in Wiltz after a rear guard action in Wilwerwiltz. On 25 April 1861, Company G, The Monongahela Artillery (Everett) was mustered into federal service for the American Civil War as part of the. The advance was delayed somewhat when the grenadiers marched into an American mine field, but by 0800 the leading Germans had reached Marnach. The presence of enemy tanks in Ltzkampen constituted a distinct threat, even to infantry in pillboxes. 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. He argued that the enemy literally must not be awakened and that the assault forces should move forward the moment the guns sounded. 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. Meanwhile the 39th Regiment, echeloned to the left On the right its 1st Battalion marched on Hosingen, bringing flame throwers and self-propelled guns to blast the Americans from the village; the 2d Battalion moved straight for the Clerf River, aiming at control of the crossings and road net at Wilwerwiltz. 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. In 1968, all of the units, except for the units in Huntingdon and Everett became the 2nd Battalion, 104th Cavalry; Lewistown was Headquarters and Headquarters Troop (less detached troops), Tyrone was Troop H, Altoona unit became Troop G and Howitzer Battery, and the Bellefonte unit became a Detachment of Headquarters and Headquarters Troop. This was the end. 75 (Spring 2010), pp. The regiment consisted of companies from Erie, McKean, Venango, Elk, Warren, and Crawford counties. a blasted bridge three kilometers east of Heinerscheid and established (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. 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. The government of Luxembourg awarded it the Croix de Guerre, and the 112th Infantry Regiment received a Presidential Unit Citation, but that was the extent of the official recognition. regiment, despite many attempts, had not been able "to get going. 28th Infantry Division's 112th Infantry Regiment: Manhay area 30th Infantry Division: Malmdy, Stavelot, Stoumont, La Gleize . the road but moving on in the direction of the Clerf. Attached below and to the sides of the shield a Silver scroll inscribed "STRIVE OBEY ENDURE" in blue letters. On 5 April 1877, Company C, 5th Pennsylvania Infantry (Altoona) was organized. 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. 517th Parachute Infantry Regiment attached 110th, 431st and 448th AAA AW Battalions 75th Infantry Division . 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. Believing that once across the Our River, his left armored attack force, General der Panzertruppen Heinrich Freiherr von Luettwitz' XLVII Panzer Corps, would find the going better than on the right, he assigned Luettwitz a rather wide front. 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. Three-quarters of an hour later the regimental commander ordered the artillery to displace behind the river; Colonel Fairchild moved the battalion across the river without losing a piece and immediately resumed firing. The ground east of the river was favorable to the defender, who was well entrenched as the result of careful planning and inspection by Nelson and his staff, and whose guns covered the few routes of mechanized advance. In the north, contact was maintained with the 106th Infantry Division at a point northwest of Ltzkampen. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. Less than two miles west of Marnach lay the Clerf River and the town of Clerf, the latter the headquarters of the 110th Infantry. 1st Cavalry Medical Squadron. Later reports indicate that this group was almost wiped out. Reports include lessons learned, analysis, and criticisms. The other Altoona unit was mustered into federal service for home station duty during World War II as Battery B, 200th Field Artillery. On the morning of 19 December the headquarters of the 28th Infantry Division transferred from Wiltz to Sibret, southwest of Bastogne. A small tank-infantry team blasted the single 57-mm. 114th Infantry Regiment. Company A, directly in the way, lost a platoon to tanks rolling and firing methodically along the foxhole line. Hyperleap helps uncover and suggest. 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. Then the enemy grenadiers encircled the American roadblock at Urspelt, During the afternoon the Germans pressed 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. 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. Troops of I Company ride a tank into the attack on Schoppen, 15 January 1945. 126th Infantry Regiment. Interlocking machine gun and rifle fire blocked off the German reinforcements some sixty were captured and the rest dug in where they could. Marnach garrison out of the way, but an hour later Company B radioed that three hundred Germans were northwest and southwest of Marnach. 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 ridges which look down over Wiltz more Germans appeared in the early evening, apparently. Between Holzthum and Buchholz, Battery C of the 109th Field Artillery was hit hard but held its positions, firing the 105-mm. If you are looking for a definitive book on The Battle of the Bulge this is not it. Remnants of the 3d Battalion had assembled at Consthum, the battalion headquarters. By nightfall the American perimeter had been pierced at many points and the defenders pushed back into the center of Wiltz. With an open left flank and under artillery fire called down by the American observation post on the Wahlhausen road, the 39th swerved from the westward axis of attack and became involved at Weiler, contrary to orders. The 112th Infantry Regiment of the US Army dates back to the American Civil war and has since participated in several conflicts, including WWI and WWII. to pivot its weight on Ltzkampen in a drive southwestward toward of the 1st Battalion. 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. Volks Grenadier Division) had not fared too well in the attack One thing clearly worried him: would the Seventh Army keep pace and cover his left flank to Bastogne? 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. In the weeks that followed, the division rested and re-formed in the Bitburg-Wittlich area, its units moving constantly to escape Allied observation. Organized by Pennsylvania in 1878, the division was made up of units that had already earned battle streamers for contributions in conflicts from the American Revolution to the Civil War. A few attacks were started against the new American line, which now covered Beiler, Lieler, and Lausdorn, but none were energetic. A whole series of monkey wrenches had been thrown into the well-oiled machinery of the 26th Volks Grenadier Division. In 1947, the Lewistown unit was redesignated Headquarters and Service Battery, 176th Field Artillery Battalion. 116th Infantry Regiment. The 26th Volks Grenadier Division was across the Our River in force but had failed to gain its first-day objective, control of the Clerf River crossings. 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. The Tyrone unit was mustered into federal service for World War II as Troop B, 104th Mechanized Cavalry Reconnaissance Squadron. 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. At dawn a single tank or self-propelled gun began firing from the curving road to the south; more enemy infantry joined the fire fight near the chteau as the morning advanced. The bulk of his two divisions, as a consequence, faced the 112th Infantry, albeit the corps zone overlapped somewhat the sectors of the 106th Infantry Division in the north and the 110th Infantry in the south. Unhappy about this thorn in his side, Manteuffel won the assignment of the Schnee Eifel heights to his army and personally developed a scheme to mop up resistance in this sector at the earliest possible moment. The 560th, activated from inexperienced garrison units in Norway and Denmark, had been tagged for the Russian front. 3. The enemy made three attacks in the same close formation over the same ground before they discovered the error of their ways. The 3d Battalion (Maj. Walden F. Woodward), in the regimental center, was hit by the 1130th Regiment of the 560th Volks Grenadier Division. The little group from regimental headquarters which had been deployed on the ridge line at Ouren was less successful. 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 . He was a prisoner of war at Stalag IV-B in the town of Mhlberg an der Elbe for six months. the Reconnaissance Battalion of the 116th Panzer Division West of Harspelt the self-propelled tank destroyer platoon from the 811th arrived in time to destroy four of the panzers, but at the cost of all but one of its own guns. 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. 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. Manteuffel had two armored formations in reserve, the Panzer Lehr Division and the Fuehrer Begleit Brigade.1 These he intended to throw in behind the armored corps which made the first bridgehead at the Our. There it dug in to defend the battery which had given aid during the battle. The 109th Infantry was losing ground on its north flank and soon would be forced back fanwise into the 9th Armored Division zone. The German guns and Werfers had finally opened fire to neutralize or destroy the rearward artillery and reserve positions in the, 112th sector. 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. The 109th and 112th were in like status. In fact, detachments of the 39th Regiment had crossed the Skyline Drive unobserved and were moving in to surprise Holzthum. 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. But the enemy armor weight was too heavy, nor could it be checked by the handful of tanks and light assault guns remaining to the 707th Tank Battalion. 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 line of departure for Krueger's corps began across the Our from Kalborn and extended north to a point east of Burg Reuland. a bridgehead over the Our at the boundary between the 112th Infantry Shortly before dusk A platoon of self-propelled tank destroyers had The family moved to Willmar in 1928 and to a farm north of Willmar in 1932. 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. Two company kitchens were captured and one or two observation posts cut off, but the artillery observer inside Sevenig was able to direct the 229th Field Artillery howitzers onto the Germans in the draw. 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 Battle of the Bulge took place in December 1944, after Adolf Hitler launched a surprise blitzkrieg against Allied Forces in northwest Europe. 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. Attempts during the evening to send a task force of stragglers and trains forward from the 28th Division headquarters at Sibret were abortive; the roads east to Wiltz now were blocked every few kilometers by enemy infantry and self-propelled guns. 113th Infantry Regiment. of the 77th, under the cover provided by German artillery, drove In 1949, the Bellefonte unit was redesignated Battery B, 688th Field Artillery. 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. 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. 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. Most of the positions occupied lay on the east. When day came the Americans caught the troops following the advance party of the assault company out in the open. 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 northernmost of the four roads had a good all-weather surface, was the only main through road running east to west through the area, and gave direct access to Clerf and Bastogne. 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. with the aid of the dwindling tank force from the 9th Armored Division 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. There the infantry driving toward the town of Clerf had been stopped short of their objective. 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. 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 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. German infantry from the 277th Volksgrenadier Division burst . This new Altoona unit converted back to an engineer company unit they were redesignated Troop C, 104th Cavalry in 1929. The numerous pillboxes provided a substantial amount of cover; the 3d Battalion, for example, was not seriously endangered until the attacking tanks maneuvered close enough for direct fire. Infantrymen of the 110th Infantry, 28th Div., US 1st Army following the German breakthrough in that area, Bastogne, Belgium, 19 December 1944. He then became the executive officer (XO) for the 16th Infantry Regiment at Fort Jay, Governors Island, New York. The remainder of the casualties were fairly evenly split between the 109th Infantry to the . *AIR broken up into three separate armored Infantry battalions. The Lead-Up to the Battle of the Bulge. . Company L, on the western side of the ridge at Holzthum, reported figures in the half-light but, peering through the ground fog, which clung all along the division front, could not be sure whether they were American troops passing through the area or the enemy. Unit decoration: Presidential Unit Citation, 1623 Dec 1944 112th Infantry, Civil War silver bands: 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.. A patrol which had been sent from the 3d Battalion to carry the withdrawal order to the 1st Battalion command post, still holding on at Harspelt, failed to get through. The Lewistown company was consolidated with another company and became Headquarters and Headquarter Troop, 3rd Reconnaissance Squadron, 104th Armored Cavalry Regiment. 112th Infantry Regiment. Company D positions had been taken by assault only a few minutes earlier. Without it the western exit road from the Gemnd bridge was hopelessly blocked; through Hosingen ran the main divisional supply route to the Clerf. Staff Sgt. J. H. Burns, who had taken over when the company commander was wounded. the code name for the coming offensive. "Rocky" Moretto was one of only two men in his infantry company who . 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 . The unit was transported to and garrisoned at El Paso, Texas for training, but was never utilized because hostilities ended. The Americans were not too worried by the flanking move because tanks of the 10th Armored Division were expected momentarily. This was the last word from Marnach. This was General der Artillerie Walther Lucht's LXVI Corps. The authors do a great job of telling the the story with first-person accounts from the American soldiers, both officers and enlisted. By nightfall the 3d Battalion line on the Sevenig ridge had been The 26th Volks Grenadier Division poured more troops into the 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. 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. To some extent, then, Kokott's decision in favor of premature assembly west of the Our had gained ground for the 26th. 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. In 1920, the Tyrone unit was redesignated Troop B, 1st Pennsylvania Cavalry and the Bellefonte unit was redesignated Troop L, 1st Pennsylvania Cavalry. With surprise almost certainly assured and the knowledge that the Americans. Co-ordination between small packets of infantry and armor, hard at best, was made most difficult by this kind of piecemeal commitment. The 112th remained an organic unit of the 28th Infantry Division throughout World War II.[5]. 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. For two days and nights Company K and Company B of the 103d Engineer Combat Battalion fought off all enemy attempts to eradicate this block on the Skyline Drive. A section of tank destroyers, supporting the forward outpost, was overrun by the more mobile German tanks, but the engineers held their fire for the German infantry on the heels of the panzers and then cut loose, with satisfying results. With the first light some eighteen Mark V tanks started down the ridge spur pointing toward Ouren; at the same time the 1130th Regiment and the 156th Regiment resumed the attack to cut off and destroy the forward American companies. Their stories are spellbinding. 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. About 0620, however, the 1st Battalion phoned to say that shells were coming over the battalion command post. Only one battery of the 109th Field Artillery Battalion was firing during the morning and it ran low on ammunition. 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. It went onto the line on 4 July 1918, in the Second Battle of the Marne. Although success or failure would turn. reached. Most members of the 1st Battalion, for example, eventually found their way back to the regiment. 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. antitank guns supplemented the weapons organic to the conventional Volks Grenadier division. day-as usual a boundary line had proved a point of little resistance-and 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. Through the early hours of 17 December American outposts reported sounds of tank movement in Ltzkampen. It contains several maps, showing the sectors of the major air units. 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. his assistance, probably to be in position to give support by the late Battle of the Bulge CD 2 749 Pages - PDF . For some reason the tank platoon sent from the 707th had not reached the Company I area when night fell. These roads and bridges he intended to seize by surprise. . Colonel Fuller set. First, Luettwitz could not allow any slackening to an infantry pace by frontal attacks against strongly defended American positions. Radio communication, which was functioning fairly well, showed that the division center was most endangered. 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 Fifth Panzer Army Attacks the 28th Infantry Division. Here Nelson received a message from the 28th Division which ordered the regiment to hold the line LausdornWeiswampach-Beiler, which the 112th Infantry had just abandoned. 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. After years of training, the unit first entered the continent of Europe on the Normandy beaches following the D-Day landing. midafternoon, leaving open an avenue into the 2d Battalion left flank. In 1975, all except for the Everett unit were reorganized and redesignated as the 2nd Battalion 112th Infantry. Although this final word seems to have reached Ouren about 1600, Colonel Nelson did not act immediately on the order because he still had hopes that the entrapped 1st Battalion could be. The heavy barrage and the pyrotechnic display which opened elsewhere on the 28th Division front on 16 December was viewed at first with some detachment by the men at the 112th observation posts. The insignia was amended to correct the blazon on 16 May 2008. Roads and bridges, he reckoned, must be in shape to support the American troops east of the river. The Our, in many places, was no more than forty feet wide and easily fordable, but the roads leading to the river made circuitous and abrupt descent as they neared its banks. About 0720 the company crossed into the 110th Infantry zone, where the ground rose away from the highway and forced the tanks to advance in column on the road. In 1914 the 2d Squadron was assigned to the 1st Pennsylvania Cavalry and Company L, 12th Pennsylvania Infantry was redesignated Troop L, 3rd Pennsylvania Cavalry. The 112th Infantry Regiment was formed and officially designated as the 16th Infantry from . his tanks and tank destroyers to block the roads west of the river. $14.95 + $5.50 shipping. Two hours later tanks and self-propelled guns struck the 44th Engineers, which was outposting the little hamlets northeast of Wiltz. The final word on the defense of Clerf would come from the enemy. The sector held by the 112th Infantry was approximately six miles wide. Subsequently General Cota ordered them to go to the aid of the hardpressed 110th Infantry. paymasters who composed the defense. 5 During the division attack of 2-1 November in the Schmidt-Vossenack sector the 28th had taken 6,184 casualties. On German operations maps Wiltz lay athwart the boundary which divided the attack zones of the XLVII Panzer Corps and the LXXXV Corps. 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 had been accomplished by noon on the first On the corps left, however, General Kokott and the 26th Volks Grenadier Division jumped the gun. initial breakthrough at the Our and Clerf Rivers, but rather how to 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. One tank platoon remained there to bolster the defense, while the other turned back to the south, picked up Company C, and, on orders, returned with the infantry to Munshausen. From this point the American artillery He personally rated four of his armored divisions as good attack formations (the 116th, 2d, Panzer Lehr, and Fuehrer Begleit), and his panzer corps commanders were of his own choosing. In July 1865, these units were mustered out of federal service. About 1830 troops at the battalion observation post reported that enemy vehicles were attacking with multiple 20-mm. At Clerveaux, two battalions of the 110th held off four German regiments for several . During the Battle of the Bulge the 112th RCT managed to . arrived early in the afternoon but left precipitately, losing one gun Summarized in part from an article of the Morning Record. Tank Battalion-some six crippled tanks and five assault guns was gathered Eight tanks were knocked out by the enemy gunners and in the confusion three more fell prey to bazooka fire. 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