Both Luettwitz and Manteuffel had been "promised" air support. It would be natural, therefore, for the Germans debouching from the Wilwerwiltz bridgehead to defile through the Wiltz valley. Other American troops now had to take over the actual defense of that all-important road center, but without the gallant bargain struck by the 110th Infantry and its allied units-men for time-the German plans for a coup-de-main at Bastogne would have turned to accomplished fact.21 The cost had been high, much higher than American units expected to pay at this stage of the war: the 110th Infantry virtually destroyed, the men and fighting vehicles of five tank companies lost, the equivalent of three combat engineer companies dead or missing, and tank destroyer, artillery, and miscellaneous units engulfed in this battle. (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. 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 regimental commander believed that morale had been restored to a high degree and that the new officers and men now were fairly well trained. The bridges at Clerf and Wilwerwiltz were in German hands (no preparations had been made to destroy them); most of the sixty tanks committed in the central sector were destroyed. 30th Infantry Division 59th Inf Bde . Only a short distance beyond, at a third block, fire swept into the column from all sides. This battery was driven from Buchholz with the loss of half its howitzers. 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. Meanwhile, General Middleton, the VIII Corps commander, issued a holdfast order to all his troops. The Fifth Panzer Army Attacks the 28th Infantry Division. General Cota still had in hand a reserve on the night of the 16th, but it was the last reserve of the 28th Division. Covers operations in all theaters of operations. 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." 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. 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. Only three of the howitzers left could be withdrawn and losses among the cannoneers and drivers were high. On their left German tanks were wiping out the last posts close to the Fifth Panzer Army headquarters, where a few Early on 19 December the 112th Infantry and 229th Field Artillery Battalion moved under cover of a heavy fog and assembled without hindrance around Huldange, the defensive front now facing south. reached. 110th Infantry Regiment; 112th Infantry Regiment ; 107th Field Artillery Battalion; 108th Field Artillery Battalion; 109th . In a month's time the flow of replacements had brought the regiment to full strength. continue the attack for the bridges at Ouren. 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. 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. 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. World War II: Another great uncle, 2LT Elton Barry Arnett, was an infantry platoon leader with Co. C, 1/112th Infantry, 28th Infantry Division. Hills intersected by wooded draws marked the terrain in this sector. The battalion, perhaps 200 strong, arrived in Wiltz about noon and Strickler assumed command of the forces in the town. 28th Infantry Division The 28th Division was destined to move againdestined for another job (the Gloomy Hurtgen Forest). trusted officers set feverishly to work on plans for Christrose, Although the enemy had seized all of the ground which the 112th Infantry was occupying east of the Our and finally had secured a bridgehead at Ouren, the cost to him on 17 December had been high. Early in the month the Germans had undertaken what appeared to be a routine relief in their forward positions. 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. indicate a co-ordinated attack. 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. Marnach garrison out of the way, but an hour later Company B radioed that three hundred Germans were northwest and southwest of Marnach. 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. The battalion was activated for federal service in Iraq 19 September 2008, and redeployed back to the States in late August 2009. Battalion. Subsequently General Cota ordered them to go to the aid of the hardpressed 110th Infantry. 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. During the afternoon the Germans pressed 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. Leaderless, the platoon broke. This experience, events would show, had borne little fruit. In September 2015 the Battalion was activated and deployed to, This page was last edited on 31 August 2022, at 16:23. At least fifteen tanks had been disabled or destroyed on the first day and German sources indicate that this figure may have doubled on the 17th. The 902d, advancing by way of Munshausen, now cleared of Americans, followed. Finally, the regimental antitank and cannon companies were disposed around Ouren guarding the bridges, the roads, and the regimental command post. 28th Division commander James E. Wharton was in his first day of command when a German sniper shot him while he was at the 112th Infantry's command post. Geilenkirchen intended to erase the salient retained by the Germans Arriving in France in late Spring 1918 . But there were too few guns and too few air sorties to keep the enemy immobilized for long. was reached midway between Bastogne and the Meuse. In May of the same year the Sheridan Troop was assigned to Squadron B which was redesignated as 2d Squadron in 1911. But the German infantry were more vulnerable and their march was delayed for several hours before engineers and self-propelled 88's finally set the riddled chteau afire and forced the Americans to surrender. Apprehensive lest the Americans be prematurely warned, Army Group B had forbidden the movement of any troops across the Our in advance of the opening barrage set for 0530 on 16 December. Later the Americans in this sector reported that the attackers must have been "awfully green"-as indeed they were. From mid-December 1944 through the end of January 1945, in the heavily forested Ardennes Mountains of Belgium, thousands of American, British, Canadian, Belgian and French forces struggled to turn back the final major German offensive of World War II. German infantry from the 277th Volksgrenadier Division burst . Wrote one in his diary: "Nobody able to sleep and no hot meals, today. Kokott's screening regiment, the 78th, had been in the habit of throwing out an outpost line west of the Our from nightfall till dawn. The unit was mustered out of federal service on 6 December 1945 at Camp Gordon, Georgia. that a bridge could be in before the night of 17 December. The 24-man patrol from Company A ran into the German flank at Fishbach, about 1120, and had to withdraw under intense fire. Krueger was the elder of the two and lacked something of Luettwitz' dash. For some reason the bridge was not blown. The 311th Infantry Regiment was attached to the 8th Division in the Hurtgen Forest, 10 December. Division likely to be encountered during the first hours of the attack Meanwhile General Cota had ordered Colonel Strickler to move in the 3d Battalion, 110th Infantry, from Nocher. Those in the south fell back toward Wiltz, the division command post. 28th Reconnaissance Troop (Mech.) 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 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. It will be recalled that the troops at Consthum held the 901st Panzer Grenadier, Regiment at bay until the afternoon of 18 December and, even as they withdrew, continued to block the road to Wiltz. 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. Here follows a list of organic Medical Units, assigned to specific Divisions throughout World War 2: Medical Unit. The main body of the 1st Battalion was stationed at Camp Taji while the main body of the 2d was stationed at Camp Liberty on the Victory Base Complex. 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. There were also available some Between Holzthum and Buchholz, Battery C of the 109th Field Artillery was hit hard but held its positions, firing the 105-mm. 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 . 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. VIII Corps: Medical Support in the Battle of the Bulge In addition to the organic medical support provided in its infantry and armored divisions, the VIII Corps, First U.S. Army, in the opening days of the Battle of the Bulge possessed a well-organized and experienced medical support structure with the 64th Medical Group and its two separate medical battalions, the 169th . west of the German jump-off positions on the Our River and the final Considerable damage had been done the German assault forces. Ouren and Lieler (west of the river), crossed the bridges the German It had held on at Munshausen, with the 110th Cannon Company and a section of tank destroyers, all through the 17th.12 The riflemen and cannoneers made a fight of it, barricading the village streets with overturned trucks, fighting from house to house. With three divisions, and added corps troops, the XLVII Panzer Corps possessed a considerable amount of shock and fire power. The mission remained, but the troops available on 16 December were less than half the number promised: one armored division, the 116th Panzer Division, and two-thirds of an infantry division, the 560th Volks Grenadier Division. He continued to fight with Cannon Company until the 423rd Regiment surrendered Dec. 19, 1944, near Schnberg, Belgium. The 2d Battalion, 112th Infantry Regiment's heritage can be traced back to the Logan Guards 116th Infantry Regiment. After the D-Day invasion of Normandy on June 6, 1944, Allied forces advanced east through France to Germany's western border establishing what became known as the "Western Front." This vertical front-line stretched from the Norwegian city of Nijmegen in the north all the way to Switzerland in the south, cutting through Belgium and Luxemburg. 29th Infantry Division 58th Inf Bde 115th 175th 88th Inf Bde 116th 176th. The German infantry would have to fight step by step; the hope of a quick breakthrough had proven illusory. 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. West of the ridge, Company L in Holzthum and the headquarters company and Company M in Consthum barred a direct approach to the Clerf crossing site at Wilwerwiltz. He was an instructor at the U.S. Army Command and General Staff School (1938-1940). Early morning reports of considerable German penetration and the threat Like all such units, however, the 26th was geared to foot power and horsepower; there were 5,000 horses in the division, including a few of the tough "winterized" Russian breed. The 2d Panzer Division advance guard had taken a bloody nose On orders, the three remaining assault guns went back to cover the wrecked structure. 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 house-to-house fighting with Company D and Company B, 103d Engineer One About this time a German tank platoon appeared on the ridge less than a thousand yards from the regimental command post in Ouren. The 77th had been unable to win a quick decision at Hosingen. 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. 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. 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. These two attacks from west and south had made no headway but were not too costly. The camp was liberated by the Russian Army May 1, 1945. Shortly before noon a platoon of Company B's tanks reached the hardpressed field artillery battery near Buchholz and reported the situation in hand.8 But the enemy here represented only the probing forefinger of the main attack. 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. 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. Lewistown was Headquarters and Headquarters Company, Tyrone was Company B (less detached troops), Huntingdon was Company A. Troop G was converted to Company C, the Howitzer Battery was converted to the Combat Support Company, and the Bellefonte unit was redesignated as Detachment 1, Company B. 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. On December 16, 1944, Germany launched a massive surprise counter-attack on American lines in the Ardennes (a forested area in Belgium and Luxembourg), breaking through to create a 45-mile salient in what became known as the Battle of the Bulge.. His suspicions were confirmed when a patrol sent into the town failed to return. Manteuffel had no precise schedule for his right wing but after the war was over would say that he had hoped for the seizure of St. Vith on the first day of the attack. But menaced as they were, the artillery commander could not risk his howitzers further. The areas selected by the two corps for their main efforts were some six to seven air-line miles apart-an indication of the weight to be thrown against the American 28th Infantry Division. The Battle of the Bulge was the largest battle ever fought by the United States Army. Snow blanketed the fields. Jones attached the 112th Infantry to his own division on the spot, assuring Nelson that he would assume full responsibility. 75th Ranger Regiment Special Forces Infantry Regiments/Battalions Army Campaigns Pre-divisional Orders of Battle . The sector at the Our River in which Luettwitz' corps would begin the attack was a little over seven miles wide, the villages of Dahnen on the north and Stolzembourg on the south serving as boundary markers. This story concerns itself with that period when the 3rd Battalion, as part of the 28th . Fuller had only two battalions at his disposal because the 2d Battalion, located at Donnange, constituted the division reserve. Hfen, along with the nearby town of Monschau, was strategically vital because it sat on elevated terrain overlooking an important road junction. German defenses. (Strickler made it to the latter point where General Cota placed him in charge of the defense.) At the same time a tank platoon, shrouded in darkness and with no American tanks left to contest the passage, wound its way into the south end of Clerf. Company C was in "reserve" in Munshausen. The presence of enemy tanks in Ltzkampen constituted a distinct threat, even to infantry in pillboxes. At the chteau, however, headquarters company still was hard pressed by riflemen and machine gunners in the houses nearby. whereupon the light tank platoon destroyed its single remaining tank 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. On the Battle of the Bulge: Eisenhower, John S. D. The Bitter Woods. It arrived in Clerf with nineteen medium tanks. Michael Tolhurst: Bastogne: Battle of the Bulge, Pen & Sword Books Limited (Battleground Europe series), 2001 . . On the evening The German artillery could take a hand this morning, particularly since a number of forward observers had wormed into the American positions. The defenders at Weiler would not be easily pushed aside. He wanted an attack on a broad front with both tank corps in the line at the opening gun-this point Hitler conceded. Under this natural smoke screen German tanks and grenadiers poured into Consthum. 1st Battalion has worked [its] way back." He hoped that the armored debouchment into the bridgehead would commence during the early afternoon. Col. Daniel Strickler, the regimental executive officer, who now had assumed command at Consthum, organized a perimeter defense of the town, set out mines along the approaches, and disposed his three effective tanks and three armored cars to watch for the enemy armor known to be on the road from Holzthum. On the second day of December, a staff officer from General Luettwitz' The unit was transported to and garrisoned at El Paso, Texas for training, but was never utilized because hostilities ended. effort to clear, and to Krueger's disappointment there was no assurance 124th Infantry Regiment. The next morning Colonel Nelson was able to tell General Cota, "Very good news. [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. Adherence to this schedule meant that the villages garrisoned by the American companies would have to be avoided or captured quickly. 113th Infantry Regiment. At the crossroads village of Hosingen atop the Skyline Drive, Although the left division (the 560th The bulk of his very limited reserve consisted of the 2d Battalion, 110th Infantry, and the 707th Tank Battalion. 3d Battalion sector, compressing the American companies in the village The 1st Battalion, 112th Infantry was formed from the 1st Battle Group Infantry on 1 April 1963. Battle of the Bulge CD 2 749 Pages - PDF . 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