Troop L, 1st Pennsylvania Cavalry. A whole series of monkey wrenches had been thrown into the well-oiled machinery of the 26th Volks Grenadier Division. Meanwhile, General Middleton, the VIII Corps commander, issued a holdfast order to all his troops. General Cota still had in hand a reserve on the night of the 16th, but it was the last reserve of the 28th Division. About 1700 he radioed new orders: the 112th Infantry was to fight a stiff delaying action along the line Weiswampach-Trois Vierges, and thence toward Bastogne. Heilmann, therefore, had decided. The provisional battalion which had been recruited from the headquarters staff remained in Wiltz. There the infantry driving toward the town of Clerf had been stopped short of their objective. Colonel Strickler decided to evacuate Wiltz by infiltration and regroup at Sibret, but with the Germans pressing in from all sides and no means of reaching his units except by runner the actual withdrawal would be difficult to control. 20th Armored Division (480th AIR*) 8th AIB In early planning there had been some question as to whether the Americans in the Schnee Eifel should be left to the Fifth or the Sixth. The German attack to penetrate the front lines of the 28th Division succeeded on the first day of the offensive in splitting the 112th Infantry from the rest of the division. In 1873, Company G, Monongahela Artillery (Everett) was renamed the Light Guards and then redesignated as Company A, 10th Pennsylvania Infantry. Five crack enemy divisionsPanzer, Infantry, Volksgrenadierhurled across the Our River the first day of the assault. The battle of the bulge had begun. The government of Luxembourg awarded it the Croix de Guerre, and the 112th Infantry Regiment received a Presidential Unit Citation, but that was the extent of the official recognition. Just east of Bastogne the roads straightened somewhat, but Kokott's infantry would have to carry the battle through the night. 112th. Legacy : Acker, Lewis F. Lt Col CWS : . 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. to pivot its weight on Ltzkampen in a drive southwestward toward As a substitute, a system of village strongpoints-each manned in about rifle company strength-was set up on the ridge line separating the Our and Clerf Rivers, which here is traced by the excellent north-south highway connecting St. Vith and Diekirch. The 3d Battalion commenced its withdrawal at 2200 under orders to pull back through Ouren. The Americans lined up in German formation and, while an officer shouted commands in German, marched boldly across the bridge. Shortly before noon German pressure noticeably relaxed. Across the Vesle was the larger town of Fismes headquarters of the 112th Infantry Regiment, 28th Division. Despite harassing fire from American guns and mortars the Germans moved swiftly. 112th Infantry Regiment. Today marks the 76th anniversary of the Battle of the Bulge, in order to commemorate this anniversary we are releasing our first Then and Now video focusing . 126th Infantry Regiment. On the corps right, then, the 116th Panzer Division (Generalmajor Siegfried von Waldenburg) had orders to attack north of Ltzkampen; at least two or more bridges crossed the Our in this sector. Despite the failure of his Fifth Panzer Army in the Lorraine campaign against Patton's Third Army, Manteuffel was listed by Hitler for command in the Ardennes. Once this barrier was passed the 26th would be responsible for covering the left flank of the corps while the armored divisions made the Meuse crossings. Even on the first day of the offensive one of Heilmann's regiments had been lost for several hours. The 2d Battalion, surrounded on the ridge east of Clerf, attempted to filter through the enemy lines in the early morning hours. 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. The 28th Division got caught in the Battle of the Bulge and endured many casualties. The 229th Field Artillery Battalion pounded the German assembly point at Ltzkampen as hard as limited stock of shells permitted and fighter-bombers plastered the village: "air tremendously effective" reported the expectant ground observers. It is southeast of Aachen, Germany.D-Day for the Battle of Hurtgen Forest was November 2, 1944, H-hour was 0900. Kokott's screening regiment, the 78th, had been in the habit of throwing out an outpost line west of the Our from nightfall till dawn. Although this final word seems to have reached Ouren about 1600, Colonel Nelson did not act immediately on the order because he still had hopes that the entrapped 1st Battalion could be. A scratch platoon of less than fifty men collected from the regimental headquarters and Ouren held the supporting German infantry at bay along the ridge east of the village. The refused positions of the 2d Battalion allowed fairly free use of a regimental reserve during both days and good counterattack plans were ready. With three divisions, and added corps troops, the XLVII Panzer Corps possessed a considerable amount of shock and fire power. 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. The Lead-Up to the Battle of the Bulge. corps zone of attack were narrow, twisting, and certain to be muddy; against the British and American advance in southwest Holland, and had in to the south edge of Hosingen, contrary to orders, and there grappled The final word on the defense of Clerf would come from the enemy. This unit was redesignated as Service Battery, 166th Field Artillery, then Headquarters Battery, 3rd Battalion 166th Field Artillery, then Headquarters Battery, 2nd Battalion 166th Field Artillery and was mustered into federal service for World War II in February 1941. The northern regiment of the Panzer Lehr Division, the 902d, made better progress. Reports include lessons learned, analysis, and criticisms. An old line division, the 26th had fought on the Eastern Front from July 1941 to the last days of September 1944, winning many decorations but little rest. He was born Dec. 12, 1922, in Litchville, N.D., to Ole and Inga (Olson) Fostervold. 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