Early in the month the Germans had undertaken what appeared to be a routine relief in their forward positions. About noon the 2d Battalion counterattacked and German pressure along the 112th front began to wane. 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. 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 311th Infantry Regiment was attached to the 8th Division in the Hurtgen Forest, 10 December. Although success or failure would turn. The 3d Battalion commenced its withdrawal at 2200 under orders to pull back through Ouren. 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. Two hours later tanks and self-propelled guns struck the 44th Engineers, which was outposting the little hamlets northeast of Wiltz. But first, they had to win the Battle of the Bulge. Manteuffel likewise opposed the concept proposed by Jodl in which the attack would be carried by two panzer corps advancing in column. 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In any case the defenders made radio contact (their last) with the 28th Division as late as 0528 on the morning of 18 December. Meanwhile, General Middleton, the VIII Corps commander, issued a holdfast order to all his troops. The battery commander and fifteen gunners were casualties of the close-range fight before help arrived. In 1975, all except for the Everett unit were reorganized and redesignated as the 2nd Battalion 112th Infantry. German plans. Anything even remotely resembling a continuous line across the 9- to 10-mile regimental front was beyond the strength of the 1st and 3d Battalions. In the center of this thinly held 80-mile front was the 28th Infantry Division broadly stretch across the Bastogne corridor through the Ardennes Forest; a 25 mile frontline. Leaderless, the platoon broke. Find many great new & used options and get the best deals for WW2 US 29th Infantry Regiment DUI Ribbon Bar Shoulder Cord Battle of Bulge Lot at the best online prices at eBay! Both of these positions lay adjacent to the prospective boundary between the XLVII and LXXXV Corps. 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. Tank Battalion-some six crippled tanks and five assault guns was gathered The 1st Platoon of Company I had 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. to the Our bridges in the 3d Battalion area led the regimental commander Hitler had committed Bayerlein's tanks in an abortive counterattack designed to roll up the exposed flank of the American Third Army on the Saar.4 This Panzer Lehr thrust failed, and at the beginning of December Bayerlein's command was brought north to the Eifel district for an emergency attempt at refitting. 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. 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. Since the American troops east of the Our were deployed in the Ltzkampen-Sevenig area, Krueger determined that his main effort should be made there. The 109th Infantry was losing ground on its north flank and soon would be forced back fanwise into the 9th Armored Division zone. howitzers and the tank platoon near Buchholz, again had to side-step in the drive to the Clerf. 114th Infantry Regiment. 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. Thomas G. Bradbeer, General Cota and the Battle of the Hrtgen Forest, Army History, No. When the 2d Panzer Division was relieved at the end of September its tanks were gone, but there remained a large cadre of veterans who had escaped to the West Wall on foot. 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. Without it the western exit road from the Gemnd bridge was hopelessly blocked; through Hosingen ran the main divisional supply route to the Clerf. 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. WW2 Army Unit Records Research. 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. At 1839 the sergeant at the regimental switchboard called the division to report that he was alone-only the switchboard was left. 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. From town and river rise wooded and precipitous slopes, particularly sharp and difficult to the east. 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. 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. Earlier the XLVII Panzer Those in the south fell back toward Wiltz, the division command post. . He was a prisoner of war at Stalag IV-B in the town of Mhlberg an der Elbe for six months. were battle-weary, small in number, and widely dispersed. Nelson also reported to General Jones at Vielsalm and set the problem before him. 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. Next to the paved through highway via Clerf, the Wiltz valley offered the best avenue westward. A Symbol of the Combat Ability of MI Soldiers. His first concern would be to gain the ridge west of the Our and thus cover the armor crossings, for he recognized that it would be a difficult stream to bridge. 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. 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. On the west slopes of the ridge a platoon of medium tanks was committed early in the afternoon to drive the Germans off the side road linking Holzthum and Consthum. This sizable town lay in a bend of the Wiltz River valley, southwest of Clerf and some three miles away from the enemy-held crossings at Wilwerwiltz. A camouflaged grunt takes aim. On the Wahlhausen road the 3d Battalion observation post, defended by the Company I platoon, called for ammunition and was told that tanks were being sent with resupply. The appearance of the Shermans in Clerf cooled the ardor of the German infantry. Albert was an Army veteran of World War II, serving in the 28th Division during the Battle of the Bulge. 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. 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. 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. The little group from regimental headquarters which had been deployed on the ridge line at Ouren was less successful. 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. or German bank of the Our River. 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 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 .'. 103d Engineer Combat Battalion 103d Medical Battalion 28th Division Artillery. the thin infantry line on the Wahlhausen road. 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. Colonel Nelson at this moment had two contradictory orders and would have to risk his regiment if he carried out either. 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. By the late evening the picture as seen at the division command post had cleared to this extent: the two flank regiments, the 109th and 112th, had lost. Manteuffel had two armored formations in reserve, the Panzer Lehr Division and the Fuehrer Begleit Brigade.1 These he intended to throw in behind the armored corps which made the first bridgehead at the Our. By nightfall the 3d Battalion line on the Sevenig ridge had been 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. The German plans had been altered during the day, but of course some 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. 121st Infantry Regiment. midafternoon, leaving open an avenue into the 2d Battalion left flank. On the morning of the 17th German tanks had set the town ablaze, but the few American Shermans had held them at bay. Seven officers and fifty to sixty men did reach Donnange. It would be natural, therefore, for the Germans debouching from the Wilwerwiltz bridgehead to defile through the Wiltz valley. The Americans had identified the 26th long since as the unit garrisoning the West Wall bunkers on the German bank. When this was refused the Germans systematically set to work to surround the village; by dark they had ringed Weiler. 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. 112th Infantry took up their posts in the . 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. During WWII the regiment landed in Normandy in 1944, after D-Day, where it became the 112th Infantry Regimental Combat Team (RCT). 1st Battalion has worked [its] way back." Equally important, the green 1130th Regiment (incorporated into the 116th Panzer Division attack on the second day) had failed to follow closely in the path of the tanks and so gave American riflemen and machine gunners time to get set after the tanks rolled past. In July 1865, these units were mustered out of federal service. To the south Company I held Weiler-les-Putscheid, a hamlet in a knot of trails and byroads on the forward slopes of the ridge line. Volks Grenadier Division) had not fared too well in the attack The Lewistown company was consolidated with another company and became Headquarters and Headquarter Troop, 3rd Reconnaissance Squadron, 104th Armored Cavalry Regiment. He personally rated four of his armored divisions as good attack formations (the 116th, 2d, Panzer Lehr, and Fuehrer Begleit), and his panzer corps commanders were of his own choosing. Despite the general dictum that defended towns would be bypassed, Manteuffel wanted St. Vith as a blocking position and so ordered Lucht to capture it. 115th Infantry Regiment. Shortly before noon the advance guard of the 60th Panzer Regiment, rolling along the Ltzkampen-Leidenborn road, appeared on the knoll west of Ltzkampen. 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. He even dispatched a kampfgruppe to seize a bridge considerably south of Clerf apparently intending to swing his attack column to a poorer road in the event that Clerf continued to hold. ", The main effort launched by the LVIII Panzer Corps on 16 December was assigned the 116th Panzer Division. But Germans struck again and again. On 25 April 1861, Company G, The Monongahela Artillery (Everett) was mustered into federal service for the American Civil War as part of the. Their fate is unknown. to cross the XLVII Panzer Corps bridge at Dasburg and commence It was released from active duty in 1953 and was redesignated Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 3rd Battalion 104th Cavalry. Lauchert arrived too late to meet all of his regimental commanders, but the 2d Panzer, like the rest of the corps, was already in position to move the moment darkness came. At 2013 General Cota phoned the VIII Corps commander to say that the situation was critical, that routes were open for the German tanks to come through, and that "there is some question in regard to the 110th Infantry CP." started a march intended to bring it east of Sevenig on the left of . close to the Fifth Panzer Army headquarters, where a few Po Valley-Manassas-Antietam-Chancellorsville-Gettysburg-Atlanta-Fredericksburg-Vicksburg-Wilderness-Spotsylvania-Cold Harbor-Petersburg-Appomattox-Virginia 1861-South Carolina 1862-Mississippi 1863-Tennessee 1863. 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. Shield: argent, issuant in fess a bridge of one arch proper masoned sable, 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. He wanted an attack on a broad front with both tank corps in the line at the opening gun-this point Hitler conceded. 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. Finally, on the morning of 18 December, the surviving members of the garrison sent out a last radio message; they had no choice but surrender. The Huntingdon unit went through several redesignations including a quartermaster company and finally Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment of the 154th Transportation Truck Battalion. Division likely to be encountered during the first hours of the attack initial breakthrough at the Our and Clerf Rivers, but rather how to Tanks, ordered up from the division reserve, had not yet arrived. Behind the Clerf River and to the west of the regimental command post in the town of Clerf the 2d Battalion (Lt. Col. Ross C. Henbest) lay in divisional reserve. Communication between the 112th and division headquarters had been sketchy since 16 December, depending on artillery radio nets and liaison officers. The 10th Regiment jumped off south of Michelshoff on December 21st and experienced one of their bloodiest fights of World War 2. of the 77th, under the cover provided by German artillery, drove He purchased the farm from his parents in 1943. It was the longest battle on German ground during World War II and is the . The origins of the 1st Battle Group are derived from the 112th Infantry Regiment in which it was . The unit was mustered into federal active service on 16 July 1917 for service in World War I, and Rickards remained its commander. During the afternoon the Germans pressed 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. The regiment was again called to active federal service on 17 February 1941, 10 months prior to the attack on Pearl Harbor. DECEMBER 1944. The 902d, led in person by the division commander, continued toward the west, although briefly delayed in a fight with a few towed antitank guns and armored cars near Eschweiler.18. Two lieutenants from I Company examine German weapons abandoned at Schoppen. 120th Infantry Regiment. 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 road center at The German barrage, with a limited number of rounds at the guns, dwindled away after about half an hour to sporadic salvos and stray single shots, leaving the advancing infantry without cover while they were still short of the American positions. The unit was transported to and garrisoned at El Paso, Texas for training, but was never utilized because hostilities ended. To the east, at Dasburg, the German engineers were straining to finish the tank bridge which would bring the German armor into play. On their left German tanks were wiping out the last posts German tanks opened fire on them, but a direct hit stopped the leading Mark IV, for the moment effectively blocking the serpentine approach from Marnach. World War II Records, 110th Infantry Regiment, 28th Infantry Division, History . The 26th Volks Grenadier Division, having completed its initial mission by seizing an undamaged bridge across the Clerf at Drauffelt during the night, made way for the Panzer Lehr Division to strike for Bastogne. Apprehensive lest the Americans be prematurely warned, Army Group B had forbidden the movement of any troops across the Our in advance of the opening barrage set for 0530 on 16 December. The remaining roads, through the 110th sector normally were poor but were made worse by the rains prior to 16 December; the 26th Volks Grenadier Division intended to enter the two southernmost roads by throwing a bridge across at Gemnd.6. 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. About 1830 troops at the battalion observation post reported that enemy vehicles were attacking with multiple 20-mm. Schoppen, Belgium, the 16th Infantry Regiment's first objective after going on the offense during second half of the Battle of the Bulge. Only a short distance beyond, at a third block, fire swept into the column from all sides. Certainly the enemy infantry were spreading rapidly through the woods and draws between the American front line and the Our River. As each company debarked it marched inland to the line of departure which the outpost force now held close to the American garrison points. Back to the west, in the 28th Division command post at Wiltz, General Cota took what steps he could to help the 110th Infantry. Even on the first day of the offensive one of Heilmann's regiments had been lost for several hours. Only one man escaped. Company A, at Heinerscheid, was on the extreme left flank of the 110th and so lay outside the path of the XLVII Panzer Corps attack, as did Company D at Grindhausen. a sweep along the western bank calculated to take the Ouren crossings This was the end: shots, blazing vehicles, and screaming wounded. whereupon the light tank platoon destroyed its single remaining tank The 112th remained an organic unit of the 28th Infantry Division throughout World War II.[5]. 18-41 At Clerveaux, two battalions of the 110th held off four German regiments for several . The unit was awarded the sattle streamer marked Puerto Rico for their service. George C. Rickards, a career Pennsylvania National Guard officer, was promoted to Colonel as commander of the 16th Pennsylvania in 1907. At the crossroads village of Hosingen atop the Skyline Drive, The 106th Infantry Division took over position for position. 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). 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. 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 code name for the coming offensive. The next morning Colonel Nelson was able to tell General Cota, "Very good news. column and, attacking through the dark with grenades and bayonets, cleared the position. The half-track was demolished, but the field had been exploded and the covering infantry cleared away. Miscellaneous troops of the 110th Infantry had joined with units of Combat Command R of the 9th Armored Division (briefly under operational control of the 28th Infantry Division) to defend along the main road to Bastogne in the area west of Clerf. 16-18 December. 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. Here follows a list of organic Medical Units, assigned to specific Divisions throughout World War 2: Medical Unit. 125th Infantry Regiment. On the Battle of the Bulge: Eisenhower, John S. D. The Bitter Woods. The two heavy tank bridges were the Americans obviously were weakening, and the 2d Panzer Division had been able to move its tanks forward on the relatively good road in the northern part of the corps zone. 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. A platoon of self-propelled tank destroyers had James Russell Fostervold, 86, of Willmar, died Tuesday at his home following an illness. The next day General Cota ordered the battalion to Wiltz, where it would take part in the defense of the division headquarters. On orders, the three remaining assault guns went back to cover the wrecked structure. 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