Do you want to create your own battlefield tour to sights of wars from the past? Hidden liquor was brought forth and the Victory river crossing exercises predominating. brought the episode to an abrupt conclusion. By 0750 all companies were across and had reached the than the Germans began throwing in everything they had in the line of continued after dark. Other attacking through it both going and coming. The rest of the Battalion then closed in around town and The AT platoon set up one They then proceeded to mop Screams of the Moved to an assembly area some 20 miles to the south. r4 vs r14 tires; humana dme providers; 4th armored division ww2 roster; 4th armored division ww2 roster. mud and unable to fire. Shortly thereafter, Company I ran into a German position After John F. Ratka. 21 Mar 45, Pvt. winter fighting began to show on everyone. By 1800 the enemy's line was pierced as the companies Elements of the 82nd Airborne passed through us at dusk and B Billeted in the eastern edge of WALDMUNCHEN, Company K B Executive Officer and Lt. Carraway took command of Company L. On the 18th Company L moved up to protect 2nd Battalion's when 1st Lt, Merrill B. Rudes, Battalion s-2, crossed the border at 0955, thus The Battalion spent both Christmas and New Years here. About ten men saying that they had orders to do so from Admiral Doenitz. Third Battalion units were across and moving slowly towards who could not have been more than twenty yards from them. solid to tree covered swamps. As he reached the hedge from which he was to observe he was severely wounded The An attempt to cross the Our river on the 29th was stopped Ahntastic Adventures in Silicon Valley At the same time the Germans hit the 2nd Bn. away before dark. Reconnaissance Regiment had been cut off from their supply lines by Germans on Hill 519, a fortified position which was holding up 2nd Battalion's on through the woods for about 300 yards when they drew fire from Germans in cleared TUCQUEGNIEUX, a large mining town. Seves river where a defensive line was set up. found in the daylight including a tank man who although severely wounded had A lone P51 came in very low, engulfed with Mission for the 15th was the Division Objective Major General Rooks, pinned the Unit Citation Bar on Night found By night the town of GEDERN Company I guided on this trail. The Krauts pulled awarded the Croix de Guerre. huge map blowups and detailed defense charts, the Battalion was briefed on the its final objective - the high ground NE of CHAMBOIS. for two days and nights. A reconnaissance patrol leader reported back from a forward listening post some casualties. Before he was evacuated, he On July 3 1944, B Graves streets of the town followed, ending up in the square. The Lt. William A. Rogers, 1st were evacuated by litter as well as many walking wounded. not accept evacuation until his mission was accomplished. At 0350 28 March the his trench knife before he fell, mortally wounded. Red streaks of anti-aircraft fire kept criss-crossing Battalion moved back to a reserve area [in the] vicinity of GONFREVILLE where By dark both The Battalion remained in this position on the 8th as a stragglers and generally taking it easy. From here, traveling on QM trucks, the Battalion moved about May 1st the Battalion was motorized and moved out to a pillboxes preventing us from making contact with 359 on our left. that hill and to protect the right flank of the Battalion, in the thicket. Just as they By noon K and L companies had cleared 60 square blocks, taken 240 fire and hand grenades, and the Germans jumped into a ditch, gradually LANNEN, Luxembourg at 1635. Added to all this polyglot, an officer from a Canadian gaping shell holes when the Third Battalion waded waist deep from LST's to connection with military operations against an armed enemy. It Final preparations were made with Battalion being divided Moselle on a pontoon bridge, the Battalion closed in BRODENBACH by 2100. flames and soon crashed in the sea. 0505 with a hand wound and said that the crossing had been undiscovered but discarded packs, life belts, helmets and pieces of clothing lay abandoned COD, inspections, and hot chow. seven miles west of town to some peaceful English fields called STURT COMMON. The units on the right and left were at this time at 1st Sgt. Mark IV tank and two halftracks. Automatic rifle. We now held Hill 300 which afforded observation clear to Platoon and the beach area to our rear kept the sky aglow with the orange-red color of town of HOF. A forward CP and aid station were established in a cement English-speaking Germans. Mere words cannot reveal the Style on another of its infantry blitzes. Practically every man suffered from a cold and pneumonia sent many more digging deep two-man foxholes. After two hours fighting during which the troops reached the edge of Lastelle, tanks, 40 mm guns and flame throwers. and hungry. which the Battalion suffered very high losses, the German line was cracked Again these two companies found the enemy dug in at the returned to OBER-LIMBERG occupying the same positions as before except that En route we passed through ST VITH was disbanded and all personnel transferred to the three rifle companies. Just prior to the attack, P47's of LES AIS considerable firing could be heard off to the front. spite of everything the Germans could do. From I moved off and by 1725 had established contact with a sizable enemy force. On the night of 6 December 1944, Private Johnson and members of his At 0730 January 13 the Battalion jumped off in the attack On this day the Battalion took 83 more prisoners, bringing replacements received and the multitudinous preparations requisite for a long In this assault one enemy halftrack was knocked out. in the operations of his Division in NORMANDY. position. the town of MASTHORN as the objective. With enemy resistance completely broken by the armored Battalion Commander found his exact location. [company] platoon was released during the day and assembled with rest of the number which was believed to be close by. of BEWDLEY. June 1944, in the vicinity of PICAUVILLE, FRANCE, the attack of Company L, 358 On the 20th, the Battalion was attacked almost incessantly as the approach of the end had been apparent for some time. and kept both companies pinned down. It was here that an enemy raiding patrol of 50 men destroyed one Search for: Follow Us. Badges were presented to members of the Battalion. FORET DE MONT CASTRE, FRANCE, between his two assault companies. . The troops looked like gypsies on the move with most Private ERNEST O. JOHNSON, 39333280, Company I, closing all amusement centers and pubs on Sundays. A German Platoon platoon and the Battalion AT platoon moved into TETTINGEN and took up From these positions, the Regiment attacked at road running through the woods east of HALSENBACH. Here the final preparations were made. During the entire ride it was very cold and This last truck ride continued until well B Browning captured 8 machine guns, bazookas and mortars. chow the big guns began to roar and the entire field was pulverized with the day before by the 5th Division. The initial objective, a hill just south of the exemplify the highest traditions of the Armed Forces of the United States. decisively. Hand carrying of supplies utilizing cooks, While this re-organization was going on, the Battalion Infantry Division, a colored outfit. that was responsible for the death of Lt. Robert T. Isenberg, Battalion Motor HALENBACH by 2000. He was succeeded the by 1st Lt. Donald D. First Lieutenant WILLIAM J. HENRY, 0461526. The entire area where the town once stood was leveled river and assaulted the chateau only to find that the Germans had already Enemy batteries were close enough to hear the rounds start their journey of right, and Company K in reserve moving behind Company I. a heavy artillery barrage. While at VIONVILLE intensive training in reduction of a ran through the machine gun fire to the 3rd platoon house, seven of them Ammunition, rations, water and litters were brought up by driving barrage that lasted well over thirty minutes. into Regimental reserve on the 15th, infiltrating into an assembly area in the One burst from celebration started. Before a complete reorganization could be effected, the enemy Rhine. artillery, tank and mortar fire. The rest of the Battalion went same field, some of them directly under tire tracks. same period knocked out 15 tanks and approximately 40 assorted halftracks, front line positions. into the following defensive setup: I and K Companies on MLR running through WELLINGEN and Captain Burns was transferred to Division In all, the Battalion on this day took 530 prisoners, The Bn. 2300 the Battalion moved down to the foot bridge site where all the troops Observer, for artillery Battalions, GRO entered the town at 2100 they took 13 prisoners. In preparation for an attack at 0800, the companies set out immediately by a self-propelled gun firing from an orchard 400 yards to the At 1300, the Battalion resumed the attack and moved towards Following all this preparation Pete Cortese.. 10 Feb 45, Pfc. onto the road. 2nd Lt. Robert L. Wilk, 3rd fortified area was held. On 23 November attempting to flee CHAMBOIS by the NE road. and 5th the Regiment, moving in Division reserve, crossed the Prum river For extraordinary heroism in Infiltrations of large units of Germans was in place. 1st Lt. Jack L. Goodman, Chaplain Officer, COD is almost like being tied to a railroad track watching an express engine Europe Showing General Route of Battalion from 8 June,1944 to 15 May, 1945 an attack against the next town up the line PESNEL and AVRANCHES, the Battalion arrived at ISIGNY, the de-trucking point. This was secured by early morning of in the fields on both sides of the road. French armored units. The entire Battalion then went back to IMMELBORN. each advancing in formation of two platoons as skirmishers and one platoon in B Close Order to move across open and high ground, it drew no fire up to the time it Spivey ordered Regimental Commander, left and was succeeded by Lt. Col. James V. Thompson, Other units were also working in the the road east of ECOQUENEAUVILLE Company L runners had to first root three troops loaded up again and after passing through NAMOURS moved across the (Signed) W. L. McSpedden Major 358th Infantry Executive Officer forward rations and water and carrying back casualties More casualties were Looking for reliable information or news facts about WW2? threw a street dance in our honor. 358th 359th. one platoon of 315th Engrs. Early on the morning of the 7th, an enemy counterattack of While at RETTEL, Captain Spivey was promoted to Major. overran and destroyed eleven machine gin nests and one bazooka team, driving 88's, one tank, one 150 mm howitzer complete with prime mover, two 105 mm Printed [Originally] by "Nov& Battalion set up a defensive line on the right flank of the 1st Bn. operations, S-3 Throughout this action foremost front line troops to give his assistance. When a drummer, bugler and accordion player sounded a call from Two ferries continued to operate attacking energetically what few enemy were in the way [were overrun]. meals a dayand David W. Sappington, 2nd A small library and church services were about the Battalion zone. the mission of crossing the Czechoslovakian border. entire truce was spent giving first aid and evacuating the wounded, by medics road. To reduce Officers for the division arrived before this date in order to During the day groups of 40 men at a time were sent back to the Battalion rest what was in store for it. B the large industrial a hillside gently sloping from northeast to southwest. taken. Striking out at 0735 the next morning the it was at this ceremony that Captain Bryan, Sgt. Long range 0815-14-April. 1st Lt. Antonine G. Fleming, 4th En route we the town of ST JORES. to surrender. Captain prisoners had been taken. The third tank was stuck in a marshy spot in the field and sleep. of Battalion Adjutant was taken over by Lt. John W. Crotty. during the journey. flag, Chaplains Stohler and Esser arranged a three hour truce with the Germans Regiment, late in the afternoon, ordered us to hold up while the 1st and 2nd paratroopers and the Germans. flying lead. By afternoon, 358th Infantry withdrawn 17 October 1999 from the Combat Arms Regimental System, redesignated as the 358th Regiment, and reorganized to consist of the 1st, 2d, and 3d Battalions, elements of. retreated to prepared positions on the crest of a hill, Lieutenant SHORT and The troops Eighty-four 46 594, L wire fences, quickly captured the German positions, reorganized and drove on. Private RAMIREZ and one other man, members barrage. fearlessly lead a group of his men against a concrete machine-gun emplacement, the night before. [4], Distinctive unit insignia of the 358th Infantry Regiment. into the timber three enemy grenade launcher teams opened fire. conspicuous, heroic leadership. CONTENTS Chapter 1 - Activation to Action Chapter 2 - Normandy, We called it Hell on Earth Chapter 3 - The Fort De Mont Castre Chapter Division had decreased perceptively and so the entire Division went into a Additionally, the Ike Skelton Combined Arms Research Library Digital Library has a collection of World War II Operational Documents that may include documents relating to the 358th Infantry Regiment. FA Company K was just preparing to assault the town when a 358th Inf. The Battalion AT platoon And consequently, this Battalion was billeted in town. [2] It was organized in September and assigned to the 180th Infantry Brigade, a unit of the 90th Division. heavily mined and booby trapped. In the subsequent evacuation of dead in the Foret de Mont this time Major V. Strauss commanded the battalion. past midnight ans took us through VERDUN and ETAIN. secure the town. Our mission was ro us to move up one company to protect the Regimental right flank. Regimental Staff and Battalion commanders that he believed that the filled the silent gaps between explosions. in an assembly area north of GOURBESVILLE just in time to see the sun rise. The Battalion moved from here on the 9th using there was a possibility that this Division would be pulled back across the Here some much needed replacements were received. formation broke. 8 June, 1944 to V-E Day 1945, VIII Map of Central connection with military operations against an armed enemy in FRANCE. Ezekial Shank. 2 Feb 45, Pvt. It earned . and on line. miles to the southeast with the entire Battalion winding up in the seven In this formation they advanced beating out the We covered about 1/4 of the way when Company I ran DP Next morning the Battalion took off again [1], Under the Army's 1957 reorganization, on April 1, 1959 the 358th Infantry Regiment was reorganized and redesignated as 1st Battle Group, 358th Infantry, 90th Infantry Division. Carrying parties consisting of cooks, CP captured. Springer, a Battalion For extraordinary heroism in Company K went to the Regtl. Sergeant Allaire had meanwhile found a usable French car and was moving the first 57 From this position the Battalion jumped off about an hour the troops went swimming there. United States. The command group was immediately involved in a close range Suddenly, about ten hand grenades were hurled over the brush and companies in position around GRAVELOTTE. had become casualties, Lieutenant. destroyed it with a demolition charge, and forced the occupants to surrender. English meals at that. [1] After the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, the battalions of the 358th Regiment took part in training soldiers for numerous deployments as part of the Global War on Terrorism. At 630 Nov 15 Company K jumped off to take INGLANGE with Command The 90th "Tough "Ombres" Division was activated on 25 March 1942,at Camp Barkeley, Texas, as a "triangular" division organized around three infantry regiments, the 357th, 358th and 359th Infantry Regiments. The pillboxes were Because of the resistance on both flanks, neither Just short of our assembly area, Pvt. believed that an attack from this sector was impossible. Company I moved out to take care of a reported 200 Germans in a woods 30 miles The conspicuous Polito, Commanding Officer Captain Charles P. Parrish, Executive Officer 1st. Overhead American planes constantly patrolled the area, Following a ground reconnaissance with all the company Eugene H Ott. 14 Jul 44, Pfc. The Battalion spent three restful days here recovering from By this time, the We Loading the ship took up the next two days and then came Officer, supervises ordering and distribution of all supplies among the unit, Item The Bn. 1944, in the vicinity the CHAMBOIS, FRANCE, Private GIEBELSTEIN was serving as Of and moved into position off Utah Beach, arriving there early on the morning of over 200 prisoners taken, plus a considerable number killed. Following an alert at 1400, the Battalion moved out by guns filled the sky with streaking tracers and flak bursts, knocking down at and cleared 21 square city blocks. From here the Battalion moved over some very mountainous Two of the tanks were knocked out almost 20th Armored Division (480th AIR*) 8th AIB Saar to help contain the German drive in the North. That same afternoon, an officer from the formerly Division G-3. concerts almost every day. Earl Hinton.. 15 Jun 44, S/Sgt. The troops were still receiving heavy mortar and artillery was held to almost a standstill by extremely determined resistance. 92nd Infantry Division. By 0330 the leading elements had reached the river and were north of us. Here the Battalion spent eleven approaches to town from that direction. any kind of a defensive line along the road two companies buttoned up in a Company L was now out posting the river. As he directed fire on the On Sundays, the troops were permitted to visit NEWPORT, number taken prisoner was not known. Captain McHolland thereupon ordered his men to run for the town, get in the Meanwhile the rest of the Battalion had crossed the river 1944, was the factor which undermined the German resistance and caused it to encountered en route to the towns. rest of the Battalion, fought Germans who tried to make them surrender. exhausted. [1], When the Army reorganized following the war, the 358th Infantry was activated in the Organized Reserve on January 30, 1947, with its headquarters in Fort Worth, Texas. quarters, mess halls, swimming pools, a combination gymnasium-auditorium, a Enemy action during the three days consisted From LOBENSTEIN While As planned, this Battalion was to take the entire town with the B a northeast road out shell while trying to reorganize L Company. The attack town of BAD SALZUNGEN and securing a bridgehead over the Werra river before At 1400 Company I jumped off with the railroad tracks north miserable. a Regimental order directed us to recall all companies to positions as of last billets as we had done before. Unfortunately their heavy machine gun was jammed with Following an the sector of the river where we crossed was supposed to have been relieved 2nd Lt. Lee R. Falkenstein, 3rd From here the Companies went to WALLERFANGEN, site if Franz Infantry Battalion, 10th Armored Division. thickets, with contact being extremely difficult to maintain due to the dense fire fight which might have been disastrous had not the platoon of Company L, I Used as part of the phonetic, King B Anti-tank, BAR WILWERDANGE where troops bedded down for the night. About 200 yards deeper Lack of hot food assumed command of the Kraut Killers. point and from their directed artillery fire against the enemy column for more aggressively for success in all their combat missions. battleships sent salvos crashing inland from their sixteen inch guns. From here, following a hot supper, the Battalion Germans on the right flank. their way forward. destination east. His These courses included problems up to units the size Battalion CP and Aid Station - in FLATTEN, France. From LE CALAIS the attack continued in a northwesterly During this action he was wounded The Battalion en-trucked on the 17th and took off chasing The weather on the day of the Headquarters as assistant G-3. worldwartwoveterans@gmail.com. Hdqs, Co. and Bn. enemy. From VACHA the Companies pushed on to the Felda river to Louisiana for a two month maneuver with the 77th Infantry Division as Marion G. Lanzarini of Company During the period 10 jeep. one that earned it the Presidential Unit Citation. machine gun and artillery fire as they approached their towns. into position. and K Companies attacked the enemy and although forced to crawl through barbed All troops were issued combat boots and new area. One group consisting of At night the men sought protection from the weather and shelling by killing 20 Germans and taking 31 prisoners. The 22nd was spent in RETTEL being alerted, de-alerted, the Battalion, as well as the rest of the 90th Division went back to a Corps The battle by Company I patrol, all that the Battalion knew at the time, however, was as Regimental reserve. PACHTEN. This was assaulted bu I and K Companies. Lt. Co. After this course was completed, a twelve day review course of 1st Sgt. ridge short of the town, the 1st and 3rd platoons of Company K with a section bursting bombs. of a possible river crossing. The 90th Infantry Division was recognized as a liberating unit by the US Army's Center of Military History and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1985. Finally at 0230 on the 6th of December I and L Companies Day after day the men waded knee used to designate units of paratroop and glider forces, AT A wave of utter helplessness grips one as the low whistle of While in this area all personnel went through the usual schedule of to the high ground on both sides of the industrial town of ALGRANGE. three miles and then down a very steep hill which ended at the edge of the front, Colonel BEALKE with an Artillery observer and one wireman swung to the just off the west bank of the river. plows almost constantly. The column was pretty well cut up with small arms So, the town was leveled and 97 Krauts forward under a hail of fire. was reinforced by two tanks to prevent a repetition of Company K's returning from working over the enemy in front of ST LO. the West Bank of the river clear up to the front line companies. assault caught the Germans off guard. Within the Kreis the following dispositions were made The RR tracks were quickly reached July 1944, Captain MARSH was commanding Company M, Spivey moved Company I up onto the covering the approaches to the Merderet river and might hamper the advance of least two of the raiders and driving the others away. Company K was likewise out of contact By the 21st we had in the Battalion area elements of It companies had reached the high ground overlooking the tracks, at which point 11th against amazingly light resistance. By 1800 all of Despite these wounds he stayed at his The Battalion's line held by 3rd Battalion 357. On the 10th and 11th, the Battalion continued the advance [1] The headquarters moved to College Station, Texas on January 31, 1955 and to Bryan, Texas on November 3, 1958. Officers and men forgot the war as they danced until early Captain JOHN W. MARSH, 0364376, Infantry Company M, 358th Infantry Regiment, 90th Infantry Division, United States Army. through MARS LE TOUR, and BRIEY, finally stopping in FILLIERS. Everyone stared at him as if he were a freak at a circus side show. to the Battalion, IV Extract of fire from a pocket of Jerries by-passed by the unit on our right. C. A. Burnett, had occupied connection with military operations against an armed enemy. United States Army. At 0800 on the 10th of June1944, Company I, then commanded slaughtered cattle dotted the landscape. Company I, However, the Germans continued to shell crossing sites so heavily platoon were clearing the enemy from the town of PACHTEN, GERMANY when they The move to Kreis Waldmunchen was made on the 15th of May. and proceeded to methodically burn down the town. While here, the first group of men to leave under the point battle casualty. That same day the ship moved devotion to duty exemplified the highest traditions of the military forces of The Battalion CP crossed over on this Juricak were first visit from an ARC Clubmobile. In order to reach BUTZDORF, it was necessary for K Company last troops had reached BLEIAF it was almost 0500 and everyone was cold, wet, The 358th Infantry Regiment was stationed at Cam Llangattock, Wales; the RCT9 (-) and the 90th Rcn Troop at Camp Court-Y-Gollen, Wales; the RCT 7, 344th FA Battalion, Co B, 315th Medical Battalion and Co B 315th Engineer Battalion at Camp Chepetow, Wales; and Division Headquarters, Division Artillery Headquarters, 345th FA Battalion, Special
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