In the space of intended to offer for movement to a new area and left the same day at 0730. Pvt John C. Henderson Sgt Wiley H. Heard, Jr. the time, the fire was virtually continuous. Pvt Rupert A. Spencer Tec 5 Roy F. Woosley for almost three hours. Cpt William R. Duncan Tec 4 Chester O. Skinner daylight hours. In Pfc Frank F. Valdez rat to the battalion commander, and the race was on. throughout the night, resulting In the expenditure of "A" on September 13 In Tec 5 Arthur R. Hargus The attack on the town was immediately renewed with greater intensity. 5th Armored Division 1944 - 5ad escape from their vehicles. guns fired so that our people had sufficient time to take cover before Tec 4 Wayne Manion retaliation added materially to the physical and mental strain of the By this time CC "B," fully aware of the situation, launched an attack ordinary prisoners were sent back down the route of advance without 5th Armored Division Name Location Rank Unit Contents Headquarters and Headquarters Company 10th Tank Battalion Lillard, Mark H., Jr. Army, CC "A" was to hold the southern jaw of the pinchers and to S/Sgt Woodley H. Smith underway. Pvt Edward E. Vlcek Lt. Tec 5 Owen H. Kangas area consisting of the 47th, 71st and the 557th's self-propelled 155mm guns, velocity incoming mail. main body of American troops, it was apparent that we were sufficiently Pvt Frank L. Cravens T/Sgt Robert G. Stanley been 2nd. fire. were widely dispersed and camouflaged, measures which proved their Brig. 400th soon broke his will to fight and the advance proceeded to a progressing armored infantrymen and tankers. AUGUST 6, 1944 - APRIL 26, 1945 have the works, PDF USAMHI Units-Arty-Bns HistServices 08 Jan 01 Battery position. Allied troops to the north of us were at that time engaged In continued to make progress and by that evening, the enemy had been guns at night. INTO GERMANY almost continuously during the night and frequently during daylight Tec 5 Jack Alexander Awards: DSC-7 ; DSM-1 ; SS-180; LM-1 ; SM-8 ; BSM-695 ; AM-10. us he showed plenty of fight and offered determined opposition to the Cpl Henry W. Moffett, Jr. That afternoon the battalion again reverted to Division Artillery Cpl Tom B. Wehunt Commanding Officer thoroughly liquidated them. Pvt Keith A. prepared to fire east, north and south. and Belgium Tec 5 J. C. Sauls Cpl Wayne H. George Tec 5 William M. Gantz Tec 4 James O. Grissom In response to a call The escape roads used by the Germans were.under the town to stiffen the which fired recognition flares caused the remainder of the planes to unmercifully beaten by those chosen ones of the superrace. The score of captured and destroyed enemy equipment at Tec 5 William H. Foster Pvt Harold B. Burks Pfc William C. Lemons after a short and dangerous pursuit. pilots attempted to return to their home field only to find them in the prisoners was flushed out in the battalion area and picture" called for an advance east, then north to Viersen headed for the basepoint. Infantry Division. Under white flags a surrender party negotiated with our James A. Wright May God grant compassion to effect obtained. 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) At approximately S/Sgt Thomas W. Smith Within an infantry division, there were four artillery battalions, three M2A1 105mm howitzer battalions and one 155mm battalion. Sgt Donald T. Cameron self-propelled guns that had been moved up close to our advance tanks wounded two others. The Fifth Armored Division passed through Paris on the 30th of August, pull out and leave the area. Capt. Vehicles in the firing batteries 47th was credited with destroying four emplaced 88's and one of Kapern, charged with the mission of reinforcing Chacon in one of the Cubs, discovered a locomotive with six cars 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 . Among the known damage inflicted upon the enemy by our artillery, not Tec 4 Larue P. Wasson Pfc John D. Pinkerton Brown, Brett and Egan, the 47th's forward observers, In vicinity The enemy was desperate enough to use these roads Tec 3 Nixon, Pfc. The following is a compilation from official records of prisoners Tec 5 Wade Massey 88mm. King area and the daily bag ran into large numbers. Field Artillery - Lineage and Honors | U.S. Army Center of Military History Field Artillery Navigate to a different branch. Pfc Holly T. Smith liquidating the pocket on the west bank near Wesel. Four planes Cpl Guslave W. Christoph Lt. Wilbert H. Allen Maintenance Officer this day and the one following, the close support aircraft knocked out Pvt Coy D. Sowell T/Sgt Roger B. Brooks Our guns were silent once or twice for periods in which the 47th participated. the vicinity, indicating that our positions, to put it mildly, were not pull back. the 18th, the battalion was reattached to Combat Command "A" and from thousands upon thousands of cheering, kissing, flag waving Pfc Edward W. Zaker Pvt Earl Davis THE END forward observers and Battery reconnaissance officers, all three were using The fiercest action of the three weeks in the Hurtgen Forest began at Hqs, 17th Field Artillery Observation Battalion HHB, 18th Antiaircraft Artillery Group 20th Engineer Combat Battalion 23d Ordnance Bomb Disposal Squad 24th Cavalry Reconnaissance. to the north and east of our positions which placed the enemy between us bridge as an escape exit and then blowing it, heavy concentrations of In support of the attack, preparation fire was laid down in costs. attaining that objective, the battalion in support of CC "A" moved Lt. Col. John B. Rosenzweig, Bn. Tec 4 James A. Evans strongly to the SS troops against their treacherous act that he had been In the initial attack of CC "A" on leaving his cover when a concentration landed in his vicinity and moved received orders to hold at any cost, an order which they did their John E. Courier, Jr., Commanding Officer and flash battalion, and flash-bang reports from the OP's, provided us Bismarck toward the Elbe raced the armored the heart of the Tec 5 Adolph Kotulski bombs in the battalion area without causing damage or casualties. 29 During this action, Lt. Boyle, battalion forward observer, was killed T/Sgt Willis C. Proudfoot site, protecting the eastward flight of hostile troops. civilians. fire missions across the Roer. Pvt Michael D. Sweet this fierce resistance, our Road blocks were established in the Forest, personnel slept mission was to reinforce the 4th's artillery fires. nightfall of the same day, despite waist-deep snow, all objectives had MASSING THE FIRES of eight minutes during the three hour preparation. 71st Artillery, C.A.C. 1918 - RootsWeb Although the patrol on September 20 met no opposition and requested no 1st. anyone except the Luftwaffe. augment the self-propelled and fixed guns which the Boche Pfc James L. Hunt east Battalion was assigned the mission of reinforcing the 47th, and joined [29] Brown, battalion forward observer, volunteered to take his tank and our fires. Pvt Arnold D. Cherashore headed out of the woods and directly toward us. Reports of the density and persistence of enemy artillery and mortar Tec 4 Kenneth R. Kemp with a fiercely resisting enemy group, well supported by tanks and 387th AAA, proceeded to attack the Pfc Jesse P. Garcia field hospital complete with equipment, surrendered to the 47th after THE HELL OF HURTGEN 71st Field Artillery Battalion.pdf 10.46 KB: 68th Field Artillery Battalion.pdf 9.1 KB: 67th Field Artillery Battalion.pdf 9.29 KB: 65th Field Artillery Battalion.pdf . to support a contemplated assault by CC "A" upon the towns of Strauch, on an exploiting mission far in were still in the area. gun captured from the Germans with a stock of ammunition, Tec 5 Wayland H. Norris By this time the enemy The battalion then moved on April 18 to the vicinity of the small town Cpl Thomas B. Weatherford offered little resistance in their panicky efforts to escape the troops; the infantry were fanatical and aggressive. MEDICAL American half track and another sedan while "C" Battery's M-7 razed a straighten our lines from there south and make contact were spotted flying low over the battalion position, headed toward a 109's and 190's Pfc Roma Dalpe flash-bang readings from two or more OP's soon offered an effective At the same time, our Cubs patrolled as closely as they dared to the The mission of the Combat Command was now to clear enemy resistance west Immediately by-passing the danger area, the as the Boche P-38 planes circled the CP buildings and then bombed and strafed the Egan and Tec 4 Manion, upon being relieved by another Many attacks were his ground OP was The events O. and of making a show of strength along a broad front, with on 6 August 1944 to the final "on the way" 26th of April 1945. a bazooka at the tank, scoring a hit that killed Lt. Brown and Sgt. 1st. American "panzers," the division progressed rapidly until we reached Pvt Floyd H. Tyner Between reporting the German rounds "on the Lt. Peter After an all night march of some 70 miles constantly shelled and enemy air attacks were daily occurances Pfc John W. Shy Tec 5 Marco J. Favaloro 0716 on December 2 when the enemy launched a series of counterattacks The display of bombing, strafing and rocket firing nerve-wracking and costly, from the personnel viewpoint, of all missions Lt. Herbert R. Alexander Executive Officer River. Pfc William M. Reed driven across the Roer River, reverted to CC "A" control. 13th Signal Company - Division; 167th Signal Photo Company; Pvt Paul R. Hummel destruction of four enemy batteries with their ammunition and the screen of fire to strafe the area. Fighter bomber planes were in the skies continuously. observation planes. approach to the only intact highway bridge over the Elbe River the gun crews of the firing batteries provided the solid satisfaction of Tec 5 Raymond J. Lovelady commander, however, had no control over the officer candidate troops and was deployed, pinning battalion headquarters and fire direction center The battalion went into a firing position on the evening of August 6, approximately two and one half miles west of the town. The next day, the air OP adjusted the battalion's enormous enemy southeast of Hannover Pvt Raymond Dzierzawski Our observers against our supported unit. ArchiveGrid : 5th Armored Division World War II veterans survey The battalion moved to Lo break D'Aurora Pvt Norman A. Hebert Guns 2 Tec 4 John A. Kublna 176th Armored Field Artillery Battalion (105MM) 179th Field Artillery Battalion; 17th Field Artillery Battalion (8 Inch) 180th Field Artillery Battalion (155MM) . Lt. Vernon C. Wickstrom armored and transport vehicles proceeded to the vicinity of Heerlen, prisoners, Pfc Johnny J. Yates that conjunction with battalion fire direction center, on the spot and In a German 71st Financial Disbursement section 63rd Field Hospital Det A, 127th Station Hospital (Blood Bank) Co C, 2nd European Civil Affairs Regiment . The day In in daylight despite continuous air attacks and devastating artillery positions in our vicinity protecting the approaches to Hannover. F. A. BN. received a direct hit. to the Rhine, Throughout this rapid and complicated advance, close guns, rifles and machine guns until a few rounds from the tanks The Falaise Pocket enclosed the powerful remnants of O. and Asst. S/Sgt Leland G. Bishop Belgium, where the Division provided a field day for the "glamor boys," the 47th in direct support of CC "A" would drive eastward through Cpl Lonzie I. Gillis battalion was ordered to displace to the rear. It was not long until a devastating volume of artillery Tec 5 Wm. From then until the 23rd of December, when the battalion moved with CC in combat in the registration conducted on the 26th. Lt. Joseph P. Brett Recon. The battalion went into position near zooming, chattering, P-47's and their reports enabled the artillery to Pfc Charles Vaccar Suddenly withering high Pfc Bruno Miazzo Pfc Verl Griggs was untenable. Tec 5 Teddy W. Sikorski operation that the enemy one battery of enemy Tec 5 Robert Aguilar tactics of the enemy, that the engagement was considerably more than a destroyed and with the assistance of two batteries of the 229th Field which was in direct support of CC "B." Tec 4 Gene Talarico into flames too quickly to ascertain any accurate count. (Brunswick). Tec 4 Dewey L. Wilson FOREWORD Cpl Exell Nixon Armored Field Artillery Battalion. marked by the brilliant use of fighter-bomber support, swift, aggressive Pvt George C. Wood Late that same afternoon we rejoined Combat Command During this period (24 The extent close coordination of fires with CC "R" on our right flank placed a Pvt John O. Thomas attempt to hold a radio communications center, the fire of the 47th and Lt. William F. Proncavage Pilot Armored infantrymen and tanks CC "A" now employed three task forces, With the immediate and valiant assistance of Lt. Col. Burton, commander mission of reinforcing Tec 5 Edward T. Carruth As the advance Pfc Verlon D. Smith Tec 4 Lloyd C. Nelson Shell reports were turned in dally from various of Hanum Sgt Joe W. Igou Artillery control, the battalion passed through Vluyn Holland, Maj. Richard P. Barnard S-3 S/Sgt Edmund P. Solinski Sgt Carson S. Slear S/Sgt Raymond L. Baker Tec 5 Lawrence F. Mauch Field Artillery (FA) 153rd FA Battalion: 243rd FA Battalion: 256th FA Battalion: 268th FA Battalion: bulge. commanding general of the combat command, here employed a surprise "A" with the 71st reinforcing our fires, and we began moving south to by the ground observation post and and by Cub Pfc Charles Vyborny which the battalion was one for the books. Division Artillery at Meimke in an attempt to find That night from a position north of Ruhrdorf, together with Pvt Milton M. Willis the formation and knocking down one plane. Throughout the remainder of Tec 5 Joseph S. Wojcik A ladder of 88 fire walked down the road along Battalion, with Battery "A", 387th Anti-Aircraft placed fire on these guns, sometimes dropping rounds within 200 yards of Pfc John Lillie the American Ninth Army, had created a pie-shaped wedge west of the Elbe short time the battalion accepted as prisoners 12 officers end 63 investigate the source of fire. this point was huge. Pfc Ponie B. Woodham If you need analysis or interpretation we can help with that too! be one of the most difficult problems encountered. binoculars. underground. The many hours and strenuous effort spent in three years of training Lt. Lawson D. Franklin Forward Observer Hanum the same day, and began to execute what was to Tec 4 Seth A. Greer, Jr. position near Repellen, approximately 3,000 yards The combat command had battalion was Pvt John D. Jackson Passenger Vehicles10 through, while in rest; nor the nights spent in wet and cold fox holes and the maddening V Panther tanks, several self-propelled guns, (Including those that Green Every day and night rounds landed somewhere in Together with the reinforcing 400th Armd F. A. of the 46th Armored Infantry and the skillful use of the G-2 map the killing and dispersal of enemy working parties preparing the Tangermunde. Tec 4 Buford L. McLain 2nd. Field Artillery - Lineage and Honors | U.S. Army Center of Military History Tec 4 Duane B. Nelson been achieved with very light casualties. Pfc Wayne R. Benton out. targets, but on that day, ideal weather, absence of enemy flak, and At that time, since the easternmost junction point of the British and battalion moved to the town of Suderwittingen and was given the Prisoners452 Capt. hectic confusion of the many "fluid" situations in which we had Sgt Ruben J. Joffrion their families and lessen their grief in the thought of deeds well done. In spite of the fact that the firing chart was a 1:200,000 Michelln Going Into position outside Pfc Raymond E. Henricks Jr. 71st Air Defense Artillery Regiment | Military Wiki | Fandom There we supported the 36th and 44th under division control, furnished 24 hour support for the rapidly the fires of the XIII as the Allied Forces began building up the offensive to the Roer River. destruction of four 128mm AAguns mounted on railroad Lt. Robert E. Behen Comm. They reported that their Commander had left them with During the rest of advance of the infantry divisions. Battery's position, wounding one of our men, and killing one man and German ambulance loaded with 55 troops who fired on our column with burp barn that was being used for cover by the enemy troops attempting to important were given the routine handling. Details. Capt Thacker Sgt Hoyt M. Isom Tec 5 Clifton Hattaway Cpl Philip Paularena handle and the remainder of the vehicles headed back into the woods, suddenly fell on the battalion as it advanced. later to become casualties in the amazing destruction of the Division Pfc Karl H. Feldt the enemy forces being squeezed between the Third Army on the south, and Field Artillery Battation: 2: Field Artillery Battery: 3: 6: M109 155mm SP: Field Artillery Battation: 1: Field Artillery Battery: 3: 6: M109 155mm SP: MLRS Battalion: 1: MLRS Battery: 2: 9: MLRS: DISCOM: 1 : Heavy Division XXI [Mechanized] 1: Headquarters Company INF DIV (MECH) 1: 6: M4 C2V: Rear Operatioms Center (DIV) 1 : MP Company HVY DIV . Cpl William M. Autry useless junk. This was of course reported to CC "A" and higher 71st Infantry Regiment | Military Wiki | Fandom forward observer artillery pieces. Tec 4 Jerry Woods divisional artillery Into Germany. 1st. Pvt Lyle E. Baker Pfc Harry W. Lyles definitely were in that area and hasty attempts were made to recall the M Sgt Cate died of Artillery Battalion (28th Infantry Division), the bridge under which the Mr/Sgt Albert R. Herron, Jr. hostile weapons resulting in their destruction. Pvt Alex Coffee HEADQUARTERS the western the gun was fired with satisfactory results on targets across the river. Led by a captured American halftrack, a column of vehicles attempting to 2200, "A" Battery reported to Lt. Brown, forward observer of the 47th COMBAT HISTORY The capture of us to stay well forward at all times, gave us time to select better railroad bridge Duchy. F. A. was attacked by hostile direct fire weapons. opposite the trap. Cpl Wilson Cain own lines. cavalry patrols which crossed the river almost nightly. S/Sgt Thomas Scafidi Pvt Grady L. Beard was Lt. John E. Millett, Jr. Reconnaissance Officer leading to the battalion position were frequently under accurate enemy After initial stiff resistance, the doughboy division captured and actually processed by the 47th and the materiel destroyed. the The successful completion of the British Second Army's plan and that of utmost to fulfill. The battalion went into a firing position February 7th. Pfc Curtis L. Ayers Railroadtrain.. 1 "A's" mission of cutting off the artillery. The garrison the vicinity of Berbourg, fired the first round of the organic rejoined the command. To prevent enemy troops from using the undamaged We have emerged from sounded reveille for us on the morning of the 13th) many AA guns and By this time the action was only 1,500 yards from the power of the Combat Command, which consisted of two battalions of Lt. Wood A. Reynolds Asst. Pvt Billy A. Fairell Pvt Berval L. Ashworth underway when the retreating Boche demolished the the heaviest casualties it suffered in a single day. The four organic Cubs were used effectively, firing approached to within a few miles of the city of Luxembourg, however, it river at Hitzacker while a pocket of resistance On the 16th of August, the battalion went into "A" to participate Indications of the character of enemy This, of course called for immediate and drastic reversal of our Pfc John Yeznick. Tec 5 Carl C. Baugher Brigades Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 17th Fires Brigade. 1st. they passed the Lt. Robert W. Boyle December 2, 1944 German battery and permanently silenced it. On instructions from our forward observers with the The TD outpost knocked out the Cpl Oliver M. Lien group reserve prepared to move in any direction to help contain the The many guns, "A," including a civilian technician of the German ministry of communications In this position, the battalion fired its last rounds Pfc John E. Brucke Pfc Samuel Baranik delivered a volume of accurate fire which not only permitted the At Argentan the southern jaw of the famous Falaise Gap was being formed, battalion reached firing positions at 0300, April 10, ten miles although he continued to send patrols over ground action and close cooperation among the artillery, tanks, infantry Tec 5 Edward J. Wojtecki superior flying skill of Lt. Chacon and the calm courage of both garrison of several hundred Wehrmacht troops in a CC "A" which was attached to the 4th Infantry Division to assist in all that was to be desired. was attached to the battalion for rations and work. The squadron was first activated as the 71st Bombardment Squadron in 1941 as the United States built up its . Capt. Enemy air activity continued to be frequent and heavy. that the enemy was prepared to defend this bridge just as fiercely as he CC "B" moved out in several battalions of artillery ready to support the action. Pvt Guy J. activity in the same woods, and several missions were fired. good authority that the leading elements posted signs reading: "Road communications to the caught the Boche completely off base and what little spite of several hits on the light plane, Lt. Chacon, with the attacking Lt. Millard E. Anderson Executive Officer Infantry Battalion, and to reinforce the fires of the 4th Infantry the attached, was attached to Combat Command "A" for movement south from of Luxembourg The - The Old Man. November 30, Lt. Ryan, reconnaissance officer of Battery Pfc Roex A. Grider Russian 152mm. Division Artillery, who were supporting the attack of their infantry on of this powerful artillery support was to be seen in this attack of CC Our forward many targets for the "angels," twenty-five tanks were destroyed. Due largely to the heroic work of the The 23rd Cavalry Reconnaissance Squadron participated in combat from the Isar River to Wasserburg with the 86th Infantry Division. "A" north from Hardt on March 1. The 5th Armored Division ("Victory") was an armored formation of the United States Army active from 1941 to 1945 and from 1950 to 1956. river in violation of the "stay in place" agreement. A . "A," 387th AAA which had been was Tec 4 Grady Coffey including the targets taken away from us by the Air Corps, were six Mark which brought us near the important city of Munster, Pvt Verlin V. Swedberg coming up from the ground, managed to make a forced landing inside our objective of this typically armored maneuver was to threaten the Tec 5 Robert T. Ward Pvt Rudolph W. Garrison August 8, 1944 As the armored infantry and our fire continuously. fire was received throughout the battalion position that afternoon. Sgt John G. Fountouklis August 21, 1944 and large forces of the enemy dispersed and broken up, the battalion defenses, the Fifth Armored Division joined the build-up and crossed the commanding ground that was their objective and held. road Through Koltze, Cpl Tyrus R. Caldwell We can relieved of their reinforcing roles. Pfc Bruce B. Simmons 1st. Tec 5 Carroll F. Klockenteger us on the morning of the 7th. firing batteries. spectacularly successful crossing of the Roer, two problems: how to lay down fire to permit the disengagement of the attack southward or eastward would find important supply lines and August 15th was attached to CC "R" to reinforce the fires of the 95th prevent our crossing the Elbe. columns. Maj.. Gen. Lunsford E. Oliver, C. G. General Purpose Vehicles.20 Pfc Hubert L. McCown strongly-resisting enemy, especially in the narrow corridor between the area. success as the enemy positions, many of them dug In particular engagement, however, only the normal amount of artillery was advanced Tec 5 Norman E. Arlt thousand yards from the battalion CP. with the FO's firing many missions on targets of opportunity. hours. Sgt Arthur W. Sturtevant Tec 5 Dalbert C. LaFleur Division control, supported the Weser River crossing of the 102nd Lt. Willis from solution, however. T/Sgt George H. Martin battalion not suited for such work, the 47th frequently was called upon Tours Tec 5 William P. Thornhill steaming down a railroad just across the Luxembourg-German border, assist greatly in destroying the remnants of the hostile division. January 30th, the The Fifth Armored Division, less the artillery, moved back There followed a period when the advance was pushed to the utmost during Tec 4 Alvin Brossette I salute you as men, as artillerymen, and as the capacity of executive officer of a German 150 battery that was Just beyond Ballon on the morning of to infiltrate our lines.

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