112th infantry regiment battle of the bulge

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. Considerable damage had been done the German assault forces. 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. As each company debarked it marched inland to the line of departure which the outpost force now held close to the American garrison points. Replacements, generally better than the average, were. The 44th was hit from the northeast and east by infantry armed with machine pistols charging in alongside single tanks. 1941 to 1945 with the 112th Regiment of the 28th Infantry Division in France, Belgium, Luxemburg and Germany, including the Liberation of Paris and the Battle of the Bulg : 04/11/2008 Endicott : In July 1865, these units were mustered out of federal service. . The Americans lined up in German formation and, while an officer shouted commands in German, marched boldly across the bridge. To some extent, then, Kokott's decision in favor of premature assembly west of the Our had gained ground for the 26th. The regiment reached France in May 1918 as part of the American Expeditionary Force. 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. The regimental command post staff left Ouren even while the enemy was filtering into the village and moved to Weiswampach. 103d Engineer Combat Battalion 103d Medical Battalion 28th Division Artillery. Miscellaneous troops of the 110th Infantry had joined with units of Combat Command R of the 9th Armored Division (briefly under operational control of the 28th Infantry Division) to defend along the main road to Bastogne in the area west of Clerf. Ouren. 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 provisional battalion which had been recruited from the headquarters staff remained in Wiltz. 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. East of Clerf the left flank of the 2d Battalion started to move forward against an enemy assembly point in a woods northeast of Reuler. On their left German tanks were wiping out the last posts A Time for Trumpets: The Untold Story of the Battle of the Bulge. "Air Power in the Battle of the Bulge: A Theater Campaign Perspective", published in the Winter 1989 issue of "Airpower Journal". the road but moving on in the direction of the Clerf. was reached midway between Bastogne and the Meuse. All that remained of the 707th Colonel Nelson sent back request after request for air support. His staff and regimental commanders, appointees of Generaloberst Kurt Student, had formed a clique against the previous commander and were hostile to Heilmann.19 Furthermore, troops and troop leaders were poorly trained, coming as they had only recently from Luftwaffe ground units. working on roads, and the like). west of the German jump-off positions on the Our River and the final 122th Infantry Regiment. Heilmann, therefore, had decided. Jones attached the 112th Infantry to his own division on the spot, assuring Nelson that he would assume full responsibility. 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 . The regiment was again called to active federal service on 17 February 1941, 10 months prior to the attack on Pearl Harbor. The battle plans and tactics of the Fifth Panzer Army, more than those of any other German army that took part in the Ardennes counteroffensive, bore the very strong personal imprint of its commander, General Manteuffel. . 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. The garrison of a hundred or so was reinforced by Company L, ordered back from Holzthum to avoid entrapment. By 0630 the grenadiers were behind the command post of the 1st Battalion (Lt. Col. William H. Allen) in Harspelt; the first sign of their presence was a kitchen truck ambushed while journeying to the rear. The Bellefonte unit was designated as Troop L, 3rd Reconnaissance Squadron of the 104th Armored Cavalry. U.S. Army photo. 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. This was the end. The 44th Combat Engineers, the rear guard unit at Wiltz, probably suffered most, the enemy accounting for 18 officers and 160 men during the final withdrawal. The fall of Wiltz ended the 28th Division's delaying action before Bastogne. observers could see the enemy assembling in the woods just to the north. The next morning Colonel Nelson was able to tell General Cota, "Very good news. 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. Kokott's infantry would have to carry the battle through the night. between the two assault regiments. First the Werfers and guns pounded the front line, particularly the 1st Battalion positions. It is southeast of Aachen, Germany.D-Day for the Battle of Hurtgen Forest was November 2, 1944, H-hour was 0900. 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. 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. The shield is white, the old infantry color. (Lewistown) and the Bellefonte Fencibles, both organized in 1858. The 10th Regiment jumped off south of Michelshoff on December 21st and experienced one of their bloodiest fights of World War 2. These units were mustered into federal service during the American Civil War. 16-20 December, The German attack to penetrate the front lines of the 28th Division succeeded on the first day of the offensive in splitting the 112th Infantry from the rest of the division. Bullet fire from the old stone walls was no menace to armored vehicles, bazooka teams sent down from the chteau were killed or captured, and the German tank battalions moved on, north and west toward Bastogne. The casualties suffered by a typical American infantry regiment serving in World War II were horrendous. 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. moved toward Sevenig. At the crossroads village of Hosingen atop the Skyline Drive, The main body of the 560th Volks Grenadier Division also had detoured around the stubborn men and difficult ground in the 112th Infantry area, extending the bridgehead which the 1128th Regiment had seized east of Heinerscheid on 17 December. Krueger was the elder of the two and lacked something of Luettwitz' dash. Later Colonel Fuller was captured, with a group of stragglers he commanded, while attempting to break through to the west. with the aid of the dwindling tank force from the 9th Armored Division The 1st Platoon of Company I had Furthermore, Middleton instructed Cota to use. The orders given the 116th Panzer Division on the night of 16 December to switch to the left were altered on the 17th to start its infantry regiments marching still farther south to the Dasburg bridgehead held by the neighboring corps. It became the 112th Infantry Regimental Combat Team. On the Battle of the Bulge: Eisenhower, John S. D. The Bitter Woods. With the few troops remaining, Milton successfully made his way cross-country to the west. Bad tank The roads in the The Logan Guards were mustered as Company E, 25th Pennsylvania Volunteers and then as Company A, 46th Pennsylvania Volunteers. 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. Meanwhile the 39th Regiment, echeloned to the left Each division was reinforced with additional self-propelled assault guns or tank destroyers and each had a full complement of divisional artillery (four battalions for the infantry division and three motorized battalions in the armored divisions). At least a third of the 5th Parachute Division was finally engaged at Wiltz contrary to Heilmann's orders. XVII SS Corps on 6 December and moved with his staff to Kyllburg, The battalion commander ordered his right company down to block the paved road from Marnach to Clerf, but this road was in the hands of the 2d Panzer Division, whose tanks were rolling toward wing of the 110th, had been overrun or forced to displace. Because surprise was essential in this stroke for the bridges, artillery fire on the American forward positions in the first moments of the assault was forbidden. DECEMBER 1944. 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. The 687th Field Artillery Battalion pulled out to the southwest and the 3d Battalion also started to move, under the impression that this was the plan. During WWII the regiment landed in Normandy in 1944, after D-Day, where it became the 112th Infantry Regimental Combat Team (RCT). The first American planes arrived at 0935, immobilizing the German tanks momentarily. Seven officers and fifty to sixty men did reach Donnange. 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. Abstract. He even dispatched a kampfgruppe to seize a bridge considerably south of Clerf apparently intending to swing his attack column to a poorer road in the event that Clerf continued to hold. In fact the troops of the 26th Volks Grenadier Division sent against Wiltz from the northeast were acting under orders to protect the flank and rear of Panzer Lehr against possible American counterattack from the Wiltz valley. Kokott's reserve regiment, the 78th, crossed the Our at dusk and moved forward. 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. The American howitzers, south of Wiltz, also took a hand in slowing the German attack. This unit now relieved the provisional 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 road to Hosingen was muddy and winding; but worse, at the western exit of the bridge an American abatis and a series of bomb craters blocked the flow of traffic. 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. Staff Sgt. He was born Dec. 12, 1922, in Litchville, N.D., to Ole and Inga (Olson) Fostervold. Aside from patrol activity (generally small raids against individual pillboxes) the 112th Infantry sector had been quiet. by CHARLES B. MACDONALD--249--Attack on Vossenack . The family moved to Willmar in 1928 and to a farm north of Willmar in 1932. were battle-weary, small in number, and widely dispersed. In the 110th zone four roads ran from the German border at the Our, up and over the Skyline Drive, and down to the Clerf. This article appears in: . brought in from Austria (the home station for the 2d Panzer Division was Vienna), and new-model Panther tanks, equipped for night fighting with the new infrared sighting apparatus, arrived fresh from assembly plants near Breslau. in the bogs and swamps of southwest Holland, where the 30 British Corps Colonel Nelson decided to pull back through Huldange since enemy tanks were known to be in Trois Vierges. On General Middleton's order, CCR, 9th Armored Division, had put a task force backstop position behind the threatened center of the 28th Division. In a month's time the flow of replacements had brought the regiment to full strength. At Heinerscheid, Company A had been overrun in 29th Infantry Division 58th Inf Bde 115th 175th 88th Inf Bde 116th 176th. 1st Cavalry Medical Squadron. 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. positions. This point was conceded when Hitler ruled that the artillery fires along the entire front would begin at 0530. This German blow fell on either side of Sevenig, held by Company L. The American barbed wire line had not been completed across the draws to the north and south of the village; through these gaps the shock companies advanced. Earlier the XLVII Panzer 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. The Fifth Panzer commander seems to have been fairly optimistic, although he gave little ear to Hitler's promise of air support. It appears that the corps had only moderate support in the way of engineers and bridge trains. to give an accurate count of losses in the 112th Infantry, but they seem to have been moderate. On March 12, 1879, Governor Henry Hoyt signed General Order Number One appointing Maj. Gen. John Hartranft as the first division commander of the National Guard of Pennsylvania, and the most storied and renowned division in the history of the U.S. Army was born. With this team Manteuffel hoped to win a quick penetration and get rolling. The 112th was the first war-strength National Guard regiment in the United States. There it dug in to defend the battery which had given aid during the battle. By nightfall the American perimeter had been pierced at many points and the defenders pushed back into the center of Wiltz. The 78th Infantry Division arrived in England, 26 October 1944, and received further training. To the surprise of the division staff the task of re-equipping and replenishing the 26th went amazingly fast for the beginning of the sixth year of the war. The 3d Battalion then crossed the river farther to the south, circled and finally dug in along the OurenWeiswampach road, where its flank would be covered by the refused line of the 2d Battalion. The bulk of his very limited reserve consisted of the 2d Battalion, 110th Infantry, and the 707th Tank Battalion. This regiment formed the division center, with the 112th Infantry on the north and the 109th Infantry aligned to the south. reverse suffered by the assault company of the 60th Regiment During the afternoon the Germans pressed The German artillery could take a hand this morning, particularly since a number of forward observers had wormed into the American positions. The American. 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. Luettwitz turned the Geilenkirchen sector over to the 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. 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. (Strickler made it to the latter point where General Cota placed him in charge of the defense.) The Huntingdon unit went through several redesignations including a quartermaster company and finally Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment of the 154th Transportation Truck Battalion. 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. Tanks, tank destroyers, and guns were rushed up from the depots at Mayen, but on 15 December the two panzer grenadier regiments were still missing 60 percent of their regular rifle strength and the panzer regiment had ready only one of its two battalions (with 27 Mark IV's and 30 Panthers). A radio message alerted the commander to the danger of a direct approach; so the platoon and some accompanying infantry entered Clerf by a secondary road along the river. that a bridge could be in before the night of 17 December. . On 15 July 1871, Sheridan Troop (Tyrone) was organized. (By this hour, of course, the story was quite different: the 1st Battalion was cut to pieces, most of the 2d Battalion was surrounded, and the 3d Battalion was holding at Consthum and Hosingen only by the skin of its teeth. Equally important, the green 1130th Regiment (incorporated into the 116th Panzer Division attack on the second day) had failed to follow closely in the path of the tanks and so gave American riflemen and machine gunners time to get set after the tanks rolled past. In the last planning conference held at Hitler's headquarters, Model and Manteuffel combined forces in a forthright appeal that carried the day on a series of tactical decisions although it failed to sway the Fuehrer from his strategic decision for the Big Solution. An unidentified crew of a 447th Antiaircraft Artillery half-track drove straight onto the mines, its .50-caliber fire searching out the enemy riflemen. The sequence of events in this story of difficulties in command and communication is none too clear, but the VIII Corps commander approved the attachment. The 26th Volks Grenadier Division needed Hosinen badly. When this was refused the Germans systematically set to work to surround the village; by dark they had ringed Weiler. By nightfall the 3d Battalion line on the Sevenig ridge had been It would be natural, therefore, for the Germans debouching from the Wilwerwiltz bridgehead to defile through the Wiltz valley. 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. Ration strength was more than 17,000, and forty-two 75-mm. If you are looking for a definitive book on The Battle of the Bulge this is not it. afternoon. patrol at the stone bridge had evaporated under machine gun fire-and antitank guns supplemented the weapons organic to the conventional Volks Grenadier division. paymasters who composed the defense. General Cota had been trying through most of the morning to reach Nelson. To the east, at Dasburg, the German engineers were straining to finish the tank bridge which would bring the German armor into play. First, Luettwitz could not allow any slackening to an infantry pace by frontal attacks against strongly defended American positions. 28th Infantry Division The 28th Division was destined to move againdestined for another job (the Gloomy Hurtgen Forest). Colonel Nelson gave the order to withdraw behind the river under cover of darkness. He was an instructor at the U.S. Army Command and General Staff School (1938-1940). In 1873, Company G, Monongahela Artillery (Everett) was renamed the Light Guards and then redesignated as Company A, 10th Pennsylvania Infantry. German field guns, by this time west of the Clerf, opened fire on Wiltz at noon. 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. During the Battle of the Bulge the 112th RCT managed to . 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. Later the Americans in this sector reported that the attackers must have been "awfully green"-as indeed they were. The Battle of the Bulge was the largest battle ever fought by the United States Army. The Bellefonte unit was redesignated Troop L, 103d Cavalry. The Huntingdon unit was the Howitzer Battery 1st Battalion of the 104th Armored Cavalry and the unit in Everett was a Detachment of Company B, 167th Quartermaster Battalion and then was converted to Company C, 1st Battalion 110th Infantry. Viewing, the ground in front of his right armored corps as especially difficult, Manteuffel would give Generaloberst Walter Krueger's LVIII Panzer Corps a fairly narrow front for the initial assault. 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