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. 120th Infantry Regiment. battalion, hastily formed from the 28th Division headquarters, by setting
When Germany surrendered on May 8, 1945, Staff Sgt. Although the left division (the 560th
In 2006, the battalion reorganized again with Headquarters and Headquarters Company in Lewistown, Company A (less detachment) in Huntingdon; Detachment 1, Company A in Everett; Company B in Altoona, and Company C (led detachment) in Bellefonte with Detachment 1, Company C in Tyrone. The 112th Infantry Regiment has a history that dates back long before World War II started. The 2d Battalion manned observation posts and operated patrols across the river but was deployed in a refused position west of the Our. 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. Meanwhile, General Middleton, the VIII Corps commander, issued a holdfast order to all his troops. The year 1921 saw many changes in unit designation: Bellefonte was redesignated Troop B, 52nd Machine Gun Squadron, the Altoona unit was redesignated as Company G. During 1921, Company D, 1st Pennsylvania Engineers was organized. to the Our bridges in the 3d Battalion area led the regimental commander
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. the German engineers moved in. Two hours later the enemy struck at Company A, apparently an attempt to clear the north-south Skyline Drive, but artillery fire beat him off. On the afternoon of the 16th the division commander had loaned Neslon the light tank company of the 707th Tank Battalion, but after a sweep through the 1st Battalion area in which not a shot was fired the tanks recrossed the river. On orders, the three remaining assault guns went back to cover the wrecked structure. After a long wait the battalion commanding officer, Major Milton, went back into Wiltz to get further orders; when he returned most of his battalion had disappeared. Heilmann, therefore, had decided. reverse suffered by the assault company of the 60th Regiment
Through this gap the panzers moved in on the support positions held by Company D. Earlier a German infantry company in close order had been caught in the glare of its own headlights atop a hill and been massacred by Company D sections lying on the reverse slope, but at 0755 Company D was forced to send out an urgent plea for help "and damn quick." a blasted bridge three kilometers east of Heinerscheid and established
There was still hope on the morning of 17 December that at least one platoon from Company B was holding on in Marnach. Hyperleap helps uncover and suggest. This point was conceded when Hitler ruled that the artillery fires along the entire front would begin at 0530. 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. A small tank-infantry team blasted the single 57-mm. All VIII Corps units were to hold their positions until they were "completely untenable," and in no event would they fall back beyond a specified final defense line. The other Altoona unit was mustered into federal service for home station duty during World War II as Battery B, 200th Field Artillery. 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. In early planning there had been some question as to whether the Americans in the Schnee Eifel should be left to the Fifth or the Sixth. Descent to the town and its bridges is made on this side by two winding roads. Unit decoration: Presidential Unit Citation, 1623 Dec 1944 112th Infantry, Civil War silver bands: 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 artillery supporting the LVIII Panzer Corps consisted of five battalions plus two Werfer battalions, and a few batteries of heavy guns. 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. This was General der Artillerie Walther Lucht's LXVI Corps. WW2 Army Unit Records Research. In August 1950 the Lewistown unit was mustered into federal service for the Korean War. In fact it represented Heilmann's failure to gain control of his division, for the orders were to bypass Wiltz. The 3d Battalion then crossed the river farther to the south, circled and finally dug in along the OurenWeiswampach road, where its flank would be covered by the refused line of the 2d Battalion. from the rear. About 1515 Nelson sent his executive officer, Lt. Col. William F. Train, to the 28th Division command post with orders to report personally on the regiment's position. The sector at the Our River in which Luettwitz' corps would begin the attack was a little over seven miles wide, the villages of Dahnen on the north and Stolzembourg on the south serving as boundary markers. Troops of I Company ride a tank into the attack on Schoppen, 15 January 1945. The Lewistown unit was redesignated as Machine Gun Troop, 104th Cavalry, 22nd Cavalry Division. the road but moving on in the direction of the Clerf. The line of departure for Krueger's corps began across the Our from Kalborn and extended north to a point east of Burg Reuland. Only one man escaped. Back to the west, in the 28th Division command post at Wiltz, General Cota took what steps he could to help the 110th Infantry. 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. The Germans planned to connect this route to their own supply lines by bridging the Our at Dasburg. He added, however, that he had "three battalions now trying to counterattack from Clerf to Marnach." eager to be in at the kill. Probably by this time a good share of the 116th tanks had been committed. About 0730 the two rifle companies of the 2d Battalion jumped off at the ridge east of Clerf. The advance was delayed somewhat when the grenadiers marched into an American mine field, but by 0800 the leading Germans had reached Marnach. 3d Battalion sector, compressing the American companies in the village
Early morning reports of considerable German penetration and the threat
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. The 3d Battalion (Maj. Harold F. Milton) formed the regimental right, with its companies on both sides of the ridge line. or support the 3d Battalion, 110th Infantry, fighting at Consthum. But, the purpose here is not to tell that tale nor even tell of the later tribulations of training in the United States and further training in England. Other American troops now had to take over the actual defense of that all-important road center, but without the gallant bargain struck by the 110th Infantry and its allied units-men for time-the German plans for a coup-de-main at Bastogne would have turned to accomplished fact.21 The cost had been high, much higher than American units expected to pay at this stage of the war: the 110th Infantry virtually destroyed, the men and fighting vehicles of five tank companies lost, the equivalent of three combat engineer companies dead or missing, and tank destroyer, artillery, and miscellaneous units engulfed in this battle. On the morning of 19 December the headquarters of the 28th Infantry Division transferred from Wiltz to Sibret, southwest of Bastogne. Finally the Germans took the village, only to be driven out again. 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. 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. And German tanks still fired from the eastern height. 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. The half-track was demolished, but the field had been exploded and the covering infantry cleared away. in the Ardennes sector. For example, by the end of January, 1945, the 47 th Infantry Regiment (which fought in France and Germany) had lost well over 100% of their strength to battle casualties, where men were either killed, wounded . The main body of the 1st Battalion was stationed at Camp Taji while the main body of the 2d was stationed at Camp Liberty on the Victory Base Complex. For this reason the fight put up by the 112th Infantry on the north flank of the division had little or no effect on the operations of its sister regiment east of Bastogne. At the crossroads east of Eschweiler the Reconnaissance Battalion turned to the left and bore down on Wiltz. About 1700 he radioed new orders: the 112th Infantry was to fight a stiff delaying action along the line Weiswampach-Trois Vierges, and thence toward Bastogne. Even before the seizure of Ouren the LVIII Panzer Corps had shifted its interest to the south. The German infantry on the north side of town aligned for the assault about 1400. But now the north road into the town was open. Battery B fired its few remaining rounds to cover the other batteries, the battalion assembling during the evening at a crossroad southeast of Harlange. Leaderless, the platoon broke. For some reason the bridge was not blown. 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. Tanks, ordered up from the division reserve, had not yet arrived. By noon the 2d Battalion, helpless against massed tanks and without artillery support, was held in check along the ridge running southwest from Urspelt to the Clerf road, only a thousand yards from its line of departure. Both the 1st and 2d Battalions deployed with the rest of the 56th Stryker Brigade Combat Team on 19 September 2008. 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. 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. Men in the observation posts watched the enemy move about his daily chores and reported flares and occasional rounds of mortar or artillery fire. the undergunned batteries of the 687th Field Artillery Battalion held
battalion of the 112th. 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. To the east, at Dasburg, the German engineers were straining to finish the tank bridge which would bring the German armor into play. Get Military Unit/Ship Histories and After Action Records (AAR) We offer access to after action reports and operational records from all branches of the U.S. Military. 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. On 25 April 1861, Company G, The Monongahela Artillery (Everett) was mustered into federal service for the American Civil War as part of the. 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. With the first light some eighteen Mark V tanks started down the ridge spur pointing toward Ouren; at the same time the 1130th Regiment and the 156th Regiment resumed the attack to cut off and destroy the forward American companies. After years of training, the unit first entered the continent of Europe on the Normandy beaches following the D-Day landing. 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. In any case the defenders made radio contact (their last) with the 28th Division as late as 0528 on the morning of 18 December. Prior to the attack, 83,000 Americans in four divisions (the 28th, 4th, 106th, and 99th) held an 80-mile, thinly stretched line that crossed through . 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. column and, attacking through the dark with grenades and bayonets, cleared the position. The 5th Parachute Division commander had already experienced great difficulty in maintaining control of his units in action. 109th, 110th, and 112th Infantry Regiments 107th, 108th . It went onto the line on 4 July 1918, in the Second Battle of the Marne. 123th Infantry Regiment. August 1944 was a disastrous month for the Third Reich. 112th Infantry Regiment. The 77th Regiment formed on the right near Hosingen and the 39th, echeloned to the left and rear, assembled in the woods north of Wahlhausen. This battery was driven from Buchholz with the loss of half its howitzers. In June 1880, Company A, 45th Pennsylvania Volunteers were reorganized as Company B, 5th Pennsylvania Infantry (Bellefonte Fencibles). It was disbanded on 16 July 1883 and reorganized as Company A, 10th Pennsylvania Infantry on 3 July 1884. About noon the 2d Battalion counterattacked and German pressure along the 112th front began to wane. The 26th Volks Grenadier Division poured more troops into the
His record in North Africa and Russia, where he achieved a reputation for energetic leadership and personal bravery, brought him to Hitler's attention and promotion directly from a division to an army command. At night the strip between the ridge and the river became a no man's land where German and American patrols stalked one another. On the evening of 15 December the outpost troops, considerably reinforced, crossed to the west bank as usual and moved cautiously forward. The telephone wires connecting the American-held villages were shot out in the first few minutes and Fuller could not reach any of his battalions; artillery radios, however, continued to function. of 16 December, therefore, the German commander ordered the corps to
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. With the few troops remaining, Milton successfully made his way cross-country to the west. the 156th Regiment. 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 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. He argued that the enemy literally must not be awakened and that the assault forces should move forward the moment the guns sounded. A half hour before dawn on 18 December German guns and mortars opened heavy fire. 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. 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. Company C was in "reserve" in Munshausen. The task of rebuilding the rifle companies, repairing battle damage, and training replacements was of necessity a slow one. Sufficient trucks were available to motorize most of the division, but there was a shortage of tracked cross-country vehicles. The refused positions of the 2d Battalion allowed fairly free use of a regimental reserve during both days and good counterattack plans were ready. The assault company from the 156th was initially more fortunate in its advance west of Ltzkampen. 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. The garrison of a hundred or so was reinforced by Company L, ordered back from Holzthum to avoid entrapment. regiment, despite many attempts, had not been able "to get going. The 1st Battalion, 112th Infantry Regiment draws its origins from Civil War era units, including the 13th, 15th, and 17th Pennsylvania Regiments and still maintains the right to possess the silver bands and battle streamers awarded for battle service in the Peninsula and Virginia 18611863 campaigns and for participation in the battles of Manassas, Antietam, Fredericksburg, Gettysburg, the Wilderness, and Spottsylvania. The battalion was activated for federal service in Iraq 19 September 2008, and redeployed back to the States in late August 2009. Earlier the XLVII Panzer
126th Infantry Regiment. 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. 4th Infantry Division Campaigns during World War II. 113th Infantry Regiment. 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. The American strongpoints were therefore located with an eye to blocking these entry ways while at the same time defending the lateral ridge road which connected the 110th with its neighboring regiments and provided the main artery sustaining the entire division front. 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. At Heinerscheid, Company A had been overrun in
But Germans struck again and again. First, Luettwitz could not allow any slackening to an infantry pace by frontal attacks against strongly defended American positions. The tank thrust through the 1st Battalion center pushed parts of companies C (a platoon of which had joined the battalion from training), A, and D back through the woods toward Welchenhausen. against the British and American advance in southwest Holland, and had
Picture 1 of 6. Maps picked up from dead Germans showed that the American machine gun positions had been exactly plotted-but as they had existed up to a change made just before the 16th. Both flanks of the regiment, however, were in process of being uncovered by enemy thrusts against the neighboring units-although this effect may not have been immediately apparent. Southeast of the town
On 5 April 1877, Company C, 5th Pennsylvania Infantry (Altoona) was organized. However, these unit designations were short-lived. 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. 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 company commander withdrew the remaining five tanks on a side road and reached Urspelt, taking position near the 2d Battalion command post.9, The American pincers action had failed to constrict at Marnach. Seven officers and fifty to sixty men did reach Donnange. 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! Colonel Nelson sent back request after request for air support. [3] The regiment plowed through France and Germany, participating in the capture of Paris and the bitter fighting in the Huertgen Forest. 65th Infantry Regiment, Puerto Rican Casualties 66th Armored, Casualties 714th Anti Tank . Leaving only a screening force behind, the 60th Regiment
"Rocky" Moretto was one of only two men in his infantry company who . The battle of the bulge had begun. A Symbol of the Combat Ability of MI Soldiers. 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. The authors do a great job of telling the the story with first-person accounts from the American soldiers, both officers and enlisted. But there were too few guns and too few air sorties to keep the enemy immobilized for long. Tank Battalion-some six crippled tanks and five assault guns was gathered
Col, Plt Sgt, 112th Infantry Regiment, 28th Division, Battle of the Bulge, Huertgen Forest, USA. From Philadelphia to the Battle of the Bulge: The Brief Life of Pvt. His staff and regimental commanders, appointees of Generaloberst Kurt Student, had formed a clique against the previous commander and were hostile to Heilmann.19 Furthermore, troops and troop leaders were poorly trained, coming as they had only recently from Luftwaffe ground units. Most of the tanks and assault guns were out of action, there were insufficient machine guns to cover the final protective line, radio communication between the desperate units was practically nonexistent, searchlight rays glancing from the low clouds lighted the path of the attackers, and ammunition was running very low. 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