22 Mar - 11 May 45 Central Europe Campaign CD 2 36 Pages - PDF. In 1975, all except for the Everett unit were reorganized and redesignated as the 2nd Battalion 112th Infantry. The degree of tactical success achieved by the 112th Infantry and the fact that it was able to hold intact as a regiment may be explained by a number of factors. The Lead-Up to the Battle of the Bulge. 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. The 28th Division commander agreed to pull back where he could, but by the morning of the 18th it was apparent that to re-establish any sort of front behind the Clerf was impossible. Service in the Civil War is shown by the cross pate, the badge of the 5th Corps, 3rd Division, in which the organization served in that war. trusted officers set feverishly to work on plans for Christrose, 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. On German operations maps Wiltz lay athwart the boundary which divided the attack zones of the XLVII Panzer Corps and the LXXXV Corps. To the southwest, Company C and the regimental cannon company were deployed in and around Munshausen, guarding the side road which cut cross-country from Marnach to Drauffelt. The 109th and 112th were in like status. About 0345 the German artillery quieted. 16-18 December. 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. For some reason the tank platoon sent from the 707th had not reached the Company I area when night fell. Only three of the howitzers left could be withdrawn and losses among the cannoneers and drivers were high. George C. Rickards, a career Pennsylvania National Guard officer, was promoted to Colonel as commander of the 16th Pennsylvania in 1907. Both of these positions lay adjacent to the prospective boundary between the XLVII and LXXXV Corps. He died on Nov. 29, 1944 and is buried at Henri-Chapelle in Hombourg, Belgium. The Huntingdon unit went through several redesignations including a quartermaster company and finally Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment of the 154th Transportation Truck Battalion. The 112th Infantry Regiment protected five miles of the northern section, the 109th covered nine miles on the southern end, and the 110th Infantry Regiment was responsible . . Rocco J. Subsequently General Cota ordered them to go to the aid of the hardpressed 110th Infantry. In any case the defenders made radio contact (their last) with the 28th Division as late as 0528 on the morning of 18 December. effort to clear, and to Krueger's disappointment there was no assurance The origins of the 1st Battle Group are derived from the 112th Infantry Regiment in which it was . of the 2d Battalion (Lt. Col. J. L. MacSalka) assembled in a draw between About an hour before dawn eleven searchlights flicked on, their rays glancing dully from the low clouds back onto the Ltzkampen-Sevenig ridge. The 2d Battalion, 112th Infantry Regiment's heritage can be traced back to the Logan Guards 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. This experience, events would show, had borne little fruit. 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. 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. At Hosingen, on the ridge road, Company D and Company B were fighting German infantry hand to hand inside the village. Formed in 1917, the division deployed to France as a part of the . 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. 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. The 3d Battalion, fighting mostly against infantry, had held its own through the day, aided greatly by the possession of the pillbox line, far stronger than the defensive positions in the 1st Battalion sector. 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 : At Weiler the rest of the company and the antitank platoon, their supply of ammunition dwindling, also awaited the tanks. 112th Infantry Regiment. 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. Between Holzthum and Buchholz, Battery C of the 109th Field Artillery was hit hard but held its positions, firing the 105-mm. With three divisions, and added corps troops, the XLVII Panzer Corps possessed a considerable amount of shock and fire power. Fortunately Major Woodward, the battalion commanding officer, was suspicious of this route. Colonel Nelson sent back request after request for air support. He wanted an attack on a broad front with both tank corps in the line at the opening gun-this point Hitler conceded. From that day on, the names Fismes, Fismette, Fond de Mezieres, and Argonne would never be forgotten. The 77th had been unable to win a quick decision at Hosingen. 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. About 1830 troops at the battalion observation post reported that enemy vehicles were attacking with multiple 20-mm. The XLVII Panzer Corps, if all went well, would cross the Our and Clerf Rivers, make a dash "over Bastogne" to the Meuse, seize the Meuse River crossings near Namur by surprise, and drive on through Brussels to Antwerp. Company D positions had been taken by assault only a few minutes earlier. Under this natural smoke screen German tanks and grenadiers poured into Consthum. of the 77th, under the cover provided by German artillery, drove Around them Clerf was crawling with tanks, for most of the Mark IV Battalion of the 3d Panzer Regiment had assembled in the town during the night. 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. And German tanks still fired from the eastern height. going in the West Wall maze north of Ltzkampen and the initial In 1943, he joined the. But the pressure on the Wiltz perimeter relaxed briefly as the Panzer Lehr Reconnaissance Battalion turned back toward the north to rejoin its division in the race for Bastogne. By the second day it was apparent that the combination of stubborn resistance and poor approach roads would delay the projected crossing at Ouren. This is the order of battle of German and Allied forces during the Battle of the Bulge. The Tyrone unit was mustered into federal service for World War II as Troop B, 104th Mechanized Cavalry Reconnaissance Squadron. The 10th Infantry Regiment was on the far right side of the Divisions Frontline during their part of the Battle of the Bulge and it was the first regiment to arrive in Luxembourg. It became the 112th Infantry Regimental Combat Team which consisted of the 112th Infantry Regiment, the 229th Field Artillery Battalion, the 103rd Engineer Battalion, Company C, 447th Antiaircraft Artillery Battalion, and Company C, 630th Tank Destroyer Battalion. 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. whereupon the light tank platoon destroyed its single remaining tank Eight tanks were knocked out by the enemy gunners and in the confusion three more fell prey to bazooka fire. By nightfall the American perimeter had been pierced at many points and the defenders pushed back into the center of Wiltz. But Germans struck again and again. At the moment Luettwitz' corps was fighting 126th Infantry Regiment. The Everett unit remained with the 110th Infantry and the remaining Altoona unit became Company C in the. The 5th Parachute Division commander had already experienced great difficulty in maintaining control of his units in action. He added, however, that he had "three battalions now trying to counterattack from Clerf to Marnach." Patrols could not reach the 1st Battalion and at dusk the 3d Battalion reported that the panzers finally were in position to rake its ridge defenses with fire from the north-the pillbox line no longer was tenable. . Bofors of the protecting antiaircraft company with saving his howitzers. Col, Plt Sgt, 112th Infantry Regiment, 28th Division, Battle of the Bulge, Huertgen Forest, USA. In final form, the LVIII Panzer Corps' mission was to cross the Our River on both sides of Ouren, drive west on the Houffalize axis, and create a bridgehead over the Meuse River in the neighborhood of Namur and Andenne. given new divisions to spearhead the brief spoiling attack in late October 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. This seemed to be the most endangered sector of the whole division front, for here the 2d Panzer Division had been identified and here was the main hard-surface road to Bastogne. 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. up positions north and east of the town. Wrote one in his diary: "Nobody able to sleep and no hot meals, today. The shield is white, the old infantry color. . 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. The artillery supporting the LVIII Panzer Corps consisted of five battalions plus two Werfer battalions, and a few batteries of heavy guns. 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. 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. This sizable town lay in a bend of the Wiltz River valley, southwest of Clerf and some three miles away from the enemy-held crossings at Wilwerwiltz. In fact it represented Heilmann's failure to gain control of his division, for the orders were to bypass Wiltz. 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. been deployed along the Wahlhausen road on the forward slope of the In June 1875, the Logan Guards (Lewistown) were reorganized as Company G (Logan Guards), 5th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment. The latter consisted of three divisions. positions. After the fall of Hosingen the 3d Battalion elements in Consthum offered the last organized resistance in the 28th Infantry Division center east of the Clerf River. 112th Infantry Regiment. it to call on neighboring battalions, attacking Weiler, to help outflank Perhaps they did not care to risk bazooka fire in the dark. 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 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. This created a bulge in the German line. Letter, 22 August 1864, from Theodore Skinner of Company E, 112th New York Infantry, at Bermuda Hundred, Virginia, to family in New York discussing picket details, an aborted troop movement, and other aspects of military life during the siege of Petersburg, Virginia. Shield: argent, issuant in fess a bridge of one arch proper masoned sable, 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. 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. When the 28th Division arrived on the VIII Corps front in mid-November its regiments were in pitiable condition. While tanks dueled in the street like gunmen of the Old West the 3d Battalion made its orderly way out the west side of the town, reorganized, and as night descended marched to Nocher. The coat of arms was approved on 2 January 1930. in to the south edge of Hosingen, contrary to orders, and there grappled His first concern would be to gain the ridge west of the Our and thus cover the armor crossings, for he recognized that it would be a difficult stream to bridge. All this gave the 112th Infantry a chance to get its breath on 18 December. 17 But the situation east of Bastogne was growing more precarious and the division commander decided to bring the 112th back to join in the defense of Bastogne. To some extent, then, Kokott's decision in favor of premature assembly west of the Our had gained ground for the 26th. German field guns, by this time west of the Clerf, opened fire on Wiltz at noon. Nonetheless he advised Cota to withdraw the 110th back of the Clerf, that "under the circumstances it was necessary." On the ridges which look down over Wiltz more Germans appeared in the early evening, apparently. Infantrymen of the 110th Infantry, 28th Div., US 1st Army following the German breakthrough in that area, Bastogne, Belgium, 19 December 1944. After a brief pause they wheeled back into Ltzkampen. On orders, the three remaining assault guns went back to cover the wrecked structure. At 2100, therefore, General Cota turned the reserve rifle battalion back to the 110th Infantry, minus Company G which was moved to Wiltz to defend the division command post, and agreed with Colonel Fuller's proposal that the battalion be used in an attack eastward to restore American control at Marnach. 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. On 19 December the right wing division of the latter, the 5th Parachute Division, took over the attack on Wiltz, or perhaps more accurately, drifted into a fight for the town. To the south Company I held Weiler-les-Putscheid, a hamlet in a knot of trails and byroads on the forward slopes of the ridge line. 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. 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 Fifth Panzer commander seems to have been fairly optimistic, although he gave little ear to Hitler's promise of air support. Summarized in part from an article of the Morning Record. The division commander, officers, and noncoms were veterans; training throughout the division was reported as adequate. However, if it were not . First the Werfers and guns pounded the front line, particularly the 1st Battalion positions. General Luettwitz was none too pleased with the progress made by his two attack divisions on this first day. On the nights of 14 and 15 December, sounds of horse-drawn vehicles and motors moving in slow gear drifted to the American outposts; but since the same commotion had attended an earlier relief in the German lines, it was reported and perfunctorily dismissed. . a bridgehead over the Our at the boundary between the 112th Infantry Co-ordination between small packets of infantry and armor, hard at best, was made most difficult by this kind of piecemeal commitment. Finally, on the morning of 18 December, the surviving members of the garrison sent out a last radio message; they had no choice but surrender. 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. MacDonald, Charles B. led the corps commander to order the 116th Panzer Division DECEMBER 1944. During the Battle of the Bulge the 112th RCT managed to . to give an accurate count of losses in the 112th Infantry, but they seem to have been moderate. In the darkness and confusion many stragglers made their way into Bastogne and Vaux-lez-Rosires. WW2 Order of Battle Medical Units. ), The corps commander was loath to yield ground to the enemy. This was General der Artillerie Walther Lucht's LXVI Corps. howitzers and the tank platoon near Buchholz, again had to side-step in the drive to the Clerf. This move was made early in the morning with disastrous results recorded earlier. Jones attached the 112th Infantry to his own division on the spot, assuring Nelson that he would assume full responsibility. Company B, on the extreme north flank, had been forced back into the 424th Infantry area, but about 235 men withdrew cross-country toward Ouren. He expected that the tactics of predawn infiltration would pay off and that his assault detachments would have reached the crest line, Lascheid-Heinerscheid-Roder-Hosingen, before noon on D-day. 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. 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. In this case, as in many others during the American withdrawal, the full story is that of the cooperation of the combined arms. 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. mortars, and an antitank platoon repelled wave after wave of attacking German infantry. This was the Mark V Battalion of the 116th Panzer Division assembling to lead the attack toward the Ouren bridges. These reinforcements arrived at Reuler in time to take a hand against the Germans pouring past Marnach toward Clerf and its bridges. 113th Infantry Regiment. All of these units were released from federal service in 1945. 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