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. 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. 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. Meanwhile the mortar crews took a hand from their foxholes on the hill behind Sevenig, dropping mortar shells into the hollows where the Germans congregated or picking them off with carbines. Before daybreak on 18 December the survivors, now only a handful, started west. in the Ardennes sector. 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. When day came the Americans caught the troops following the advance party of the assault company out in the open. Time was running out for the American companies: ammunition. the 2d Battalion back through Reuler, the Americans fighting stubbornly
But Battery A of the battalion was swept up by the Germans who had bypassed the left wing anchor of the regiment at Heinerscheid. Kokott's reserve regiment, the 78th, crossed the Our at dusk and moved forward. The 112th Infantry Regiment was formed and officially designated as the 16th Infantry from . Destroyer Battalion. At nearly every point the American tanks would have to fight their way down the roads to reach the infantry holding the villages. John "Lefty" Zagarella, As Told In Letters, 1941-1945. 107th Field Artillery Battalion (105 Howitzer) . In 1873, Company G, Monongahela Artillery (Everett) was renamed the Light Guards and then redesignated as Company A, 10th Pennsylvania Infantry. Patrols could not reach the 1st Battalion and at dusk the 3d Battalion reported that the panzers finally were in position to rake its ridge defenses with fire from the north-the pillbox line no longer was tenable. 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.. about six hundred men (it had been operating sawmills and rock crushers,
The 28th Division got caught in the Battle of the Bulge and endured many casualties. By February, they were back on the offensive. Colonel Nelson gave the order to withdraw behind the river under cover of darkness. Once this barrier was passed the 26th would be responsible for covering the left flank of the corps while the armored divisions made the Meuse crossings. his assistance, probably to be in position to give support by the late
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The 77th had been unable to win a quick decision at Hosingen. The field artillery commander in his turn would credit the ably served .50-caliber machine guns and 40-mm. Colonel Strickler decided to evacuate Wiltz by infiltration and regroup at Sibret, but with the Germans pressing in from all sides and no means of reaching his units except by runner the actual withdrawal would be difficult to control. 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. The Panzer Lehr (Generalleutnant Fritz Bayerlein) was one of the divisions earmarked in November for use in the Ardennes counteroffensive, but the American offensive in Lorraine and Alsace had forced OKW to release the Panzer Lehr from its position in the strategic reserve. 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. 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. . He was born Dec. 12, 1922, in Litchville, N.D., to Ole and Inga (Olson) Fostervold. Later the Americans in this sector reported that the attackers must have been "awfully green"-as indeed they were. One rifle regiment and part of the division engineers were still in Denmark. in house-to-house fighting with Company D and Company B, 103d Engineer
At Weiler the Americans, with only a few rounds left, were completely surrounded and decided to fight their way out. One
The latter was a hard-driving commander, daring and tenacious, and had a reputation of giving help to neighboring formations without debate. 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. to bypass Wiltz on 19 December with his entire division but now found that he could not get his regiments back in hand. Although success or failure would turn. After a brief pause they wheeled back into Ltzkampen. Aside from patrol activity (generally small raids against individual pillboxes) the 112th Infantry sector had been quiet. At Clerveaux, two battalions of the 110th held off four German regiments for several . howitzers and the tank platoon near Buchholz, again had to side-step in the drive to the Clerf. It was amended to show additional war service on 29 August 1951. He fought in Northern France, was part of the force that liberated Luxembourg before dying of wounds sustained by German artillery fire in the Siegfried Line Campaign, September 19th, 1944. In 1968, all of the units, except for the units in Huntingdon and Everett became the 2nd Battalion, 104th Cavalry; Lewistown was Headquarters and Headquarters Troop (less detached troops), Tyrone was Troop H, Altoona unit became Troop G and Howitzer Battery, and the Bellefonte unit became a Detachment of Headquarters and Headquarters Troop. 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 . The 26th Volks Grenadier Division was across the Our River in force but had failed to gain its first-day objective, control of the Clerf River crossings. Fuller, however, was able to get a warning message through to the 28th Division command post about 0900. arrived early in the afternoon but left precipitately, losing one gun
on the left flank of the US Ninth Army. 120th Infantry Regiment. The Lewistown unit was redesignated as Machine Gun Troop, 104th Cavalry, 22nd Cavalry Division. On the left of the regimental zone, the 1st Battalion (Lt. Col. Donald Paul) held the intersection of the Skyline Drive and the Dasburg-Bastogne main highway at Marnach, employing Company B and a platoon from the 630th Tank Destroyer Battalion. 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. This German blow fell on either side of Sevenig, held by Company L. The American barbed wire line had not been completed across the draws to the north and south of the village; through these gaps the shock companies advanced. Staff Sgt. Luettwitz and the army commander ran at least two map
Service in the Civil War is shown by the cross pate, the badge of the 5th Corps, 3rd Division, in which the organization served in that war. The problem
The 112th Infantry Regiment protected five miles of the northern section, the 109th covered nine miles on the southern end, and the 110th Infantry Regiment was responsible . 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. 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. 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). The task of rebuilding the rifle companies, repairing battle damage, and training replacements was of necessity a slow one. the code name for the coming offensive. There the infantry driving toward the town of Clerf had been stopped short of their objective. Both of these positions lay adjacent to the prospective boundary between the XLVII and LXXXV Corps. The government of Luxembourg awarded it the Croix de Guerre, and the 112th Infantry Regiment received a Presidential Unit Citation, but that was the extent of the official recognition. 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. Losses in equipment had been particularly heavy. 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. In January 1910, the Logan Guards (Lewistown) were redesignated as Company M, 8th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment and Company A, 5th Pennsylvania Infantry (Huntingdon) was redesignated as Company F, 8th Pennsylvania Infantry, Company C, 5th Infantry (Altoona) was redesignated as Company G, 10th Infantry, and Company B, 5th Infantry (Bellefonte) was redesignated Company L, 12th Pennsylvania Infantry. On the evening of 15 December the outpost troops, considerably reinforced, crossed to the west bank as usual and moved cautiously forward. Replacements, mostly from the Navy, were whipped into shape by the "Old 26th," and first-rate equipment replaced that lost in the east. Located at the Library of Virginia in Richmond, Virginia. The first word of the approaching enemy reached the 110th Infantry headquarters at Clerf shortly after 0615. But by the middle of December the 110th Infantry had almost a full roster-a roster numbering many men and some officers who yet had to see their first action. It landed in France, 22 November, and moved to Tongres, Belgium, and to Rotgen, Germany, to prepare for combat. 122th Infantry Regiment. General Cota and the 28th Division Staff were prepared for some kind of German effort west of the Our, but the intelligence coming down from higher headquarters pointed only to the possibility of a limited German attack against the 109th Infantry and the American communications running north from Luxembourg City. 20th Armored Division (480th AIR*) 8th AIB 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. 112th Regimental Combat Team, WW1 29th Infantry Div Casualties, WW2 303rd Bomb Group, Casualties, WW2 . The division's three regiments were in a line, with the 112th, 110th, and 109th Infantry Regiments aligned north to south. When the mortar crews and antitank platoon had used all their ammunition they joined the infantry in the center of the village and fought as riflemen. At 1330 the enemy ceased, GERMAN TROOPS ADVANCING PAST ABANDONED AMERICAN EQUIPMENT. The advance party of grenadiers had moved along the wooded draw between the two companies holding the 1st Battalion line. Only a short distance beyond, at a third block, fire swept into the column from all sides. midafternoon, leaving open an avenue into the 2d Battalion left flank. A part of the German company, perhaps a platoon in strength, succeeded in reaching the stone bridge over the Our south of Ouren, but was dispersed. Colonel Nelson at this moment had two contradictory orders and would have to risk his regiment if he carried out either. 113th Infantry Regiment. It became the 112th Infantry Regimental Combat Team which consisted of the 112th Infantry Regiment, the 229th Field Artillery Battalion, the 103rd Engineer Battalion, Company C, 447th Antiaircraft Artillery Battalion, and Company C, 630th Tank Destroyer Battalion. by HistoryNet Staff 6/12/2006. the German engineers moved in. and the 110th Infantry. 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. Completely surrounded by the enemy, it had hoped to join the withdrawal of the line companies. The 77th marched toward Drauffelt on the Clerf River, leaving the replacement training battalion to continue the fight at Hosingen. XVII SS Corps on 6 December and moved with his staff to Kyllburg,
returned to the line in this sector in mid-November to bolster the failing
James Russell Fostervold, 86, of Willmar, died Tuesday at his home following an illness. 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. In September 2015 the Battalion was activated and deployed to, This page was last edited on 31 August 2022, at 16:23. 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. As each company debarked it marched inland to the line of departure which the outpost force now held close to the American garrison points. Map of St Vith drawn 15 November 1944. had no cohesive line of defense, General Kokott had ordered the 77th Regiment to circle north of Hosingen and head straight for the Clerf bridges at Drauffelt, while the 39th cut cross-country, avoiding the villages on the western side of the ridge line, and seized the road junction and bridges at Wilwerwiltz on the Clerf. given new divisions to spearhead the brief spoiling attack in late October
The 56th redeployed to America toward the end of 2009. The other Altoona unit was mustered into federal service for home station duty during World War II as Battery B, 200th Field Artillery. The Americans had taken 186 prisoners and killed or wounded two or three times that number; the losses in the 1130th Regiment were "very high," said the enemy reports. Middleton had ordered the 44th Engineer Combat Battalion
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. Viewing, the ground in front of his right armored corps as especially difficult, Manteuffel would give Generaloberst Walter Krueger's LVIII Panzer Corps a fairly narrow front for the initial assault. A Time for Trumpets: The Untold Story of the Battle of the Bulge. 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. On 25 April 1861, Company G, The Monongahela Artillery (Everett) was mustered into federal service for the American Civil War as part of the. If you want a powerful account of the battle from the mouths of those who were there, this is it. If anyone has information about Fred or his division please contact me. Two hours later tanks and self-propelled guns struck the 44th Engineers, which was outposting the little hamlets northeast of Wiltz. . 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. (Lt. Col. Clarion J. Kjeldseth) to Wiltz on the previous evening with
The regiment was called to active federal service on 17 February 1941, 10 months prior to the attack on Pearl Harbor. 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. This was the end: shots, blazing vehicles, and screaming wounded. Luettwitz turned the Geilenkirchen sector over to the
A platoon of self-propelled tank destroyers had
or support the 3d Battalion, 110th Infantry, fighting at Consthum. At 2100, therefore, General Cota turned the reserve rifle battalion back to the 110th Infantry, minus Company G which was moved to Wiltz to defend the division command post, and agreed with Colonel Fuller's proposal that the battalion be used in an attack eastward to restore American control at Marnach. battalion, hastily formed from the 28th Division headquarters, by setting
The battle of the bulge had begun. The lion is in the infantry color and both symbols represent the locale of the regiment's combat in World War II. The regimental cannon company also provided some interested spectators, who trained their howitzers on Heinerscheid with such good effect that enemy records take rueful note of this harassing fire from the north. The total impact of the severe German blows dealt the 110th Infantry in the late afternoon and evening of 17 December was not felt at the division and corps headquarters for several hours. At dawn a single tank or self-propelled gun began firing from the curving road to the south; more enemy infantry joined the fire fight near the chteau as the morning advanced. 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 . During the Battle of the Bulge the 112th RCT managed to . 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. west of the German jump-off positions on the Our River and the final
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. Battalion. German field guns, by this time west of the Clerf, opened fire on Wiltz at noon. 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. During most of this first day of attack the German infantry had fought west of the Our without heavy weapons, although the bulk of two regiments from. 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. Late in the afternoon, Colonel Fuller had ordered Company D, a platoon of heavy machine guns, and a provisional rifle company hastily assembled from men on pass in Clerf, to move to Reuler and protect Battery B of the 109th Field Artillery Battalion, then firing in support of the troops in Marnach and very hard pressed by the enemy. 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. This was the last word from Marnach. After dark on 17 December a captain led in about twenty-five men of Company I from Weiler, after a desperate march, narrow escapes, and an ambuscade. 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