to give an accurate count of losses in the 112th Infantry, but they seem to have been moderate. 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. 112th Infantry Regiment. On the eve of commitment the two tank battalions were about full strength, with 27 Mark IV's, 58 Panthers, and 48 armored assault guns in the division tank parks. 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. employ the armor once these two rivers lay behind. In May of the same year the Sheridan Troop was assigned to Squadron B which was redesignated as 2d Squadron in 1911. a blasted bridge three kilometers east of Heinerscheid and established 1600 casualties and destroyed 18 tanks during nine days of continuous action, which later became known as the "Battle of the Bulge." The Regiment was awarded . Colonel Nelson sent back request after request for air support. It was accounted the regimental reserve, having fixed schemes of employment for support of the two battalions in the north by counterattack either northeast or southeast. The 110th Antitank Company was in Hoscheid just to the west. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. It was the longest battle on German ground during World War II and is the . in the Ardennes sector. With surprise almost certainly assured and the knowledge that the Americans. And German tanks still fired from the eastern height. General Luettwitz was none too pleased with the progress made by his two attack divisions on this first day. In fact, detachments of the 39th Regiment had crossed the Skyline Drive unobserved and were moving in to surprise Holzthum. Roads and bridges, he reckoned, must be in shape to support the American troops east of the river. The 77th marched toward Drauffelt on the Clerf River, leaving the replacement training battalion to continue the fight at Hosingen. 16-20 December, 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. The tankers had been told that there were no friendly troops on the road and just Outside Holzthum knocked out an antitank gun placed there by Company I. Colonel Nelson decided to pull back through Huldange since enemy tanks were known to be in Trois Vierges. 16-18 December. World War II Records, 110th Infantry Regiment, 28th Infantry Division, History . The orders given the 116th Panzer Division on the night of 16 December to switch to the left were altered on the 17th to start its infantry regiments marching still farther south to the Dasburg bridgehead held by the neighboring corps. This seemed to be the most endangered sector of the whole division front, for here the 2d Panzer Division had been identified and here was the main hard-surface road to Bastogne. The German infantry on the north side of town aligned for the assault about 1400. 15 About dark infantry from Ltzkampen attacked in close order formation against Company B. Because surprise was essential in this stroke for the bridges, artillery fire on the American forward positions in the first moments of the assault was forbidden. The stir and movement in the enemy lines during the two nights prior to 16 December was occasioned by troops moving in and troops moving out. After the Germans captured the howitzers, a bazooka team of a company officer and a sergeant held the enemy tanks at bay, destroying two which ventured into the village. 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. 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 . This place is not healthy anymore.". By February, they were back on the offensive. The 112th was the first war-strength National Guard regiment in the United States. To the southwest, Company C and the regimental cannon company were deployed in and around Munshausen, guarding the side road which cut cross-country from Marnach to Drauffelt. East of Clerf the left flank of the 2d Battalion started to move forward against an enemy assembly point in a woods northeast of Reuler. In the late evening of 16 December German artillery began to range into Clerf, apparently covering the advance of patrols from Marnach. The 78th Infantry Division arrived in England, 26 October 1944, and received further training. The responsibility for command here was assumed directly by the VIII Corps. The 110th Infantry Regiment was hit hard early in the Battle of the Bulge after being bled white in the Hurtgen Forest earlier that autumn. 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 regiment was awarded battle streamers marked Normandy, Northern France, Ardennes-Alsace, Rhineland, and Central Europe for its service in World War II. Early in the afternoon of 18 December a radio message finally arrived at the division command post asking that the regiment be given instructions. Perhaps they did not care to risk bazooka fire in the dark. 4th Infantry Division Campaigns during World War II. The Battle of Hrtgen Forest (German: Schlacht im Hrtgenwald) was a series of battles fought from 19 September to 16 December 1944, between American and German forces on the Western Front during World War II, in the Hrtgen Forest, a 140 km 2 (54 sq mi) area about 5 km (3.1 mi) east of the Belgian-German border. 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. 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. It is impossible to assess in hours the violence done the 2d Panzer Division timetable at Clerf, but it is clear that the race by this division to Bastogne was lost as the result of the gallant action by the 110th Infantry in front of and at the Clerf crossings. As each company debarked it marched inland to the line of departure which the outpost force now held close to the American garrison points. 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. whereupon the light tank platoon destroyed its single remaining tank corps zone of attack were narrow, twisting, and certain to be muddy; The battle of the bulge had begun. 17 But the situation east of Bastogne was growing more precarious and the division commander decided to bring the 112th back to join in the defense of Bastogne. Before noon five separate assaults had been made at Consthum, but all were beaten off by small arms, .50-caliber, and artillery fire. A small tank-infantry team blasted the single 57-mm. Two company kitchens were captured and one or two observation posts cut off, but the artillery observer inside Sevenig was able to direct the 229th Field Artillery howitzers onto the Germans in the draw. 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. The 2d Battalion, surrounded on the ridge east of Clerf, attempted to filter through the enemy lines in the early morning hours. The defenders at Weiler would not be easily pushed aside. The 26th Volks Grenadier Division, which had allowed the 112th to go about its training program with only very minor interruption, marched south to join the XLVII Panzer Corps and take part in the attack for Bastogne. At dawn a single tank or self-propelled gun began firing from the curving road to the south; more enemy infantry joined the fire fight near the chteau as the morning advanced. The 106th Infantry Division took over position for position. 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 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. given new divisions to spearhead the brief spoiling attack in late October The Lewistown unit was redesignated as Machine Gun Troop, 104th Cavalry, 22nd Cavalry Division. By nightfall the American perimeter had been pierced at many points and the defenders pushed back into the center of Wiltz. At night the strip between the ridge and the river became a no man's land where German and American patrols stalked one another. In this case, as in many others during the American withdrawal, the full story is that of the cooperation of the combined arms. Krueger and Luettwitz were old hands at mechanized warfare, had learned their business as commanders of the 1st and 2d Panzer Divisions, respectively, and had fought side by side in Lorraine. In July 1865, these units were mustered out of federal service. 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. Both Luettwitz and Manteuffel had been "promised" air support. A sharp attack drove a provisional platoon, made up from the 28th Division band, off the high ground to the northwest, thus exposing the engineer line. regiment, despite many attempts, had not been able "to get going. Companies E and F dug in on a ridge north of Reuler under a rain of In midmorning Paul ordered Company C to march north from Munshausen, leaving the cannon company there, and counterattack the Germans in the Company B area. afternoon. initial breakthrough at the Our and Clerf Rivers, but rather how to It was breached at midnight when tanks and self-propelled guns of the 3d Panzer Regiment entered Marnach. tank destroyers from the 630th Tank Destroyer Battalion, weapons of In 1949, the Bellefonte unit was redesignated Battery B, 688th Field Artillery. Seven officers and fifty to sixty men did reach Donnange. During most of this first day of attack the German infantry had fought west of the Our without heavy weapons, although the bulk of two regiments from. 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. 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. 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. In common with the German assault tactics employed all along the front on 16 December, both regiments led off with a predawn advance by shock companies eighty men strong. 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. On the ridges which look down over Wiltz more Germans appeared in the early evening, apparently. 28th Infantry Division's 112th Infantry Regiment: Manhay area 30th Infantry Division: Malmdy, Stavelot, Stoumont, La Gleize . 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 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. 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