The 112th was the first war-strength National Guard regiment in the United States. the Reconnaissance Battalion of the 116th Panzer Division
been deployed along the Wahlhausen road on the forward slope of the
to the Our bridges in the 3d Battalion area led the regimental commander
He wanted an attack on a broad front with both tank corps in the line at the opening gun-this point Hitler conceded. Col, Plt Sgt, 112th Infantry Regiment, 28th Division, Battle of the Bulge, Huertgen Forest, USA. In midmorning Paul ordered Company C to march north from Munshausen, leaving the cannon company there, and counterattack the Germans in the Company B area. Second, he had to disregard his own flanks, particularly on the south, and resolutely refuse to detach any force for flank protection until the main body was west of the Meuse. The German infantry on the north side of town aligned for the assault about 1400. 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. observers could see the enemy assembling in the woods just to the north. Roads and bridges, he reckoned, must be in shape to support the American troops east of the river. 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. . Colonel Fuller set. Interlocking machine gun and rifle fire blocked off the German reinforcements some sixty were captured and the rest dug in where they could. From town and river rise wooded and precipitous slopes, particularly sharp and difficult to the east. The battalion became an, In 2003 the battalion deployed 350 soldiers to, In October 2003, the battalion re-organized as a, In September, 2005, the battalion deployed to. 5 During the division attack of 2-1 November in the Schmidt-Vossenack sector the 28th had taken 6,184 casualties. Even so, the unit accounted for six tanks on the 16th and broke up two panzer assaults of company size. tank destroyers from the 630th Tank Destroyer Battalion, weapons of
The division advance guard from the 15th Parachute Regiment (supposedly on its way to capture Sibret) somehow became confused, wandered away northward, and about 1500 struck the 687th Field Artillery Battalion, whose batteries had displaced to a road angling southeast from the town.20 Battery A met the tanks leading the German column with direct fire, disabled or destroyed them, and briefly slowed the advance toward Wiltz. Colonel Lauchert was worried about the slow rate of the 2d Panzer advance. The half-track was demolished, but the field had been exploded and the covering infantry cleared away. 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. Shortly before noon a platoon of Company B's tanks reached the hardpressed field artillery battery near Buchholz and reported the situation in hand.8 But the enemy here represented only the probing forefinger of the main attack. With the first light some eighteen Mark V tanks started down the ridge spur pointing toward Ouren; at the same time the 1130th Regiment and the 156th Regiment resumed the attack to cut off and destroy the forward American companies. There were also available some
Some additional help for the 112th did arrive before daybreak on 17 December, four self-propelled tank destroyers out of the 811th Tank Destroyer Battalion borrowed from Combat Command Reserve, 9th Armored Division, at Trois Vierges. Yet there was still an opportunity to retard the 2d Panzer march along the road to Bastogne. 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. 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. The attack by the light tank company of the 707th along the Skyline Drive was disastrous. 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 Germans in the way quickly withdrew to the
Four of the 707th tanks that had been crippled the previous day were drawn up on the ridge east of Wiltz to give what help they might as more or less stationary artillery. German tanks opened fire on them, but a direct hit stopped the leading Mark IV, for the moment effectively blocking the serpentine approach from Marnach. The 77th Regiment formed on the right near Hosingen and the 39th, echeloned to the left and rear, assembled in the woods north of Wahlhausen. 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. Both the 1st and 2d Battalions deployed with the rest of the 56th Stryker Brigade Combat Team on 19 September 2008. In fact it represented Heilmann's failure to gain control of his division, for the orders were to bypass Wiltz. The remainder of the casualties were fairly evenly split between the 109th Infantry to the . Fortunately Major Woodward, the battalion commanding officer, was suspicious of this route. This new Altoona unit converted back to an engineer company unit they were redesignated Troop C, 104th Cavalry in 1929. The German plans had been altered during the day, but of course some
The 2d Battalion, 112th Infantry Regiment's heritage can be traced back to the Logan Guards In this fight the crossroads near Erpeldange changed hands four times. 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. He was born Dec. 12, 1922, in Litchville, N.D., to Ole and Inga (Olson) Fostervold. Marnach garrison out of the way, but an hour later Company B radioed that three hundred Germans were northwest and southwest of Marnach. 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. 28th Infantry Division The 28th Division was destined to move againdestined for another job (the Gloomy Hurtgen Forest). Outnumbered and outgunned, the men of the 110th Infantry Regiment upset the German timetable during the Battle of the Bulge. 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. 65th Infantry Regiment, Puerto Rican Casualties 66th Armored, Casualties 714th Anti Tank . On the right its 1st Battalion marched on Hosingen, bringing flame throwers and self-propelled guns to blast the Americans from the village; the 2d Battalion moved straight for the Clerf River, aiming at control of the crossings and road net at Wilwerwiltz. The 309th and 310th Infantry Regiments . Nicknamed the 'Bloody Bucket,' the 28th Infantry Division held firm against German attacks during the Battle of the Bulge. The 106th Infantry Division took over position for position. tanks and guns to help the engineers, bandsmen, telephone linemen, and
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. Eighteen men put up devastating fire against the first attack of over 500 German paratroopers. Finally Luettwitz was promised two 60-ton bridges-capable of carrying his Panthers-and very considerable support from the Luftwaffe. The 3rd Battalion of the 395th Infantry Regiment (3/395), commanded by Lieutenant Colonel McClernand Butler, occupied the town of Hfen on the German border. This move was made early in the morning with disastrous results recorded earlier. And German tanks still fired from the eastern height. The American. 112th. The main body of the 1st Battalion was stationed at Camp Taji while the main body of the 2d was stationed at Camp Liberty on the Victory Base Complex. the 2d Battalion back through Reuler, the Americans fighting stubbornly
MacDonald, Charles B. The American strongpoints were therefore located with an eye to blocking these entry ways while at the same time defending the lateral ridge road which connected the 110th with its neighboring regiments and provided the main artery sustaining the entire division front. From that day on, the names Fismes, Fismette, Fond de Mezieres, and Argonne would never be forgotten. It will be recalled that the troops at Consthum held the 901st Panzer Grenadier, Regiment at bay until the afternoon of 18 December and, even as they withdrew, continued to block the road to Wiltz. In fact, detachments of the 39th Regiment had crossed the Skyline Drive unobserved and were moving in to surprise Holzthum. close to the Fifth Panzer Army headquarters, where a few
The 902d, advancing by way of Munshausen, now cleared of Americans, followed. Just east of Bastogne the roads straightened somewhat, but
The origins of the 1st Battle Group are derived from the 112th Infantry Regiment in which it was . 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. restored while the commander of the 1130th reported that his
Less than two miles west of Marnach lay the Clerf River and the town of Clerf, the latter the headquarters of the 110th Infantry. Colonel Nelson decided to pull back through Huldange since enemy tanks were known to be in Trois Vierges. 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. 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. with the aid of the dwindling tank force from the 9th Armored Division
Without it the western exit road from the Gemnd bridge was hopelessly blocked; through Hosingen ran the main divisional supply route to the Clerf. It landed in France, 22 November, and moved to Tongres, Belgium, and to Rotgen, Germany, to prepare for combat. his assistance, probably to be in position to give support by the late
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. Early in the afternoon of 18 December a radio message finally arrived at the division command post asking that the regiment be given instructions. The Bellefonte Fencibles were mustered as Company H, 2d Pennsylvania Volunteers. 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 . continue the attack for the bridges at Ouren. 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. About 0620, however, the 1st Battalion phoned to say that shells were coming over the battalion command post. 194 Glider Infantry Regiment Interrogation & Patrol Reports, Dec 1944-Jan. 1945 . 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. The unit was mustered into federal active service on 16 July 1917 for service in World War I, and Rickards remained its commander. Through the roundabout artillery channels he asked permission to join the 106th Infantry Division, only a little distance away to the north. A half hour before dawn on 18 December German guns and mortars opened heavy fire. One thing clearly worried him: would the Seventh Army keep pace and cover his left flank to Bastogne? The first American planes arrived at 0935, immobilizing the German tanks momentarily. This was the end: shots, blazing vehicles, and screaming wounded. 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. 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 . Although success or failure would turn. Since most of these works were "blind" the final protective line turned on foxholes and extensive patches of barbed wire which the battalion itself had constructed. These roads and bridges he intended to seize by surprise. John "Lefty" Zagarella, As Told In Letters, 1941-1945. 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 . The Panzer Lehr Reconnaissance Battalion, earlier withdrawn from the fight at Holzthum, reverted to its parent command and crossed the river first. 112th Infantry Regiment. Two hours later the enemy struck at Company A, apparently an attempt to clear the north-south Skyline Drive, but artillery fire beat him off. 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. Two lieutenants from I Company examine German weapons abandoned at Schoppen. All this gave the 112th Infantry a chance to get its breath on 18 December. 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. 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. They sailed to Puerto Rico on 5 July 1898 and served with the 1st Brigade, 1st Division, 1st Army Corps throughout the campaign. Seven officers and fifty to sixty men did reach Donnange. General Cota, as a result, decided to concentrate what was left to him-headquarters troops, engineers, stragglers, and the handful of organized units moving back from across the Clerf-in defense of Wiltz, the 28th Division command post. Their fate is unknown. of the 1st Battalion. against the British and American advance in southwest Holland, and had
ridge, covering an observation post. New York: Orion Books, 1989. Colonel Strickler decided to evacuate Wiltz by infiltration and regroup at Sibret, but with the Germans pressing in from all sides and no means of reaching his units except by runner the actual withdrawal would be difficult to control. As a junior officer in the prewar panzer troops, Manteuffel had made a mark as an armored specialist. 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. eager to be in at the kill. 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. 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. 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. 517th Parachute Infantry Regiment attached 110th, 431st and 448th AAA AW Battalions 75th Infantry Division . 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. About 0300 engineers manning pneumatic rubber boats began ferrying the 80-man assault companies and heavy infantry weapons across the river. On 11 October 1917 the 16th Pennsylvania Regiment was redesignated as the 112th Infantry Regiment and became part of the 28th Infantry Division. in to the south edge of Hosingen, contrary to orders, and there grappled
At the crossroads east of Eschweiler the Reconnaissance Battalion turned to the left and bore down on Wiltz. In 1943, he joined the. Across the Vesle was the larger town of Fismes headquarters of the 112th Infantry Regiment, 28th Division. The final word on the defense of Clerf would come from the enemy. Both of these positions lay adjacent to the prospective boundary between the XLVII and LXXXV Corps. The 26th Volks Grenadier Division needed Hosinen badly. He was wounded in action on Dec. 16, 1944 in Bleialf, Germany, by shrapnel. The regimental position, really a series of squad and platoon posts, followed a ridge line south through Harspelt and Sevenig, then bent back across the Our and followed the western slopes of the river nearly to Kalborn. 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. Despite harassing fire from American guns and mortars the Germans moved swiftly. On the corps left, however, General Kokott and the 26th Volks Grenadier Division jumped the gun. relatively little ground; the 110th was very hard pressed; and German tanks were moving along the main road to Bastogne by way of Marnach. In July 1865, these units were mustered out of federal service. In July 1917, the Lewistown, Tyrone, Huntingdon, Everett, Altoona, and Bellefonte units were mustered into federal service for. 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. Even on the first day of the offensive one of Heilmann's regiments had been lost for several hours. This was General der Artillerie Walther Lucht's LXVI Corps. Odds didn't favor the 28th Division. 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. west of the German jump-off positions on the Our River and the final
At that crucial point the infantry had to take Bastogne as quickly as possible, with or without the help of the armored divisions. Krueger had based his plan of attack on the intelligence reports dealing with the Our bridges. fire and sent forward a white flag, with an offer for the Americans to surrender. Hills intersected by wooded draws marked the terrain in this sector. 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. column and, attacking through the dark with grenades and bayonets, cleared the position. The second battalion's Companies G and H lost a combined total of 200 men out of 230 when they were cut off at Fismette and fended off a frontal attack on their position by a thousand German soldiers. But menaced as they were, the artillery commander could not risk his howitzers further. 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. Hyperleap helps uncover and suggest. By noon the 2d Battalion, helpless against massed tanks and without artillery support, was held in check along the ridge running southwest from Urspelt to the Clerf road, only a thousand yards from its line of departure. 1st Army (1-A): Gen Courtney H. Hodges - 526th Armored Infantry Battalion - 99th Infantry Battalion (Separate) - 61st Engineer [] German field guns, by this time west of the Clerf, opened fire on Wiltz at noon. This experience, events would show, had borne little fruit. (Lt. Col. Clarion J. Kjeldseth) to Wiltz on the previous evening with
To compensate for the armored weakness of the battered division, two battalions of armored tank destroyers and an assault gun brigade were given Bayerlein just before the attack to the west began. The advance party of grenadiers had moved along the wooded draw between the two companies holding the 1st Battalion line. The German guns and Werfers had finally opened fire to neutralize or destroy the rearward artillery and reserve positions in the, 112th sector. the story of the 112th Infantry Regiment of the 28th Infantry Division in the battle for Schmidt, Germany. This created a bulge in the German line. 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. A few attacks were started against the new American line, which now covered Beiler, Lieler, and Lausdorn, but none were energetic. In 1995 the battalion became a mechanized infantry battalion. On their left German tanks were wiping out the last posts
In this case, as in many others during the American withdrawal, the full story is that of the cooperation of the combined arms. Finally, the regimental antitank and cannon companies were disposed around Ouren guarding the bridges, the roads, and the regimental command post. WW2 Order of Battle Medical Units. 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. 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. 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. Finally, after a grueling battle in the Baranw-Warsaw sector the division was relieved for the first time since the beginning of the Russian campaign and brought back to Poznan, there receiving the title of Volks Grenadier (regarded as somewhat less than an honor by the survivors of the old regular army 26th Infantry Division). 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 . Hitler himself seems to have favored this concept (it is found in the first Fuehrer operations order), but only in the Fifth Panzer attack would assault detachments be found inside the American positions when the initial barrage opened up. 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. 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. He continued to fight with Cannon Company until the 423rd Regiment surrendered Dec. 19, 1944, near Schnberg, Belgium. the leading detachments of the 77th swung to the north, cutting
One rifle regiment and part of the division engineers were still in Denmark. The field artillery commander in his turn would credit the ably served .50-caliber machine guns and 40-mm. 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 northernmost of the four roads had a good all-weather surface, was the only main through road running east to west through the area, and gave direct access to Clerf and Bastogne. 30th Infantry Division 59th Inf Bde . 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. Colonel Nelson sent back request after request for air support. The 112th Infantry Sector
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. The group never established contact, however, and most of its members were captured when they attempted to break away the following morning. 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. Werfers had finally opened fire to neutralize or destroy the rearward artillery and reserve positions the. A radio message finally arrived at 0935, immobilizing the German guns and mortars opened heavy.... 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