Its pillboxes and supporting positions were occupied in greater strength as the LVIII Panzer Corps (Krueger) moved in. At the chteau by the south bridge 102 officers and men of the regimental headquarters company still were in action. Army counterattack against the US Third Army in September, had been 28th Infantry Division The 28th Division was destined to move againdestined for another job (the Gloomy Hurtgen Forest). Twice during the morning the attackers were allowed to send in aid men and remove their wounded. 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. and withdrew on foot to Wiltz-the 2d Battalion flanks were wide open. Colonel Nelson at this moment had two contradictory orders and would have to risk his regiment if he carried out either. The story in the 2d Panzer Division zone was the same. Tanks, ordered up from the division reserve, had not yet arrived. Colonel Fuller set. The problem Company A, 110th Infantry (Everett) and Company G, 110th Infantry (Altoona) unit were both mustered into federal service for World War II in February 1941. 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. German infantry from the 277th Volksgrenadier Division burst . quieted down, although there still were small groups of the enemy crawling about in the gap breached that morning Ltzkampen would continue as a sally port for sorties against the 1st Battalion and the best efforts by the American field pieces to flatten the village failed to still the men and vehicles moving in its streets. But Battery A of the battalion was swept up by the Germans who had bypassed the left wing anchor of the regiment at Heinerscheid. Remnants of the 3d Battalion had assembled at Consthum, the battalion headquarters. Through this gap the panzers moved in on the support positions held by Company D. Earlier a German infantry company in close order had been caught in the glare of its own headlights atop a hill and been massacred by Company D sections lying on the reverse slope, but at 0755 Company D was forced to send out an urgent plea for help "and damn quick." battalion, hastily formed from the 28th Division headquarters, by setting 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. A part of the German company, perhaps a platoon in strength, succeeded in reaching the stone bridge over the Our south of Ouren, but was dispersed. the 2d Battalion back through Reuler, the Americans fighting stubbornly The unit was awarded the sattle streamer marked Puerto Rico for their service. He was a prisoner of war at Stalag IV-B in the town of Mhlberg an der Elbe for six months. He purchased the farm from his parents in 1943. 112th Infantry Regiment. New York: Orion Books, 1989. *AIR broken up into three separate armored Infantry battalions. 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. The speed of the German attack caught most of the regimental medical company and troops from the headquarters and cannon companies. As the column turned northwest on the main Bastogne highway enemy fire increased; some in the column turned back from the gantlet in hopes of finding another escape route by retracing their steps through Wiltz. Near the village a patrol found that the stone bridge was guarded by only a half squad of Germans. An old line division, the 26th had fought on the Eastern Front from July 1941 to the last days of September 1944, winning many decorations but little rest. But the German tanks were fanning out as the day drew to a close, turning attention to the south as well as the west. The remainder of the casualties were fairly evenly split between the 109th Infantry to the . Roads and bridges, he reckoned, must be in shape to support the American troops east of the river. 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. The Lead-Up to the Battle of the Bulge. Shortly before noon the advance guard of the 60th Panzer Regiment, rolling along the Ltzkampen-Leidenborn road, appeared on the knoll west of Ltzkampen. 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. A sharp hairpin turn breaks the descent; then the road crosses the river into the northern edge of Clerf near the railroad station and enters the main highway. Michael Tolhurst: Bastogne: Battle of the Bulge, Pen & Sword Books Limited (Battleground Europe series), 2001 . His suspicions were confirmed when a patrol sent into the town failed to return. Replacements, generally better than the average, were. 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. 3d Battalion sector, compressing the American companies in the village The American infantry had made excellent use of the ground and had held their positions, refusing to buckle under the weight of numbers. Separated of necessity by the width of the front and the requirements of some depth in the defenses athwart the east-west roads, the units of the 110th could offer little reciprocal support against an enemy attacking in any force. There the infantry driving toward the town of Clerf had been stopped short of their objective. midafternoon, leaving open an avenue into the 2d Battalion left flank. trusted officers set feverishly to work on plans for Christrose, 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. of the 77th, ran into a snag. The other Altoona unit was mustered into federal service for home station duty during World War II as Battery B, 200th Field Artillery. All this gave the 112th Infantry a chance to get its breath on 18 December. It is impossible. 1st Cavalry Medical Squadron. 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. 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. About 0730 the two rifle companies of the 2d Battalion jumped off at the ridge east of Clerf. 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. On 3 July 1916, the regiment was called to service for Mexican border duty, with Rickards still in command. Reconnaissance Troop reinforced the perimeter. About an hour before dawn eleven searchlights flicked on, their rays glancing dully from the low clouds back onto the Ltzkampen-Sevenig ridge. . A German attempt to cut the road between Consthum and Holzthum failed when Capt. Although success or failure would turn. the Reconnaissance Battalion of the 116th Panzer Division Both the 1st and 2d Battalions deployed with the rest of the 56th Stryker Brigade Combat Team on 19 September 2008. $14.95 + $5.50 shipping. This article appears in: . time was needed for orders to reach the front-line troops. 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. Battle of the Bulge CD 2 749 Pages - PDF . The enemy made three attacks in the same close formation over the same ground before they discovered the error of their ways. 127th Infantry Regiment. The Lewistown company was consolidated with another company and became Headquarters and Headquarter Troop, 3rd Reconnaissance Squadron, 104th Armored Cavalry Regiment. The German infantry on the north side of town aligned for the assault about 1400. Luettwitz concluded that the Clerf River now would be crossed not later than the evening of the second day. By February, they were back on the offensive. Krueger was the elder of the two and lacked something of Luettwitz' dash. 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 . This initial zone was roughly equivalent to the American defensive position manned west of the Our by the 110th Infantry, the center regiment of the 28th Infantry Division, although the width of the 110th front was about two miles greater than the front assigned the panzer corps. 1st Battalion held the northern section with Col. Donald Paul's command post at Urspelt: Company A held Heinerscheid. Some artillery support was still available from a battery of the 687th Field Artillery Battalion, whose shells swept the open fields between the two villages. Attached below and to the sides of the shield a Silver scroll inscribed "STRIVE OBEY ENDURE" in blue letters. Back to the west, in the 28th Division command post at Wiltz, General Cota took what steps he could to help the 110th Infantry. 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. Meanwhile, General Middleton, the VIII Corps commander, issued a holdfast order to all his troops. Nelson also reported to General Jones at Vielsalm and set the problem before him. The insignia was amended to correct the blazon on 16 May 2008. 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. The enemy attempt to capture or destroy the American command posts, kitchens, and observation posts was only partially successful, although the grenadier assault parties were well inside the 3d Battalion positions when day broke. In September 2015 the Battalion was activated and deployed to, This page was last edited on 31 August 2022, at 16:23. Company D positions had been taken by assault only a few minutes earlier. Since the Wiltz bridge had not been destroyed, the American assault gun platoon was ordered back to Erpeldange, covering the northeastern approach to the bridge and the engineer outposts. Geilenkirchen intended to erase the salient retained by the Germans This highway (known to the Americans as the Skyline Drive) and the garrison line paralleled the Our at a distance of one and a half to two and a half miles. observers could see the enemy assembling in the woods just to the north. The eye of the division commander would be on the assault echelons of his right wing regiment, for they would make the main effort to reach the Clerf. In July 1865, these units were mustered out of federal service. The Panzer Lehr (Generalleutnant Fritz Bayerlein) was one of the divisions earmarked in November for use in the Ardennes counteroffensive, but the American offensive in Lorraine and Alsace had forced OKW to release the Panzer Lehr from its position in the strategic reserve. 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. paymasters who composed the defense. He was an instructor at the U.S. Army Infantry School (1932-1933) and graduated from the U.S. Army War College in 1936. The camp was liberated by the Russian Army May 1, 1945. Thomas G. Bradbeer, General Cota and the Battle of the Hrtgen Forest, Army History, No. World War II Records, 110th Infantry Regiment, 28th Infantry Division, History . In the last analysis the losses inflicted on the enemy may have equaled those sustained by the Americans-certainly the Germans paid dearly for their hurried frontal attacks against stonewalled villages and towns-but the final measure of success and failure would be in terms of hours and minutes won by the Americans and lost to the enemy. his tanks and tank destroyers to block the roads west of the river. reached. returned to the line in this sector in mid-November to bolster the failing 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. He died on Nov. 29, 1944 and is buried at Henri-Chapelle in Hombourg, Belgium. Company C had been driven off the road, and the tanks, missing the infantry entirely, rolled into Marnach. The battalion was activated for federal service in Iraq 19 September 2008, and redeployed back to the States in late August 2009. After some delay, while the tank platoon and the infantry identified themselves, the tanks rolled south to the 3d Battalion headquarters at Consthum. Infantry of the 26th Volks Grenadier Division took over the attack on the northeast (probably the 39th Volks Grenadier Regiment). 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. 28th Reconnaissance Troop (Mech.) In the late afternoon of 15 December General Luettwitz gathered his division commanders in the XLVII Panzer Corps forward headquarters at Ringhuscheid for final instructions and introduction to the new commander of the 2d Panzer Division, Colonel von Lauchert, who had been selected at the last moment by the Fifth Panzer Army leader to replace an incumbent who was not an experienced tanker. column and, attacking through the dark with grenades and bayonets, cleared the position. The final word on the defense of Clerf would come from the enemy. 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. The refused positions of the 2d Battalion allowed fairly free use of a regimental reserve during both days and good counterattack plans were ready. 122th Infantry Regiment. And German tanks still fired from the eastern height. The main paved road from Marnach approaches Clerf through a shallow draw, passing just to the south of the little village of Reuler, which perches on the high ground overlooking the river bend. The 26th Volks Grenadier Division needed Hosinen badly. . XVII SS Corps on 6 December and moved with his staff to Kyllburg, Men in the observation posts watched the enemy move about his daily chores and reported flares and occasional rounds of mortar or artillery fire. Perhaps they did not care to risk bazooka fire in the dark. But the credit side of the ledger showed a few entries. Considerable damage had been done the German assault forces. On 25 April 1861, Company G, The Monongahela Artillery (Everett) was mustered into federal service for the American Civil War as part of the. afternoon. Although the left division (the 560th In October 1919, the battalion's units were Company M, 112th Infantry (Lewistown), 103rd Trench Mortar Battery, 103rd Engineer Battalion (Tyrone), Company F, 112th Infantry (Huntingdon), Company A, 10th Pennsylvania Infantry (Everett), Company G, 10th Pennsylvania Infantry (Altoona), and elements of the 108th and 109th Field Artillery (Bellefonte). The task of rebuilding the rifle companies, repairing battle damage, and training replacements was of necessity a slow one. The symbolism of the distinctive unit insignia is the same as that of the coat of arms. The only security for the southern flank would have to come from an advance in echelon and such protection as the less mobile divisions of the Seventh Army could offer on the left. Adherence to this schedule meant that the villages garrisoned by the American companies would have to be avoided or captured quickly. Companies E and F dug in on a ridge north of Reuler under a rain of By that night the defenders were without ammunition, but they continued the battle with hand grenades, withdrawing slowly and stubbornly from house to house. XLVII Panzer Corps arrived at the headquarters of the Fifth For nearly two hours enemy flares methodically picked out targets for mortar and bullet fire, while the Americans were so closely beset that the Bofors and murderous quad mounts could not retaliate without cutting down their own people. (Lewistown) and the Bellefonte Fencibles, both organized in 1858. 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. 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. Aside from patrol activity (generally small raids against individual pillboxes) the 112th Infantry sector had been quiet. With daylight the fire lifted and the enemy infantry advanced, attacking in one wave after another as the morning progressed but making no headway. In 1943, he joined the. Only Company K in Hosingen was yet to be heard from. This is the order of battle of German and Allied forces during the Battle of the Bulge. About 0345 the German artillery quieted. were battle-weary, small in number, and widely dispersed. In the late evening of 16 December German artillery began to range into Clerf, apparently covering the advance of patrols from Marnach. After dark on 17 December a captain led in about twenty-five men of Company I from Weiler, after a desperate march, narrow escapes, and an ambuscade. The Huntingdon unit became Troop K, 3rd Battalion of the 104th Armored Cavalry and one of the Altoona companies became Howitzer Battery, 3rd Battalion 104th Cavalry. Original WW2 US Army 112th Infantry Regiment DUI Crest Pinback. If you want a powerful account of the battle from the mouths of those who were there, this is it. Company K, reinforced by Company B, 103d Engineer Combat Battalion, garrisoned Hosingen, a village on the Skyline Drive overlooking two of the four roads which wound from the Our up over the ridge. or German bank of the Our River. 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. 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. This time the bridge was blown. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1969. 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. On 5 April 1877, Company C, 5th Pennsylvania Infantry (Altoona) was organized. Although Fuller pled for the return of the 2d Battalion to his regiment, Cota refused to release this last division reserve. [] At l825 Colonel Fuller phoned the 28th Division chief of staff that his command post was under fire and that enemy tanks occupied the town. 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. 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). By dusk the American line had been pushed back nearly to Weidingen when orders came to withdraw behind the Wiltz River and destroy the bridge at Weidingen. 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. corps zone of attack were narrow, twisting, and certain to be muddy; Beautifully illustrated with 200 photographs. The division commander, officers, and noncoms were veterans; training throughout the division was reported as adequate. This new Altoona unit converted back to an engineer company unit they were redesignated Troop C, 104th Cavalry in 1929. The bulk of the 3d Battalion held their positions despite surprise, defending from pillboxes and foxholes. 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. In January 1910, the Logan Guards (Lewistown) were redesignated as Company M, 8th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment and Company A, 5th Pennsylvania Infantry (Huntingdon) was redesignated as Company F, 8th Pennsylvania Infantry, Company C, 5th Infantry (Altoona) was redesignated as Company G, 10th Infantry, and Company B, 5th Infantry (Bellefonte) was redesignated Company L, 12th Pennsylvania Infantry. Manteuffel had found himself in almost complete disagreement with the original operations plan handed down by Jodl in November. Thus deployed on the right of the 424th Infantry, the 112th was another piece filling out the fast developing "island defense" of St. Vith. Albert was an Army veteran of World War II, serving in the 28th Division during the Battle of the Bulge. 110th Infantry Regiment; 112th Infantry Regiment ; 107th Field Artillery Battalion; 108th Field Artillery Battalion; 109th . In the 1st Battalion zone to the north the advance detachments of the 2d Panzer Division moved straight for Marnach, attempting with one quick blow to clear the Americans obstructing the through road from Dasburg to Clerf.7 While the German engineers labored at the Dasburg site to bring their heavy tank bridging equipment down to the river, the 28th Panzer Engineer Battalion and the 2d Battalion, 304th Panzer Grenadier Regiment, crossed the Our in rubber boats and moved west through the predawn darkness. August 1944 was a disastrous month for the Third Reich. . 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. The Battle of the Bulge was the largest battle ever fought by the United States Army. Caveat: This Battle lasted more than a month, with assignments in considerable flux. 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. Kokott's right, the 77th Regiment, pushed elements beyond Hosingen (actually moving between the 1st and 3d Battalions of the 110th Infantry), but these detachments, stopped by the American 105-mm. He argued that the enemy literally must not be awakened and that the assault forces should move forward the moment the guns sounded. was reached midway between Bastogne and the Meuse. The 112th Infantry Regiment, also known as the Sixteenth Pennsylvania,[2] is a unit in the Pennsylvania National Guard which can trace its lineage back to before the American Civil War. in Wiltz after a rear guard action in Wilwerwiltz. 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. Shortly before noon German pressure noticeably relaxed. day-as usual a boundary line had proved a point of little resistance-and Panzer Army to receive the highly secret word of a great counteroffensive First the Werfers and guns pounded the front line, particularly the 1st Battalion positions. Heilmann, therefore, had decided. News of the battle on the right and left of the 112th Infantry sector had been sparse. was low and the short winter day was drawing to a close-with the likelihood that the small garrisons would be overwhelmed in the darkness by sheer weight of numbers. close to the Fifth Panzer Army headquarters, where a few About 1700 he radioed new orders: the 112th Infantry was to fight a stiff delaying action along the line Weiswampach-Trois Vierges, and thence toward Bastogne. But the tactical effect of this artillery preparation was considerably less than the German planners had anticipated. Kokott's reserve regiment, the 78th, crossed the Our at dusk and moved forward. The Fifth Panzer Army commander was bitterly opposed to that part of the plan which called for a tremendous opening barrage at 0800 and a two-hour artillery preparation before the attack jumped off. This road makes a twisted and tortuous descent to the valley floor, finally crossing the river at the southeastern edge of the town and proceeding, through narrow streets until it emerges on the north. 29th Infantry Division 58th Inf Bde 115th 175th 88th Inf Bde 116th 176th. Directed to the west by Hitler's orders, the division would see its first action in the Ardennes. These roads and bridges he intended to seize by surprise. Across the Vesle was the larger town of Fismes headquarters of the 112th Infantry Regiment, 28th Division. 1959 is when this organization began to resemble the current organizational structure. 30th Infantry Division 59th Inf Bde . The unit was mustered into federal active service on 16 July 1917 for service in World War I, and Rickards remained its commander. to the Our bridges in the 3d Battalion area led the regimental commander the undergunned batteries of the 687th Field Artillery Battalion held In June 1880, Company A, 45th Pennsylvania Volunteers were reorganized as Company B, 5th Pennsylvania Infantry (Bellefonte Fencibles). It is southeast of Aachen, Germany.D-Day for the Battle of Hurtgen Forest was November 2, 1944, H-hour was 0900. The 28ID is the oldest continuously serving division in the United States Army. the road but moving on in the direction of the Clerf. Once this barrier was passed the 26th would be responsible for covering the left flank of the corps while the armored divisions made the Meuse crossings. 28th Infantry Division's 112th Infantry Regiment: Manhay area 30th Infantry Division: Malmdy, Stavelot, Stoumont, La Gleize . Formed in 1917, the division deployed to France as a part of the . Early morning reports of considerable German penetration and the threat effort to clear, and to Krueger's disappointment there was no assurance 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. Lauchert arrived too late to meet all of his regimental commanders, but the 2d Panzer, like the rest of the corps, was already in position to move the moment darkness came. Six three-inch towed 103d Engineer Combat Battalion 103d Medical Battalion 28th Division Artillery. 194 Glider Infantry Regiment Interrogation & Patrol Reports, Dec 1944-Jan. 1945 . It was his intention, however, to move the provisional battalion first, leaving the 3d Battalion to keep the escape exits open while the 44th Engineers acted as rear guard. Company B of the 2d Tank Battalion, en route to set up a roadblock northeast of Clerf, was appropriated by General Cota and sent to support the 110th Infantry. Perhaps the Americans had some reason for elation on the night of 16 December, but all knew that harder blows would be dealt on the morrow. 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. General Cota had been trying through most of the morning to reach Nelson. been deployed along the Wahlhausen road on the forward slope of the 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. 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