Finally the Germans took the village, only to be driven out again. Kokott's screening regiment, the 78th, had been in the habit of throwing out an outpost line west of the Our from nightfall till dawn. 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. mortars, and an antitank platoon repelled wave after wave of attacking German infantry. 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. 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. 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. 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. News of the battle on the right and left of the 112th Infantry sector had been sparse. About 1300 a thick, soupy December fog rolled in on the village. Even on the first day of the offensive one of Heilmann's regiments had been lost for several hours. In 1975, all except for the Everett unit were reorganized and redesignated as the 2nd Battalion 112th Infantry. On the evening of 15 December the outpost troops, considerably reinforced, crossed to the west bank as usual and moved cautiously forward. The 106th Infantry Division took over position for position. Replacements, generally better than the average, were. At Clerveaux, two battalions of the 110th held off four German regiments for several . The 112th Infantry Regiment of the US Army dates back to the American Civil war and has since participated in several conflicts, including WWI and WWII. 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. 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. The 39th regrouped and turned to assault Holzthum and Consthum in force. The authors do a great job of telling the the story with first-person accounts from the American soldiers, both officers and enlisted. Shortly before dark the 60-ton bridges were completed at Gemnd and Dasburg (inexperienced engineers and the difficulties attendant on moving the heavy structures down to the river bed had slowed construction markedly), and the German tanks and assault guns moved across to give the coup de grce to the villages still defended by the 110th Infantry. Losses in equipment had been particularly heavy. 1st Battalion held the northern section with Col. Donald Paul's command post at Urspelt: Company A held Heinerscheid. 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. Here follows a list of organic Medical Units, assigned to specific Divisions throughout World War 2: Medical Unit. He was wounded in action on Dec. 16, 1944 in Bleialf, Germany, by shrapnel. 113th Infantry Regiment. The 110th Antitank Company was in Hoscheid just to the west. the 447th Antiaircraft Battalion, and light armored cars of the 28th eager to be in at the kill. Ouren and Lieler (west of the river), crossed the bridges the German WW2 Army Unit Records Research. The regimental cannon company also provided some interested spectators, who trained their howitzers on Heinerscheid with such good effect that enemy records take rueful note of this harassing fire from the north. The fall of Wiltz ended the 28th Division's delaying action before Bastogne. Early morning reports of considerable German penetration and the threat Reconnaissance Troop reinforced the perimeter. 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. At the same time the XLVII Panzer Corps would cross the Our in the vicinity of Dasburg and Gemnd, push west via Clerf, seize the vital road center at Bastogne, form in a deep column echeloned to the left and rear, then race for the Meuse River crossings south of Namur. Certainly the enemy infantry were spreading rapidly through the woods and draws between the American front line and the Our River. 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. To some extent, then, Kokott's decision in favor of premature assembly west of the Our had gained ground for the 26th. with the aid of the dwindling tank force from the 9th Armored Division There it dug in to defend the battery which had given aid during the battle. In 1920, the Tyrone unit was redesignated Troop B, 1st Pennsylvania Cavalry and the Bellefonte unit was redesignated Troop L, 1st Pennsylvania Cavalry. 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. 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. 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." A few attacks were started against the new American line, which now covered Beiler, Lieler, and Lausdorn, but none were energetic. By this time, however, the advance infantry detachments of the 2d Panzer Division were not only involved in a battle to knock out Marnach but were pushing past the village en route to Clerf. 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. After a long wait the battalion commanding officer, Major Milton, went back into Wiltz to get further orders; when he returned most of his battalion had disappeared. Fortunately radio contact was re-established from Weiswampach shortly after midnight and the 1st Battalion was given orders to withdraw through the former 3d Battalion positions. With daylight the fire lifted and the enemy infantry advanced, attacking in one wave after another as the morning progressed but making no headway. 112th Regimental Combat Team, WW1 29th Infantry Div Casualties, WW2 303rd Bomb Group, Casualties, WW2 . from the rear. The garrison of a hundred or so was reinforced by Company L, ordered back from Holzthum to avoid entrapment. Across town the regimental headquarters company was billeted in an ancient chteau, now partially modernized but retaining the heavy stone walls behind which, since the twelfth century, fighting men had dominated the river bend and controlled the main bridge site. Fuller, however, was able to get a warning message through to the 28th Division command post about 0900. of the 2d Battalion (Lt. Col. J. L. MacSalka) assembled in a draw between The little group from regimental headquarters which had been deployed on the ridge line at Ouren was less successful. 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. Shortly before noon German pressure noticeably relaxed. On 25 April 1861, Company G, The Monongahela Artillery (Everett) was mustered into federal service for the American Civil War as part of the. 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. He personally rated four of his armored divisions as good attack formations (the 116th, 2d, Panzer Lehr, and Fuehrer Begleit), and his panzer corps commanders were of his own choosing. Considerable damage had been done the German assault forces. They conducted full spectrum operations in and around Baghdad, Iraq. At the moment Luettwitz' corps was fighting The latter consisted of three divisions. Covers operations in all theaters of operations. (Strickler made it to the latter point where General Cota placed him in charge of the defense.) But . to cross the XLVII Panzer Corps bridge at Dasburg and commence The 78th Infantry Division arrived in England, 26 October 1944, and received further training. 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. 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. 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. As the morning passed the small German detachments west of the ridge increased in strength. A German attempt to cut the road between Consthum and Holzthum failed when Capt. 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. Conforming to these instructions the 2d Panzer Division moved its assault columns to Dasburg during the night of 15-16 December but halted in assembly areas east of the river. 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. This created a bulge in the German line. Three-quarters of an hour later the regimental commander ordered the artillery to displace behind the river; Colonel Fairchild moved the battalion across the river without losing a piece and immediately resumed firing. They sailed to Puerto Rico on 5 July 1898 and served with the 1st Brigade, 1st Division, 1st Army Corps throughout the campaign. regiment, despite many attempts, had not been able "to get going. The 309th and 310th Infantry Regiments . 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. Yet there was still an opportunity to retard the 2d Panzer march along the road to Bastogne. However, these unit designations were short-lived. About 0345 the German artillery quieted. As each company debarked it marched inland to the line of departure which the outpost force now held close to the American garrison points. The 560th Volks Grenadier Division (Generalmajor Rudolf Langhaeuser) was assigned two specific bridges as targets, one just north of Ouren, the other a stone arch a little to the south of the village. Fuller and some of his staff made their escape, hoping to join Company G, which had been released at division headquarters and was supposed to be coming in from the west. As the column emerged from the village of Heinerscheid, concealed high-velocity guns opened on the skimpily armored light tanks, picking them off like clay pipes in a shooting gallery. As American riflemen and machine gunners cut down the German assault teams, they saw their own ranks thinning. Despite harassing fire from American guns and mortars the Germans moved swiftly. The 109th and 112th were in like status. 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. The German guns and Werfers had finally opened fire to neutralize or destroy the rearward artillery and reserve positions in the, 112th sector. it to call on neighboring battalions, attacking Weiler, to help outflank The 2d Battalion manned observation posts and operated patrols across the river but was deployed in a refused position west of the Our. 1st Army (1-A): Gen Courtney H. Hodges - 526th Armored Infantry Battalion - 99th Infantry Battalion (Separate) - 61st Engineer [] of the 1st Battalion. The Bellefonte unit was redesignated Troop L, 103d Cavalry. 15 About dark infantry from Ltzkampen attacked in close order formation against Company B. The government of Luxembourg awarded it the Croix de Guerre, and the 112th Infantry Regiment received a Presidential Unit Citation, but that was the extent of the official recognition. Then, too, the 2d Battalion had once again used the stone bridge south of Ouren to launch a counterattack across the river and, during the afternoon, materially restored the 3d Battalion positions. The casualties suffered by a typical American infantry regiment serving in World War II were horrendous. 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. Troops of I Company ride a tank into the attack on Schoppen, 15 January 1945. 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. A sharp attack drove a provisional platoon, made up from the 28th Division band, off the high ground to the northwest, thus exposing the engineer line. . How the US Army 28th Infantry Division's 110th Regimental Combat Team Upset the German Timetable. The group never established contact, however, and most of its members were captured when they attempted to break away the following morning. In June 1880, Company A, 45th Pennsylvania Volunteers were reorganized as Company B, 5th Pennsylvania Infantry (Bellefonte Fencibles). 112th Infantry Regiment. From that day on, the names Fismes, Fismette, Fond de Mezieres, and Argonne would never be forgotten. 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. The Fifth Panzer Army Attacks the 28th Infantry Division. The 902d, advancing by way of Munshausen, now cleared of Americans, followed. The mission given Luettwitz conformed to his reputation for drive and audacity. 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. 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. about six hundred men (it had been operating sawmills and rock crushers, 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. Two hours later tanks and self-propelled guns struck the 44th Engineers, which was outposting the little hamlets northeast of Wiltz. on numerous occasions before; so it is questionable whether either of them expected the Luftwaffe to make good. Manteuffel had two armored formations in reserve, the Panzer Lehr Division and the Fuehrer Begleit Brigade.1 These he intended to throw in behind the armored corps which made the first bridgehead at the Our. The next morning Colonel Nelson was able to tell General Cota, "Very good news. In the weeks that followed, the division rested and re-formed in the Bitburg-Wittlich area, its units moving constantly to escape Allied observation. In July 1917, the Lewistown, Tyrone, Huntingdon, Everett, Altoona, and Bellefonte units were mustered into federal service for. Colonel Nelson gave the order to withdraw behind the river under cover of darkness. To the east, at Dasburg, the German engineers were straining to finish the tank bridge which would bring the German armor into play. 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. *AIR broken up into three separate armored Infantry battalions. 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 battery commander and fifteen gunners were casualties of the close-range fight before help arrived. When day came the Americans caught the troops following the advance party of the assault company out in the open. The unit was awarded the sattle streamer marked Puerto Rico for their service. Back to the west, in the 28th Division command post at Wiltz, General Cota took what steps he could to help the 110th Infantry. Our expert research specialists are on site at U.S. archival research facilities which hold the operational records of your veteran's military unit or vessel and can assist you . Since the Wiltz bridge had not been destroyed, the American assault gun platoon was ordered back to Erpeldange, covering the northeastern approach to the bridge and the engineer outposts. Colonel Fuller set. of the 77th, under the cover provided by German artillery, drove It is impossible. Thomas G. Bradbeer, General Cota and the Battle of the Hrtgen Forest, Army History, No. In 2004-2005, A Company, 1st Battalion, was deployed with Task Force Dragoon to Tikrit Iraq. But menaced as they were, the artillery commander could not risk his howitzers further. The task of rebuilding the rifle companies, repairing battle damage, and training replacements was of necessity a slow one. the 156th Regiment. The 28th Division got caught in the Battle of the Bulge and endured many casualties. At Weiler the rest of the company and the antitank platoon, their supply of ammunition dwindling, also awaited the tanks. 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. After years of training, the unit first entered the continent of Europe on the Normandy beaches following the D-Day landing. A few hundred yards had been traversed when, at the first crossroad, the leading half-track ran into a patch of mines laid in front of a German roadblock and exploded. This article appears in: . By nightfall the American perimeter had been pierced at many points and the defenders pushed back into the center of Wiltz. When this was refused the Germans systematically set to work to surround the village; by dark they had ringed Weiler. 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. 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. 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. The Huntingdon unit became Troop K, 3rd Battalion of the 104th Armored Cavalry and one of the Altoona companies became Howitzer Battery, 3rd Battalion 104th Cavalry. All of these units were released from federal service in 1945. the 109th and 112th Regiments gave ground slowly, but they . 122th Infantry Regiment. His first concern would be to gain the ridge west of the Our and thus cover the armor crossings, for he recognized that it would be a difficult stream to bridge. On the left of the regimental zone, the 1st Battalion (Lt. Col. Donald Paul) held the intersection of the Skyline Drive and the Dasburg-Bastogne main highway at Marnach, employing Company B and a platoon from the 630th Tank Destroyer Battalion. 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. Caveat: This Battle lasted more than a month, with assignments in considerable flux. Only a short distance beyond, at a third block, fire swept into the column from all sides. . 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The other Altoona unit was mustered into federal service for home station duty during World War II as Battery B, 200th Field Artillery. Intelligence reports indicated that the elements of the US 28th Infantry The XLVII Panzer Corps, if all went well, would cross the Our and Clerf Rivers, make a dash "over Bastogne" to the Meuse, seize the Meuse River crossings near Namur by surprise, and drive on through Brussels to Antwerp. The presence of enemy tanks in Ltzkampen constituted a distinct threat, even to infantry in pillboxes. But at dark he ordered his regimental commanders to hold their positions "at all costs" and began preparations to commit his remaining reserves to restore the situation in the Marnach sector and block the road to Clerf. 116th Infantry Regiment. The bulk of the 3d Battalion held their positions despite surprise, defending from pillboxes and foxholes. They divided into two groups and headed west through the enemy lines. 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