This quick infusion of personnel into the 99th Division occurred in March 1944, when more than 3000 joined the division. The terrain was open and rolling, and over six weeks the 3rd Battalion prepared dug-in positions that possessed good fields of fire. 99th Infantry Division vehicles en route to the battle zone. It then intersected a main eastwest road at Bullingen. Ordered into active military service: 15 November 1942 Camp Van Dorn, Mississippi. It was redesignated with description updated, for the 395th Regiment on 7 June 1999. 449, U.S. ARMY 15 January 1945 SUBJECT: History of Medical Detachment, 395th Infantry Regiment, 1 December to 31 December 1944. 395th Regiment | Lineage and Honors | U.S. Army Center of Military History The 393rd, 394th & 395th were the Infantry Regiments of the 99th Infantry Division. The 99th Infantry Division received recruits from the ASTP program (Army Specialized Training Program, to make up for the personnel shortages in front line units during 1944. 945 Magazine Street, New Orleans, LA 70130 Wendell Clark - 99th Infantry Division Fort Benning | Maneuver Center of Excellence Libraries | MCoE HQ The 395th Infantry Regiment was disposed defensively from north to south with the 3rd Battalion in the Hfen area in Germany, the 2nd Battalion was in the center at Kalterherberg, and the 1st Battalion remained on the regiment's right, southeast of Kalterherberg. [2]:33 On at least six occasions they called in artillery strikes on or directly in front of their own positions. With ammunition supplies dwindling rapidly, the men obtained German weapons and utilized ammunition obtained from casualties to drive off the persistent foe. The unit's distinctive shoulder patch consisted of a five-sided shield of black on which is superimposed a horizontal band of white and blue squares. Attached below the shield a silver scroll inscribed "VIGILANS ET CELER" in Black letters.[21]. Through their stories, we gain a glimpse into the challenges they faced, the horrors they endured, and the triumphs they achieved. Two months later, when the 99th Division was transferred to VII Corps under Maj. Gen. Walter E. Lauer, the commanding officer of V Corps, Maj. Gen. Clarence R. Huebner, wrote him: The 99th Infantry Division arrived in this theater without previous combat experience early in November 1944. 395th Infantry Regiment (United States) - Wikiwand The 395th were moved by train and truck, and finally by foot, to front line positions near the German town of Hfen a few kilometers west of the Siegfried Line and near the Belgium-German border. As many as half a million civilians remained in Stalingrad when the Germans approached in the late summer of 1942. When the Ardennes Offensive ended, Gen. Lauer received verbal commendations from Field Marshal Sir Bernard L. Montgomery, 21st Army Group Commander, and Gen. Courtney Hodges, First Army Commander, on the vigorous and effective defense contributed by the 99th. So fierce in fact that the German commander pulled his tanks back for fear of running into a superior American force, deciding to hold his positions until the following morning. The platoon seriously disrupted the entire German Sixth Panzer Army's schedule of attack along the northern edge of the offensive. 395thIR - 99th Infantry Division That task fell to the 277th Volksgrenadier Division and the 12th SS Panzer Division. 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D. JrWilliams Alvin GWilliams Raymond FWilliamsen Ensign BWilson CurtisWind Niles EWoods R. B.Woodyard Howard FWresinski Leo FYeaple Andrew ZYork TrumanZamarripa Santos SZbornik Arnold LZegzutor VictorZeilman Francis E, Benjamin Earl W JrCritcher Carlton BFlynt Marion JrHerpin Angelas, Hutton Thomas RKinchius Joseph JKingston Jack ELe Blanc Walter, McCormick JamesMcNabb Lloyd RPappel Bernard A Jr, Rhyne Ralph HSenich William NSmalley William H, Smith James LVolturo Philip FWood Elven S. Dean F. Gilbert was a membert of 3rd Platoon, L Company,394th Infantry Regiment. Butler's father had been a major in the Illinois National Guard and urged his son to become a guardsman when he was 16 years old. Butler's great-grandfather, General John Alexander McClernand, commanded infantry during the Civil War. The Combined Bomber Offensive (CBO) in the European Theater was one of Americas bloodiest campaigns. German losses were much higher. The war was over six days later.[6]. [5] After more than ten days of intense battle, they pushed the Americans out of the villages, but were unable to dislodge them from the ridge, where elements of the V Corps of the First U.S. Army prevented the German forces from reaching the road network to their west. The 5 th Infantry Division was moved from Saarlautern, Luxembourg to the area of south and southwest of Echternach. The regiment arrived at Camp Van Dorn in early December. The enemy artillery was so intense that communications were generally out. Mission of the 395th Infantry Regiment I. [14] If the Germans penetrated Hfen, the U.S. soldiers would have to withdraw several miles to the next defensible position.[10]. Accurate estimates of German wounded were not possible, but about 20 percent of the 326th Volksgrenadier Division were lost. [citation needed]. It had its headquarters at Franklin, Pennsylvania, and drew its personnel from Pennsylvania. At the going down of the sun And in the morning We will remember them." 324th Engineer Combat Battalion Albertson Dale W Bass Robert D Brown Edwin C Busk After clearing towns west of the Rhine, it crossed the Ludendorff Bridge at Remagen on the 11th. The unit was inactivated after World War II, then became a reserve unit, and was redesignated as the 395th Regiment in 1999. Allies and former enemy Germany mark 75th anniversary of Battle of Battle of the Bulge: WWII vets travel to Belgium for 75th anniversary. The 395th Regiment's success earned it many difficult assignments. Those Germans who made it into the town itself were quickly mopped up. From Camp Van Dorn they were transferred to the more established Camp Maxey in Paris, Texas for additional training. 3/395 greeted the Volksgrenadiers with a punishing hail of bullets, mortars, and artillery. "[13] The division continued to attack without opposition to the Inn River and Giesenhausen until VE-day. In early December, the front was unusually calm and the weather was bone-chilling cold. Captain Ned Nelson, veteran of 3/395 and the battle at Hfen. The 395th Infantry Regiment was an infantry regiment of the United States Army, part of the 99th Infantry Division during World War II. "In two cases, the enemy fell in the BAR gunners' foxholes. After failing to capture Monschau on the battles second day, the 326th Volksgrenadier Division turned its attention back to Hfen on December 18th. Originally planned as a Pennsylvania unit, In the northern sector opposite the 99th, this included more than 4,000 deaths and the destruction of sixty tanks and big guns.[8]. The division crossed the Danube near Eining on the 27th and after a stubborn fight the Isar at Landshut on 1 May. The division was reconstituted in the Organized Reserve on 24 June 1921 and assigned to the western half of the state of Pennsylvania. The division first saw action on 9 November, taking over the defense of the sector north of the Roer River between Schmidt and Monschau, a distance of nearly 19 miles. American artillery fired at pre-registered locations along the German route of advance, and along with support from in the knick of time arriving American armor halted and turned the German advance into a retreat. The German 20th Infantry Division was an infantry division of Nazi Germany.HistoryThe was established in 1934 under the cover name. Subscribe to 394th Infantry Regiment, 99th Infantry Division Footer menu. The breakout from Saint-L, France was accomplished far more rapidly than Allied planners had dared hope, and American units plunged through the French countryside with undreamed of rapidity, far in advance of operational plans. The black background ABMC Headquarters 2300 Clarendon Blvd, Suite 500 Arlington, VA 22201 Phone: 703-584-1501 For four successive days the battalion held this sector against combined German tank and infantry attacks, launched with fanatical determination and supported by heavy artillery. The unit reported on May 4 that it had "liberated 3 labor camps and 1 concentration camp." 99th Infantry Division soldiers putting up a winterized squad hut. 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. Pennsylvania State College, and the Pennsylvania Military College. The camp was newly built, and the barracks were covered in tar paper. ABMC Headquarters 2300 Clarendon Blvd, Suite 500 Arlington, VA 22201 Phone: 703-584-1501 Many members of the 99th Infantry Division had participated in the Army Specialized Training Program or ASTP, derisively nicknamed "all safe 'till peace;" in February 1944, the program was drawn down, and the majority of its members were assigned to later-deploying divisions such as the 99th. The regiment was organized with three battalions, each containing three rifle companies and a weapons company armed with .30 caliber and .50 caliber machine guns. An overwhelming majority of them were women and children. A second road ran parallel to the division center and right wing, leaving the Hfen road at the small hamlet of Wahlerscheid, and continued south through two very small villages, the twin towns of Rocherath and Krinkelt. The real crusher to the German offensive plans in the Ardennes occurred 46 miles north east of Bastogne, in a small area consisting of a copse of small villages and a piece of high ground called Elsenborn Ridge. In 1975, the 99th ARCOM moved its headquarters to Oakdale, Pennsylvania. Ehrenfried-Oskar Bge. The three heavy German assaults had worn down the ammunition supply, particularly that of the machine gunners, and had left the defenders mostly helpless.
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