Staff Sgt. Although success or failure would turn. 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. The shield is white, the old infantry color. Bastogne presented a special problem, a problem recognized in the first
In fact, detachments of the 39th Regiment had crossed the Skyline Drive unobserved and were moving in to surprise Holzthum. At night the strip between the ridge and the river became a no man's land where German and American patrols stalked one another. The division advance guard from the 15th Parachute Regiment (supposedly on its way to capture Sibret) somehow became confused, wandered away northward, and about 1500 struck the 687th Field Artillery Battalion, whose batteries had displaced to a road angling southeast from the town.20 Battery A met the tanks leading the German column with direct fire, disabled or destroyed them, and briefly slowed the advance toward Wiltz. His staff, carefully selected and personally devoted to the little general, was probably the best German staff on the Western Front. moved toward Sevenig. The action of the 112th Infantry in this part of the 28th Division story stands therefore as an episode in itself until, after four days' fighting, the regiment joins the forces arrayed in defense of St. Vith.13. All this gave the 112th Infantry a chance to get its breath on 18 December. 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 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. 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. The 56th redeployed to America toward the end of 2009. 125th Infantry Regiment. To compensate for the armored weakness of the battered division, two battalions of armored tank destroyers and an assault gun brigade were given Bayerlein just before the attack to the west began. to pivot its weight on Ltzkampen in a drive southwestward toward
It contains several maps, showing the sectors of the major air units. 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. Colonel Nelson decided to pull back through Huldange since enemy tanks were known to be in Trois Vierges. Meanwhile, General Middleton, the VIII Corps commander, issued a holdfast order to all his troops. The fight in the Schmidt area had cost the 112th Infantry alone about 2,000 killed, wounded, missing, and nonbattle casualties. During the morning the 26th Volks Grenadier Division engaged in desultory action, moving troops around to the north. The Lewistown unit was redesignated as Machine Gun Troop, 104th Cavalry, 22nd Cavalry Division. 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. 116th Infantry Regiment. 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. A scratch platoon of less than fifty men collected from the regimental headquarters and Ouren held the supporting German infantry at bay along the ridge east of the village. 75 (Spring 2010), pp. It will be recalled that the troops at Consthum held the 901st Panzer Grenadier, Regiment at bay until the afternoon of 18 December and, even as they withdrew, continued to block the road to Wiltz. Legacy : Acker, Lewis F. Lt Col CWS : . The 14th Parachute Regiment, which had been moving slowly westward (the 5th Parachute Division commander ascribed its dilatory movement to the habit of attacking small villages in order to have billets for the cold December nights), entered the fight via a climb onto the eastern ridge overlooking the town. The 2d Battalion, surrounded on the ridge east of Clerf, attempted to filter through the enemy lines in the early morning hours. The 2d Panzer Division advance guard had taken a bloody nose
Co-ordination between small packets of infantry and armor, hard at best, was made most difficult by this kind of piecemeal commitment. The regiment was called to active federal service on 17 February 1941, 10 months prior to the attack on Pearl Harbor. An unidentified crew of a 447th Antiaircraft Artillery half-track drove straight onto the mines, its .50-caliber fire searching out the enemy riflemen. The Logan Guards were mustered as Company E, 25th Pennsylvania Volunteers and then as Company A, 46th Pennsylvania Volunteers. This point was conceded when Hitler ruled that the artillery fires along the entire front would begin at 0530. As a junior officer in the prewar panzer troops, Manteuffel had made a mark as an armored specialist. and the U.S. 84th Division had essayed an attack in the sector around
To the surprise of the division staff the task of re-equipping and replenishing the 26th went amazingly fast for the beginning of the sixth year of the war. 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. Only three of the howitzers left could be withdrawn and losses among the cannoneers and drivers were high. and the few remaining towed tank destroyers of Company B, 630th Tank
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. 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. On March 12, 1879, Governor Henry Hoyt signed General Order Number One appointing Maj. Gen. John Hartranft as the first division commander of the National Guard of Pennsylvania, and the most storied and renowned division in the history of the U.S. Army was born. 30th Infantry Division 59th Inf Bde . The 110th Antitank Company was in Hoscheid just to the west. and maneuver was possible. time was needed for orders to reach the front-line troops. 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 Our, in many places, was no more than forty feet wide and easily fordable, but the roads leading to the river made circuitous and abrupt descent as they neared its banks. About 1000 on 18 December, General Cota received the welcome word that
The Americans had identified the 26th long since as the unit garrisoning the West Wall bunkers on the German bank. The half-track was demolished, but the field had been exploded and the covering infantry cleared away. 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. The 1st Platoon of Company I had
up positions north and east of the town. Heilmann, therefore, had decided. But the German tanks were fanning out as the day drew to a close, turning attention to the south as well as the west. 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. Meanwhile he dispatched
exercises to arrive at a solution, but Bastogne lay nineteen air-miles
By nightfall the American perimeter had been pierced at many points and the defenders pushed back into the center of Wiltz. 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. 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. observers could see the enemy assembling in the woods just to the north. New York: Orion Books, 1989. By this time, however, the advance infantry detachments of the 2d Panzer Division were not only involved in a battle to knock out Marnach but were pushing past the village en route to Clerf. Colonel Fuller's command post was in a hotel only a few yards from the north bridge. One thing clearly worried him: would the Seventh Army keep pace and cover his left flank to Bastogne? Company C was in "reserve" in Munshausen. The 229th Field Artillery Battalion was emplaced behind the north flank near Welchenhausen on the German side of the river. The Battle of the Bulge took place in December 1944, after Adolf Hitler launched a surprise blitzkrieg against Allied Forces in northwest Europe. For their exploits, the I&R Platoon, 394th Infantry Regiment, 99th Infantry Division, would later become "the most heavily decorated . The unit was transported to and garrisoned at El Paso, Texas for training, but was never utilized because hostilities ended. United States Army, Historical and Pictorial Review of the 28th Infantry Division in World War II, 1946, page 16, Learn how and when to remove this template message, Distinguished Unit Citation with oak leaf, "112th Infantry Regiment (Sixteenth Pennsylvania)", United States Army Center of Military History, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=112th_Infantry_Regiment_(United_States)&oldid=1107738250, Infantry regiments of the United States Army National Guard, Military units and formations in Pennsylvania, United States Army units and formations in the Korean War, Infantry regiments of the United States Army, Military units and formations established in 1878, Articles needing additional references from September 2009, All articles needing additional references, Wikipedia articles needing clarification from February 2014, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0. The latter was a hard-driving commander, daring and tenacious, and had a reputation of giving help to neighboring formations without debate. 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. Reports include lessons learned, analysis, and criticisms. 109th, 110th, and 112th Infantry Regiments 107th, 108th . 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. This new Altoona unit converted back to an engineer company unit they were redesignated Troop C, 104th Cavalry in 1929. 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. The 112th Infantry Regiment returned home in April 1919 and was mustered out of federal service on 6 May 1919 at Camp Dix, New Jersey. 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. 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. 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. 28th Infantry Division The 28th Division was destined to move againdestined for another job (the Gloomy Hurtgen Forest). Summarized in part from an article of the Morning Record. artillery by this time had displaced to the west and was out of range. The Bofors crews belonging to the 447th Antiaircraft Artillery lingered on near Consthum as a rear guard, discouraging all pursuit with their fast, accurate fire. close to the Fifth Panzer Army headquarters, where a few
Unit decoration: Presidential Unit Citation, 1623 Dec 1944 112th Infantry, Civil War silver bands: The artillery supporting the LVIII Panzer Corps consisted of five battalions plus two Werfer battalions, and a few batteries of heavy guns. The refused positions of the 2d Battalion allowed fairly free use of a regimental reserve during both days and good counterattack plans were ready. in the bogs and swamps of southwest Holland, where the 30 British Corps
THE ARDENNES CAMPAIGN: BATTLE OF THE BULGE Bull, Harold R.: Papers, 1943-1968 Box 1 Miscellaneous Military Letters, 1 June-20 December 1944 (1) Box 2 Additional Papers, 1944-1948 Collins, J. Lawton: Papers, 1896-1975 . Five crack enemy divisionsPanzer, Infantry, Volksgrenadierhurled across the Our River the first day of the assault. During the afternoon the Germans pressed
Tanks, ordered up from the division reserve, had not yet arrived. In 1995 the battalion became a mechanized infantry battalion. 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. Between Holzthum and Buchholz, Battery C of the 109th Field Artillery was hit hard but held its positions, firing the 105-mm. Volks Grenadier Division) had not fared too well in the attack
It was disbanded on 16 July 1883 and reorganized as Company A, 10th Pennsylvania Infantry on 3 July 1884. Organized by Pennsylvania in 1878, the division was made up of units that had already earned battle streamers for contributions in conflicts from the American Revolution to the Civil War. . Luettwitz and the army commander ran at least two map
Created in late 1917, the 4th Infantry Division served with distinction during World War I.On June 6, 1944 (), the "Ivy" division was the first US unit to land on Utah Beach.Two months later, on August 25, 1944, it liberated Paris.In September, it crossed the border into Germany, fighting in the Hrtgen Forest and in the Battle of the Bulge. the 109th and 112th Regiments gave ground slowly, but they . With three divisions, and added corps troops, the XLVII Panzer Corps possessed a considerable amount of shock and fire power. 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. On the Battle of the Bulge: Eisenhower, John S. D. The Bitter Woods. 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. 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. it to call on neighboring battalions, attacking Weiler, to help outflank
1st Cavalry . On 11 October 1917 the 16th Pennsylvania Regiment was redesignated as the 112th Infantry Regiment and became part of the 28th Infantry Division. World War II Records, 110th Infantry Regiment, 28th Infantry Division, History . Albert was an Army veteran of World War II, serving in the 28th Division during the Battle of the Bulge. During the Battle of the Bulge the 112th RCT managed to . 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. employ the armor once these two rivers lay behind. They were mustered out of federal service in December 1898. The 311th Infantry Regiment was attached to the 8th Division in the Hurtgen Forest, 10 December. The next day General Cota ordered the battalion to Wiltz, where it would take part in the defense of the division headquarters. Shortly before noon the advance guard of the 60th Panzer Regiment, rolling along the Ltzkampen-Leidenborn road, appeared on the knoll west of Ltzkampen. 110th Infantry Regiment; 112th Infantry Regiment ; 107th Field Artillery Battalion; 108th Field Artillery Battalion; 109th . 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 . effort to clear, and to Krueger's disappointment there was no assurance
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