Shortly before noon German pressure noticeably relaxed. When day came the Americans caught the troops following the advance party of the assault company out in the open. restored while the commander of the 1130th reported that his Meanwhile the 39th Regiment, echeloned to the left west of the German jump-off positions on the Our River and the final good tank-going could not be expected until the Marche-Rochefort line The 44th Combat Engineers, the rear guard unit at Wiltz, probably suffered most, the enemy accounting for 18 officers and 160 men during the final withdrawal. The unit was mustered out of federal service on 6 December 1945 at Camp Gordon, Georgia. As the column turned northwest on the main Bastogne highway enemy fire increased; some in the column turned back from the gantlet in hopes of finding another escape route by retracing their steps through Wiltz. 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. Sufficient trucks were available to motorize most of the division, but there was a shortage of tracked cross-country vehicles. Accurately adjusted fire held the enemy battalion at bay and forced The 112th Infantry Regiment of the US Army dates back to the American Civil war and has since participated in several conflicts, including WWI and WWII. Tank Battalion-some six crippled tanks and five assault guns was gathered But . Information on the hard-pressed battalions and their companies was sketchy and secondhand. USA soldiers during the Battle of the Bulge, 1944. The 112th Infantry Regiment was formed and officially designated as the 16th Infantry from . 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. If you are looking for a definitive book on The Battle of the Bulge this is not it. At the same time the XLVII Panzer Corps would cross the Our in the vicinity of Dasburg and Gemnd, push west via Clerf, seize the vital road center at Bastogne, form in a deep column echeloned to the left and rear, then race for the Meuse River crossings south of Namur. 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. 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. 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. The 3d Battalion (Maj. Harold F. Milton) formed the regimental right, with its companies on both sides of the ridge line. 115th Infantry Regiment. . Arriving in France in late Spring 1918 . Two thins were necessary to success. Meanwhile, General Middleton, the VIII Corps commander, issued a holdfast order to all his troops. About an hour before dawn eleven searchlights flicked on, their rays glancing dully from the low clouds back onto the Ltzkampen-Sevenig ridge. in Wiltz after a rear guard action in Wilwerwiltz. mortars, and an antitank platoon repelled wave after wave of attacking German infantry. 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 insignia was amended to correct the blazon on 16 May 2008. On their left German tanks were wiping out the last posts [4] 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. The Huntingdon unit became Troop K, 3rd Battalion of the 104th Armored Cavalry and one of the Altoona companies became Howitzer Battery, 3rd Battalion 104th Cavalry. The camp was liberated by the Russian Army May 1, 1945. 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. The Panzer Lehr Reconnaissance Battalion, earlier withdrawn from the fight at Holzthum, reverted to its parent command and crossed the river first. 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. The artillery supporting the LVIII Panzer Corps consisted of five battalions plus two Werfer battalions, and a few batteries of heavy guns. between the two assault regiments. 22 Mar - 11 May 45 Central Europe Campaign CD 2 36 Pages - PDF. On the ridges which look down over Wiltz more Germans appeared in the early evening, apparently. Extensive pine forests covered much of the area, making observation difficult. XLVII Panzer, Corps moved beyond it to the west.3 (Map IV). 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. against the British and American advance in southwest Holland, and had The Bellefonte unit was redesignated Troop L, 103d Cavalry. Perhaps the Americans had some reason for elation on the night of 16 December, but all knew that harder blows would be dealt on the morrow. . The German infantry would have to fight step by step; the hope of a quick breakthrough had proven illusory. Luettwitz and the army commander ran at least two map Yet there was still an opportunity to retard the 2d Panzer march along the road to Bastogne. On the right its 1st Battalion marched on Hosingen, bringing flame throwers and self-propelled guns to blast the Americans from the village; the 2d Battalion moved straight for the Clerf River, aiming at control of the crossings and road net at Wilwerwiltz. 194 Glider Infantry Regiment Interrogation & Patrol Reports, Dec 1944-Jan. 1945 . While Allied forces ultimately triumphed, it was a vicious six weeks of fighting, with tens of . Roads and bridges, he reckoned, must be in shape to support the American troops east of the river. In the late evening of 16 December German artillery began to range into Clerf, apparently covering the advance of patrols from Marnach. By 1315 the howitzers around Welchenhausen again were firing at their minimum range. 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. By 0630 the grenadiers were behind the command post of the 1st Battalion (Lt. Col. William H. Allen) in Harspelt; the first sign of their presence was a kitchen truck ambushed while journeying to the rear. John "Lefty" Zagarella, As Told In Letters, 1941-1945. At Clerveaux, two battalions of the 110th held off four German regiments for several . In 1873, Company G, Monongahela Artillery (Everett) was renamed the Light Guards and then redesignated as Company A, 10th Pennsylvania Infantry. But there were too few guns and too few air sorties to keep the enemy immobilized for long. A few attacks were started against the new American line, which now covered Beiler, Lieler, and Lausdorn, but none were energetic. The XLVII Panzer Corps, if all went well, would cross the Our and Clerf Rivers, make a dash "over Bastogne" to the Meuse, seize the Meuse River crossings near Namur by surprise, and drive on through Brussels to Antwerp. The next day General Cota ordered the battalion to Wiltz, where it would take part in the defense of the division headquarters. The entire action lasted ten minutes. 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. The units from Lewistown, Tyrone, Huntingdon, Everett, and Altoona were all mustered into federal service for duty on the Mexican border in July 1916. He purchased the farm from his parents in 1943. continue the attack for the bridges at Ouren. Only three of the howitzers left could be withdrawn and losses among the cannoneers and drivers were high. Between Holzthum and Buchholz, Battery C of the 109th Field Artillery was hit hard but held its positions, firing the 105-mm. He wanted an attack on a broad front with both tank corps in the line at the opening gun-this point Hitler conceded. 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. It would be natural, therefore, for the Germans debouching from the Wilwerwiltz bridgehead to defile through the Wiltz valley. The 10th Regiment jumped off south of Michelshoff on December 21st and experienced one of their bloodiest fights of World War 2. 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. howitzers and the tank platoon near Buchholz, again had to side-step in the drive to the Clerf. Nelson also reported to General Jones at Vielsalm and set the problem before him. On General Middleton's order, CCR, 9th Armored Division, had put a task force backstop position behind the threatened center of the 28th Division. Intelligence reports indicated that the elements of the US 28th Infantry His staff, carefully selected and personally devoted to the little general, was probably the best German staff on the Western Front. But only the 1st (Lt. Col. Donald Paul) and 3rd (Major Harold Milton) Battalions of the 110th were on the line, while the remaining 2nd Battalion (Lt. Col. Ross C. Henbest) was held in division reserve at Doennange and Wiltz, eight miles to the southwest. The 2d Battalion manned observation posts and operated patrols across the river but was deployed in a refused position west of the Our. Some additional help for the 112th did arrive before daybreak on 17 December, four self-propelled tank destroyers out of the 811th Tank Destroyer Battalion borrowed from Combat Command Reserve, 9th Armored Division, at Trois Vierges. They divided into two groups and headed west through the enemy lines. The bulk of his two divisions, as a consequence, faced the 112th Infantry, albeit the corps zone overlapped somewhat the sectors of the 106th Infantry Division in the north and the 110th Infantry in the south. positions. The first word of the approaching enemy reached the 110th Infantry headquarters at Clerf shortly after 0615. The road to Hosingen was muddy and winding; but worse, at the western exit of the bridge an American abatis and a series of bomb craters blocked the flow of traffic. The bulk of his very limited reserve consisted of the 2d Battalion, 110th Infantry, and the 707th Tank Battalion. This threat north of the Marnach road seems to have caused the German commander some concern. In this fight the crossroads near Erpeldange changed hands four times. of the 77th, ran into a snag. Fortunately radio contact was re-established from Weiswampach shortly after midnight and the 1st Battalion was given orders to withdraw through the former 3d Battalion positions. Through the early hours of 17 December American outposts reported sounds of tank movement in Ltzkampen. 1st Battalion held the northern section with Col. Donald Paul's command post at Urspelt: Company A held Heinerscheid. about six hundred men (it had been operating sawmills and rock crushers, When orders finally arrived to hold in place, the 3d Battalion had reached a trident crossroad southwest of the town. the story of the 112th Infantry Regiment of the 28th Infantry Division in the battle for Schmidt, Germany. This unit now relieved the provisional The Germans planned to connect this route to their own supply lines by bridging the Our at Dasburg. patrol at the stone bridge had evaporated under machine gun fire-and 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. In the 110th zone four roads ran from the German border at the Our, up and over the Skyline Drive, and down to the Clerf. Destroyer Battalion. The battalion commander ordered his right company down to block the paved road from Marnach to Clerf, but this road was in the hands of the 2d Panzer Division, whose tanks were rolling toward wing of the 110th, had been overrun or forced to displace. He was a prisoner of war at Stalag IV-B in the town of Mhlberg an der Elbe for six months. 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. 116th Infantry Regiment. It is southeast of Aachen, Germany.D-Day for the Battle of Hurtgen Forest was November 2, 1944, H-hour was 0900. 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. About 0720 the company crossed into the 110th Infantry zone, where the ground rose away from the highway and forced the tanks to advance in column on the road. 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 . Although the 116th Panzer Division losses were moderate, the inexperienced 560th Volks Grenadier Division had suffered an estimated 1,000 casualties-a figure, however, that included the reinforced fusilier company which got lost in the woods southwest of Sevenig and was not seen again for two days. Only one man escaped. With the few troops remaining, Milton successfully made his way cross-country to the west. 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. Early in the afternoon of 18 December a radio message finally arrived at the division command post asking that the regiment be given instructions. close to the Fifth Panzer Army headquarters, where a few The 2d Battalion, 112th Infantry Regiment's heritage can be traced back to the Logan Guards Just east of Bastogne the roads straightened somewhat, but thing was agreed upon: Bastogne had to be taken before the bulk of the 110th Infantry Regiment; 112th Infantry Regiment ; 107th Field Artillery Battalion; 108th Field Artillery Battalion; 109th . Those who could left the road, scattering in small parties into the dark. On the Battle of the Bulge: Eisenhower, John S. D. The Bitter Woods. These two attacks from west and south had made no headway but were not too costly. 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. Considerable damage had been done the German assault forces. Hfen, along with the nearby town of Monschau, was strategically vital because it sat on elevated terrain overlooking an important road junction. 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. 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. The company from the 60th ran into trouble almost immediately when it was immobilized in some woods northwest of Berg by flanking fire from Heckhuscheid, in the 424th Infantry sector. Company B held Marnach. In the 110th Infantry sector this line ran through Lieler and Buchholz to Lellingen. On 22 November 1878, the battalion was organized as the 16th Regiment, Pennsylvania National Guard. 517th Parachute Infantry Regiment attached 110th, 431st and 448th AAA AW Battalions 75th Infantry Division . Aside from patrol activity (generally small raids against individual pillboxes) the 112th Infantry sector had been quiet. Bastogne presented a special problem, a problem recognized in the first Colonel Nelson decided to pull back through Huldange since enemy tanks were known to be in Trois Vierges. But menaced as they were, the artillery commander could not risk his howitzers further. Shortly before dark the 60-ton bridges were completed at Gemnd and Dasburg (inexperienced engineers and the difficulties attendant on moving the heavy structures down to the river bed had slowed construction markedly), and the German tanks and assault guns moved across to give the coup de grce to the villages still defended by the 110th Infantry. 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. For their exploits, the I&R Platoon, 394th Infantry Regiment, 99th Infantry Division, would later become "the most heavily decorated . The 2d Battalion it to call on neighboring battalions, attacking Weiler, to help outflank Throughout this entire action the 229th gave the 112th Infantry such support as to elicit from the regimental commander the opinion that "it was the best artillery in the army," an expression which would be used by other infantry commanders about other artillery units during these trying days. Their stories are spellbinding. Unit decoration: Presidential Unit Citation, 1623 Dec 1944 112th Infantry, Civil War silver bands: On the evening The German plans had been altered during the day, but of course some 112th Regimental Combat Team, WW1 29th Infantry Div Casualties, WW2 303rd Bomb Group, Casualties, WW2 . 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. Although the left division (the 560th 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. At least a third of the 5th Parachute Division was finally engaged at Wiltz contrary to Heilmann's orders. In October 1919, the battalion's units were Company M, 112th Infantry (Lewistown), 103rd Trench Mortar Battery, 103rd Engineer Battalion (Tyrone), Company F, 112th Infantry (Huntingdon), Company A, 10th Pennsylvania Infantry (Everett), Company G, 10th Pennsylvania Infantry (Altoona), and elements of the 108th and 109th Field Artillery (Bellefonte). . exercises to arrive at a solution, but Bastogne lay nineteen air-miles Formed in 1917, the division deployed to France as a part of the . The regimental commander believed that morale had been restored to a high degree and that the new officers and men now were fairly well trained. The approach road on the east bank was Cota, as it turned out, already had phoned the corps commander and asked permission to bring the 112th back to the high ground west of the river. This move was made early in the morning with disastrous results recorded earlier. 18-41 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 10th Infantry Regiment was on the far right side of the Divisions Frontline during their part of the Battle of the Bulge and it was the first regiment to arrive in Luxembourg. The Lead-Up to the Battle of the Bulge. The advance was delayed somewhat when the grenadiers marched into an American mine field, but by 0800 the leading Germans had reached Marnach. 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." The 110th Antitank Company was in Hoscheid just to the west. 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. These units were mustered into federal service during the American Civil War. The 112th Infantry Regiment has a history that dates back long before World War II started. Original WW2 US Army 112th Infantry Regiment DUI Crest Pinback. At 1839 the sergeant at the regimental switchboard called the division to report that he was alone-only the switchboard was left. 15 About dark infantry from Ltzkampen attacked in close order formation against Company B. In a matter of minutes the left company ran into a strong German skirmish line, deployed at the edge of a wood, which was supported by tanks and self-propelled artillery firing from around Marnach. Then rolling down the Marnach road came the German advance guard, perhaps two platoons of Mark IV tanks and as many as thirty half-tracks filled with armored grenadiers. On December 16, 1944, Germany launched a massive surprise counter-attack on American lines in the Ardennes (a forested area in Belgium and Luxembourg), breaking through to create a 45-mile salient in what became known as the Battle of the Bulge.. The second battalion's Companies G and H lost a combined total of 200 men out of 230 when they were cut off at Fismette and fended off a frontal attack on their position by a thousand German soldiers. But the pressure on the Wiltz perimeter relaxed briefly as the Panzer Lehr Reconnaissance Battalion turned back toward the north to rejoin its division in the race for Bastogne. As yet, however, the Americans had no way of knowing that the bulk of the 2d Panzer Division actually was moving down the road to Clerf or that a counterattack would collide with any such German force. 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. "Air Power in the Battle of the Bulge: A Theater Campaign Perspective", published in the Winter 1989 issue of "Airpower Journal". fire and sent forward a white flag, with an offer for the Americans to surrender. in house-to-house fighting with Company D and Company B, 103d Engineer Manteuffel also held strongly for infiltration tactics by small detachments, such as were conventionally employed by both opponents on the Eastern Front. Table of Contents. Although delayed by inadequate deliveries of POL and the traffic jam on the damaged Dasburg-Marnach road the entire division, including its tank regiment, assembled on the west bank around Heinerscheid during the night of 17-18 December. Minus his heavy weapons, the enemy failed to knock the. his tanks and tank destroyers to block the roads west of the river. 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. paymasters who composed the defense. with an order to hold in essentially the positions which the regiment now occupied. Even before the seizure of Ouren the LVIII Panzer Corps had shifted its interest to the south. battalion, hastily formed from the 28th Division headquarters, by setting 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. In general the ground on the east bank commanded. On the nights of 14 and 15 December, sounds of horse-drawn vehicles and motors moving in slow gear drifted to the American outposts; but since the same commotion had attended an earlier relief in the German lines, it was reported and perfunctorily dismissed. In 2004-2005, A Company, 1st Battalion, was deployed with Task Force Dragoon to Tikrit Iraq. DECEMBER 1944. As each company debarked it marched inland to the line of departure which the outpost force now held close to the American garrison points. German defenses. This article appears in: . On the morning of 19 December the headquarters of the 28th Infantry Division transferred from Wiltz to Sibret, southwest of Bastogne. 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. Two of the American tanks, destroyed during the German assault later in the day. At Hosingen, on the ridge road, Company D and Company B were fighting German infantry hand to hand inside the village. 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. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1969. From Philadelphia to the Battle of the Bulge: The Brief Life of Pvt. Krueger had based his plan of attack on the intelligence reports dealing with the Our bridges. 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 . 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. 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) . August 1944 was a disastrous month for the Third Reich. 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. . (Lewistown) and the Bellefonte Fencibles, both organized in 1858. 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. This was the last word from Marnach. Historians, movie-moguls, and audiences love the exploits of the 101st Airborne, dramatized as it was in the Band of Brothers. 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. One of the most gallant combat actions was that of an intelligence and reconnaissance (I&R) platoon's defense near Lanzerath, Belgium, on the first day of the battle. Company C had been driven off the road, and the tanks, missing the infantry entirely, rolled into Marnach. 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. 75th Ranger Regiment Special Forces Infantry Regiments/Battalions Army Campaigns Pre-divisional Orders of Battle . Schoppen, Belgium, the 16th Infantry Regiment's first objective after going on the offense during second half of the Battle of the Bulge. 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. started a march intended to bring it east of Sevenig on the left of arrived early in the afternoon but left precipitately, losing one gun The timetable for the 26th Volks Grenadier Division advance called for both its attacking regiments to reach the Clerf River by nightfall of the first day. There the American tank platoon from Company B, 707th Tank Battalion, hit into the German flank while attempting to reach Weiler and, it would appear, caused disorganization and confusion. About noon the 2d Battalion counterattacked and German pressure along the 112th front began to wane. Some artillery support was still available from a battery of the 687th Field Artillery Battalion, whose shells swept the open fields between the two villages. Finally the Germans took the village, only to be driven out again. 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