The 112th Infantry Sector Here in the south daylight patrols also operated to maintain control of the eastern bank, although the main positions were around Lieler and Lausdorn. He expected that the tactics of predawn infiltration would pay off and that his assault detachments would have reached the crest line, Lascheid-Heinerscheid-Roder-Hosingen, before noon on D-day. 15 About dark infantry from Ltzkampen attacked in close order formation against Company B. They sailed to Puerto Rico on 5 July 1898 and served with the 1st Brigade, 1st Division, 1st Army Corps throughout the campaign. A secondary road, on the right of the through highway to Bastogne, approaches Clerf from the hamlet of Urspelt. 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. At the close of this first day the 112th Infantry remained in its positions east of the Our.16 The 2d Battalion had not yet been seriously engaged, although one company had been detached to reinforce the 3d. It was released from active duty in 1953 and was redesignated Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 3rd Battalion 104th Cavalry. But menaced as they were, the artillery commander could not risk his howitzers further. German defenses. moved toward Sevenig. by HistoryNet Staff 6/12/2006. Snow blanketed the fields. 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. This regiment formed the division center, with the 112th Infantry on the north and the 109th Infantry aligned to the south. This was not quite the end in Clerf. From this point the American artillery Volks Grenadier Division) had not fared too well in the attack With an open left flank and under artillery fire called down by the American observation post on the Wahlhausen road, the 39th swerved from the westward axis of attack and became involved at Weiler, contrary to orders. Once through St. Vith the LXVI would follow Krueger to Andenne, but if things grew rough on the left wing Manteuffel intended to switch Lucht's corps to the south. 103d Engineer Combat Battalion 103d Medical Battalion 28th Division Artillery. Luettwitz turned the Geilenkirchen sector over to the There the infantry driving toward the town of Clerf had been stopped short of their objective. 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. 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. 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. antitank guns supplemented the weapons organic to the conventional Volks Grenadier division. One rifle regiment and part of the division engineers were still in Denmark. Across the Vesle was the larger town of Fismes headquarters of the 112th Infantry Regiment, 28th Division. The unit was transported to and garrisoned at El Paso, Texas for training, but was never utilized because hostilities ended. 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. Leaderless, the platoon broke. 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. Two hours later the 112th Infantry acknowledged receipt of these instructions. The 26th Volks Grenadier Division (Generalmajor Heinz Kokott) already was deployed in the Eifel sector of the West Wall adjacent to the Our where it covered not only the XLVII Panzer Corps zone but a wide frontage beyond. In 1949, the Bellefonte unit was redesignated Battery B, 688th Field Artillery. No help could be expected from either the right or left wing regiments in shoring up the division center. The German artillery could take a hand this morning, particularly since a number of forward observers had wormed into the American positions. they were particularly bad on the axis assigned to Luettwitz' southern 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. Most members of the 1st Battalion, for example, eventually found their way back to the regiment. 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. About this time a German tank platoon appeared on the ridge less than a thousand yards from the regimental command post in Ouren. 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The responsibility for command here was assumed directly by the VIII Corps. eager to be in at the kill. The 2d Battalion manned observation posts and operated patrols across the river but was deployed in a refused position west of the Our. Colonel Lauchert was worried about the slow rate of the 2d Panzer advance. The 3d Battalion positions on the German bank were built around captured pillboxes, for here earlier American advances had pierced the first line of the German West Wall. Men in the observation posts watched the enemy move about his daily chores and reported flares and occasional rounds of mortar or artillery fire. Each battalion was responsible for five outposts along the west bank of the Our, but these vantage points were occupied only during daylight hours and then in squad strength. In 1951, a rampant lion as found on the arms of Belgium and the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg grasping a red cross of the province of Lorraine in France were added to the old coat of arms of the 112th Infantry Regiment. By nightfall the 3d Battalion line on the Sevenig ridge had been The Tyrone unit was mustered into federal service for World War II as Troop B, 104th Mechanized Cavalry Reconnaissance Squadron. The 10th Regiment jumped off south of Michelshoff on December 21st and experienced one of their bloodiest fights of World War 2. On 3 July 1916, the regiment was called to service for Mexican border duty, with Rickards still in command. News of the battle on the right and left of the 112th Infantry sector had been sparse. Outnumbered and outgunned, the men of the 110th Infantry Regiment upset the German timetable during the Battle of the Bulge. The entire action lasted ten minutes. 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. continue the attack for the bridges at Ouren. Later reports indicate that this group was almost wiped out. Destroyer Battalion. In any case the defenders made radio contact (their last) with the 28th Division as late as 0528 on the morning of 18 December. Infantrymen of the 110th Infantry, 28th Div., US 1st Army following the German breakthrough in that area, Bastogne, Belgium, 19 December 1944. On the morning of 19 December the headquarters of the 28th Infantry Division transferred from Wiltz to Sibret, southwest of Bastogne. 107th Field Artillery Battalion (105 Howitzer) . There was no hint from any source that the enemy was about to strike squarely into the center of the 8th Division and in overwhelming array. restored while the commander of the 1130th reported that his day-as usual a boundary line had proved a point of little resistance-and The next day General Cota ordered the battalion to Wiltz, where it would take part in the defense of the division headquarters. the road but moving on in the direction of the Clerf. blocked with trees and mines, the bridge debris would have taken much "Rocky" Moretto was one of only two men in his infantry company who . The 1st Battalion commander had already ordered Company A, located three miles farther north on the Skyline Drive at Heinerscheid, to send a patrol south and make contact with Company B. In 2004-2005, A Company, 1st Battalion, was deployed with Task Force Dragoon to Tikrit Iraq. The battery commander and fifteen gunners were casualties of the close-range fight before help arrived. Aside from patrol activity (generally small raids against individual pillboxes) the 112th Infantry sector had been quiet. 116th Infantry Regiment. The dates of its approval and amendment are also the same. This was General der Artillerie Walther Lucht's LXVI Corps. The heavy barrage and the pyrotechnic display which opened elsewhere on the 28th Division front on 16 December was viewed at first with some detachment by the men at the 112th observation posts. On the morning of the 17th German tanks had set the town ablaze, but the few American Shermans had held them at bay. The American. In September 2015 the Battalion was activated and deployed to, This page was last edited on 31 August 2022, at 16:23. Jones attached the 112th Infantry to his own division on the spot, assuring Nelson that he would assume full responsibility. 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. The gunners and their attached antiaircraft artillery unit made a stand with their carbines, Colts, and a few .50-caliber machine guns. a blasted bridge three kilometers east of Heinerscheid and established columns. time was needed for orders to reach the front-line troops. On 19 December the right wing division of the latter, the 5th Parachute Division, took over the attack on Wiltz, or perhaps more accurately, drifted into a fight for the town. 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 0730 the two rifle companies of the 2d Battalion jumped off at the ridge east of Clerf. good tank-going could not be expected until the Marche-Rochefort line 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. 116th Infantry Regiment. In 1975, all except for the Everett unit were reorganized and redesignated as the 2nd Battalion 112th Infantry. Just east of Bastogne the roads straightened somewhat, but paymasters who composed the defense. Radio communication, which was functioning fairly well, showed that the division center was most endangered. 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. While tanks dueled in the street like gunmen of the Old West the 3d Battalion made its orderly way out the west side of the town, reorganized, and as night descended marched to Nocher. Patrols could not reach the 1st Battalion and at dusk the 3d Battalion reported that the panzers finally were in position to rake its ridge defenses with fire from the north-the pillbox line no longer was tenable. The other Altoona unit was mustered into federal service for home station duty during World War II as Battery B, 200th Field Artillery. [4] 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. The German barrage, with a limited number of rounds at the guns, dwindled away after about half an hour to sporadic salvos and stray single shots, leaving the advancing infantry without cover while they were still short of the American positions. After some delay, while the tank platoon and the infantry identified themselves, the tanks rolled south to the 3d Battalion headquarters at Consthum. The origins of the 1st Battle Group are derived from the 112th Infantry Regiment in which it was . The 2nd Battalion, 112th Infantry was formed from units of the 104th Armored Cavalry on 01 April 1975. Less than two miles west of Marnach lay the Clerf River and the town of Clerf, the latter the headquarters of the 110th Infantry. A whole series of monkey wrenches had been thrown into the well-oiled machinery of the 26th Volks Grenadier Division. Minus his heavy weapons, the enemy failed to knock the. The 112th was the first war-strength National Guard regiment in the United States. The regiment consisted of companies from Erie, McKean, Venango, Elk, Warren, and Crawford counties. . Marnach remained in American hands, even after the Dasburg bridge was completed and the leading tanks of the 3d Panzer Regiment entered the fight. 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. In fact it represented Heilmann's failure to gain control of his division, for the orders were to bypass Wiltz. 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. Despite the failure of his Fifth Panzer Army in the Lorraine campaign against Patton's Third Army, Manteuffel was listed by Hitler for command in the Ardennes. the Reconnaissance Battalion of the 116th Panzer Division There was still hope on the morning of 17 December that at least one platoon from Company B was holding on in Marnach. The first American planes arrived at 0935, immobilizing the German tanks momentarily. Leaving only a screening force behind, the 60th Regiment DECEMBER 1944. By 1315 the howitzers around Welchenhausen again were firing at their minimum range. The tankers had been told that there were no friendly troops on the road and just Outside Holzthum knocked out an antitank gun placed there by Company I. 20th Armored Division (480th AIR*) 8th AIB antitank gun in the path and crossed the bridge at the railroad station. The little group from regimental headquarters which had been deployed on the ridge line at Ouren was less successful. going in the West Wall maze north of Ltzkampen and the initial XLVII Panzer Corps arrived at the headquarters of the Fifth 121st Infantry Regiment. The task of rebuilding the rifle companies, repairing battle damage, and training replacements was of necessity a slow one. 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. howitzers with one- and two-second fuzes. At Hosingen, on the ridge road, Company D and Company B were fighting German infantry hand to hand inside the village. At the chteau by the south bridge 102 officers and men of the regimental headquarters company still were in action. Despite harassing fire from American guns and mortars the Germans moved swiftly. 125th Infantry Regiment. These were the stakes when the Germans launched their surprise attack through Belgium on December 16, 1944. Fuller, however, was able to get a warning message through to the 28th Division command post about 0900. Bad tank 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. Luettwitz and the army commander ran at least two map On the corps right, then, the 116th Panzer Division (Generalmajor Siegfried von Waldenburg) had orders to attack north of Ltzkampen; at least two or more bridges crossed the Our in this sector. Finally, the regimental antitank and cannon companies were disposed around Ouren guarding the bridges, the roads, and the regimental command post. Only Company K in Hosingen was yet to be heard from. 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. The Lead-Up to the Battle of the Bulge. Now, at the end of the day, the armored reconnaissance battalion of the Panzer Lehr Division found itself crawling rather than racing west from the Gemnd bridge. The ground east of the river was favorable to the defender, who was well entrenched as the result of careful planning and inspection by Nelson and his staff, and whose guns covered the few routes of mechanized advance. 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 presence of enemy tanks in Ltzkampen constituted a distinct threat, even to infantry in pillboxes. Crest: The crest is that of the Pennsylvania Army National Guard. In general the ground on the east bank commanded. 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. 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. . But the credit side of the ledger showed a few entries. the leading detachments of the 77th swung to the north, cutting patrol at the stone bridge had evaporated under machine gun fire-and It consisted of the 2d Battalion, 110th Infantry, at Donnange and the light tank company of the 707th Tank Battalion, which was located at Weiswampach behind the division north flank in support of the 112th Infantry. His record in North Africa and Russia, where he achieved a reputation for energetic leadership and personal bravery, brought him to Hitler's attention and promotion directly from a division to an army command. 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. 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. However, if it were not . Po Valley-Manassas-Antietam-Chancellorsville-Gettysburg-Atlanta-Fredericksburg-Vicksburg-Wilderness-Spotsylvania-Cold Harbor-Petersburg-Appomattox-Virginia 1861-South Carolina 1862-Mississippi 1863-Tennessee 1863. On the eve of commitment the two tank battalions were about full strength, with 27 Mark IV's, 58 Panthers, and 48 armored assault guns in the division tank parks. The capitulation of the gallant garrison at Hosingen, during the morning, removed this threat to the 902d supply road. Colonel Fuller's command post was in a hotel only a few yards from the north bridge. The Battle of the Bulge was the largest battle ever fought by the United States Army. 1st Cavalry . 113th Infantry Regiment. 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) . firing positions along the road, sited to cover the Wiltz perimeter Reports include lessons learned, analysis, and criticisms. John "Lefty" Zagarella, As Told In Letters, 1941-1945. Completely surrounded by the enemy, it had hoped to join the withdrawal of the line companies. 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. On German operations maps Wiltz lay athwart the boundary which divided the attack zones of the XLVII Panzer Corps and the LXXXV Corps. But there were too few guns and too few air sorties to keep the enemy immobilized for long. As the morning passed the small German detachments west of the ridge increased in strength. He added, however, that he had "three battalions now trying to counterattack from Clerf to Marnach." On the corps left, however, General Kokott and the 26th Volks Grenadier Division jumped the gun. The 5th Parachute Division commander had already experienced great difficulty in maintaining control of his units in action. 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. The 1st Battalion, 112th Infantry Regiment draws its origins from Civil War era units, including the 13th, 15th, and 17th Pennsylvania Regiments and still maintains the right to possess the silver bands and battle streamers awarded for battle service in the Peninsula and Virginia 18611863 campaigns and for participation in the battles of Manassas, Antietam, Fredericksburg, Gettysburg, the Wilderness, and Spottsylvania. Even before the seizure of Ouren the LVIII Panzer Corps had shifted its interest to the south. On the evening of the 18th Col. Ludwig Heilmann, commander of the 5th Parachute Division, knew that the divisions on his right and left were well ahead of his own. of the 1st Battalion. 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 . However, these unit designations were short-lived. Picture 1 of 6. 16-18 December. 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. But Battery A of the battalion was swept up by the Germans who had bypassed the left wing anchor of the regiment at Heinerscheid. It was disbanded on 16 July 1883 and reorganized as Company A, 10th Pennsylvania Infantry on 3 July 1884. Eighteen men put up devastating fire against the first attack of over 500 German paratroopers. The battalion was activated for federal service in Iraq 19 September 2008, and redeployed back to the States in late August 2009. Shortly before noon German pressure noticeably relaxed. But only the 1st (Lt. Col. Donald Paul) and 3rd (Major Harold Milton) Battalions of the 110th were on the line, while the remaining 2nd Battalion (Lt. Col. Ross C. Henbest) was held in division reserve at Doennange and Wiltz, eight miles to the southwest. He was an instructor at the U.S. Army Infantry School (1932-1933) and graduated from the U.S. Army War College in 1936. At night the strip between the ridge and the river became a no man's land where German and American patrols stalked one another. 115th Infantry Regiment. Southeast of the town The new mission given General Kokott was this: the 26th would force the crossings at the Our and Clerf Rivers on the left of the corps, hold open for the armor, then follow the more mobile panzer units to Bastogne. 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. At 1839 the sergeant at the regimental switchboard called the division to report that he was alone-only the switchboard was left. Albert was an Army veteran of World War II, serving in the 28th Division during the Battle of the Bulge. One thing clearly worried him: would the Seventh Army keep pace and cover his left flank to Bastogne? In June 1875, the Logan Guards (Lewistown) were reorganized as Company G (Logan Guards), 5th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment. the German engineers moved in. Both of these positions lay adjacent to the prospective boundary between the XLVII and LXXXV Corps. The initial penetration by the corps' right was charged to the armored infantry of the famous 2d Panzer Division (Colonel Meinrad von Lauchert), a unit that had fought the Allies all the way from Normandy back to the German frontier. The immediate mission of Krueger's corps, like that of the XLVII Panzer Corps on its left, was to seize crossings at the Our River. Six three-inch towed Ration strength was more than 17,000, and forty-two 75-mm. The regimental command post staff left Ouren even while the enemy was filtering into the village and moved to Weiswampach. He then became the executive officer (XO) for the 16th Infantry Regiment at Fort Jay, Governors Island, New York. At that crucial point the infantry had to take Bastogne as quickly as possible, with or without the help of the armored divisions. . First, Luettwitz could not allow any slackening to an infantry pace by frontal attacks against strongly defended American positions. Kokott's infantry would have to carry the battle through the night. 127th Infantry Regiment. 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. In 1873, Company G, Monongahela Artillery (Everett) was renamed the Light Guards and then redesignated as Company A, 10th Pennsylvania Infantry. 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