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. Perhaps the tankers were too busy looting the American freight cars and supply dumps to bother with the little force in the chteau. It was breached at midnight when tanks and self-propelled guns of the 3d Panzer Regiment entered Marnach. In this fight the crossroads near Erpeldange changed hands four times. However, if it were not . The unit was also awarded the Distinguished Unit Citation for its actions during the Battle of the Bulge, from 16 to 24 December 1944. Only one man escaped. guns and asked for American artillery fire on their own positions. After the fall of Hosingen the 3d Battalion elements in Consthum offered the last organized resistance in the 28th Infantry Division center east of the Clerf River. Most of the positions occupied lay on the east. The American howitzers, south of Wiltz, also took a hand in slowing the German attack. 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. 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. Only the weakened 1130th Regiment and the division fusilier company, once again in touch with its fellows, were left behind to extend the bridgehead formed at Ouren. XLVII Panzer, Corps moved beyond it to the west.3 (Map IV). ), The corps commander was loath to yield ground to the enemy. This is the order of battle of German and Allied forces during the Battle of the Bulge. By the second day it was apparent that the combination of stubborn resistance and poor approach roads would delay the projected crossing at Ouren. Only a short distance beyond, at a third block, fire swept into the column from all sides. Nicknamed the 'Bloody Bucket,' the 28th Infantry Division held firm against German attacks during the Battle of the Bulge. 20th Armored Division (480th AIR*) 8th AIB The main body of the 560th Volks Grenadier Division also had detoured around the stubborn men and difficult ground in the 112th Infantry area, extending the bridgehead which the 1128th Regiment had seized east of Heinerscheid on 17 December. 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. In 2006, the battalion reorganized again with Headquarters and Headquarters Company in Lewistown, Company A (less detachment) in Huntingdon; Detachment 1, Company A in Everett; Company B in Altoona, and Company C (led detachment) in Bellefonte with Detachment 1, Company C in Tyrone. 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. ridge, covering an observation post. Kokott's infantry would have to carry the battle through the night. on numerous occasions before; so it is questionable whether either of them expected the Luftwaffe to make good. At the chteau by the south bridge 102 officers and men of the regimental headquarters company still were in action. About 1000 on 18 December, General Cota received the welcome word that These reinforcements arrived at Reuler in time to take a hand against the Germans pouring past Marnach toward Clerf and its bridges. The road center at To the south Company I held Weiler-les-Putscheid, a hamlet in a knot of trails and byroads on the forward slopes of the ridge line. Ouren. 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. News of the battle on the right and left of the 112th Infantry sector had been sparse. 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 division's three regiments were in a line, with the 112th, 110th, and 109th Infantry Regiments aligned north to south. The seven tanks counted here strangely enough made no effort to attack (perhaps the rough terrain and dragon's teeth along the American bunker line did not appear too promising) . the 109th and 112th Regiments gave ground slowly, but they . DECEMBER 1944. To the southwest, Company C and the regimental cannon company were deployed in and around Munshausen, guarding the side road which cut cross-country from Marnach to Drauffelt. 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. Albright, Barry E. CPT, "Operations of the 2nd Battalion, 508th Infantry Regiment, 82nd Airborne Division, in the Invasion of Normandy, 5-13 June 1944" (Normandy Campaign Alford, Truman MAJ , "Operations of the 6th Tank Destroyer Group, as part of Taks Force "A", in the march through Brittany Peninsula to Brest, France, 3-9 August 1944 . There was still hope on the morning of 17 December that at least one platoon from Company B was holding on in Marnach. Shortly before dusk Meanwhile General Cota had ordered Colonel Strickler to move in the 3d Battalion, 110th Infantry, from Nocher. This highway (known to the Americans as the Skyline Drive) and the garrison line paralleled the Our at a distance of one and a half to two and a half miles. First the Werfers and guns pounded the front line, particularly the 1st Battalion positions. However, these unit designations were short-lived. Luettwitz concluded that the Clerf River now would be crossed not later than the evening of the second day. On orders, the three remaining assault guns went back to cover the wrecked structure. Company K, reinforced by Company B, 103d Engineer Combat Battalion, garrisoned Hosingen, a village on the Skyline Drive overlooking two of the four roads which wound from the Our up over the ridge. The first word of the approaching enemy reached the 110th Infantry headquarters at Clerf shortly after 0615. battalion of the 112th. 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. 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. Despite the general dictum that defended towns would be bypassed, Manteuffel wanted St. Vith as a blocking position and so ordered Lucht to capture it. Even on the first day of the offensive one of Heilmann's regiments had been lost for several hours. The artillery supporting the LVIII Panzer Corps consisted of five battalions plus two Werfer battalions, and a few batteries of heavy guns. 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. By early January 1945, they had moved to defensive positions along the Meuse River. 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. regiment, despite many attempts, had not been able "to get going. Without it the western exit road from the Gemnd bridge was hopelessly blocked; through Hosingen ran the main divisional supply route to the Clerf. Their fate is unknown. his assistance, probably to be in position to give support by the late The roads in the *AIR broken up into three separate armored Infantry battalions. The bridges at Clerf and Wilwerwiltz were in German hands (no preparations had been made to destroy them); most of the sixty tanks committed in the central sector were destroyed. The 2d Battalion, surrounded on the ridge east of Clerf, attempted to filter through the enemy lines in the early morning hours. The other Altoona unit was mustered into federal service for home station duty during World War II as Battery B, 200th Field Artillery. In 1920, the Tyrone unit was redesignated Troop B, 1st Pennsylvania Cavalry and the Bellefonte unit was redesignated Troop L, 1st Pennsylvania Cavalry. Robert L. Smith, soldier of the 112th Infantry Regiment tells of his memories of service in the breakout from Normandy to Paris, Belgium, Luxembourg and Germany. Information on the hard-pressed battalions and their companies was sketchy and secondhand. The 28ID is the oldest continuously serving division in the United States Army. 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." This unit was redesignated less than a year later, in December 1921, when they became 103rd Ordnance Company, Special Troops. 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. As American riflemen and machine gunners cut down the German assault teams, they saw their own ranks thinning. Early in the afternoon of 18 December a radio message finally arrived at the division command post asking that the regiment be given instructions. 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. 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. Luettwitz turned the Geilenkirchen sector over to the This created a bulge in the German line. The 29th Infantry Division (29th ID), also known as the "Blue and Gray Division", is an infantry division of the United States Army based in Fort Belvoir, Virginia.It is currently a formation of the U.S. Army National Guard and contains units from Virginia, Maryland, Kentucky, North Carolina, South Carolina and West Virginia.. In the 110th Infantry sector this line ran through Lieler and Buchholz to Lellingen. Norman G. Maurer, 3 of the 3d Battalion, leading a sortie of twenty men, surprised the enemy and drove him back with very heavy casualties. firing positions along the road, sited to cover the Wiltz perimeter that a bridge could be in before the night of 17 December. tanks and guns to help the engineers, bandsmen, telephone linemen, and In sum, the way through Clerf would be none too easy for an armored division.10. Corps headquarters had taken part in the Fifth Panzer The battalion is assigned to the 56th Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 28th Infantry Division, Pennsylvania Army National Guard. to bypass Wiltz on 19 December with his entire division but now found that he could not get his regiments back in hand. A secondary road, on the right of the through highway to Bastogne, approaches Clerf from the hamlet of Urspelt. with an order to hold in essentially the positions which the regiment now occupied. In July 1917, the Lewistown, Tyrone, Huntingdon, Everett, Altoona, and Bellefonte units were mustered into federal service for. A Silver color metal and enamel device 1 5/32inches (2.94cm) in height overall consisting of shield blazoned: argent (silver gray), issuant in fess a bridge of one arch sable masoned of the first, 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. 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. 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. In the 1st Battalion zone to the north the advance detachments of the 2d Panzer Division moved straight for Marnach, attempting with one quick blow to clear the Americans obstructing the through road from Dasburg to Clerf.7 While the German engineers labored at the Dasburg site to bring their heavy tank bridging equipment down to the river, the 28th Panzer Engineer Battalion and the 2d Battalion, 304th Panzer Grenadier Regiment, crossed the Our in rubber boats and moved west through the predawn darkness. 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. In a month's time the flow of replacements had brought the regiment to full strength. the Reconnaissance Battalion of the 116th Panzer Division He died on Nov. 29, 1944 and is buried at Henri-Chapelle in Hombourg, Belgium. Colonel Nelson gave the order to withdraw behind the river under cover of darkness. With surprise almost certainly assured and the knowledge that the Americans. 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. 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 1st Platoon of Company A, which had returned to Munshausen after the unsuccessful attempt to reach Marnach, moved north meanwhile to help the 2d Platoon. WW2 Army Unit Records Research. In July 1865, these units were mustered out of federal service. 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. Legacy : Acker, Lewis F. Lt Col CWS : . 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. 16-20 December, 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. The Bellefonte unit was redesignated Troop L, 103d Cavalry. Get Military Unit/Ship Histories and After Action Records (AAR) We offer access to after action reports and operational records from all branches of the U.S. Military. August 1944 was a disastrous month for the Third Reich. By noon Company D had so many prisoners that it "couldn't handle them all!" Rocco J. 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. 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. 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. 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 leading detachments of the 77th swung to the north, cutting Both Luettwitz and Manteuffel had been "promised" air support. Early on 19 December the 112th Infantry and 229th Field Artillery Battalion moved under cover of a heavy fog and assembled without hindrance around Huldange, the defensive front now facing south. 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. Meanwhile the 39th Regiment, echeloned to the left 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. 1st Cavalry Medical Squadron. 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. He was a prisoner of war at Stalag IV-B in the town of Mhlberg an der Elbe for six months. Small detachments with burp guns now crept down through the dark and engaged the troops in and around the chteau. On the second day of December, a staff officer from General Luettwitz' Even in daytime it was possible for German patrols to move about on the west bank, using the cover provided by the deep, wooded draws. The group never established contact, however, and most of its members were captured when they attempted to break away the following morning. 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. It landed in France, 22 November, and moved to Tongres, Belgium, and to Rotgen, Germany, to prepare for combat. observers could see the enemy assembling in the woods just to the north. This was the end. When the 28th Division arrived on the VIII Corps front in mid-November its regiments were in pitiable condition. Only one battery of the 109th Field Artillery Battalion was firing during the morning and it ran low on ammunition. Battle of the Bulge CD 2 749 Pages - PDF . The unit was mustered out of federal service on 6 December 1945 at Camp Gordon, Georgia. The 112th Infantry south wing was giving way under heavy attack, and during the day all communications between the regiment and division were lost. by HistoryNet Staff 6/12/2006. The 39th regrouped and turned to assault Holzthum and Consthum in force. With three divisions, and added corps troops, the XLVII Panzer Corps possessed a considerable amount of shock and fire power. 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. Finally the Germans took the village, only to be driven out again. In 1943, he joined the. Hyperleap helps uncover and suggest. 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. About 0300 engineers manning pneumatic rubber boats began ferrying the 80-man assault companies and heavy infantry weapons across the river. In 1947, the Lewistown unit was redesignated Headquarters and Service Battery, 176th Field Artillery Battalion. 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. 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 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. arrived early in the afternoon but left precipitately, losing one gun The gunners and their attached antiaircraft artillery unit made a stand with their carbines, Colts, and a few .50-caliber machine guns. He purchased the farm from his parents in 1943. 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 orders given the 116th Panzer Division on the night of 16 December to switch to the left were altered on the 17th to start its infantry regiments marching still farther south to the Dasburg bridgehead held by the neighboring corps. 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 . After the Germans captured the howitzers, a bazooka team of a company officer and a sergeant held the enemy tanks at bay, destroying two which ventured into the village. Troops of I Company ride a tank into the attack on Schoppen, 15 January 1945. The fight in the Schmidt area had cost the 112th Infantry alone about 2,000 killed, wounded, missing, and nonbattle casualties. . 194 Glider Infantry Regiment Interrogation & Patrol Reports, Dec 1944-Jan. 1945 . The mission remained, but the troops available on 16 December were less than half the number promised: one armored division, the 116th Panzer Division, and two-thirds of an infantry division, the 560th Volks Grenadier Division. 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. or German bank of the Our River. It was amended to show additional war service on 29 August 1951. The German infantry on the north side of town aligned for the assault about 1400. The Battle of the Bulge took place in December 1944, after Adolf Hitler launched a surprise blitzkrieg against Allied Forces in northwest Europe. By the middle of the morning it was apparent that the VIII Corps was under attack all along the front and that the 28th Division would have to make out with what it had. 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. 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