About 0730 the two rifle companies of the 2d Battalion jumped off at the ridge east of Clerf. guns and asked for American artillery fire on their own positions. 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. Norman G. Maurer, 3 of the 3d Battalion, leading a sortie of twenty men, surprised the enemy and drove him back with very heavy casualties. A camouflaged grunt takes aim. 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. The Lewistown unit was redesignated as Machine Gun Troop, 104th Cavalry, 22nd Cavalry Division. Hitler had committed Bayerlein's tanks in an abortive counterattack designed to roll up the exposed flank of the American Third Army on the Saar.4 This Panzer Lehr thrust failed, and at the beginning of December Bayerlein's command was brought north to the Eifel district for an emergency attempt at refitting. The German infantry would have to fight step by step; the hope of a quick breakthrough had proven illusory. 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. Luettwitz concluded that the Clerf River now would be crossed not later than the evening of the second day. 120th Infantry Regiment. About 0930 the 2d Platoon of Company A, 707th Tank Battalion, climbed out of Clerf to meet the German Mark IV's. Colonel Nelson gave the order to withdraw behind the river under cover of darkness. The latter consisted of three divisions. He was an instructor at the U.S. Army Infantry School (1932-1933) and graduated from the U.S. Army War College in 1936. on the Marnach road, but more tanks and infantry were arriving hourly In the center of this thinly held 80-mile front was the 28th Infantry Division broadly stretch across the Bastogne corridor through the Ardennes Forest; a 25 mile frontline. On their left German tanks were wiping out the last posts The American strongpoints were therefore located with an eye to blocking these entry ways while at the same time defending the lateral ridge road which connected the 110th with its neighboring regiments and provided the main artery sustaining the entire division front. 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. This new Altoona unit converted back to an engineer company unit they were redesignated Troop C, 104th Cavalry in 1929. The 112th Infantry's attack plan for 2 November designated the 1st and 3d Battalions to attack cross country at H plus 3 hours (1200) in a column of battalions, the 1st leading. 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. On the left the 26th Volks Grenadier Division finally achieved contact with the 5th Parachute Division, which had been advancing cautiously along the boundary between the 109th and 110th Infantry and had done nothing to help Kokott's southern regiment, the 39th. Manteuffel had found himself in almost complete disagreement with the original operations plan handed down by Jodl in November. . 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. Finally the Germans took the village, only to be driven out again. The units of the 110th Infantry were disposed as follows to face three full German divisions. The Logan Guards were mustered as Company E, 25th Pennsylvania Volunteers and then as Company A, 46th Pennsylvania Volunteers. 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 regiment consisted of companies from Erie, McKean, Venango, Elk, Warren, and Crawford counties. Bullet fire from the old stone walls was no menace to armored vehicles, bazooka teams sent down from the chteau were killed or captured, and the German tank battalions moved on, north and west toward Bastogne. the code name for the coming offensive. Colonel Nelson decided to pull back through Huldange since enemy tanks were known to be in Trois Vierges. 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 560th Volks Grenadier Division (Generalmajor Rudolf Langhaeuser) was assigned two specific bridges as targets, one just north of Ouren, the other a stone arch a little to the south of the village. The German guns and Werfers had finally opened fire to neutralize or destroy the rearward artillery and reserve positions in the, 112th sector. Nelson also reported to General Jones at Vielsalm and set the problem before him. 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. About 1515 Nelson sent his executive officer, Lt. Col. William F. Train, to the 28th Division command post with orders to report personally on the regiment's position. About an hour before dawn eleven searchlights flicked on, their rays glancing dully from the low clouds back onto the Ltzkampen-Sevenig ridge. Then too, some welcome tank support had arrived on the scene. It was disbanded on 16 July 1883 and reorganized as Company A, 10th Pennsylvania Infantry on 3 July 1884. 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 . He even dispatched a kampfgruppe to seize a bridge considerably south of Clerf apparently intending to swing his attack column to a poorer road in the event that Clerf continued to hold. 16-18 December. 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. About 1300 a thick, soupy December fog rolled in on the village. 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. At 1330 the enemy ceased, GERMAN TROOPS ADVANCING PAST ABANDONED AMERICAN EQUIPMENT. The roads in the Over 83,000 Americans were casualties during the battle which lasted from December 16, 1944 until January 25, 1945, and as a result, the battle occupies a prominent place in our collective minds. Since the American troops east of the Our were deployed in the Ltzkampen-Sevenig area, Krueger determined that his main effort should be made there. The American howitzers, south of Wiltz, also took a hand in slowing the German attack. During most of this first day of attack the German infantry had fought west of the Our without heavy weapons, although the bulk of two regiments from. 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." This is a useful if not exhaustive study of one of the main battles which made up the massive event known as The Battle of the Bu Get Military Unit/Ship Histories and After Action Records (AAR) We offer access to after action reports and operational records from all branches of the U.S. Military. 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. . 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. between the two assault regiments. These units were mustered into federal service during the American Civil War. Most members of the 1st Battalion, for example, eventually found their way back to the regiment. Throughout this entire action the 229th gave the 112th Infantry such support as to elicit from the regimental commander the opinion that "it was the best artillery in the army," an expression which would be used by other infantry commanders about other artillery units during these trying days. A scratch platoon of less than fifty men collected from the regimental headquarters and Ouren held the supporting German infantry at bay along the ridge east of the village. Kokott's infantry would have to carry the battle through the night. A Symbol of the Combat Ability of MI Soldiers. At Weiler the Americans, with only a few rounds left, were completely surrounded and decided to fight their way out. given new divisions to spearhead the brief spoiling attack in late October Ouren and Lieler (west of the river), crossed the bridges the German or support the 3d Battalion, 110th Infantry, fighting at Consthum. Here about ten o'clock, Battery C of the 229th came under direct tank fire but stopped the tanks with howitzer fire at close range while Company C of the 447th Antiaircraft Artillery Battalion used its quad mount machine guns to chop down the infantry following behind. When darkness finally came, the 44th withdrew with the assault guns into Wiltz, having lost four officers and 150 men. Ration strength was more than 17,000, and forty-two 75-mm. Today marks the 76th anniversary of the Battle of the Bulge, in order to commemorate this anniversary we are releasing our first Then and Now video focusing . the 109th and 112th Regiments gave ground slowly, but they . The battalion was activated for federal service in Iraq 19 September 2008, and redeployed back to the States in late August 2009. . He hoped that the armored debouchment into the bridgehead would commence during the early afternoon. There the infantry driving toward the town of Clerf had been stopped short of their objective. Both the 1st and 2d Battalions deployed with the rest of the 56th Stryker Brigade Combat Team on 19 September 2008. reached. 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 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. with the aid of the dwindling tank force from the 9th Armored Division (Lewistown) and the Bellefonte Fencibles, both organized in 1858. Staff Sgt. His suspicions were confirmed when a patrol sent into the town failed to return. 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. 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 : The Lead-Up to the Battle of the Bulge. the Reconnaissance Battalion of the 116th Panzer Division At Clerveaux, two battalions of the 110th held off four German regiments for several . 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. Panzer Army to receive the highly secret word of a great counteroffensive The battalion, perhaps 200 strong, arrived in Wiltz about noon and Strickler assumed command of the forces in the town. On the second day of December, a staff officer from General Luettwitz' It became the 112th Infantry Regimental Combat Team. It is impossible. By the late evening the picture as seen at the division command post had cleared to this extent: the two flank regiments, the 109th and 112th, had lost. trusted officers set feverishly to work on plans for Christrose, 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. his assistance, probably to be in position to give support by the late Rocco Moretto fought from Normandy to VE-Day. Extensive pine forests covered much of the area, making observation difficult. 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. antitank guns supplemented the weapons organic to the conventional Volks Grenadier division. Schoppen, Belgium, the 16th Infantry Regiment's first objective after going on the offense during second half of the Battle of the Bulge. 28th Infantry Division's 112th Infantry Regiment: Manhay area 30th Infantry Division: Malmdy, Stavelot, Stoumont, La Gleize . a bridgehead over the Our at the boundary between the 112th Infantry Prior to the attack, 83,000 Americans in four divisions (the 28th, 4th, 106th, and 99th) held an 80-mile, thinly stretched line that crossed through . On the left of the regimental zone, the 1st Battalion (Lt. Col. Donald Paul) held the intersection of the Skyline Drive and the Dasburg-Bastogne main highway at Marnach, employing Company B and a platoon from the 630th Tank Destroyer Battalion. Company B moved east to aid the 3d Battalion, and Company A, less a platoon in mobile reserve at Clerf, moved to the northern sector. Across the Vesle was the larger town of Fismes headquarters of the 112th Infantry Regiment, 28th Division. Volks Grenadier Division) had not fared too well in the attack And German tanks still fired from the eastern height. howitzers with one- and two-second fuzes. This is the order of battle of German and Allied forces during the Battle of the Bulge. The regimental position, really a series of squad and platoon posts, followed a ridge line south through Harspelt and Sevenig, then bent back across the Our and followed the western slopes of the river nearly to Kalborn. The responsibility for command here was assumed directly by the VIII Corps. ), The corps commander was loath to yield ground to the enemy. This move was made early in the morning with disastrous results recorded earlier. On 3 July 1916, the regiment was called to service for Mexican border duty, with Rickards still in command. then, as seen by Manteuffel and Luettwitz, was not how to achieve the This point was conceded when Hitler ruled that the artillery fires along the entire front would begin at 0530. The 77th had been unable to win a quick decision at Hosingen. Eight tanks were knocked out by the enemy gunners and in the confusion three more fell prey to bazooka fire. However, if it were not . Unit decoration: Presidential Unit Citation, 1623 Dec 1944 112th Infantry, Civil War silver bands: With three divisions, and added corps troops, the XLVII Panzer Corps possessed a considerable amount of shock and fire power. By noon the 2d Battalion, helpless against massed tanks and without artillery support, was held in check along the ridge running southwest from Urspelt to the Clerf road, only a thousand yards from its line of departure. About 1000 the small tank-infantry team was allowed to return to its original position at Munshausen, and Fuller then ordered the tank platoon to fight its way to Clerf and help defend the town. His staff, carefully selected and personally devoted to the little general, was probably the best German staff on the Western Front. The tank thrust through the 1st Battalion center pushed parts of companies C (a platoon of which had joined the battalion from training), A, and D back through the woods toward Welchenhausen. Seven officers and fifty to sixty men did reach Donnange. Aside from patrol activity (generally small raids against individual pillboxes) the 112th Infantry sector had been quiet. ridge, covering an observation post. Snow blanketed the fields. In response to their call for reinforcement and ammunition four tanks fought their way through the German infantry along the Skyline Drive, arriving in Hosingen about 2200-but with no rifle ammunition. The story in the 2d Panzer Division zone was the same. Colonel Nelson sent back request after request for air support. Meanwhile, General Middleton, the VIII Corps commander, issued a holdfast order to all his troops. About 1830 troops at the battalion observation post reported that enemy vehicles were attacking with multiple 20-mm. On the Wahlhausen road the 3d Battalion observation post, defended by the Company I platoon, called for ammunition and was told that tanks were being sent with resupply. Shortly before noon the advance guard of the 60th Panzer Regiment, rolling along the Ltzkampen-Leidenborn road, appeared on the knoll west of Ltzkampen. . This created a bulge in the German line. MacDonald, Charles B. Colonel Fuller's command post was in a hotel only a few yards from the north bridge. These roads and bridges he intended to seize by surprise. German defenses. The 1st Platoon of Company I had It was released from active duty in 1953 and was redesignated Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 3rd Battalion 104th Cavalry. At nearly every point the American tanks would have to fight their way down the roads to reach the infantry holding the villages. The entire action lasted ten minutes. About noon the 2d Battalion counterattacked and German pressure along the 112th front began to wane. By the middle of the morning it was apparent that the VIII Corps was under attack all along the front and that the 28th Division would have to make out with what it had. Only a short distance beyond, at a third block, fire swept into the column from all sides. Although success or failure would turn. The best troops and newest equipment were placed in the division reconnaissance battalion, heavily reinforced, which was slated to join the reconnaissance battalion of the 26th Volks Grenadier Division in spear-heading the advance once the Clerf River had been crossed. Shortly before dark the 60-ton bridges were completed at Gemnd and Dasburg (inexperienced engineers and the difficulties attendant on moving the heavy structures down to the river bed had slowed construction markedly), and the German tanks and assault guns moved across to give the coup de grce to the villages still defended by the 110th Infantry. Early in the afternoon of 18 December a radio message finally arrived at the division command post asking that the regiment be given instructions. 122th Infantry Regiment. (Lt. Col. Clarion J. Kjeldseth) to Wiltz on the previous evening with At that crucial point the infantry had to take Bastogne as quickly as possible, with or without the help of the armored divisions. patrol at the stone bridge had evaporated under machine gun fire-and It went onto the line on 4 July 1918, in the Second Battle of the Marne. Reports include lessons learned, analysis, and criticisms. 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. Company D positions had been taken by assault only a few minutes earlier. On the evening of 15 December the outpost troops, considerably reinforced, crossed to the west bank as usual and moved cautiously forward. The company from the 60th ran into trouble almost immediately when it was immobilized in some woods northwest of Berg by flanking fire from Heckhuscheid, in the 424th Infantry sector. With this team Manteuffel hoped to win a quick penetration and get rolling. 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. U.S. Army photo. had no cohesive line of defense, General Kokott had ordered the 77th Regiment to circle north of Hosingen and head straight for the Clerf bridges at Drauffelt, while the 39th cut cross-country, avoiding the villages on the western side of the ridge line, and seized the road junction and bridges at Wilwerwiltz on the Clerf. 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. The assault gun platoon gave good support wherever the line was threatened, but by the end of the afternoon its fuel and ammunition were nearly gone and the gunners, after four days of nearly continuous action, were approaching complete exhaustion. Colonel Lauchert was worried about the slow rate of the 2d Panzer advance. One thing clearly worried him: would the Seventh Army keep pace and cover his left flank to Bastogne? Leaving only a screening force behind, the 60th Regiment The other Altoona unit was mustered into federal service for home station duty during World War II as Battery B, 200th Field Artillery. 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 gunners and their attached antiaircraft artillery unit made a stand with their carbines, Colts, and a few .50-caliber machine guns. 112th Infantry took up their posts in the . Colonel Nelson's antitank reserve, Company C, 630th Tank Destroyer Battalion, was deployed on the ridge west of the river, but these were towed guns, dug in and relatively immobile. The sector held by the 112th Infantry was approximately six miles wide. 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. The shield is white, the old infantry color. The seven tanks counted here strangely enough made no effort to attack (perhaps the rough terrain and dragon's teeth along the American bunker line did not appear too promising) . About 1000, therefore, General Cota ordered Companies A and B of the 707th Tank Battalion to reinforce the 110th Infantry, with the intention of clearing up the deepest enemy penetrations and sweeping the ridge road clear. The regiment was awarded battle streamers marked Normandy, Northern France, Ardennes-Alsace, Rhineland, and Central Europe for its service in World War II. 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. By the second day it was apparent that the combination of stubborn resistance and poor approach roads would delay the projected crossing at Ouren. Early in the month the Germans had undertaken what appeared to be a routine relief in their forward positions. Some of the first Americans to confront Hitler's gamble on the front lines were the men of the 394th Infantry Regiment at Lanzareth Ridge. on Sevenig, farther to the south its 1128th Regiment had seized During WWII the regiment landed in Normandy in 1944, after D-Day, where it became the 112th Infantry Regimental Combat Team (RCT). 112th Infantry Regiment. 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. 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. 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