112th infantry regiment battle of the bulge

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. By nightfall the American perimeter had been pierced at many points and the defenders pushed back into the center of Wiltz. Second Bn., 109th; 1st and 3rd Bns., 110th; 1st Bn., 112th, rocked most severely under the first blows, lashed back to ward off attacks, caused many enemy casualties. Unit decoration: Presidential Unit Citation, 1623 Dec 1944 112th Infantry, Civil War silver bands: But the pressure on the Wiltz perimeter relaxed briefly as the Panzer Lehr Reconnaissance Battalion turned back toward the north to rejoin its division in the race for Bastogne. The division commander, officers, and noncoms were veterans; training throughout the division was reported as adequate. 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. The 560th, activated from inexperienced garrison units in Norway and Denmark, had been tagged for the Russian front. He was wounded in action on Dec. 16, 1944 in Bleialf, Germany, by shrapnel. These units combined have 17 campaign streamers from the American Civil War: Po Valley, Manassas, Antietam, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, Atlanta, Fredericksburg, Vicksburg, the Wilderness, Spottsylvania, Cold Harbor, Petersburg, Battle of Appomattox, Virginia 1861, South Carolina 1862, Mississippi 1863, Tennessee 1863. 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. Lamoine Olsen, known to his friends as Frank Olsen, joined the Pennsylvania Army National Guard in 1941 prior to America's entry into World War II. It contains several maps, showing the sectors of the major air units. About 1830 troops at the battalion observation post reported that enemy vehicles were attacking with multiple 20-mm. But the German tanks were fanning out as the day drew to a close, turning attention to the south as well as the west. For this reason the fight put up by the 112th Infantry on the north flank of the division had little or no effect on the operations of its sister regiment east of Bastogne. One of the most gallant combat actions was that of an intelligence and reconnaissance (I&R) platoon's defense near Lanzerath, Belgium, on the first day of the battle. The town itself lies in a horseshoe bend of the river. 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. The latter was a hard-driving commander, daring and tenacious, and had a reputation of giving help to neighboring formations without debate. About 0620, however, the 1st Battalion phoned to say that shells were coming over the battalion command post. As American riflemen and machine gunners cut down the German assault teams, they saw their own ranks thinning. 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. 1st Cavalry . The unit was mustered into federal active service on 16 July 1917 for service in World War I, and Rickards remained its commander. When day came the Americans caught the troops following the advance party of the assault company out in the open. The regimental command post staff left Ouren even while the enemy was filtering into the village and moved to Weiswampach. [] 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. 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. between the two assault regiments. Krueger and Luettwitz were old hands at mechanized warfare, had learned their business as commanders of the 1st and 2d Panzer Divisions, respectively, and had fought side by side in Lorraine. While elements of the 26th Volks Grenadier Division were attacking on the north side of the Wiltz, detachments of the 5th Parachute Division struck the American perimeter on the south and southeast. On the corps left, however, General Kokott and the 26th Volks Grenadier Division jumped the gun. Company A, at Heinerscheid, was on the extreme left flank of the 110th and so lay outside the path of the XLVII Panzer Corps attack, as did Company D at Grindhausen. There were also available some From that day on, the names Fismes, Fismette, Fond de Mezieres, and Argonne would never be forgotten. 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. Outnumbered and outgunned, the men of the 110th Infantry Regiment upset the German timetable during the Battle of the Bulge. View of a Clearing Station, somewhere behind Utah Beach, Normandy, taken June 6 - 7, 1944 - triage of Airborne casualties and patients . The unit was noted for actions in the Battle of Coamo, where the regiment sustained six wounded and one killed in action during a blocking action. By early January 1945, they had moved to defensive positions along the Meuse River. Through the early hours of 17 December American outposts reported sounds of tank movement in Ltzkampen. The 110th Infantry Regiment, 28th Infantry Division, on 16 December 1944, held the center sector of the defensive zone of the division and VIII Corps in the Ardennes. The road net was adequate, although mired by constant rain, but the two forward battalions had to be supplied at night because of German fire. News of the battle on the right and left of the 112th Infantry sector had been sparse. He died on Nov. 29, 1944 and is buried at Henri-Chapelle in Hombourg, Belgium. On the morning of the 17th German tanks had set the town ablaze, but the few American Shermans had held them at bay. (Lt. Col. Clarion J. Kjeldseth) to Wiltz on the previous evening with Although Fuller pled for the return of the 2d Battalion to his regiment, Cota refused to release this last division reserve. 17 But the situation east of Bastogne was growing more precarious and the division commander decided to bring the 112th back to join in the defense of Bastogne. 120th Infantry Regiment. This created a bulge in the German line. Tanks, ordered up from the division reserve, had not yet arrived. 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. Replacements, generally better than the average, were. To complete the concentration against the enemy in or around Marnach, Colonel Fuller ordered the medium tank platoon in Munshausen to attack to the northeast with a rifle platoon from Company C. When Fuller heard of the light tanks, he ordered Colonel Henbest to delay the 2d Battalion attack next morning until the incoming tank detachment was ready to attack on the Skyline Drive. 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." 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. The 106th Infantry Division took over position for position. Hfen, along with the nearby town of Monschau, was strategically vital because it sat on elevated terrain overlooking an important road junction. The advance party of grenadiers had moved along the wooded draw between the two companies holding the 1st Battalion line. on the left flank of the US Ninth Army. both the 26th Volks Grenadier Division and the 2d Panzer Division had crossed the river and taken some part in the fight. The Americans lined up in German formation and, while an officer shouted commands in German, marched boldly across the bridge. In 2004-2005, A Company, 1st Battalion, was deployed with Task Force Dragoon to Tikrit Iraq. 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. 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. 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. Completely surrounded by the enemy, it had hoped to join the withdrawal of the line companies. 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 . whereupon the light tank platoon destroyed its single remaining tank tanks and guns to help the engineers, bandsmen, telephone linemen, and The Everett unit remained with the 110th Infantry and the remaining Altoona unit became Company C in the. to pivot its weight on Ltzkampen in a drive southwestward toward Roads and bridges, he reckoned, must be in shape to support the American troops east of the river. about six hundred men (it had been operating sawmills and rock crushers, 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. Thomas G. Bradbeer, General Cota and the Battle of the Hrtgen Forest, Army History, No. 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. He even dispatched a kampfgruppe to seize a bridge considerably south of Clerf apparently intending to swing his attack column to a poorer road in the event that Clerf continued to hold. and the few remaining towed tank destroyers of Company B, 630th Tank The units of the 110th Infantry were disposed as follows to face three full German divisions. This threat north of the Marnach road seems to have caused the German commander some concern. 112th Infantry took up their posts in the . MacDonald, Charles B. Their stories are spellbinding. In 1995 the battalion became a mechanized infantry battalion. 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 28th Division commander agreed to pull back where he could, but by the morning of the 18th it was apparent that to re-establish any sort of front behind the Clerf was impossible. in house-to-house fighting with Company D and Company B, 103d Engineer 29th Infantry Division 58th Inf Bde 115th 175th 88th Inf Bde 116th 176th. The regiment was awarded battle streamers marked Normandy, Northern France, Ardennes-Alsace, Rhineland, and Central Europe for its service in World War II. 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. antitank gun in the path and crossed the bridge at the railroad station. An unidentified crew of a 447th Antiaircraft Artillery half-track drove straight onto the mines, its .50-caliber fire searching out the enemy riflemen. Meuse River on the right of its old comrade, the XLVII Panzer Corps. Rocco J. the undergunned batteries of the 687th Field Artillery Battalion held . In May of the same year the Sheridan Troop was assigned to Squadron B which was redesignated as 2d Squadron in 1911. The 112th Infantry south wing was giving way under heavy attack, and during the day all communications between the regiment and division were lost. Covers operations in all theaters of operations. Col. Daniel Strickler, the regimental executive officer, who now had assumed command at Consthum, organized a perimeter defense of the town, set out mines along the approaches, and disposed his three effective tanks and three armored cars to watch for the enemy armor known to be on the road from Holzthum. Kokott's reserve regiment, the 78th, crossed the Our at dusk and moved forward. In July 1917, the Lewistown, Tyrone, Huntingdon, Everett, Altoona, and Bellefonte units were mustered into federal service for. to put one of his counterattack plans into operation. The unit was transported to and garrisoned at El Paso, Texas for training, but was never utilized because hostilities ended. The German plans had been altered during the day, but of course some The latter consisted of three divisions. afternoon. Adherence to this schedule meant that the villages garrisoned by the American companies would have to be avoided or captured quickly. The fight in the Schmidt area had cost the 112th Infantry alone about 2,000 killed, wounded, missing, and nonbattle casualties. 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. was reached midway between Bastogne and the Meuse. Despite harassing fire from American guns and mortars the Germans moved swiftly. He added, however, that he had "three battalions now trying to counterattack from Clerf to Marnach." howitzers with one- and two-second fuzes. All this gave the 112th Infantry a chance to get its breath on 18 December. 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. on Sevenig, farther to the south its 1128th Regiment had seized Seven officers and fifty to sixty men did reach Donnange. 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. All that remained of the 707th Manteuffel had no precise schedule for his right wing but after the war was over would say that he had hoped for the seizure of St. Vith on the first day of the attack. the 2d Battalion back through Reuler, the Americans fighting stubbornly initial breakthrough at the Our and Clerf Rivers, but rather how to Companies E and F dug in on a ridge north of Reuler under a rain of The regiment was awarded battle streamers marked Champagne 1918, Champagne-Marne, Aisne-Marne, Oise-Marne, Lorraine 1918, and Meuse-Argonne for its service in France. In fact it represented Heilmann's failure to gain control of his division, for the orders were to bypass Wiltz. In July 1865, these units were mustered out of federal service. The 10th Regiment jumped off south of Michelshoff on December 21st and experienced one of their bloodiest fights of World War 2. Ration strength was more than 17,000, and forty-two 75-mm. On 5 April 1877, Company C, 5th Pennsylvania Infantry (Altoona) was organized. 114th Infantry Regiment. Company C was in "reserve" in Munshausen. At the moment Luettwitz' corps was fighting 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." 4th Infantry Division Campaigns during World War II. Lewistown was Headquarters and Headquarters Company, Tyrone was Company B (less detached troops), Huntingdon was Company A. Troop G was converted to Company C, the Howitzer Battery was converted to the Combat Support Company, and the Bellefonte unit was redesignated as Detachment 1, Company B. Original WW2 US Army 112th Infantry Regiment DUI Crest Pinback. In Marnach the hard-beset garrison fought on, now under the command of the battalion executive officer, Capt. If anyone has information about Fred or his division please contact me. 30th Infantry Division 59th Inf Bde . The American. Two of the American tanks, destroyed during the German assault later in the day. The battle of the bulge had begun. One tank platoon remained there to bolster the defense, while the other turned back to the south, picked up Company C, and, on orders, returned with the infantry to Munshausen. continue the attack for the bridges at Ouren. During December 1944, the 112th Infantry Regimental Combat Team was holding a 6-1/2-mile long sector which the Germans attacked with nine divisions. After some delay, while the tank platoon and the infantry identified themselves, the tanks rolled south to the 3d Battalion headquarters at Consthum. This came late in the morning, after the 28th Division commander, General Cota, ordered a tank platoon from the 707th man infantry out of the Battery C area. 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. Across the lines General Cota had little reason to expect that the 110th Infantry could continue to delay the German attack at the 28th Division center as it had this first day. 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. 1st Army (1-A): Gen Courtney H. Hodges - 526th Armored Infantry Battalion - 99th Infantry Battalion (Separate) - 61st Engineer [] Snow blanketed the fields. Veterans of the Battle of the Bulge Organization; stories and newspaper clipping from June 3, 1992, which is a D-Day retrospective] Unit History - 474th AAA Bn [The Maverick Outfit, a book about the 474th AAA Bn and the hardships and challenges they faced, 1942 until 1945] BATES, CHARLES C. Residence: Green Valley, Arizona of the 2d Battalion (Lt. Col. J. L. MacSalka) assembled in a draw between 28th Infantry Division The 28th Division was destined to move againdestined for another job (the Gloomy Hurtgen Forest). 124th Infantry Regiment. Company C had been driven off the road, and the tanks, missing the infantry entirely, rolled into Marnach. This was the last word from Marnach. The 112th Infantry Regiment, also known as the Sixteenth Pennsylvania,[2] is a unit in the Pennsylvania National Guard which can trace its lineage back to before the American Civil War. 1st Battalion held the northern section with Col. Donald Paul's command post at Urspelt: Company A held Heinerscheid. 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. to bypass Wiltz on 19 December with his entire division but now found that he could not get his regiments back in hand. But now the north road into the town was open. The 56th redeployed to America toward the end of 2009. Company B held Marnach. About dusk the Marnach garrison radioed that half-tracks could be heard moving toward the village. The regiment was called to active federal service on 17 February 1941, 10 months prior to the attack on Pearl Harbor. 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 company commander withdrew the remaining five tanks on a side road and reached Urspelt, taking position near the 2d Battalion command post.9, The American pincers action had failed to constrict at Marnach. reverse suffered by the assault company of the 60th Regiment The Battle of the Huertgen Forest: The Untold Story of a Disastrous Campaign. The 28th Division got caught in the Battle of the Bulge and endured many casualties. It was the longest battle on German ground during World War II and is the . Abstract. The Spanish castle indicates service in Puerto Rico during the SpanishAmerican War, while the bridge, which is a representation of the bridge over the. Luettwitz concluded that the Clerf River now would be crossed not later than the evening of the second day. on numerous occasions before; so it is questionable whether either of them expected the Luftwaffe to make good. U.S. Army photo. 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. . In a month's time the flow of replacements had brought the regiment to full strength. About 0930 the 2d Platoon of Company A, 707th Tank Battalion, climbed out of Clerf to meet the German Mark IV's. This experience, events would show, had borne little fruit. Throughout this entire action the 229th gave the 112th Infantry such support as to elicit from the regimental commander the opinion that "it was the best artillery in the army," an expression which would be used by other infantry commanders about other artillery units during these trying days. At the same time the light tank company in the 112th area was alerted by division headquarters for an attack south along the Skyline Drive, also directed toward Marnach, as soon as daylight came. It landed in France, 22 November, and moved to Tongres, Belgium, and to Rotgen, Germany, to prepare for combat. 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. Farther to the south the 687th Field Artillery Battalion was surrounded at a crossroad about seven miles from Wiltz. Only one battery of the 109th Field Artillery Battalion was firing during the morning and it ran low on ammunition. The 1st Battalion, 112th Infantry was formed from the 1st Battle Group Infantry on 1 April 1963. 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. At Heinerscheid, Company A had been overrun in his assistance, probably to be in position to give support by the late 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. 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. To the east, at Dasburg, the German engineers were straining to finish the tank bridge which would bring the German armor into play. However, these unit designations were short-lived. . At Hosingen, on the ridge road, Company D and Company B were fighting German infantry hand to hand inside the village. 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. Only a short distance beyond, at a third block, fire swept into the column from all sides. Wrote one in his diary: "Nobody able to sleep and no hot meals, today. On the afternoon of the 16th the division commander had loaned Neslon the light tank company of the 707th Tank Battalion, but after a sweep through the 1st Battalion area in which not a shot was fired the tanks recrossed the river. All of these units were released from federal service in 1945. 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. After years of training, the unit first entered the continent of Europe on the Normandy beaches following the D-Day landing. Table of Contents. While Allied forces ultimately triumphed, it was a vicious six weeks of fighting, with tens of . The 26th Volks Grenadier Division (Generalmajor Heinz Kokott) already was deployed in the Eifel sector of the West Wall adjacent to the Our where it covered not only the XLVII Panzer Corps zone but a wide frontage beyond. In early planning there had been some question as to whether the Americans in the Schnee Eifel should be left to the Fifth or the Sixth. Descent to the town and its bridges is made on this side by two winding roads. The presence of two panzer units on the 110th Infantry front was not suspected. This was General der Artillerie Walther Lucht's LXVI Corps. The garrison of a hundred or so was reinforced by Company L, ordered back from Holzthum to avoid entrapment. With surprise almost certainly assured and the knowledge that the Americans. The bulk of the 3d Battalion held their positions despite surprise, defending from pillboxes and foxholes. 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. Shortly before noon German pressure noticeably relaxed. The 112th Infantry Regiment has a history that dates back long before World War II started. After the D-Day invasion of Normandy on June 6, 1944, Allied forces advanced east through France to Germany's western border establishing what became known as the "Western Front." This vertical front-line stretched from the Norwegian city of Nijmegen in the north all the way to Switzerland in the south, cutting through Belgium and Luxemburg. It had held on at Munshausen, with the 110th Cannon Company and a section of tank destroyers, all through the 17th.12 The riflemen and cannoneers made a fight of it, barricading the village streets with overturned trucks, fighting from house to house. The 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. At the chteau, however, headquarters company still was hard pressed by riflemen and machine gunners in the houses nearby. On the evening Between Holzthum and Buchholz, Battery C of the 109th Field Artillery was hit hard but held its positions, firing the 105-mm. At least fifteen tanks had been disabled or destroyed on the first day and German sources indicate that this figure may have doubled on the 17th. "Rocky" Moretto was one of only two men in his infantry company who . 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