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. 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The road center at Wiltz and the bridges there were only about twelve miles from Bastogne. However, if it were not . and withdrew on foot to Wiltz-the 2d Battalion flanks were wide open. 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. Here about ten o'clock, Battery C of the 229th came under direct tank fire but stopped the tanks with howitzer fire at close range while Company C of the 447th Antiaircraft Artillery Battalion used its quad mount machine guns to chop down the infantry following behind. When Germany surrendered on May 8, 1945, Staff Sgt. that a bridge could be in before the night of 17 December. On the corps left, however, General Kokott and the 26th Volks Grenadier Division jumped the gun. On 15 July 1871, Sheridan Troop (Tyrone) was organized. Hfen, along with the nearby town of Monschau, was strategically vital because it sat on elevated terrain overlooking an important road junction. Then, too, the 2d Battalion had once again used the stone bridge south of Ouren to launch a counterattack across the river and, during the afternoon, materially restored the 3d Battalion positions. column and, attacking through the dark with grenades and bayonets, cleared the position. . 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. West of Harspelt the self-propelled tank destroyer platoon from the 811th arrived in time to destroy four of the panzers, but at the cost of all but one of its own guns. Interviewees include company commanders, platoon leaders . If you want a powerful account of the battle from the mouths of those who were there, this is it. In 1949, the Bellefonte unit was redesignated Battery B, 688th Field Artillery. Back to the west, in the 28th Division command post at Wiltz, General Cota took what steps he could to help the 110th Infantry. Roads and bridges, he reckoned, must be in shape to support the American troops east of the river. 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. 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. of the 77th, under the cover provided by German artillery, drove in to the south edge of Hosingen, contrary to orders, and there grappled The tankers had been told that there were no friendly troops on the road and just Outside Holzthum knocked out an antitank gun placed there by Company I. 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. In midmorning Paul ordered Company C to march north from Munshausen, leaving the cannon company there, and counterattack the Germans in the Company B area. 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. 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. blocked with trees and mines, the bridge debris would have taken much Before noon five separate assaults had been made at Consthum, but all were beaten off by small arms, .50-caliber, and artillery fire. 124th Infantry Regiment. 20th Armored Division (480th AIR*) 8th AIB 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. The northern regiment of the Panzer Lehr Division, the 902d, made better progress. Those in the south fell back toward Wiltz, the division command post. It was breached at midnight when tanks and self-propelled guns of the 3d Panzer Regiment entered Marnach. the 2d Battalion back through Reuler, the Americans fighting stubbornly As a substitute, a system of village strongpoints-each manned in about rifle company strength-was set up on the ridge line separating the Our and Clerf Rivers, which here is traced by the excellent north-south highway connecting St. Vith and Diekirch. The little group from regimental headquarters which had been deployed on the ridge line at Ouren was less successful. Kokott's infantry would have to carry the battle through the night. German plans. He was wounded in action on Dec. 16, 1944 in Bleialf, Germany, by shrapnel. (Strickler made it to the latter point where General Cota placed him in charge of the defense.) The 2d Battalion, 112th Infantry Regiment's heritage can be traced back to the Logan Guards The 26th Volks Grenadier Division needed Hosinen badly. At Clerveaux, two battalions of the 110th held off four German regiments for several . Colonel Nelson sent back request after request for air support. 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. Albert was an Army veteran of World War II, serving in the 28th Division during the Battle of the Bulge. Luettwitz turned the Geilenkirchen sector over to the In 1947, the Lewistown unit was redesignated Headquarters and Service Battery, 176th Field Artillery Battalion. Aside from patrol activity (generally small raids against individual pillboxes) the 112th Infantry sector had been quiet. 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. 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. Finally, the regimental antitank and cannon companies were disposed around Ouren guarding the bridges, the roads, and the regimental command post. When daylight came, the German infantry already were stealing through the draws behind and around the forward platoons, aiming to assemble in the wooded areas to the rear.14. Although the enemy had seized all of the ground which the 112th Infantry was occupying east of the Our and finally had secured a bridgehead at Ouren, the cost to him on 17 December had been high. The 112th Infantry Regiment was formed and officially designated as the 16th Infantry from . 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. and the U.S. 84th Division had essayed an attack in the sector around 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. An unidentified crew of a 447th Antiaircraft Artillery half-track drove straight onto the mines, its .50-caliber fire searching out the enemy riflemen. 5 During the division attack of 2-1 November in the Schmidt-Vossenack sector the 28th had taken 6,184 casualties. The Germans planned to connect this route to their own supply lines by bridging the Our at Dasburg. The town itself lies in a horseshoe bend of the river. Kokott's screening regiment, the 78th, had been in the habit of throwing out an outpost line west of the Our from nightfall till dawn. The sector designated for the XLVII Panzer Corps breakthrough was held by the 1st and 3d Battalions of the 110th Infantry (28th Infantry Division), commanded by Col. Hurley E. Fuller. But . They were mustered out of federal service in December 1898. 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. [] to pivot its weight on Ltzkampen in a drive southwestward toward then, as seen by Manteuffel and Luettwitz, was not how to achieve the 112th Infantry took up their posts in the . Later Colonel Fuller was captured, with a group of stragglers he commanded, while attempting to break through to the west. Finally Luettwitz was promised two 60-ton bridges-capable of carrying his Panthers-and very considerable support from the Luftwaffe. 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. Colonel Nelson gave the order to withdraw behind the river under cover of darkness. The 309th and 310th Infantry Regiments . Michael Tolhurst: Bastogne: Battle of the Bulge, Pen & Sword Books Limited (Battleground Europe series), 2001 . 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. This seemed to be the most endangered sector of the whole division front, for here the 2d Panzer Division had been identified and here was the main hard-surface road to Bastogne. the 109th and 112th Regiments gave ground slowly, but they . Col, Plt Sgt, 112th Infantry Regiment, 28th Division, Battle of the Bulge, Huertgen Forest, USA. 22 Mar - 11 May 45 Central Europe Campaign CD 2 36 Pages - PDF. the Reconnaissance Battalion of the 116th Panzer Division 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. against the British and American advance in southwest Holland, and had The next day General Cota ordered the battalion to Wiltz, where it would take part in the defense of the division headquarters. 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. 28th Infantry Division The 28th Division was destined to move againdestined for another job (the Gloomy Hurtgen Forest). About noon the 2d Battalion counterattacked and German pressure along the 112th front began to wane. Their stories are spellbinding. The presence of two panzer units on the 110th Infantry front was not suspected. 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. The Fifth Panzer commander seems to have been fairly optimistic, although he gave little ear to Hitler's promise of air support. For their exploits, the I&R Platoon, 394th Infantry Regiment, 99th Infantry Division, would later become "the most heavily decorated . Six three-inch towed But Germans struck again and again. Of the 1st Battalion, only a part of Company C retained its organization. Arriving in France in late Spring 1918 . 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. Two hours later tanks and self-propelled guns struck the 44th Engineers, which was outposting the little hamlets northeast of Wiltz. Collectively, these units received credit for the following World War II campaigns: Normandy (with the Bellefonte unit participating in the assault landing), Northern France, Rhineland, Ardennes-Alsace, and Central Europe. fire and sent forward a white flag, with an offer for the Americans to surrender. The 112th Infantry south wing was giving way under heavy attack, and during the day all communications between the regiment and division were lost. 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 . In July 1917, the Lewistown, Tyrone, Huntingdon, Everett, Altoona, and Bellefonte units were mustered into federal service for. All of these units were released from federal service in 1945. It became the 112th Infantry Regimental Combat Team. . At 1839 the sergeant at the regimental switchboard called the division to report that he was alone-only the switchboard was left. Southeast of the town Some of the first Americans to confront Hitler's gamble on the front lines were the men of the 394th Infantry Regiment at Lanzareth Ridge. On the evening 18-41 On 18 December what was left of the 110th Infantry was wiped out or withdrew to the west.11 Survivors in the north headed toward Donnange and, with Company G, joined elements of the 9th Armored Division to make a stand. 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. About 0300 engineers manning pneumatic rubber boats began ferrying the 80-man assault companies and heavy infantry weapons across the river. XLVII Panzer Corps arrived at the headquarters of the Fifth 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. General Middleton agreed, but with the proviso that the regiment should remain close enough to the river to deny an enemy crossing. Perhaps the tankers were too busy looting the American freight cars and supply dumps to bother with the little force in the chteau. and the few remaining towed tank destroyers of Company B, 630th Tank Luettwitz concluded that the Clerf River now would be crossed not later than the evening of the second day. 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. 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. 123th Infantry Regiment. Nonetheless he advised Cota to withdraw the 110th back of the Clerf, that "under the circumstances it was necessary." By nightfall the American perimeter had been pierced at many points and the defenders pushed back into the center of Wiltz. 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 . Hyperleap helps uncover and suggest. By noon Company D had so many prisoners that it "couldn't handle them all!" Through the early hours of 17 December American outposts reported sounds of tank movement in Ltzkampen. Second, he had to disregard his own flanks, particularly on the south, and resolutely refuse to detach any force for flank protection until the main body was west of the Meuse. The numerous pillboxes provided a substantial amount of cover; the 3d Battalion, for example, was not seriously endangered until the attacking tanks maneuvered close enough for direct fire. The Infantry School at Fort Benning began collecting academic monographs from company commanders soon after the end of World War II, to record their personal combat experiences. The fight in the Schmidt area had cost the 112th Infantry alone about 2,000 killed, wounded, missing, and nonbattle casualties. 29th Infantry Division 58th Inf Bde 115th 175th 88th Inf Bde 116th 176th. 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. Shortly before dusk 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. With this team Manteuffel hoped to win a quick penetration and get rolling. the 447th Antiaircraft Battalion, and light armored cars of the 28th A small tank-infantry team blasted the single 57-mm. The field artillery commander in his turn would credit the ably served .50-caliber machine guns and 40-mm. On the morning of the 17th German tanks had set the town ablaze, but the few American Shermans had held them at bay. The company leading the left battalion surprised a platoon of Company L at breakfast, overran the company kitchen (which was only 800 to goo yards behind the rifle line) and killed the platoon commander. The unit inflicted 1600 casualties and destroyed eighteen tanks during nine days of continuous action, that was later known as the Battle of the Bulge. Source Documents: Danny S. Parker, Battle of the Bulge, Hitler's Ardennes Offensive, 1944-1945, 1991, Combined Book Inc, Hong Kong; Shelby S. Stanton, Order of Battle US Army, Presidio Press, Novato, California, 1984; different additional sources. Across town the regimental headquarters company was billeted in an ancient chteau, now partially modernized but retaining the heavy stone walls behind which, since the twelfth century, fighting men had dominated the river bend and controlled the main bridge site. 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. Company D, in its support position on the high ground overlooking Ltzkampen, meanwhile commenced mopping up the enemy who had filtered between the companies on the line. These roads and bridges he intended to seize by surprise. In a month's time the flow of replacements had brought the regiment to full strength. On 5 April 1877, Company C, 5th Pennsylvania Infantry (Altoona) was organized. Company B held Marnach. But the tactical effect of this artillery preparation was considerably less than the German planners had anticipated. When orders finally arrived to hold in place, the 3d Battalion had reached a trident crossroad southwest of the town. The sequence of events in this story of difficulties in command and communication is none too clear, but the VIII Corps commander approved the attachment. A Time For Trumpets (MacDonald, 1984) can provide you good background on the fight that the 110th IR put up at Clerveaux. battalion, hastily formed from the 28th Division headquarters, by setting Sufficient trucks were available to motorize most of the division, but there was a shortage of tracked cross-country vehicles. In 1995 the battalion became a mechanized infantry battalion. positions. 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. Under this natural smoke screen German tanks and grenadiers poured into Consthum. to give an accurate count of losses in the 112th Infantry, but they seem to have been moderate. 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. The assault company from the 156th was initially more fortunate in its advance west of Ltzkampen. This battery was driven from Buchholz with the loss of half its howitzers. 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. Early morning reports of considerable German penetration and the threat and the 110th Infantry. Abstract. $14.95 + $5.50 shipping. The assault gun platoon gave good support wherever the line was threatened, but by the end of the afternoon its fuel and ammunition were nearly gone and the gunners, after four days of nearly continuous action, were approaching complete exhaustion. In the West, American, British and . The group never established contact, however, and most of its members were captured when they attempted to break away the following morning. Battle of Wilson's Creek, Civil War, North/South Becker County MN, WW2 KIA Five hundred yards from the Germans, on the far side of a draw, the. 122th Infantry Regiment. indicate a co-ordinated attack. the code name for the coming offensive. Separated of necessity by the width of the front and the requirements of some depth in the defenses athwart the east-west roads, the units of the 110th could offer little reciprocal support against an enemy attacking in any force. 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. 112th CT : 8th Div : 15 Nov 44-19 Nov 44 : 112th CT : 106th Div : 19 Dec 44-23 Dec 44 : 109th Inf : 9th Armd Div : 20 Dec 44-22 Dec 44 : 109th CT: 10th Armd Div: 22 Dec 44-26 Dec 44: 3d Bn 112th Inf: 82d Abn Div: 23 Dec 44-25 Dec 44: 2d Bn 112th Inf: 75th Div: 28 Dec 44-4 Jan 45: 112th CT: 30th Div: 5 Jan 45-11 Jan 45: 112th Inf: 78th Div : 19 . 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." 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. (Lewistown) and the Bellefonte Fencibles, both organized in 1858. Heilmann, therefore, had decided. 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. This is a useful if not exhaustive study of one of the main battles which made up the massive event known as The Battle of the Bu German defenses. The half-track was demolished, but the field had been exploded and the covering infantry cleared away. 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. his assistance, probably to be in position to give support by the late 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 main paved road from Marnach approaches Clerf through a shallow draw, passing just to the south of the little village of Reuler, which perches on the high ground overlooking the river bend. This new Altoona unit converted back to an engineer company unit they were redesignated Troop C, 104th Cavalry in 1929. 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 112th Infantry Sector The Everett unit remained with the 110th Infantry and the remaining Altoona unit became Company C in the. About this time a German tank platoon appeared on the ridge less than a thousand yards from the regimental command post in Ouren. The artillery supporting the LVIII Panzer Corps consisted of five battalions plus two Werfer battalions, and a few batteries of heavy guns. The stir and movement in the enemy lines during the two nights prior to 16 December was occasioned by troops moving in and troops moving out. The southern prong of the three-pronged counterattack to shut off the German armored drive moving through Marnach toward Clerf also was outgunned and outnumbered but did reach Marnach, only to report that no friendly infantry could be found. Just east of Bastogne the roads straightened somewhat, but 75 (Spring 2010), pp. The road net was adequate, although mired by constant rain, but the two forward battalions had to be supplied at night because of German fire. Colonel Lauchert was worried about the slow rate of the 2d Panzer advance. At Weiler the rest of the company and the antitank platoon, their supply of ammunition dwindling, also awaited the tanks. Each division was reinforced with additional self-propelled assault guns or tank destroyers and each had a full complement of divisional artillery (four battalions for the infantry division and three motorized battalions in the armored divisions). A camouflaged grunt takes aim. August 1944 was a disastrous month for the Third Reich. in house-to-house fighting with Company D and Company B, 103d Engineer Here in the south daylight patrols also operated to maintain control of the eastern bank, although the main positions were around Lieler and Lausdorn. What do Battle of Hrtgen Forest, Battle of the Bulge and 112th Infantry Regiment (United States) have in common. 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 time the bridge was blown. This created a bulge in the German line. Probably by this time a good share of the 116th tanks had been committed. 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. On 11 May 1898, these units were mustered into federal service for the. Company A, 110th Infantry (Everett) and Company G, 110th Infantry (Altoona) unit were both mustered into federal service for World War II in February 1941. The 106th Infantry Division took over position for position. One battalion of armored infantry was given bicycles, and would move so slowly through the mud and over the hills that its function during the drive to the west was simply that of a replacement battalion, feeding into the more mobile units up ahead. 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. 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. . 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. 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