The enemy attempt to capture or destroy the American command posts, kitchens, and observation posts was only partially successful, although the grenadier assault parties were well inside the 3d Battalion positions when day broke. Colonel Nelson's antitank reserve, Company C, 630th Tank Destroyer Battalion, was deployed on the ridge west of the river, but these were towed guns, dug in and relatively immobile. Battalion. The road to Hosingen was muddy and winding; but worse, at the western exit of the bridge an American abatis and a series of bomb craters blocked the flow of traffic. Company I (minus the platoon at Wahlhausen), a section of 81-mm. The 229th Field Artillery Battalion was emplaced behind the north flank near Welchenhausen on the German side of the river. A few light tanks and self-propelled guns got forward late in the evening, but the bulk of the Panzer Lehr reconnaissance battalion remained backed up at the bridge. Meuse River on the right of its old comrade, the XLVII Panzer Corps. Source Documents: Danny S. Parker, Battle of the Bulge, Hitler's Ardennes Offensive, 1944-1945, 1991, Combined Book Inc, Hong Kong; Shelby S. Stanton, Order of Battle US Army, Presidio Press, Novato, California, 1984; different additional sources. to give an accurate count of losses in the 112th Infantry, but they seem to have been moderate. The German plans had been altered during the day, but of course some battalion of the 112th. ridge, covering an observation post. But . The regiment was called to active federal service on 17 February 1941, 10 months prior to the attack on Pearl Harbor. 28th Division commander James E. Wharton was in his first day of command when a German sniper shot him while he was at the 112th Infantry's command post. In 1873, Company G, Monongahela Artillery (Everett) was renamed the Light Guards and then redesignated as Company A, 10th Pennsylvania Infantry. initial breakthrough at the Our and Clerf Rivers, but rather how to 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. both the 26th Volks Grenadier Division and the 2d Panzer Division had crossed the river and taken some part in the fight. His appeal for a mechanized division to be given the neighboring Seventh the Fuehrer personally denied.2, The 110th Infantry Sector 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. effort to clear, and to Krueger's disappointment there was no assurance They were mustered out of federal service in December 1898. First, Luettwitz could not allow any slackening to an infantry pace by frontal attacks against strongly defended American positions. But first, they had to win the Battle of the Bulge. In the West, American, British and . A sharp hairpin turn breaks the descent; then the road crosses the river into the northern edge of Clerf near the railroad station and enters the main highway. Although Fuller pled for the return of the 2d Battalion to his regiment, Cota refused to release this last division reserve. Manteuffel allotted Luettwitz the 15th Volks Werfer Brigade (108 pieces), the 766th Volks Artillery Corps (76 pieces), the 600th Army Engineer Battalion, and the 182d Flak Regiment, all motorized. But now the north road into the town was open. 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. 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. of the 1st Battalion. The 78th Infantry Division arrived in England, 26 October 1944, and received further training. The bulk of his very limited reserve consisted of the 2d Battalion, 110th Infantry, and the 707th Tank Battalion. 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. Staff Sgt. If anyone has information about Fred or his division please contact me. One 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. 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 regiment consisted of companies from Erie, McKean, Venango, Elk, Warren, and Crawford counties. 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. His staff and regimental commanders, appointees of Generaloberst Kurt Student, had formed a clique against the previous commander and were hostile to Heilmann.19 Furthermore, troops and troop leaders were poorly trained, coming as they had only recently from Luftwaffe ground units. In any case the defenders made radio contact (their last) with the 28th Division as late as 0528 on the morning of 18 December. Colonel Nelson decided to pull back through Huldange since enemy tanks were known to be in Trois Vierges. 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 Our, in many places, was no more than forty feet wide and easily fordable, but the roads leading to the river made circuitous and abrupt descent as they neared its banks. 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. Minus his heavy weapons, the enemy failed to knock the. 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. started a march intended to bring it east of Sevenig on the left of The 106th Infantry Division took over position for position. 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. Company C had been driven off the road, and the tanks, missing the infantry entirely, rolled into Marnach. 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. Leaving only a screening force behind, the 60th Regiment In the 110th zone four roads ran from the German border at the Our, up and over the Skyline Drive, and down to the Clerf. Abstract. Nevertheless by midnight the 1st Battalion front had. on numerous occasions before; so it is questionable whether either of them expected the Luftwaffe to make good. Picture 1 of 6. Division. The 3d Battalion (Maj. Walden F. Woodward), in the regimental center, was hit by the 1130th Regiment of the 560th Volks Grenadier Division. Then as the attack got moving they were raised to lay heavy counterbattery fire on the 229th Field Artillery Battalion (Lt. Col. John C. Fairchild). The 2d Battalion manned observation posts and operated patrols across the river but was deployed in a refused position west of the Our. New York: Orion Books, 1989. The 3d Battalion then crossed the river farther to the south, circled and finally dug in along the OurenWeiswampach road, where its flank would be covered by the refused line of the 2d Battalion. 116th Infantry Regiment. On their left German tanks were wiping out the last posts Tanks, tank destroyers, and guns were rushed up from the depots at Mayen, but on 15 December the two panzer grenadier regiments were still missing 60 percent of their regular rifle strength and the panzer regiment had ready only one of its two battalions (with 27 Mark IV's and 30 Panthers). 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. From this point the American artillery The first American planes arrived at 0935, immobilizing the German tanks momentarily. Tank Battalion-some six crippled tanks and five assault guns was gathered Only three of the howitzers left could be withdrawn and losses among the cannoneers and drivers were high. Only one man escaped. With surprise almost certainly assured and the knowledge that the Americans. On 18 December what was left of the 110th Infantry was wiped out or withdrew to the west.11 Survivors in the north headed toward Donnange and, with Company G, joined elements of the 9th Armored Division to make a stand. Because the West Wall angled away to the east near Ltzkampen the 1st Battalion was denied pillbox protection but, at the insistence of the regimental commander, had constructed a foxhole line with great care. General Cota had been trying through most of the morning to reach Nelson. Krueger was the elder of the two and lacked something of Luettwitz' dash. This was the last word from Marnach. The entire action lasted ten minutes. Their fate is unknown. Probably by this time a good share of the 116th tanks had been committed. The field artillery commander in his turn would credit the ably served .50-caliber machine guns and 40-mm. A few attacks were started against the new American line, which now covered Beiler, Lieler, and Lausdorn, but none were energetic. Both of these positions lay adjacent to the prospective boundary between the XLVII and LXXXV Corps. Luettwitz turned the Geilenkirchen sector over to the Marnach garrison out of the way, but an hour later Company B radioed that three hundred Germans were northwest and southwest of Marnach. At 1839 the sergeant at the regimental switchboard called the division to report that he was alone-only the switchboard was left. 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. Directed to the west by Hitler's orders, the division would see its first action in the Ardennes. Company B, on the extreme north flank, had been forced back into the 424th Infantry area, but about 235 men withdrew cross-country toward Ouren. Two hours later the 112th Infantry acknowledged receipt of these instructions. Colonel Nelson sent back request after request for air support. The 3d Battalion (Maj. Harold F. Milton) formed the regimental right, with its companies on both sides of the ridge line. Losses in equipment had been particularly heavy. At 0930 two companies Later the Americans in this sector reported that the attackers must have been "awfully green"-as indeed they were. Completely surrounded by the enemy, it had hoped to join the withdrawal of the line companies. In 1975, all except for the Everett unit were reorganized and redesignated as the 2nd Battalion 112th Infantry. The fall of Wiltz ended the 28th Division's delaying action before Bastogne. 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. About 1300 a thick, soupy December fog rolled in on the village. This experience, events would show, had borne little fruit. On March 12, 1879, Governor Henry Hoyt signed General Order Number One appointing Maj. Gen. John Hartranft as the first division commander of the National Guard of Pennsylvania, and the most storied and renowned division in the history of the U.S. Army was born. The eye of the division commander would be on the assault echelons of his right wing regiment, for they would make the main effort to reach the Clerf. 1st Cavalry . Caveat: This Battle lasted more than a month, with assignments in considerable flux. He argued that the enemy literally must not be awakened and that the assault forces should move forward the moment the guns sounded. 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. Between Holzthum and Buchholz, Battery C of the 109th Field Artillery was hit hard but held its positions, firing the 105-mm. The action of the 112th Infantry in this part of the 28th Division story stands therefore as an episode in itself until, after four days' fighting, the regiment joins the forces arrayed in defense of St. Vith.13. Division likely to be encountered during the first hours of the attack (Lt. Col. Clarion J. Kjeldseth) to Wiltz on the previous evening with Legacy : Acker, Lewis F. Lt Col CWS : . In common with the German assault tactics employed all along the front on 16 December, both regiments led off with a predawn advance by shock companies eighty men strong. 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. Infantry of the 26th Volks Grenadier Division took over the attack on the northeast (probably the 39th Volks Grenadier Regiment). 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 309th and 310th Infantry Regiments . But there were too few guns and too few air sorties to keep the enemy immobilized for long. This company was also in Altoona. 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. 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. Destroyer Battalion. . The attack by the light tank company of the 707th along the Skyline Drive was disastrous. An unidentified crew of a 447th Antiaircraft Artillery half-track drove straight onto the mines, its .50-caliber fire searching out the enemy riflemen. 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. The enemy made three attacks in the same close formation over the same ground before they discovered the error of their ways. Five hundred yards from the Germans, on the far side of a draw, the. He was able to convince the Army Group B commander that a stand should be taken on a number of tactical points which, in Manteuffel's judgment, were essential to success in the forthcoming attack. DECEMBER 1944. Back to the west, in the 28th Division command post at Wiltz, General Cota took what steps he could to help the 110th Infantry. 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. by CHARLES B. MACDONALD--249--Attack on Vossenack . The artillery supporting the LVIII Panzer Corps consisted of five battalions plus two Werfer battalions, and a few batteries of heavy guns. These were the stakes when the Germans launched their surprise attack through Belgium on December 16, 1944. By the late evening the picture as seen at the division command post had cleared to this extent: the two flank regiments, the 109th and 112th, had lost. However, if it were not . This unit now relieved the provisional In a month's time the flow of replacements had brought the regiment to full strength. 115th Infantry Regiment. time was needed for orders to reach the front-line troops. Attached below and to the sides of the shield a Silver scroll inscribed "STRIVE OBEY ENDURE" in blue letters. About 1000 the small tank-infantry team was allowed to return to its original position at Munshausen, and Fuller then ordered the tank platoon to fight its way to Clerf and help defend the town. Farther to the south the 687th Field Artillery Battalion was surrounded at a crossroad about seven miles from Wiltz. it to call on neighboring battalions, attacking Weiler, to help outflank About 1830 troops at the battalion observation post reported that enemy vehicles were attacking with multiple 20-mm. Early in the afternoon of 18 December a radio message finally arrived at the division command post asking that the regiment be given instructions. Today marks the 76th anniversary of the Battle of the Bulge, in order to commemorate this anniversary we are releasing our first Then and Now video focusing . 30th Infantry Division 59th Inf Bde . 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. 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. Adherence to this schedule meant that the villages garrisoned by the American companies would have to be avoided or captured quickly. The 109th and 112th were in like status. observers could see the enemy assembling in the woods just to the north. This point was conceded when Hitler ruled that the artillery fires along the entire front would begin at 0530. they were particularly bad on the axis assigned to Luettwitz' southern If you are looking for a definitive book on The Battle of the Bulge this is not it. A camouflaged grunt takes aim. The battalion is assigned to the 56th Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 28th Infantry Division, Pennsylvania Army National Guard. 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. The Battle of the Bulge was the largest battle ever fought by the United States Army. This move was made early in the morning with disastrous results recorded earlier. The other Altoona unit was mustered into federal service for home station duty during World War II as Battery B, 200th Field Artillery. Subsequently General Cota ordered them to go to the aid of the hardpressed 110th Infantry. 113th Infantry Regiment. Hfen, along with the nearby town of Monschau, was strategically vital because it sat on elevated terrain overlooking an important road junction. About 1000, therefore, General Cota ordered Companies A and B of the 707th Tank Battalion to reinforce the 110th Infantry, with the intention of clearing up the deepest enemy penetrations and sweeping the ridge road clear. It was breached at midnight when tanks and self-propelled guns of the 3d Panzer Regiment entered Marnach. August 1944 was a disastrous month for the Third Reich. going in the West Wall maze north of Ltzkampen and the initial 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. At Weiler the rest of the company and the antitank platoon, their supply of ammunition dwindling, also awaited the tanks. About 0300 engineers manning pneumatic rubber boats began ferrying the 80-man assault companies and heavy infantry weapons across the river. It went onto the line on 4 July 1918, in the Second Battle of the Marne. 112th Infantry Regiment. The 2d Battalion In the 110th Infantry sector this line ran through Lieler and Buchholz to Lellingen. On the evening 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. moved toward Sevenig. 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. On the left the 26th Volks Grenadier Division finally achieved contact with the 5th Parachute Division, which had been advancing cautiously along the boundary between the 109th and 110th Infantry and had done nothing to help Kokott's southern regiment, the 39th. . was reached midway between Bastogne and the Meuse. 1941 to 1945 with the 112th Regiment of the 28th Infantry Division in France, Belgium, Luxemburg and Germany, including the Liberation of Paris and the Battle of the Bulg : 04/11/2008 Endicott : The 112th remained an organic unit of the 28th Infantry Division throughout World War II.[5]. Formed in 1917, the division deployed to France as a part of the . blocked with trees and mines, the bridge debris would have taken much midafternoon, leaving open an avenue into the 2d Battalion left flank. 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. This was not quite the end in Clerf. 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. 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 . The sector designated for the XLVII Panzer Corps breakthrough was held by the 1st and 3d Battalions of the 110th Infantry (28th Infantry Division), commanded by Col. Hurley E. Fuller. 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. Covers operations in all theaters of operations. All of these units were released from federal service in 1945. Corps headquarters had taken part in the Fifth Panzer A Time For Trumpets (MacDonald, 1984) can provide you good background on the fight that the 110th IR put up at Clerveaux. 114th Infantry Regiment. The family moved to Willmar in 1928 and to a farm north of Willmar in 1932. U.S. Army photo. In sum, the way through Clerf would be none too easy for an armored division.10. The 2d Panzer Division advance guard had taken a bloody nose Beautifully illustrated with 200 photographs. With three divisions, and added corps troops, the XLVII Panzer Corps possessed a considerable amount of shock and fire power. Most of the tanks and assault guns were out of action, there were insufficient machine guns to cover the final protective line, radio communication between the desperate units was practically nonexistent, searchlight rays glancing from the low clouds lighted the path of the attackers, and ammunition was running very low. 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. At one point, after the fight for Kommerscheidt, the regiment was reduced to 300 men. . There was still hope on the morning of 17 December that at least one platoon from Company B was holding on in Marnach. a sweep along the western bank calculated to take the Ouren crossings The Huntingdon unit was the Howitzer Battery 1st Battalion of the 104th Armored Cavalry and the unit in Everett was a Detachment of Company B, 167th Quartermaster Battalion and then was converted to Company C, 1st Battalion 110th Infantry. Even before the seizure of Ouren the LVIII Panzer Corps had shifted its interest to the south. Early morning reports of considerable German penetration and the threat Organized by Pennsylvania in 1878, the division was made up of units that had already earned battle streamers for contributions in conflicts from the American Revolution to the Civil War. German shells. 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 Fifth Panzer Army commander was bitterly opposed to that part of the plan which called for a tremendous opening barrage at 0800 and a two-hour artillery preparation before the attack jumped off. given new divisions to spearhead the brief spoiling attack in late October 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. 127th Infantry Regiment. 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. He was wounded in action on Dec. 16, 1944 in Bleialf, Germany, by shrapnel. The 26th Volks Grenadier Division poured more troops into the 75 (Spring 2010), pp. 120th Infantry Regiment. In the north, contact was maintained with the 106th Infantry Division at a point northwest of Ltzkampen. The story in the 2d Panzer Division zone was the same. mortars, and an antitank platoon repelled wave after wave of attacking German infantry. There the American tank platoon from Company B, 707th Tank Battalion, hit into the German flank while attempting to reach Weiler and, it would appear, caused disorganization and confusion. By 0630 the grenadiers were behind the command post of the 1st Battalion (Lt. Col. William H. Allen) in Harspelt; the first sign of their presence was a kitchen truck ambushed while journeying to the rear. The task of rebuilding the rifle companies, repairing battle damage, and training replacements was of necessity a slow one. From town and river rise wooded and precipitous slopes, particularly sharp and difficult to the east. The symbolism of the distinctive unit insignia is the same as that of the coat of arms. 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. 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. 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