The American howitzers, south of Wiltz, also took a hand in slowing the German attack. However, if it were not . The roads in the Before noon five separate assaults had been made at Consthum, but all were beaten off by small arms, .50-caliber, and artillery fire. midafternoon, leaving open an avenue into the 2d Battalion left flank. James Russell Fostervold, 86, of Willmar, died Tuesday at his home following an illness. 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. Then too, some welcome tank support had arrived on the scene. Remnants of the 3d Battalion had assembled at Consthum, the battalion headquarters. to put one of his counterattack plans into operation. 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 . 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. The 112th Infantry south wing was giving way under heavy attack, and during the day all communications between the regiment and division were lost. As the enemy gun layers dropped their range back to the river and then to the American positions, the searchlights blinked on, searching out pillboxes and bunkers. Meanwhile, General Middleton, the VIII Corps commander, issued a holdfast order to all his troops. 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. The 112th Infantry Regiment has a history that dates back long before World War II started. the German engineers moved in. On 22 November 1878, the battalion was organized as the 16th Regiment, Pennsylvania National Guard. 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. In 1917, when America entered World War I, the 28th Infantry Division was the nation's oldest National Guard unit. The road center at Wiltz and the bridges there were only about twelve miles from Bastogne. Eight tanks were knocked out by the enemy gunners and in the confusion three more fell prey to bazooka fire. 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. On the morning of 19 December the headquarters of the 28th Infantry Division transferred from Wiltz to Sibret, southwest of Bastogne. Since the American troops east of the Our were deployed in the Ltzkampen-Sevenig area, Krueger determined that his main effort should be made there. On orders, the three remaining assault guns went back to cover the wrecked structure. about six hundred men (it had been operating sawmills and rock crushers, Then rolling down the Marnach road came the German advance guard, perhaps two platoons of Mark IV tanks and as many as thirty half-tracks filled with armored grenadiers. Roads and bridges, he reckoned, must be in shape to support the American troops east of the river. His appeal for a mechanized division to be given the neighboring Seventh the Fuehrer personally denied.2, The 110th Infantry Sector or support the 3d Battalion, 110th Infantry, fighting at Consthum. Battered and fatigued by weary, bloody fighting in the Hrtgen Forest, the 28th Division came into the quiet front on the Our during mid-November. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. Although the 116th Panzer Division losses were moderate, the inexperienced 560th Volks Grenadier Division had suffered an estimated 1,000 casualties-a figure, however, that included the reinforced fusilier company which got lost in the woods southwest of Sevenig and was not seen again for two days. Tank Battalion-some six crippled tanks and five assault guns was gathered Of the 1st Battalion, only a part of Company C retained its organization. then, as seen by Manteuffel and Luettwitz, was not how to achieve the . General Waldenburg committed his infantry here, in the predawn hours, hoping that the 60th Regiment would break through on the right or that the 156th Regiment would reach the river on the left and so secure a bridgehead through which his tank regiment could be passed. The Americans had taken 186 prisoners and killed or wounded two or three times that number; the losses in the 1130th Regiment were "very high," said the enemy reports. 20th Armored Division (480th AIR*) 8th AIB Collectively, these units received credit for the following World War II campaigns: Normandy (with the Bellefonte unit participating in the assault landing), Northern France, Rhineland, Ardennes-Alsace, and Central Europe. in the Ardennes sector. 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. The next day General Cota ordered the battalion to Wiltz, where it would take part in the defense of the division headquarters. The German artillery could take a hand this morning, particularly since a number of forward observers had wormed into the American positions. This story concerns itself with that period when the 3rd Battalion, as part of the 28th . In 1975, all except for the Everett unit were reorganized and redesignated as the 2nd Battalion 112th Infantry. Interlocking machine gun and rifle fire blocked off the German reinforcements some sixty were captured and the rest dug in where they could. The remainder of the casualties were fairly evenly split between the 109th Infantry to the . These two attacks from west and south had made no headway but were not too costly. 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. 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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 229th Field Artillery Battalion pounded the German assembly point at Ltzkampen as hard as limited stock of shells permitted and fighter-bombers plastered the village: "air tremendously effective" reported the expectant ground observers. In this fight the crossroads near Erpeldange changed hands four times. 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. 1st Cavalry Medical Squadron. against the British and American advance in southwest Holland, and had A brass plate on the stone has an inscription to the men of the 106th and says, ' Dedicated to the Men of the 106th Infantry Division who fought and died for their country 1944-45 .'. 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. 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. 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. At the moment Luettwitz' corps was fighting During the afternoon General Cota radioed Colonel Nelson to be especially watchful of his northern flank, but added that if his own position became untenable he should withdraw at dark behind the Our. But menaced as they were, the artillery commander could not risk his howitzers further. These units were mustered into federal service during the American Civil War. News of the battle on the right and left of the 112th Infantry sector had been sparse. by HistoryNet Staff 6/12/2006. Summarized in part from an article of the Morning Record. On the evening The German guns and Werfers had finally opened fire to neutralize or destroy the rearward artillery and reserve positions in the, 112th sector. The 112th remained an organic unit of the 28th Infantry Division throughout World War II.[5]. The advance party of grenadiers had moved along the wooded draw between the two companies holding the 1st Battalion line. 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. west of the German jump-off positions on the Our River and the final The unit was awarded the sattle streamer marked Puerto Rico for their service. the 447th Antiaircraft Battalion, and light armored cars of the 28th Two hours later the 112th Infantry acknowledged receipt of these instructions. 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. He argued that the enemy literally must not be awakened and that the assault forces should move forward the moment the guns sounded. Less than two miles west of Marnach lay the Clerf River and the town of Clerf, the latter the headquarters of the 110th Infantry. Minus his heavy weapons, the enemy failed to knock the. The German infantry would have to fight step by step; the hope of a quick breakthrough had proven illusory. He died on Nov. 29, 1944 and is buried at Henri-Chapelle in Hombourg, Belgium. Thus deployed on the right of the 424th Infantry, the 112th was another piece filling out the fast developing "island defense" of St. Vith. On the corps left, however, General Kokott and the 26th Volks Grenadier Division jumped the gun. The 110th Antitank Company was in Hoscheid just to the west. The total impact of the severe German blows dealt the 110th Infantry in the late afternoon and evening of 17 December was not felt at the division and corps headquarters for several hours. restored while the commander of the 1130th reported that his Company D, in its support position on the high ground overlooking Ltzkampen, meanwhile commenced mopping up the enemy who had filtered between the companies on the line. 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. Nelson also reported to General Jones at Vielsalm and set the problem before him. The presence of enemy tanks in Ltzkampen constituted a distinct threat, even to infantry in pillboxes. 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. This created a bulge in the German line. 120th Infantry Regiment. were battle-weary, small in number, and widely dispersed. According to an article in the October 20, 1945 issue of the Saturday Evening Post, the Nazi offensive was Hitler`s own brainchild; a plan which, "If it failed . Two lieutenants from I Company examine German weapons abandoned at Schoppen. 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. Unit decoration: Presidential Unit Citation, 1623 Dec 1944 112th Infantry, Civil War silver bands: They were mustered out of federal service in December 1898. The division's three regiments were in a line, with the 112th, 110th, and 109th Infantry Regiments aligned north to south. First the Werfers and guns pounded the front line, particularly the 1st Battalion positions. On 11 May 1898, these units were mustered into federal service for the. A scratch platoon of less than fifty men collected from the regimental headquarters and Ouren held the supporting German infantry at bay along the ridge east of the village. On the evening of 15 December the outpost troops, considerably reinforced, crossed to the west bank as usual and moved cautiously forward. The capitulation of the gallant garrison at Hosingen, during the morning, removed this threat to the 902d supply road. By 1315 the howitzers around Welchenhausen again were firing at their minimum range. If you are looking for a definitive book on The Battle of the Bulge this is not it. Kokott's infantry would have to carry the battle through the night. 112th Infantry took up their posts in the . 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. Battle of Wilson's Creek, Civil War, North/South Becker County MN, WW2 KIA Throughout the day the American outposts watched masses of foot troops and vehicles defile westward through Heinerscheid, only some two thousand yards to the south. At Weiler the rest of the company and the antitank platoon, their supply of ammunition dwindling, also awaited the tanks. The 26th Volks Grenadier Division, having completed its initial mission by seizing an undamaged bridge across the Clerf at Drauffelt during the night, made way for the Panzer Lehr Division to strike for Bastogne. 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. Co-ordination between small packets of infantry and armor, hard at best, was made most difficult by this kind of piecemeal commitment. Anything even remotely resembling a continuous line across the 9- to 10-mile regimental front was beyond the strength of the 1st and 3d Battalions. Original WW2 US Army 112th Infantry Regiment DUI Crest Pinback. the thin infantry line on the Wahlhausen road. 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. 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. The 311th Infantry Regiment was attached to the 8th Division in the Hurtgen Forest, 10 December. A few attacks were started against the new American line, which now covered Beiler, Lieler, and Lausdorn, but none were energetic. At 0930 two companies 75 (Spring 2010), pp. patrol at the stone bridge had evaporated under machine gun fire-and This timing might seem to. 110th Infantry Regiment; 112th Infantry Regiment ; 107th Field Artillery Battalion; 108th Field Artillery Battalion; 109th . between the two assault regiments. Companies E and F dug in on a ridge north of Reuler under a rain of Twice during the morning the attackers were allowed to send in aid men and remove their wounded. 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. 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. 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. 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. and the few remaining towed tank destroyers of Company B, 630th Tank The timetable for the 26th Volks Grenadier Division advance called for both its attacking regiments to reach the Clerf River by nightfall of the first day. Farther to the south the 687th Field Artillery Battalion was surrounded at a crossroad about seven miles from Wiltz. About dusk the Marnach garrison radioed that half-tracks could be heard moving toward the village. The town itself lies in a horseshoe bend of the river. Crest: that for the regiments and separate battalions of the Pennsylvania Army National Guard: From a wreath argent and azure, a lion rampant guardant proper holding in dexter paw a naked scimitar of the first, hilted or and in sinister an escutcheon of the first on a fess sable three plates. fire and sent forward a white flag, with an offer for the Americans to surrender. It became the 112th Infantry Regimental Combat Team. The appearance of the Shermans in Clerf cooled the ardor of the German infantry. from the rear. All that remained of the 707th The northern regiment of the Panzer Lehr Division, the 902d, made better progress. had no cohesive line of defense, General Kokott had ordered the 77th Regiment to circle north of Hosingen and head straight for the Clerf bridges at Drauffelt, while the 39th cut cross-country, avoiding the villages on the western side of the ridge line, and seized the road junction and bridges at Wilwerwiltz on the Clerf. The fall of Wiltz ended the 28th Division's delaying action before Bastogne. 15 About dark infantry from Ltzkampen attacked in close order formation against Company B. Hitler had committed Bayerlein's tanks in an abortive counterattack designed to roll up the exposed flank of the American Third Army on the Saar.4 This Panzer Lehr thrust failed, and at the beginning of December Bayerlein's command was brought north to the Eifel district for an emergency attempt at refitting. WW2 Army Unit Records Research. moved toward Sevenig. View of a Clearing Station, somewhere behind Utah Beach, Normandy, taken June 6 - 7, 1944 - triage of Airborne casualties and patients . By February, they were back on the offensive. 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. Manteuffel also held strongly for infiltration tactics by small detachments, such as were conventionally employed by both opponents on the Eastern Front. The unit was noted for actions in the Battle of Coamo, where the regiment sustained six wounded and one killed in action during a blocking action. column and, attacking through the dark with grenades and bayonets, cleared the position. a combat command of the 10th Armored Division was moving forward to 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. . 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. Before daybreak on 18 December the survivors, now only a handful, started west. The lion is in the infantry color and both symbols represent the locale of the regiment's combat in World War II. On 11 October 1917 the 16th Pennsylvania Regiment was redesignated as the 112th Infantry Regiment and became part of the 28th Infantry Division. The mission given Luettwitz conformed to his reputation for drive and audacity. *AIR broken up into three separate armored Infantry battalions. with the aid of the dwindling tank force from the 9th Armored Division it to call on neighboring battalions, attacking Weiler, to help outflank time was needed for orders to reach the front-line troops. General Cota still had in hand a reserve on the night of the 16th, but it was the last reserve of the 28th Division. battalion, hastily formed from the 28th Division headquarters, by setting In the meantime the Company C advance north toward Marnach also ran into trouble: persistent small arms fire forced the infantry to leave the road and move slowly across country. After years of training, the unit first entered the continent of Europe on the Normandy beaches following the D-Day landing. In September 2015 the Battalion was activated and deployed to, This page was last edited on 31 August 2022, at 16:23. Time was running out for the American companies: ammunition. From this point the American artillery The 304th Regiment had suffered severely at American hands: the regimental commander was a casualty and one battalion had been badly scattered during the piecemeal counterattacks by the American tank platoons. For this reason the fight put up by the 112th Infantry on the north flank of the division had little or no effect on the operations of its sister regiment east of Bastogne. It would be natural, therefore, for the Germans debouching from the Wilwerwiltz bridgehead to defile through the Wiltz valley. The Fifth Panzer commander seems to have been fairly optimistic, although he gave little ear to Hitler's promise of air support. 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. [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 2d Battalion's Civilian Military Operations unit (S-9) oversaw the distribution of roughly $20 million to the Iraqi people in efforts to stabilize the Iraqi economy and build public works projects including police stations, schools, hospitals, fire departments, youth centers, and water pumping stations. Both Luettwitz and Manteuffel had been "promised" air support. When the mortar crews and antitank platoon had used all their ammunition they joined the infantry in the center of the village and fought as riflemen. In fact, detachments of the 39th Regiment had crossed the Skyline Drive unobserved and were moving in to surprise Holzthum. Near the village a patrol found that the stone bridge was guarded by only a half squad of Germans. they were particularly bad on the axis assigned to Luettwitz' southern battalion of the 112th. The 39th Regiment had got involved in local actions and been diverted from the westward axis-sustaining high losses in the bargain. and withdrew on foot to Wiltz-the 2d Battalion flanks were wide open. 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 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 dates of its approval and amendment are also the same. 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. Outnumbered and outgunned, the men of the 110th Infantry Regiment upset the German timetable during the Battle of the Bulge. Krueger was the elder of the two and lacked something of Luettwitz' dash. 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. In the weeks that followed, the division rested and re-formed in the Bitburg-Wittlich area, its units moving constantly to escape Allied observation. Get Military Unit/Ship Histories and After Action Records (AAR) We offer access to after action reports and operational records from all branches of the U.S. Military. 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. 116th Infantry Regiment. This was the end. The unit was mustered out of federal service on 6 December 1945 at Camp Gordon, Georgia. The story in the 2d Panzer Division zone was the same. The remaining roads, through the 110th sector normally were poor but were made worse by the rains prior to 16 December; the 26th Volks Grenadier Division intended to enter the two southernmost roads by throwing a bridge across at Gemnd.6. Considerable damage had been done the German assault forces. Thomas G. Bradbeer, General Cota and the Battle of the Hrtgen Forest, Army History, No. The 14th Parachute Regiment, which had been moving slowly westward (the 5th Parachute Division commander ascribed its dilatory movement to the habit of attacking small villages in order to have billets for the cold December nights), entered the fight via a climb onto the eastern ridge overlooking the town. In the late evening of 16 December German artillery began to range into Clerf, apparently covering the advance of patrols from Marnach. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1969. Beautifully illustrated with 200 photographs. A secondary road, on the right of the through highway to Bastogne, approaches Clerf from the hamlet of Urspelt. 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