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. Company B of the 2d Tank Battalion, en route to set up a roadblock northeast of Clerf, was appropriated by General Cota and sent to support the 110th Infantry. As American riflemen and machine gunners cut down the German assault teams, they saw their own ranks thinning. But menaced as they were, the artillery commander could not risk his howitzers further. U.S. Army photo. They were mustered out of federal service in December 1898. 127th Infantry Regiment. Descent to the town and its bridges is made on this side by two winding roads. Remnants of the 3d Battalion had assembled at Consthum, the battalion headquarters. Men in the observation posts watched the enemy move about his daily chores and reported flares and occasional rounds of mortar or artillery fire. Since the American troops east of the Our were deployed in the Ltzkampen-Sevenig area, Krueger determined that his main effort should be made there. Colonel Lauchert was worried about the slow rate of the 2d Panzer advance. However, these unit designations were short-lived. 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. The fall of Wiltz ended the 28th Division's delaying action before Bastogne. In this fight the crossroads near Erpeldange changed hands four times. The attack by the light tank company of the 707th along the Skyline Drive was disastrous. 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. Colonel Fuller had ordered a platoon of the 2d Battalion to swing south and bar the road, but it was already dominated by the German armor. In 1873, Company G, Monongahela Artillery (Everett) was renamed the Light Guards and then redesignated as Company A, 10th Pennsylvania Infantry. The Lewistown unit was redesignated as Machine Gun Troop, 104th Cavalry, 22nd Cavalry Division. 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 . Eighteen men put up devastating fire against the first attack of over 500 German paratroopers. In fact, detachments of the 39th Regiment had crossed the Skyline Drive unobserved and were moving in to surprise Holzthum. It contains several maps, showing the sectors of the major air units. Attempts during the evening to send a task force of stragglers and trains forward from the 28th Division headquarters at Sibret were abortive; the roads east to Wiltz now were blocked every few kilometers by enemy infantry and self-propelled guns. 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. 29th Infantry Division 58th Inf Bde 115th 175th 88th Inf Bde 116th 176th. 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. In final form, the LVIII Panzer Corps' mission was to cross the Our River on both sides of Ouren, drive west on the Houffalize axis, and create a bridgehead over the Meuse River in the neighborhood of Namur and Andenne. Even on the first day of the offensive one of Heilmann's regiments had been lost for several hours. On 11 May 1898, these units were mustered into federal service for the. 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. Reconnaissance Troop reinforced the perimeter. led the corps commander to order the 116th Panzer Division Geilenkirchen intended to erase the salient retained by the Germans 28th Infantry Division's 112th Infantry Regiment: Manhay area 30th Infantry Division: Malmdy, Stavelot, Stoumont, La Gleize . DECEMBER 1944. 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 . Nevertheless by midnight the 1st Battalion front had. and maneuver was possible. tanks and guns to help the engineers, bandsmen, telephone linemen, and In the last planning conference held at Hitler's headquarters, Model and Manteuffel combined forces in a forthright appeal that carried the day on a series of tactical decisions although it failed to sway the Fuehrer from his strategic decision for the Big Solution. At 1330 the enemy ceased, GERMAN TROOPS ADVANCING PAST ABANDONED AMERICAN EQUIPMENT. The unit was awarded the sattle streamer marked Puerto Rico for their service. 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. On 15 July 1871, Sheridan Troop (Tyrone) was organized. In 1917, when America entered World War I, the 28th Infantry Division was the nation's oldest National Guard unit. With three divisions, and added corps troops, the XLVII Panzer Corps possessed a considerable amount of shock and fire power. 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. The Bellefonte unit was mustered into federal service in January 1941 as Battery B, 190th Field Artillery. The 39th regrouped and turned to assault Holzthum and Consthum in force. [] In the 1st Battalion sector, late in the afternoon, two tank platoons arrived in Munshausen to support Company C, already on its way north to relieve Company B in Marnach. of the 77th, under the cover provided by German artillery, drove Michael Tolhurst: Bastogne: Battle of the Bulge, Pen & Sword Books Limited (Battleground Europe series), 2001 . These two attacks from west and south had made no headway but were not too costly. An unidentified crew of a 447th Antiaircraft Artillery half-track drove straight onto the mines, its .50-caliber fire searching out the enemy riflemen. When this was refused the Germans systematically set to work to surround the village; by dark they had ringed Weiler. The Battle of the Bulge was the largest battle ever fought by the United States Army. 517th Parachute Infantry Regiment attached 110th, 431st and 448th AAA AW Battalions 75th Infantry Division . The Spanish castle indicates service in Puerto Rico during the SpanishAmerican War, while the bridge, which is a representation of the bridge over the. Snow blanketed the fields. 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. and the few remaining towed tank destroyers of Company B, 630th Tank 113th Infantry Regiment. in Wiltz after a rear guard action in Wilwerwiltz. 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." Before daybreak on 18 December the survivors, now only a handful, started west. Back to the west, in the 28th Division command post at Wiltz, General Cota took what steps he could to help the 110th Infantry. In response to their call for reinforcement and ammunition four tanks fought their way through the German infantry along the Skyline Drive, arriving in Hosingen about 2200-but with no rifle ammunition. 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. of the 77th, ran into a snag. Arriving in France in late Spring 1918 . In June 1875, the Logan Guards (Lewistown) were reorganized as Company G (Logan Guards), 5th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment. his assistance, probably to be in position to give support by the late The battery commander and fifteen gunners were casualties of the close-range fight before help arrived. By dusk the American line had been pushed back nearly to Weidingen when orders came to withdraw behind the Wiltz River and destroy the bridge at Weidingen. 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. 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. Only three of the howitzers left could be withdrawn and losses among the cannoneers and drivers were high. He then became the executive officer (XO) for the 16th Infantry Regiment at Fort Jay, Governors Island, New York. Two thins were necessary to success. For two days and nights Company K and Company B of the 103d Engineer Combat Battalion fought off all enemy attempts to eradicate this block on the Skyline Drive. 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. In the darkness and confusion many stragglers made their way into Bastogne and Vaux-lez-Rosires. 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. Battalion. The 560th, activated from inexperienced garrison units in Norway and Denmark, had been tagged for the Russian front. Considerable damage had been done the German assault forces. In the West, American, British and . mortars, and an antitank platoon repelled wave after wave of attacking German infantry. 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. 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. 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. The garrison of a hundred or so was reinforced by Company L, ordered back from Holzthum to avoid entrapment. Shortly before noon German pressure noticeably relaxed. (Lewistown) and the Bellefonte Fencibles, both organized in 1858. The American howitzers, south of Wiltz, also took a hand in slowing the German attack. Leaderless, the platoon broke. 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. Unhappy about this thorn in his side, Manteuffel won the assignment of the Schnee Eifel heights to his army and personally developed a scheme to mop up resistance in this sector at the earliest possible moment. He died on Nov. 29, 1944 and is buried at Henri-Chapelle in Hombourg, Belgium. Company L, on the western side of the ridge at Holzthum, reported figures in the half-light but, peering through the ground fog, which clung all along the division front, could not be sure whether they were American troops passing through the area or the enemy. Southeast of the town At night the strip between the ridge and the river became a no man's land where German and American patrols stalked one another. This point was conceded when Hitler ruled that the artillery fires along the entire front would begin at 0530. The latter was a hard-driving commander, daring and tenacious, and had a reputation of giving help to neighboring formations without debate. indicate a co-ordinated attack. Then too, some welcome tank support had arrived on the scene. This company was also in Altoona. 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. When the 2d Panzer Division was relieved at the end of September its tanks were gone, but there remained a large cadre of veterans who had escaped to the West Wall on foot. The 112th Infantry Regiment, also known as the Sixteenth Pennsylvania, is a unit in the Pennsylvania National Guard which can trace its lineage back to before the American Civil War. . 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 Lead-Up to the Battle of the Bulge. the German engineers moved in. on the operations of the two armored corps, the Fifth Panzer Army had been given a small infantry corps of two divisions to flesh out its right shoulder. The origins of the 1st Battle Group are derived from the 112th Infantry Regiment in which it was . The 3d Battalion (Maj. Walden F. Woodward), in the regimental center, was hit by the 1130th Regiment of the 560th Volks Grenadier Division. 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. against the British and American advance in southwest Holland, and had 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. In the last analysis the losses inflicted on the enemy may have equaled those sustained by the Americans-certainly the Germans paid dearly for their hurried frontal attacks against stonewalled villages and towns-but the final measure of success and failure would be in terms of hours and minutes won by the Americans and lost to the enemy. on the Marnach road, but more tanks and infantry were arriving hourly 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. 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. Free shipping for many products! Colonel Nelson sent back request after request for air support. But there were too few guns and too few air sorties to keep the enemy immobilized for long. on Sevenig, farther to the south its 1128th Regiment had seized 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. 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! Crest: The crest is that of the Pennsylvania Army National Guard. 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. West of the ridge, Company L in Holzthum and the headquarters company and Company M in Consthum barred a direct approach to the Clerf crossing site at Wilwerwiltz. They conducted full spectrum operations in and around Baghdad, Iraq. 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. The 78th Infantry Division arrived in England, 26 October 1944, and received further training. Only Company K in Hosingen was yet to be heard from. 3. afternoon. 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. Finally Luettwitz was promised two 60-ton bridges-capable of carrying his Panthers-and very considerable support from the Luftwaffe. 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. 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. 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. Colonel Nelson decided to pull back through Huldange since enemy tanks were known to be in Trois Vierges. 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. Volks Grenadier Division) had not fared too well in the attack was low and the short winter day was drawing to a close-with the likelihood that the small garrisons would be overwhelmed in the darkness by sheer weight of numbers. When orders finally arrived to hold in place, the 3d Battalion had reached a trident crossroad southwest of the town. The 77th marched toward Drauffelt on the Clerf River, leaving the replacement training battalion to continue the fight at Hosingen. A section of tank destroyers, supporting the forward outpost, was overrun by the more mobile German tanks, but the engineers held their fire for the German infantry on the heels of the panzers and then cut loose, with satisfying results. Formed in 1917, the division deployed to France as a part of the . ridge, covering an observation post. It landed in France, 22 November, and moved to Tongres, Belgium, and to Rotgen, Germany, to prepare for combat. firing positions along the road, sited to cover the Wiltz perimeter Each battalion was responsible for five outposts along the west bank of the Our, but these vantage points were occupied only during daylight hours and then in squad strength. howitzers and the tank platoon near Buchholz, again had to side-step in the drive to the Clerf. Although the left division (the 560th in the Ardennes sector. 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. The next morning Colonel Nelson was able to tell General Cota, "Very good news. The line of departure for Krueger's corps began across the Our from Kalborn and extended north to a point east of Burg Reuland. Radio communication, which was functioning fairly well, showed that the division center was most endangered. The battalion was activated for federal service in Iraq 19 September 2008, and redeployed back to the States in late August 2009. Kokott's infantry would have to carry the battle through the night. 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. 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. 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. At Weiler the Americans, with only a few rounds left, were completely surrounded and decided to fight their way out. To the east, at Dasburg, the German engineers were straining to finish the tank bridge which would bring the German armor into play. The bulk of the provisional battalion, inside Wiltz, started southwest an hour or so before midnight, some on foot, the rest riding on trucks, half-tracks, and tank destroyers. 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. 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. Just east of Bastogne the roads straightened somewhat, but World War II: Another great uncle, 2LT Elton Barry Arnett, was an infantry platoon leader with Co. C, 1/112th Infantry, 28th Infantry Division. and the U.S. 84th Division had essayed an attack in the sector around 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. Jones attached the 112th Infantry to his own division on the spot, assuring Nelson that he would assume full responsibility. In fact it represented Heilmann's failure to gain control of his division, for the orders were to bypass Wiltz. 194 Glider Infantry Regiment Interrogation & Patrol Reports, Dec 1944-Jan. 1945 . Beautifully illustrated with 200 photographs. Bofors of the protecting antiaircraft company with saving his howitzers. Sufficient trucks were available to motorize most of the division, but there was a shortage of tracked cross-country vehicles. The 2d Battalion, 112th Infantry Regiment's heritage can be traced back to the Logan Guards 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. For some reason the tank platoon sent from the 707th had not reached the Company I area when night fell. 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. time was needed for orders to reach the front-line troops. by HistoryNet Staff 6/12/2006. The refused positions of the 2d Battalion allowed fairly free use of a regimental reserve during both days and good counterattack plans were ready. 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." This battery was driven from Buchholz with the loss of half its howitzers. German defenses. Both of these positions lay adjacent to the prospective boundary between the XLVII and LXXXV Corps. patrol at the stone bridge had evaporated under machine gun fire-and Nicknamed the 'Bloody Bucket,' the 28th Infantry Division held firm against German attacks during the Battle of the Bulge. The bulk of the 3d Battalion held their positions despite surprise, defending from pillboxes and foxholes. 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. 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. The best troops and newest equipment were placed in the division reconnaissance battalion, heavily reinforced, which was slated to join the reconnaissance battalion of the 26th Volks Grenadier Division in spear-heading the advance once the Clerf River had been crossed. 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. 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. By nightfall the American perimeter had been pierced at many points and the defenders pushed back into the center of Wiltz. battalion of the 112th. From mid-December 1944 through the end of January 1945, in the heavily forested Ardennes Mountains of Belgium, thousands of American, British, Canadian, Belgian and French forces struggled to turn back the final major German offensive of World War II. 109th, 110th, and 112th Infantry Regiments 107th, 108th . 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. Under this natural smoke screen German tanks and grenadiers poured into Consthum. the 447th Antiaircraft Battalion, and light armored cars of the 28th It was accounted the regimental reserve, having fixed schemes of employment for support of the two battalions in the north by counterattack either northeast or southeast. Only one battery of the 109th Field Artillery Battalion was firing during the morning and it ran low on ammunition. As the enemy gun layers dropped their range back to the river and then to the American positions, the searchlights blinked on, searching out pillboxes and bunkers. MacDonald, Charles B. Eight tanks were knocked out by the enemy gunners and in the confusion three more fell prey to bazooka fire. 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. The group never established contact, however, and most of its members were captured when they attempted to break away the following morning. 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