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. Maps picked up from dead Germans showed that the American machine gun positions had been exactly plotted-but as they had existed up to a change made just before the 16th. 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.. The 902d, advancing by way of Munshausen, now cleared of Americans, followed. a combat command of the 10th Armored Division was moving forward to 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. In this case, as in many others during the American withdrawal, the full story is that of the cooperation of the combined arms. 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. In 1947, the Lewistown unit was redesignated Headquarters and Service Battery, 176th Field Artillery Battalion. 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. Although Fuller pled for the return of the 2d Battalion to his regiment, Cota refused to release this last division reserve. In 1920, the Tyrone unit was redesignated Troop B, 1st Pennsylvania Cavalry and the Bellefonte unit was redesignated Troop L, 1st Pennsylvania Cavalry. This attack aimed at the bridges near Burg Reuland (in the 106th Division sector) and Oberhausen, in the rear of the positions manned by the left. in Wiltz after a rear guard action in Wilwerwiltz. The 39th Regiment had got involved in local actions and been diverted from the westward axis-sustaining high losses in the bargain. Beautifully illustrated with 200 photographs. 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. After years of training, the unit first entered the continent of Europe on the Normandy beaches following the D-Day landing. Subsequently General Cota ordered them to go to the aid of the hardpressed 110th Infantry. Colonel Nelson sent back request after request for air support. Colonel Fuller had ordered a platoon of the 2d Battalion to swing south and bar the road, but it was already dominated by the German armor. The 26th Volks Grenadier Division (Generalmajor Heinz Kokott) already was deployed in the Eifel sector of the West Wall adjacent to the Our where it covered not only the XLVII Panzer Corps zone but a wide frontage beyond. Both Luettwitz and Manteuffel had been "promised" air support. 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. On the evening of 15 December the outpost troops, considerably reinforced, crossed to the west bank as usual and moved cautiously forward. Separated of necessity by the width of the front and the requirements of some depth in the defenses athwart the east-west roads, the units of the 110th could offer little reciprocal support against an enemy attacking in any force. Hitler himself seems to have favored this concept (it is found in the first Fuehrer operations order), but only in the Fifth Panzer attack would assault detachments be found inside the American positions when the initial barrage opened up. 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. 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. in house-to-house fighting with Company D and Company B, 103d Engineer 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. to the Our bridges in the 3d Battalion area led the regimental commander In 1943, he joined the. In 1949, the Bellefonte unit was redesignated Battery B, 688th Field Artillery. The final word on the defense of Clerf would come from the enemy. German infantry from the 277th Volksgrenadier Division burst . In July 1865, these units were mustered out of federal service. Only one man escaped. to bypass Wiltz on 19 December with his entire division but now found that he could not get his regiments back in hand. 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. Early morning reports of considerable German penetration and the threat Designated as the 16th Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, the unit was mobilized on 28 April 1898 and activated into federal service for the SpanishAmerican War on 10 May 1898 at their mobilization site, Mount Gretna, Pennsylvania. 1st Cavalry . 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. Here it lay astride the main attack axis of the German LXVII Panzer Corps of the Fifth Panzer Army headed to Bastogne, Belgium, and points west. However, these unit designations were short-lived. 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. It consisted of the 2d Battalion, 110th Infantry, at Donnange and the light tank company of the 707th Tank Battalion, which was located at Weiswampach behind the division north flank in support of the 112th Infantry. The presence of two panzer units on the 110th Infantry front was not suspected. A half hour before dawn on 18 December German guns and mortars opened heavy fire. 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. These were the stakes when the Germans launched their surprise attack through Belgium on December 16, 1944. 18-41 About dusk the Marnach garrison radioed that half-tracks could be heard moving toward the village. column and, attacking through the dark with grenades and bayonets, cleared the position. A platoon of self-propelled tank destroyers had 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. between the two assault regiments. The two heavy tank bridges were the Americans obviously were weakening, and the 2d Panzer Division had been able to move its tanks forward on the relatively good road in the northern part of the corps zone. On General Middleton's order, CCR, 9th Armored Division, had put a task force backstop position behind the threatened center of the 28th Division. During WWII the regiment landed in Normandy in 1944, after D-Day, where it became the 112th Infantry Regimental Combat Team (RCT). . If you want a powerful account of the battle from the mouths of those who were there, this is it. On their left German tanks were wiping out the last posts A whole series of monkey wrenches had been thrown into the well-oiled machinery of the 26th Volks Grenadier Division. But menaced as they were, the artillery commander could not risk his howitzers further. About 0300 engineers manning pneumatic rubber boats began ferrying the 80-man assault companies and heavy infantry weapons across the river. then, as seen by Manteuffel and Luettwitz, was not how to achieve the This created a bulge in the German line. The 110th Antitank Company was in Hoscheid just to the west. On 11 October 1917 the 16th Pennsylvania Regiment was redesignated as the 112th Infantry Regiment and became part of the 28th Infantry Division. Accession 45223. Colonel Fuller's command post was in a hotel only a few yards from the north bridge. It was disbanded on 16 July 1883 and reorganized as Company A, 10th Pennsylvania Infantry on 3 July 1884. One Michael Tolhurst: Bastogne: Battle of the Bulge, Pen & Sword Books Limited (Battleground Europe series), 2001 . There was still hope on the morning of 17 December that at least one platoon from Company B was holding on in Marnach. . Five hundred yards from the Germans, on the far side of a draw, the. 20th Armored Division (480th AIR*) 8th AIB Completely surrounded by the enemy, it had hoped to join the withdrawal of the line companies. Perhaps they did not care to risk bazooka fire in the dark. The 112th Infantry south wing was giving way under heavy attack, and during the day all communications between the regiment and division were lost. The enemy attempt to capture or destroy the American command posts, kitchens, and observation posts was only partially successful, although the grenadier assault parties were well inside the 3d Battalion positions when day broke. The Huntingdon unit went through several redesignations including a quartermaster company and finally Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment of the 154th Transportation Truck Battalion. Furthermore, Middleton instructed Cota to use. At least a third of the 5th Parachute Division was finally engaged at Wiltz contrary to Heilmann's orders. 124th Infantry Regiment. World War II Records, 110th Infantry Regiment, 28th Infantry Division, History . The first American planes arrived at 0935, immobilizing the German tanks momentarily. This had been accomplished by noon on the first Of the 1st Battalion, only a part of Company C retained its organization. The regiment was again called to active federal service on 17 February 1941, 10 months prior to the attack on Pearl Harbor. were battle-weary, small in number, and widely dispersed. In early planning there had been some question as to whether the Americans in the Schnee Eifel should be left to the Fifth or the Sixth. 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. 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 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. When the 2d Panzer Division was relieved at the end of September its tanks were gone, but there remained a large cadre of veterans who had escaped to the West Wall on foot. While elements of the 26th Volks Grenadier Division were attacking on the north side of the Wiltz, detachments of the 5th Parachute Division struck the American perimeter on the south and southeast. 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. When the 28th Division arrived on the VIII Corps front in mid-November its regiments were in pitiable condition. Only one battery of the 109th Field Artillery Battalion was firing during the morning and it ran low on ammunition. 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. About noon the 2d Battalion counterattacked and German pressure along the 112th front began to wane. 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. Seven officers and fifty to sixty men did reach Donnange. It landed in France, 22 November, and moved to Tongres, Belgium, and to Rotgen, Germany, to prepare for combat. 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 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 lion is in the infantry color and both symbols represent the locale of the regiment's combat in World War II. corps zone of attack were narrow, twisting, and certain to be muddy; Meanwhile, General Middleton, the VIII Corps commander, issued a holdfast order to all his troops. . What do Battle of Hrtgen Forest, Battle of the Bulge and 112th Infantry Regiment (United States) have in common. to put one of his counterattack plans into operation. Only Company K in Hosingen was yet to be heard from. 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. The battle of the bulge had begun. the 447th Antiaircraft Battalion, and light armored cars of the 28th Early in the afternoon of 18 December a radio message finally arrived at the division command post asking that the regiment be given instructions. Hyperleap helps uncover and suggest. Colonel Lauchert was worried about the slow rate of the 2d Panzer advance. At the top of the ascent the tanks met: four German tanks were knocked out, three American tanks destroyed. About 0345 the German artillery quieted. In Marnach the hard-beset garrison fought on, now under the command of the battalion executive officer, Capt. There the American tank platoon from Company B, 707th Tank Battalion, hit into the German flank while attempting to reach Weiler and, it would appear, caused disorganization and confusion. patrol at the stone bridge had evaporated under machine gun fire-and In June 1880, Company A, 45th Pennsylvania Volunteers were reorganized as Company B, 5th Pennsylvania Infantry (Bellefonte Fencibles). 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. The German guns and Werfers had finally opened fire to neutralize or destroy the rearward artillery and reserve positions in the, 112th sector. He hoped that the armored debouchment into the bridgehead would commence during the early afternoon. 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. Nonetheless some part of the assault wave had broken through as far as the battery positions near Welchenhausen, where they were repelled by the .50-caliber quadruple mounts of the antiaircraft artillery. and the 110th Infantry. 28th Reconnaissance Troop (Mech.) day-as usual a boundary line had proved a point of little resistance-and John "Lefty" Zagarella, As Told In Letters, 1941-1945. cannon company gunners quickly bore-sighted their pieces, loaded reduced charge, and with direct fire knocked out four of the panzers. 28th Infantry Division's 112th Infantry Regiment: Manhay area 30th Infantry Division: Malmdy, Stavelot, Stoumont, La Gleize . These two attacks from west and south had made no headway but were not too costly. However, if it were not . But now the north road into the town was open. The telephone wires connecting the American-held villages were shot out in the first few minutes and Fuller could not reach any of his battalions; artillery radios, however, continued to function. positions. The bulk of the provisional battalion, inside Wiltz, started southwest an hour or so before midnight, some on foot, the rest riding on trucks, half-tracks, and tank destroyers. The 24-man patrol from Company A ran into the German flank at Fishbach, about 1120, and had to withdraw under intense fire. U.S. Army infantrymen of the 290th Regiment fight in fresh snowfall near Amonines, Belgium during the Battle of the Bulge, Jan. 4, 1945. Each battalion was responsible for five outposts along the west bank of the Our, but these vantage points were occupied only during daylight hours and then in squad strength. The 2d Battalion The 3d Battalion commenced its withdrawal at 2200 under orders to pull back through Ouren. The 112th was the first war-strength National Guard regiment in the United States. on the Marnach road, but more tanks and infantry were arriving hourly Furthermore, lack of communication between the 28th Division and its northern regiment would ultimately force the regimental commander, Col. Gustin M. Nelson, to act on his own. When Germany surrendered on May 8, 1945, Staff Sgt. 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. or German bank of the Our River. In the 1st Battalion sector, late in the afternoon, two tank platoons arrived in Munshausen to support Company C, already on its way north to relieve Company B in Marnach. columns. After some delay, while the tank platoon and the infantry identified themselves, the tanks rolled south to the 3d Battalion headquarters at Consthum. As a junior officer in the prewar panzer troops, Manteuffel had made a mark as an armored specialist. Located at the Library of Virginia in Richmond, Virginia. Hfen, along with the nearby town of Monschau, was strategically vital because it sat on elevated terrain overlooking an important road junction. New York: Orion Books, 1989. General Cota, as a result, decided to concentrate what was left to him-headquarters troops, engineers, stragglers, and the handful of organized units moving back from across the Clerf-in defense of Wiltz, the 28th Division command post. Certainly the enemy infantry were spreading rapidly through the woods and draws between the American front line and the Our River. According to an article in the October 20, 1945 issue of the Saturday Evening Post, the Nazi offensive was Hitler`s own brainchild; a plan which, "If it failed . The unit was noted for actions in the Battle of Coamo, where the regiment sustained six wounded and one killed in action during a blocking action. The 116th had fought itself out in almost continuous battles during the withdrawal across France and the defense of the West Wall but had a fine reputation and was fairly well refitted. This was not quite the end in Clerf. 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. the 109th and 112th Regiments gave ground slowly, but they . fire and sent forward a white flag, with an offer for the Americans to surrender. The Battle of the Huertgen Forest: The Untold Story of a Disastrous Campaign. By the second day it was apparent that the combination of stubborn resistance and poor approach roads would delay the projected crossing at Ouren. 75 (Spring 2010), pp. 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. Directed to the west by Hitler's orders, the division would see its first action in the Ardennes. His suspicions were confirmed when a patrol sent into the town failed to return. This article appears in: . 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. And it ran low on ammunition for air support sat on elevated terrain overlooking an important road.... 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