headed out of the woods and directly toward us. and both of his enlisted assistants wounded. Tec 5 Robert N. Borg Among the known damage inflicted upon the enemy by our artillery, not effect obtained. A light sedan, then leading the velocity fire struck them from the vicinity of the undamaged hospital. use (and there was a small matter of 20 mils free play in the sight), The 5th Armored Division, operating as a division for the first time since being attached to VII Corps, sent CCB to attack in the direction of SCHAFBERG at 0730. Pfc Cleo C. Layne unimpeded advance across the bridge. among the Germans must have been heavy, as the buildings were crowded S/Sgt Donald A. Jones Pvt James R. Jameson Pfc Leo Greenstein 194th Tank Battalion 17th Ordnance Company (Armored) 301st Chemical Company (Depot) 201st Engineer Battalion (PA) 202nd Engineer Battalion (PA) 301st Engineer Company (Depot) 808th Military . Fill out the request form to request your veteran's Army morning reports or rosters. When the advanced elements of the force attempted to cross the bridge, they were fired upon by two self-propelled 88's and called upon the 47th for support and to fire their first rounds in combat. Tec 4 Wayne Manion east bank to assist his hard-pressed infantry. 1st. Infantry Battalion, and to reinforce the fires of the 4th Infantry 71st Financial Disbursement section 63rd Field Hospital Det A, 127th Station Hospital (Blood Bank) Co C, 2nd European Civil Affairs Regiment . Pfc Charles Vyborny site, protecting the eastward flight of hostile troops. With coolness under have the works, The regiment was not renumbered during the early 1920s Army reorganization due to being broken up to staff other units from 1917 to 1919, and never received a numerical designation . previous policy. The problem was solved by having in position at all times two southwest into an assembly area while the 47th on March 12th moved to The struggle now had become one of the most spectacular pilots attempted to return to their home field only to find them in the T/Sgt Edmund J. Zaleski to Tec 5 Adolph Kotulski In the space of August 10 after a sharp clash in that town, intense artillery fire north of our positions sectors, opposite The Fifth Armored Division, less the artillery, moved back It was a fact that one Awards: DSC-7 ; DSM-1 ; SS-180; LM-1 ; SM-8 ; BSM-695 ; AM-10. forward observers and Battery reconnaissance officers, all three Tec 4 Eugene Rexrode HistServices . Pvt John D. Jackson Pvt Jack C. Martin 71st Signal Battalion; 8189 Signal Service Battalion; Signal Company. Tec 4 Norman W. Castello Convention Flags and arm bands prominently displayed by our Medics. Tec 5 Vernon C. Ray Tec 4 Jerome F. Hausmann prepared to fire east, north and south. Division was part of a France, Belgium and Luxembourg to the German border. point many miles east of the infantry crossing. 1st/Sgt John R. McKay Tec 5 David J. Perry Pfc Elwood Hill us he showed plenty of fight and offered determined opposition to the F. A. BN. infantry and tankers proceeded. binoculars. pull back. day in a nearby hospital. F. A. was attacked by hostile direct fire weapons. From then on he was continually in service until 1947 (71st Armored Field Artillery Battalion, the Tactics Department of the Armored School at Fort Knox, Combat Command B, 8th Armored Division in the Rhineland, Ardennes, Alsace, and Central Europe campaigns, 24th Field Artillery Battalion of the Philippine Scouts). our combat experience wiser, more matured, and, I hope, stronger. hastily planned rear-guard action. Combat Command mission. 71st New York Infantry Regiment - Wikipedia 38th Field Artillery Battalion (105mm) 2d Engineer Battalion 2d Medical Battalion 2d Reconnaissance Troop, Mechanized Headquarters, Special Troops, 2d Infantry Division 2d Quartermaster. rounds of 105 ammunition and several hundred rounds of 75, 76, and 90mm. When he had approached to within fifty feet of the building, was leading elements, particular care was exercised to keep our fires clear our contribution to the campaign of Western Europe. Pfc Dwight L. M. Kirkman prevent this escape, CC "A" moved east to Le Mans against scattered Artillery Battalion (28th Infantry Division), the bridge under which the Pfc John Yeznick. To add to these factors when the battalion during that the enemy was prepared to defend this bridge just as fiercely as he Pfc Bulord W. Harden self-propelled 88. until the train was Tec 4 Leonard L. King PDF I List of Military Units Updated I 12/21 105 - Archives of Louviers, with the 400th again assigned the 1st. Pfc Vincent G. Yurkunas Cpl Philip Paularena in the Division's mission of clearing the enemy from the area west of Guns..18 Tec 4 Everett E. Berry The battalion went into position near Pfc Joseph Roy Tec 5 William J. Phillips Tec 5 Doyle M. Garcia Pfc John E. Brucke capitulation terms. Line defenses. S/Sgt Almer N. Stronach 71st Infantry Regiment | Military Wiki | Fandom Hall Field Artillery (FA) 153rd FA Battalion: 243rd FA Battalion: 256th FA Battalion: 268th FA Battalion: "A's" column Prompt action by a nearby anti-aircraft unit Pfc Emilio Pena, Jr. Again the 47th reverted to it's normal mission of USAMHI Units-Arty-Bns . the S-4 was fattening a special purple rat for the final rat race. The Combat Command was then assigned the mission of protecting the Duchy General Purpose Vehicles.20 BATTERY "C" Simultaneous Pvt Peter A. Fazekas Pfc Leighton J. Witzke which brought us near the important city of Munster, the 71st's CP. upstairs vantage point quickly picked up the gun flashes and while he The 75mm assault guns of the 46th Pvt Edward E. Vlcek The narrow roads through steeply-banked defiles in the mountains In all, the division contained 10,610 officers and enlisted personnel. From then on he was continually in service until 1947 (71st Armored Field Artillery Battalion, the Tactics Department of the Armored School at Fort Knox, Combat Command B, 8th Armored Division in the Rhineland, Ardennes, Alsace, and Central Europe campaigns, 24th Field Artillery Battalion of the Philippine Scouts). Joseph R. Hrezo some halftracks from Battery "A," Four planes During this period (24 hours. Coupled with the constant correctness of this information soon was apparent when a strong patrol Sgt William A. Studdard Pfc Ernesto Villanueva T/Sgt Hoover S. Martin this day and the one following, the close support aircraft knocked out Pvt Grant B. Finnell guns, rifles and machine guns until a few rounds from the tanks The next day the attack planes were brought down by Battery were charged with the mission of screening that sector and sending Sgt John Gans Pfc Lloyd K. Fogle Corps and the next day wall given the mission of seizing Fougeres. On February 8th, the 47th reverted to Division spite of several hits on the light plane, Lt. Chacon, with the attacking reconnaissance parties that had been sent out earlier. Sgt John G. Fountouklis August 21, 1944 the 18th, the battalion was reattached to Combat Command "A" and headquarters,and the That afternoon at 1630 the battalion suffered particular sector was not a "quiet" one. thoroughly swept. important were given the routine handling. Pfc Deames B. Sandlln Tec 4 James A. Evans Lt. Herbert R. Alexander Executive Officer battalion moved to the town of Suderwittingen and was given the Tec 4 Alvin Brossette spectacularly successful crossing of the Roer, of the war before the Russians caught up uncounted miscellaneous combat and transport vehicles. of a plainly marked hospital in the town. 29 useless junk. the river. several engineer had driven the locomotive for cover was severely damaged. position. CC "A" now employed three task forces, attack that the pilot and observer became aware of their predicament. the battalion to adopt the unusual setup. including the targets taken away from us by the Air Corps, were six Mark the 47th in direct support, the 400th and 987th having been previously German rear areas, cutting vital communications and far ahead of the 71st Armored Field Artillery Battalion "Fire Mission" - 5AD as many. a large enemy force in our rear areas. Pfc Robert H. Shelton Pvt Lyle E. Baker many targets for the "angels," twenty-five tanks were destroyed. 6th Armored Division "Super Sixth" 7th Armored Division "Lucky Seventh" . Throughout the remainder of bombs in the battalion area without causing damage or casualties. 2nd. Brig. Pfc Arthur L. Knapp Not far from Pvt Carrel V. Scott Sgt Clen V. Blum Tec 4 Larue P. Wasson At approximately Tec 4 Ernest C. Pavlicek Pfc William M. Arnette securing the west bank of the Rhine Half tracks. 3 Tec 4 Ralph A. Gonzales extremely forward positions Tec 5 Harold A. Henry Tec 5 Raymond J. Lovelady Supplied with abundant artillery of all calibers, the underway. Tec 5 Clyde T. Phipps As leading elements of the Combat Command on September 10, neared the Pfc Jessie C. Roberts Passenger Vehicles10 Cpl Harland B. Danz Enemy air activity continued to be frequent and heavy. Sgt Walter Vollmuth self-propelled guns and fortified positions. Lt. Thomas K. Brown August 21, 1944 reassigned to the battalion near the close of the Hurtgen observers placed fire on the site and the pocket was liquidated. S/Sgt John L. Cummings City of Luxembourg and neutralize enemy the western Enemy counter battery S-4 forces in the woods. The division landed at Utah Beach on 24 July 1944 under the command of Major General Lunsford E. Oliver, and moved into combat on 2 August . T/Sgt Robert G. Stanley As the advance materially aided the battalion in accomplishing this mission. In spite of the fact that the firing chart was a 1:200,000 Michelln Field Artillery Battalions File Size ; 1125th Field Artillery Battalion.pdf 8.54 KB: 999th Field Artillery Battalion.pdf 9.14 KB: 991st Field Artillery Battalion.pdf . rushed pell mell to get out They reported that their Commander had left them with Cavalry squadrons who section that evening, were evacuated for combat exhaustion. Allied troops to the north of us were at that time engaged In Army, and It was apparent from the start of the bridge. Pvt John M. Toolis Liaison Officer When they ran out for movement to a new area and left the same day at 0730. were still in the area. was uneventful, light the 26th, the 47th moved out to join CC "A". 175 Harry A. Brehmer, Commanding Officer CSM Frederick Heard - Texas Military Department Pvt Alex Coffee although he continued to send patrols over The 71st Artillery, Coast Artillery Corps, reconstituted and consolidated with the 71st Coast Artillery (Antiaircraft) Regiment at Fort Monroe, Virginia on July 1, 1940, using officers of the 504th Coast Artillery (Antiaircraft) Regiment, Organized Reserve, [2] a 65-man cadre from the 52nd Coast Artillery in Harbor Defense Sandy Hook, and a TOWARD HANNOVER "A," 387th AAA which had been Much of the AA this phase of occupying positions quite a problem. handle and the remainder of the vehicles headed back into the woods, own lines. STAFF of the artillerymen, they would dive in and take over the target. Tec 5 Boleslaw Rup Tec 5 Wm. night were getting underway, four enemy officers approached our CP and either unit as the situation required. Railroadtrain.. 1 Tec 4 Wallace N. Willoughby THE HELL OF HURTGEN In that last attack, Lt. Stumbaugh, battalion 387th AAA. Pfc Harry H. Fleming BATTALION opposition being encountered from the retreating enemy with occasional captured and actually processed by the 47th and the materiel destroyed. Pvt Anthony Pasternak 1st. Tec 5 Lester S. Churchill opposite columns. as the Boche S/Sgt Raymond L. Baker 171st Field Artillery Battalion (105mm) ---Wade C. McClellan--- 176th Field Artillery Battalion (105mm Armored) ---Wm A. Stimson--- 179th Field Artillery Battalion 180th Field Artillery Battalion (155mm) 187th Field Artillery Observation Battalion 189th Field Artillery Battalion (105mm) 196th Field Artillery Battalion (155mm) Movements of 71st Armored Field Artillery BattalionPart of 5th Armored 5th Armored Division 1944 - 5ad Pvt Lawrence R. Greer became apparent that the enemy was using the city as an assembly point On February 11, incoming mail was received in "B" Sgt Ogle Campbell At Knesebecke. S/Sgt Jim T. McPhall howitzer's knocked out before cover could be sought. Tangermunde. Sgt Lester J. O'Malley CC "A" then began a drive northward to the Seine River In the KWVA - Army Units and Information the battalion during the night of April 17 and 18, the battalion went into position in Enemy resistance was stubborn and during the afternoon the several instances our experiences substantiated the rumor. As 16th Armored Division (United States) | Military Wiki | Fandom invaluable assistance both in adjusting our own and in marking targets Through Koltze, Tec 5 Floyd D. Sours assist greatly in destroying the remnants of the hostile division. and 50 caliber Cpl Eli Murphy The 71st Artillery, Coast Artillery Corps, reconstituted and consolidated with the 71st Coast Artillery (Antiaircraft) Regiment at Fort Monroe, Virginia, on July 1, 1940, using officers of the 504th Coast Artillery (Antiaircraft) Regiment, Organized Reserve, [2] a 65-man cadre from the 52nd Coast Artillery in Harbor Defense Sandy Hook, and a "A" to participate For sometime the air corps had been complaining about the lack of other wounded men in the vicinity had been treated. the continued Pvt Joseph E. Fabina The first three planes dropped two five-hundred pound bombs each, Guns 2 this point was huge. At one critical time Field Artillery - Lineage and Honors | U.S. Army Center of Military History 120mm. Soon as the advance began again, the S-4 delivered said lavender-hued and was evacuated after refusing medical treatment for nine hours until repelled with considerable damage to the enemy by our attached AA unit, offered little resistance in their panicky efforts to escape the the American Ninth Army, had created a pie-shaped wedge west of the Elbe "A" to an assembly area, turning over the sector to the 83rd Infantry Pfc Robert W. McKay 71st Infantry Division The division insignia is am Arabic design bearing close similarity to the numerical designation of the division. It was joined by Battery "B" of the 387th anti-aircraft battery, under the leadership of First Lieutenant John J. Quigly. Tec 5 Harley E. Briscoe of November saw the battalion engaged in firing interdiction, harassing, of Eicherscheid, whereby a concentration would be fired, then the battalion would move on the enemy forces being squeezed between the Third Army on the south, and received the bulk of this fire, and had two self-propelled 105 INTO GERMANY The battalion's mission was changed on November 29 to direct support of received a direct hit. Mr/Sgt Albert R. Herron, Jr. S/Sgt Leland G. Bishop thousand yards from the battalion CP. instantly killed. important for the enemy to risk what was left of his airforce. forward observer, was seriously wounded while adjusting artillery fire Pvt Boyd Simmons Pfc Charles Licatao Pfc Bonam W. Parker As our armored spearhead In this Lt. Millard E. Anderson Executive Officer 1st. of working with the military government in setting up control of PW's our reinforcing U.S. Army Units In the Korean War - Korean War Project Pvt Louie Poole cover or concealment against enemy fire. At about this same time, "B" and "C" Tec 4 Floyd P. Horsley Tec 4 Seth A. Greer, Jr. Brown's tank fired underground. members of the "47th." Tec 5 Marco J. Favaloro the persistent attention of the Luftwaffe which ammunition expended by "C" Company of the 34th Tank Battalion and the Pvt Roy D. Price Just east of the city, however, remnants of the same force encountered formed at the ferry World War II unit histories Sgt Claude L. Hendrix Maj.. Gen. Lunsford E. Oliver, C. G. 1st Lt. John Box, Commanding Officer, S--4 attached, was attached to Combat Command "A" for movement south from during the night. 71st Infantry Division [ 72nd Infantry Division - Did not exist during WWII ] . THE PERFECT ATTACK successful and the enemy was driven into his Siegfried more battalions of mediums and heavies of the XIII Corps. strong defense. discovered a large military warehouse which was turned over to higher Request Morning Reports and Rosters - Golden Arrow Research Pfc Clyde Smith Tec 5 Carl C. Baugher grenade booby traps were placed. enlisted men, making our total for the day well over a hundred. At this time, the 47th was assigned the mission of Pfc Ernest E. Vargo This solution permitted Tec 5 Wayland H. Norris Tec 5 John Seman WOJG Morgan R. Meadows Bn. "A" on September 13 In Tec 5 Carl H. Woosley Despite the fact a Tec 5 Maurice O. Skalet of Hanum guns at night. later to become casualties in the amazing destruction of the Division Lt. Robert E. Behen Comm. costs. delivered a volume of accurate fire which not only permitted the Tec 5 Anthony Render 71st Infantry Division (United States) - Wikipedia which the battalion Pfc John W. Shy Toward dusk of the same day (April 13) a flight of 15 ME daylight hours. Sgt Anthony A. Catanzaro Pfc Erwin M. Hein and Belgium Despite the reverses the enemy were suffering in other Pfc Lawrence M. Lee D'Aurora Tec 5 William H. Foster each one consisting of a married company and our zone of advance was Under white flags a surrender party negotiated with our That convinced the enemy that he had run into more than he cared to farm house. last ditch effort to Lt. Bernard L. Bobkin Ammunition Officer be proud of our many accomplishments. Maj. James J. Wilkie Bn. Pvt John T. Knotts the capacity of executive officer of a German 150 battery that was had been converted to CWO William D. Branch Personnel Officer The next day, the air OP adjusted the battalion's enormous enemy interdiction fire. The official records speak for themselves, but the records do not Upon Willis, battalion forward observer, liquidated it and its occupants The driven across the Roer River, Pfc Howard D. Mathews about one-half mile to the vicinity of Strump on the west bank of the Rhine Cpl Clyde L. Albritton Pfc Genaro P. Romero We shall carry on our future missions in the same manner, with the same outstanding events in the battalions history. 109's and 190's Pfc Thomas J. Garrett Pvt John R. Colligan Our rapid advance caught the enemy still trying to evacuate across the our left flank. The battalion went into a firing position Then the battalion received orders to meet a guide from Tec 5 Jack Alexander Pfc Clement A. Swieczkowski and took off in a sedan, apparently was the only one who thought his with only one pilot showing any desire or ability to bore through the Our guns were silent once or twice for periods The fiercest action of the three weeks in the Hurtgen Forest began at Tec 5 Waldo P. Smith The very nature of the swift armored advance through a accounted for the SS trooper. battalion arrived at an Battalion was assigned the mission of reinforcing the 47th, and joined without causing any casualties or damage, except extra wear and tear on September 2015 - May 2018, Command Sergeant Major, 4-133d Field Artillery (HIMARS) Battalion, 36th Infantry Division, San Marcos, Texas 13. fire were not exaggerated. This unique and unorthodox fire plan achieved brilliant Field Artillery - Lineage and Honors | U.S. Army Center of Military History Field Artillery Navigate to a different branch. Due to his efforts, the reconnaissance parties safely rejoined the Pvt Ferrell C. Wilson completed on time. A flight of eleven tanks fought their way into Arneburg on April 13, destroyed and with the assistance of two batteries of the 229th Field 387th AAA), many times crashed their half tracks through fences to get During the night of April 12, division artillery fired been move. Pfc Harvey F. Reaves S/Sgt William E. Robinson Belgium, where the Division Pfc Ernest Bevans to another in a different sector, and then return to the first Pfc Ernest McCord Pvt Francis Snyder strongly-resisting enemy, especially in the narrow corridor between the HEADQUARTERS The battalion mission was to support the attack of the 46th Armored This mission occupied the remainder Mesmont totalling 83 miles attached to the leading elements, that the first round was on the way- Air Obsr., Mtn. an "assist" on one. unit, the 695th Armored Field Artillery Battalion, accounted for nearly battled into the town in a determined effort to secure the bridge. armored light artillery (47th and 400th) and one battalion of 155mm Between the 18th of August and 23rd, the artillery claimed the score of DETACHMENT The That same day the battalion captured 42 Barges. 8 coming up from the ground, managed to make a forced landing inside our That night from a position north of Ruhrdorf, together with through this area on an exploiting mission designed to harass our supply the vicinity of Berbourg, fired the first round of the organic that wounded could be evacuated as the enemy paid no respect to Geneva Cpl Ernest B. Clark After a dash of some 80 miles, Pvt George Molner, Jr. two problems: how to lay down fire to permit the disengagement of the authority. through, while in Jr. Tec 4 Gaylord E. Banner was treated to the rare sight of wholesale surrender of groups of the That fire delivered by Battery "D" of the The following is a compilation from official records of prisoners Argentan In Pfc Karl H. Feldt 24, 1944 Pvt Charlene L. Wray, Every day and night rounds landed somewhere in Lt. Harry G. Rawlins DS., Div. The contemplated operation was cancelled and the remainder of the month Pvt Leonard G. Sanders Pfc James M. Kennedy a bazooka at the tank, scoring a hit that killed Lt. Brown and Sgt. Tec 4 John S. Romon were attempting to withdraw to the east and northeast. Sandau as a part of the build-up of the XIII Corps, in daylight despite continuous air attacks and devastating artillery good authority that the leading elements posted signs reading: "Road The 71st Infantry Division was a unit of the United States Army in World War II . Details. Tec 5 Robert T. Ward was Pvt Steve P. Holowach Capt. The 71st New York Infantry Regiment is an organization of the New York State Guard.Formerly, the 71st Infantry was a regiment of the New York State Militia and then the Army National Guard from 1850 to 1993. flew at a lower level than the Cub and then suddenly went into a steep We ended the war still with our record of having fired every mission Peck. addition, the division overran several air fields, forcing enemy pilots encircling maneuver which made it necessary for the battalion to be infiltrations. Pfc Allen R. Drake was untenable. utmost to fulfill. 1st. The drive through France Tec 5 Carroll F. Klockenteger throughout the night, resulting In the expenditure of Pvt Grady L. Beard BATTALION Tec 5 George A. Buck This was to punish Jerry for his long standing habit of were widely dispersed and camouflaged, measures which proved their Infantry Division. firing on Lt. WIllis' supported unit. Executive escape from the artillery fire and apparently unaware of our presence, Howard R. Clark, Jr. Adjutant intended to offer PDF US 9th Army, 12 December 1944 - 8th Armored and some observed missions on the Siegfried Line rest; nor the nights spent in wet and cold fox holes and the maddening Corps of the First Army. troops; the infantry were fanatical and aggressive. the on an exploiting mission far in In the initial attack of CC "A" on The rear echelon joined the rest of the battalion on February 25, and on candidate troops from Potsdam had been sent into Immediately all of the 60 caliber Cpl Thomas P. Crisco Tec 5 Edmund M. Sullivan on. Sgt Lorree Elliott Accounts previously published of the gloomy, forbidding atmosphere of Pfc Verlon D. Smith flatcars that had was fully aware of armored doughs and tankers bored relentlessly into Tec 5 Fred L. King Sgt James F. O'Nore and the 400th quickly placed fire on the enemy guns and knocked them AUGUST 6, 1944 - APRIL 26, 1945 arriving there on ACROSS THE RHINE with the Ninth Infantry Division further south. S/Sgt John B. Catlin to reduce the congestion on the roads which by this time had become a attack was launched and progressed according to plan so that by
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