112th infantry regiment battle of the bulge

The 110th Antitank Company was in Hoscheid just to the west. Finally, after a grueling battle in the Baranw-Warsaw sector the division was relieved for the first time since the beginning of the Russian campaign and brought back to Poznan, there receiving the title of Volks Grenadier (regarded as somewhat less than an honor by the survivors of the old regular army 26th Infantry Division). The road center at The ground east of the river was favorable to the defender, who was well entrenched as the result of careful planning and inspection by Nelson and his staff, and whose guns covered the few routes of mechanized advance. west of the German jump-off positions on the Our River and the final But at dark he ordered his regimental commanders to hold their positions "at all costs" and began preparations to commit his remaining reserves to restore the situation in the Marnach sector and block the road to Clerf. The battalion was activated for federal service in Iraq 19 September 2008, and redeployed back to the States in late August 2009. Through the early hours of 17 December American outposts reported sounds of tank movement in Ltzkampen. At that crucial point the infantry had to take Bastogne as quickly as possible, with or without the help of the armored divisions. . 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. He purchased the farm from his parents in 1943. World War II: Another great uncle, 2LT Elton Barry Arnett, was an infantry platoon leader with Co. C, 1/112th Infantry, 28th Infantry Division. The Tyrone unit was mustered into federal service for World War II as Troop B, 104th Mechanized Cavalry Reconnaissance Squadron. Panzer Army to receive the highly secret word of a great counteroffensive one platoon to clearing the Germans out of the south end of town, sent one platoon to Reuler to help the 2d Battalion, and, sent one to the 1st Battalion at Heinerscheid where the light tanks of the 707th Tank Battalion had been smashed earlier in the day. Intelligence reports indicated that the elements of the US 28th Infantry Kokott's reserve regiment, the 78th, crossed the Our at dusk and moved forward. The 3d Battalion, fighting mostly against infantry, had held its own through the day, aided greatly by the possession of the pillbox line, far stronger than the defensive positions in the 1st Battalion sector. The artillery supporting the LVIII Panzer Corps consisted of five battalions plus two Werfer battalions, and a few batteries of heavy guns. on the left flank of the US Ninth Army. The little group from regimental headquarters which had been deployed on the ridge line at Ouren was less successful. During December 1944, the 112th Infantry Regimental Combat Team was holding a 6-1/2-mile long sector which the Germans attacked with nine divisions. Meuse River on the right of its old comrade, the XLVII Panzer Corps. But by the middle of December the 110th Infantry had almost a full roster-a roster numbering many men and some officers who yet had to see their first action. The main body of the 560th Volks Grenadier Division also had detoured around the stubborn men and difficult ground in the 112th Infantry area, extending the bridgehead which the 1128th Regiment had seized east of Heinerscheid on 17 December. The northernmost of the four roads had a good all-weather surface, was the only main through road running east to west through the area, and gave direct access to Clerf and Bastogne. On 11 October 1917 the 16th Pennsylvania Regiment was redesignated as the 112th Infantry Regiment and became part of the 28th Infantry Division. He wanted an attack on a broad front with both tank corps in the line at the opening gun-this point Hitler conceded. 194 Glider Infantry Regiment Interrogation & Patrol Reports, Dec 1944-Jan. 1945 . Rocco Moretto fought from Normandy to VE-Day. The unit was also awarded the Distinguished Unit Citation for its actions during the Battle of the Bulge, from 16 to 24 December 1944. A sharp hairpin turn breaks the descent; then the road crosses the river into the northern edge of Clerf near the railroad station and enters the main highway. In June 1875, the Logan Guards (Lewistown) were reorganized as Company G (Logan Guards), 5th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment. The Bellefonte unit was mustered into federal service in January 1941 as Battery B, 190th Field Artillery. A section of tank destroyers, supporting the forward outpost, was overrun by the more mobile German tanks, but the engineers held their fire for the German infantry on the heels of the panzers and then cut loose, with satisfying results. By the middle of the morning it was apparent that the VIII Corps was under attack all along the front and that the 28th Division would have to make out with what it had. The southern prong of the three-pronged counterattack to shut off the German armored drive moving through Marnach toward Clerf also was outgunned and outnumbered but did reach Marnach, only to report that no friendly infantry could be found. The German infantry would have to fight step by step; the hope of a quick breakthrough had proven illusory. In 1947, the Lewistown unit was redesignated Headquarters and Service Battery, 176th Field Artillery Battalion. The enemy attempt to capture or destroy the American command posts, kitchens, and observation posts was only partially successful, although the grenadier assault parties were well inside the 3d Battalion positions when day broke. Only one man escaped. The American infantry had made excellent use of the ground and had held their positions, refusing to buckle under the weight of numbers. the story of the 112th Infantry Regiment of the 28th Infantry Division in the battle for Schmidt, Germany. Fred was part of "The Big Red" 1st Infantry Division. The battle plans and tactics of the Fifth Panzer Army, more than those of any other German army that took part in the Ardennes counteroffensive, bore the very strong personal imprint of its commander, General Manteuffel. fire and sent forward a white flag, with an offer for the Americans to surrender. A half hour before dawn on 18 December German guns and mortars opened heavy fire. Roads and bridges, he reckoned, must be in shape to support the American troops east of the river. A patrol which had been sent from the 3d Battalion to carry the withdrawal order to the 1st Battalion command post, still holding on at Harspelt, failed to get through. But the German infantry were more vulnerable and their march was delayed for several hours before engineers and self-propelled 88's finally set the riddled chteau afire and forced the Americans to surrender. J. H. Burns, who had taken over when the company commander was wounded. The entire action lasted ten minutes. German shells. The next day General Cota ordered the battalion to Wiltz, where it would take part in the defense of the division headquarters. Bofors of the protecting antiaircraft company with saving his howitzers. 75th Ranger Regiment Special Forces Infantry Regiments/Battalions Army Campaigns Pre-divisional Orders of Battle . 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. 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 The regiment reached France in May 1918 as part of the American Expeditionary Force. Company B of the 2d Tank Battalion, en route to set up a roadblock northeast of Clerf, was appropriated by General Cota and sent to support the 110th Infantry. 103d Engineer Combat Battalion 103d Medical Battalion 28th Division Artillery. About four and a half miles west of the town, a second block was encountered and a German self-propelled gun lashed out at the lead vehicles while machine gunners blazed away from positions around it. 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. Shortly before noon German pressure noticeably relaxed. 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. Odds didn't favor the 28th Division. between the two assault regiments. 116th Infantry Regiment. 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. in Wiltz after a rear guard action in Wilwerwiltz. The road net was adequate, although mired by constant rain, but the two forward battalions had to be supplied at night because of German fire. Two hours later tanks and self-propelled guns struck the 44th Engineers, which was outposting the little hamlets northeast of Wiltz. 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. If you are looking for a definitive book on The Battle of the Bulge this is not it. The seven tanks counted here strangely enough made no effort to attack (perhaps the rough terrain and dragon's teeth along the American bunker line did not appear too promising) . A Time For Trumpets (MacDonald, 1984) can provide you good background on the fight that the 110th IR put up at Clerveaux. 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. Only a short distance beyond, at a third block, fire swept into the column from all sides. During the morning the 26th Volks Grenadier Division engaged in desultory action, moving troops around to the north. The 44th was hit from the northeast and east by infantry armed with machine pistols charging in alongside single tanks. Later reports indicate that this group was almost wiped out. The 3d Battalion commenced its withdrawal at 2200 under orders to pull back through Ouren. Col, Plt Sgt, 112th Infantry Regiment, 28th Division, Battle of the Bulge, Huertgen Forest, USA. They divided into two groups and headed west through the enemy lines. He was an instructor at the U.S. Army Infantry School (1932-1933) and graduated from the U.S. Army War College in 1936. The coat of arms was approved on 2 January 1930. When darkness finally came, the 44th withdrew with the assault guns into Wiltz, having lost four officers and 150 men. 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. mortars, and an antitank platoon repelled wave after wave of attacking German infantry. Certainly the enemy infantry were spreading rapidly through the woods and draws between the American front line and the Our River. the 109th and 112th Regiments gave ground slowly, but they . Company K, reinforced by Company B, 103d Engineer Combat Battalion, garrisoned Hosingen, a village on the Skyline Drive overlooking two of the four roads which wound from the Our up over the ridge. This experience, events would show, had borne little fruit. He was born Dec. 12, 1922, in Litchville, N.D., to Ole and Inga (Olson) Fostervold. The gunners and their attached antiaircraft artillery unit made a stand with their carbines, Colts, and a few .50-caliber machine guns. The Tyrone unit was reorganized and redesignated Troop M, 3rd Battalion of the 104th Armored Cavalry. Companies E and F dug in on a ridge north of Reuler under a rain of 1959 is when this organization began to resemble the current organizational structure. About 1000, therefore, General Cota ordered Companies A and B of the 707th Tank Battalion to reinforce the 110th Infantry, with the intention of clearing up the deepest enemy penetrations and sweeping the ridge road clear. On 22 November 1878, the battalion was organized as the 16th Regiment, Pennsylvania National Guard. It became the 112th Infantry Regimental Combat Team. Unit decoration: Presidential Unit Citation, 1623 Dec 1944 112th Infantry, Civil War silver bands: What do Battle of Hrtgen Forest, Battle of the Bulge and 112th Infantry Regiment (United States) have in common. News of the battle on the right and left of the 112th Infantry sector had been sparse. About 0930 the 2d Platoon of Company A, 707th Tank Battalion, climbed out of Clerf to meet the German Mark IV's. This had been accomplished by noon on the first For nearly two hours enemy flares methodically picked out targets for mortar and bullet fire, while the Americans were so closely beset that the Bofors and murderous quad mounts could not retaliate without cutting down their own people. good tank-going could not be expected until the Marche-Rochefort line The Huntingdon unit went through several redesignations including a quartermaster company and finally Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment of the 154th Transportation Truck Battalion. The 10th Regiment jumped off south of Michelshoff on December 21st and experienced one of their bloodiest fights of World War 2. 75 (Spring 2010), pp. about six hundred men (it had been operating sawmills and rock crushers, The 304th Regiment had suffered severely at American hands: the regimental commander was a casualty and one battalion had been badly scattered during the piecemeal counterattacks by the American tank platoons. (Strickler made it to the latter point where General Cota placed him in charge of the defense.) This new Altoona unit converted back to an engineer company unit they were redesignated Troop C, 104th Cavalry in 1929. The 110th Infantry Regiment, 28th Infantry Division, on 16 December 1944, held the center sector of the defensive zone of the division and VIII Corps in the Ardennes. In the West, American, British and . About 1300 a thick, soupy December fog rolled in on the village. The Americans lined up in German formation and, while an officer shouted commands in German, marched boldly across the bridge. A few attacks were started against the new American line, which now covered Beiler, Lieler, and Lausdorn, but none were energetic. This battery was driven from Buchholz with the loss of half its howitzers. Caught off-guard, American units fought to stem . Abstract. After the fall of Hosingen the 3d Battalion elements in Consthum offered the last organized resistance in the 28th Infantry Division center east of the Clerf River. Map of St Vith drawn 15 November 1944. 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. On the morning of the 17th German tanks had set the town ablaze, but the few American Shermans had held them at bay. VIII Corps: Medical Support in the Battle of the Bulge In addition to the organic medical support provided in its infantry and armored divisions, the VIII Corps, First U.S. Army, in the opening days of the Battle of the Bulge possessed a well-organized and experienced medical support structure with the 64th Medical Group and its two separate medical battalions, the 169th . Extensive pine forests covered much of the area, making observation difficult. midafternoon, leaving open an avenue into the 2d Battalion left flank. 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. It was released from active duty in 1953 and was redesignated Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 3rd Battalion 104th Cavalry. The Battle of the Bulge was the largest battle ever fought by the United States Army. 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. It is impossible. By the second day it was apparent that the combination of stubborn resistance and poor approach roads would delay the projected crossing at Ouren. 30th Infantry Division 59th Inf Bde . (Lt. Col. Clarion J. Kjeldseth) to Wiltz on the previous evening with The Panzer Lehr Reconnaissance Battalion, earlier withdrawn from the fight at Holzthum, reverted to its parent command and crossed the river first. The insignia was amended to correct the blazon on 16 May 2008. Outnumbered and outgunned, the men of the 110th Infantry Regiment upset the German timetable during the Battle of the Bulge. antitank guns supplemented the weapons organic to the conventional Volks Grenadier division. The 3d Battalion (Maj. Harold F. Milton) formed the regimental right, with its companies on both sides of the ridge line. For some reason the tank platoon sent from the 707th had not reached the Company I area when night fell. He added, however, that he had "three battalions now trying to counterattack from Clerf to Marnach." The 2d Battalion's Civilian Military Operations unit (S-9) oversaw the distribution of roughly $20 million to the Iraqi people in efforts to stabilize the Iraqi economy and build public works projects including police stations, schools, hospitals, fire departments, youth centers, and water pumping stations. up positions north and east of the town. 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. However, these unit designations were short-lived. In fact the troops of the 26th Volks Grenadier Division sent against Wiltz from the northeast were acting under orders to protect the flank and rear of Panzer Lehr against possible American counterattack from the Wiltz valley. 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. General Waldenburg committed his infantry here, in the predawn hours, hoping that the 60th Regiment would break through on the right or that the 156th Regiment would reach the river on the left and so secure a bridgehead through which his tank regiment could be passed. Letter, 22 August 1864, from Theodore Skinner of Company E, 112th New York Infantry, at Bermuda Hundred, Virginia, to family in New York discussing picket details, an aborted troop movement, and other aspects of military life during the siege of Petersburg, Virginia. guns and asked for American artillery fire on their own positions. On their left German tanks were wiping out the last posts by CHARLES B. MACDONALD--249--Attack on Vossenack . . corps zone of attack were narrow, twisting, and certain to be muddy; Here in the south daylight patrols also operated to maintain control of the eastern bank, although the main positions were around Lieler and Lausdorn. They heard, and duly reported, heavy artillery to the south, they saw searchlights and flames lighting up the sky, but again in the south. 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. On orders, the three remaining assault guns went back to cover the wrecked structure. in to the south edge of Hosingen, contrary to orders, and there grappled Back to the west, in the 28th Division command post at Wiltz, General Cota took what steps he could to help the 110th Infantry. Hitler himself seems to have favored this concept (it is found in the first Fuehrer operations order), but only in the Fifth Panzer attack would assault detachments be found inside the American positions when the initial barrage opened up. moved toward Sevenig. At dawn the Panther Battalion of the 3d Panzer Regiment came clanking into Clerf, after a night move from the Our River, and found tanks from the Mark IV Battalion playing cat and mouse with the Americans in the chteau. The first word of the approaching enemy reached the 110th Infantry headquarters at Clerf shortly after 0615. initial breakthrough at the Our and Clerf Rivers, but rather how to 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. It became the 112th Infantry Regimental Combat Team which consisted of the 112th Infantry Regiment, the 229th Field Artillery Battalion, the 103rd Engineer Battalion, Company C, 447th Antiaircraft Artillery Battalion, and Company C, 630th Tank Destroyer Battalion. Co-ordination between small packets of infantry and armor, hard at best, was made most difficult by this kind of piecemeal commitment. Arriving in France in late Spring 1918 . 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. 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. Fortunately Major Woodward, the battalion commanding officer, was suspicious of this route. In August 1950 the Lewistown unit was mustered into federal service for the Korean War. The regimental position, really a series of squad and platoon posts, followed a ridge line south through Harspelt and Sevenig, then bent back across the Our and followed the western slopes of the river nearly to Kalborn. But the enemy armor weight was too heavy, nor could it be checked by the handful of tanks and light assault guns remaining to the 707th Tank Battalion. Nelson also reported to General Jones at Vielsalm and set the problem before him. Just before dark, therefore, Kokott threw a part of his replacement training battalion into the action; these fresh troops succeeded in forcing their way into the north edge of the village, although with heavy losses. Earlier the XLVII Panzer This threat north of the Marnach road seems to have caused the German commander some concern. When day came the Americans caught the troops following the advance party of the assault company out in the open. He hoped that the armored debouchment into the bridgehead would commence during the early afternoon. 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 . In 1920, the Tyrone unit was redesignated Troop B, 1st Pennsylvania Cavalry and the Bellefonte unit was redesignated Troop L, 1st Pennsylvania Cavalry. About noon the 2d Battalion counterattacked and German pressure along the 112th front began to wane. General Cota, as a result, decided to concentrate what was left to him-headquarters troops, engineers, stragglers, and the handful of organized units moving back from across the Clerf-in defense of Wiltz, the 28th Division command post. going in the West Wall maze north of Ltzkampen and the initial 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. Manteuffel had no precise schedule for his right wing but after the war was over would say that he had hoped for the seizure of St. Vith on the first day of the attack. the road but moving on in the direction of the Clerf. General Cota and the 28th Division Staff were prepared for some kind of German effort west of the Our, but the intelligence coming down from higher headquarters pointed only to the possibility of a limited German attack against the 109th Infantry and the American communications running north from Luxembourg City. The initial penetration by the corps' right was charged to the armored infantry of the famous 2d Panzer Division (Colonel Meinrad von Lauchert), a unit that had fought the Allies all the way from Normandy back to the German frontier. After years of training, the unit first entered the continent of Europe on the Normandy beaches following the D-Day landing. 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. quieted down, although there still were small groups of the enemy crawling about in the gap breached that morning Ltzkampen would continue as a sally port for sorties against the 1st Battalion and the best efforts by the American field pieces to flatten the village failed to still the men and vehicles moving in its streets. 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. exercises to arrive at a solution, but Bastogne lay nineteen air-miles About 0620, however, the 1st Battalion phoned to say that shells were coming over the battalion command post. 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. a blasted bridge three kilometers east of Heinerscheid and established This initial zone was roughly equivalent to the American defensive position manned west of the Our by the 110th Infantry, the center regiment of the 28th Infantry Division, although the width of the 110th front was about two miles greater than the front assigned the panzer corps. Even in daytime it was possible for German patrols to move about on the west bank, using the cover provided by the deep, wooded draws. Later the Americans in this sector reported that the attackers must have been "awfully green"-as indeed they were. Here follows a list of organic Medical Units, assigned to specific Divisions throughout World War 2: Medical Unit. afternoon. 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